| 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. | |
| colloquial |
| 1. adj. (linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal. | |
| 2. adj. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty. | |
| 3. n. A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism | |
| 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 | |
| leave |
| 1. v. To have a consequence or remnant. | |
| 2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet | |
| I left my car at home and took a bus to work. The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread. There's not much food left. We'd be | |
| 3. v. To cause, to result in. | |
| The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes. Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life. | |
| 4. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. | |
| Leave your hat in the hall. We should leave the legal matters to lawyers. I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin | |
| 5. v. To depart; to separate from. | |
| 6. v. To let be or do without interference. | |
| I left him to his reflections. I leave my hearers to judge. | |
| 7. v. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. | |
| I left the country and I left my wife. | |
| 8. v. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). | |
| I left the band. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. | |
| I think you'd better leave. | |
| 10. v. To transfer something. | |
| 11. v. To transfer possession of after death. | |
| When my father died, he left me the house. | |
| 12. v. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. | |
| I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there. | |
| 13. v. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. | |
| Can't we just leave this to the experts? | |
| 14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund). | |
| 16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. | |
| 17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl | |
| 18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. | |
| I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss. | |
| 19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission. | |
| Might I beg leave to accompany you? | |
| The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences. | |
| 20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure. | |
| I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance. | |
| 21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. | |
| 23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy. | |
