intransitive |
1. adj. (grammar, of a verb) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object | |
The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often.". | |
2. adj. (rare) not transitive or passing further; kept; detained | |
And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. — Jeremy Taylor. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
fall |
1. n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | |
2. n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. | |
3. n. (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. | |
4. n. A loss of greatness or status. | |
the fall of Rome | |
5. n. That which falls or cascades. | |
6. n. (sport) A crucial event or circumstance. | |
7. n. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out. | |
8. n. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. | |
9. n. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat. | |
10. n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss. | |
11. n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. | |
He set up his rival to take the fall. | |
12. n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural). | |
Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards. | |
13. n. See falls | |
14. n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells. | |
15. n. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker. | |
16. v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards. | |
17. v. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | |
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground. | |
18. v. To come down, to drop or descend. | |
The rain fell at dawn. | |
19. v. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. | |
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy. | |
20. v. To be brought to the ground. | |
21. v. To be moved downwards. | |
22. v. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop. | |
23. v. (obsolete) To sink; to depress. | |
to fall the voice | |
24. v. (US) To fell; to cut down. | |
to fall a tree | |
25. v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively. | |
26. v. (copulative) To become. | |
She has fallen ill. The children fell asleep in the back of the car. When did you first fall in love? | |
27. v. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date. | |
Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday. Last year, Commencement fell on June 3. | |
28. v. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. | |
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD. | |
29. v. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease. | |
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.). | |
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal. | |
31. v. (followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words follow | |
Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance. | |
And so it falls to me to make this important decision. The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. | |
33. v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower. | |
34. v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth. | |
to fall lambs | |
35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals. | |
36. v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin. | |
37. v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before. | |
to fall into error; to fall into difficulties | |
38. v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face. | |
39. v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon). | |
40. v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry. | |
After arguing, they fell to blows. | |
41. v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly. | |
An unguarded expression fell from his lips. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
sink |
1. v. To move or be moved into something.: | |
2. v. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. | |
A stone sinks in water. The sun gradually sank in the west. | |
3. v. To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight. | |
4. v. To push (something) into something. | |
The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards. The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg. | |
5. v. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole. | |
6. v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | |
7. v. (intransitive figuratively, of the human heart) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression. | |
8. v. (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade. | |
to sink one's reputation | |
9. v. (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals. | |
10. v. (transitive, slang) To conceal and appropriate. | |
11. v. (transitive, slang) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. | |
12. v. (transitive, slang) To reduce or extinguish by payment. | |
to sink the national debt | |
13. v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. | |
15. n. A basin used for holding water for washing | |
16. n. A drain for carrying off wastewater | |
17. n. (geology) A sinkhole | |
18. n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet | |
19. n. A heat sink | |
20. n. A place that absorbs resources or energy | |
21. n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch | |
Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink. | |
22. n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink | |
23. n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
grow |
1. v. To become bigger. | |
Children grow quickly. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout. | |
Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached. | |
A long tail began to grow from his backside. | |
3. v. To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants. | |
He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden. | |
Have you ever grown your hair before? | |
4. v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time. | |
The boy grew wise as he matured. | |
The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled. | |
You have grown strong. | |
5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere. | |
less |
1. adv. To a smaller extent. | |
2. adv. In lower degree. | |
This is a less bad solution than I thought possible. | |
3. adj. (now archaic except with numbers) comparative form of little: more little; smaller, lesser. | |
4. adj. comparative degree of little: a smaller amount (of); not as much. | |
I have less than you have. I have less tea than coffee. | |
5. adj. (proscribed) comparative degree of few: fewer; a smaller number of. | |
6. prep. Minus; not including | |
It should then tax all of that as personal income, less the proportion of the car's annual mileage demonstrably clocked up on company business. | |
7. v. (obsolete) To make less; to lessen. | |
8. conj. (obsolete) unless | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
diminish |
1. v. To make smaller. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To become smaller. | |
3. v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming). | |
4. v. (intransitive) To taper. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually. | |
6. v. To take away; to subtract. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
decrease |
1. v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller. | |
2. v. To make (a quantity) smaller. | |
3. n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased. | |
One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease at about 27 meters per year over the last 10 years. | |
4. n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decreas | |