| 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 | |
| impart |
| 1. v. To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property) | |
| The sun imparts warmth. | |
| to impart food to the poor | |
| 2. v. To give a part or to share. | |
| 3. v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of. | |
| information |
| 1. n. That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is". | |
| 2. n. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. | |
| I need some more information about this issue. | |
| 3. n. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. | |
| For your information, I did this because I wanted to. | |
| 4. n. (legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a jud | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. | |
| 6. n. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. | |
| 7. n. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. | |
| 8. n. (computing) … the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation. | |
| 9. n. (Christianity) Divine inspiration. | |
| 10. n. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. | |
| 11. n. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the (ll, en, bit, id=datum). | |
| 12. n. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. | |
| 13. n. (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| knowledge |
| 1. n. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. | |
| His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel. | |
| 2. n. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. | |
| 3. n. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. | |
| Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions. | |
| 4. n. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. | |
| Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance? | |
| A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand. | |
| 5. n. (philosophical) Justified true belief | |
| 6. n. (archaic, or legal) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. | |
| 8. n. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. | |
| His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans. | |
| 9. n. Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) Acknowledgement. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) Notice, awareness. | |
| 12. n. (informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England. | |
| 13. v. (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. | |
