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travel
1. v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
I like to travel.
2. v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
Soundwaves can travel through water.
3. v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. v. To travel throughout (a place).
I’ve travelled the world.
5. v. To force to journey.
6. v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
7. n. The act of traveling.
space travel
travel to Spain
8. n. A series of journeys.
9. n. An account of one's travels.
I’m off on my travels around France again.
10. n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
11. n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
12. n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
aviation
1. n. The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
2. n. Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.
3. n. Industry that produces aircraft.
4. n. (collectively, military) aircraft
5. n. A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette and lemon juice
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
remove
1. v. To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
He removed the marbles from the bag.
2. v. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
3. v. To murder.
4. v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. v. To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
6. v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
7. v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
8. v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
The President removed many postmasters.
9. n. The act of removing something.
10. n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
11. n. (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
12. n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
13. n. Distance in time or space; interval.
14. n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
15. n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
previously
1. adv. At an earlier time.
checked
1. adj. (North America) Having a pattern of checks; checkered.
a checked tie
2. adj. (phonology) Of syllables, having a coda.
3. adj. (phonology) Of consonants, glottalized.
4. adj. Verified or validated in some way.
a computer program using checked arithmetic
5. v. simple past tense and past participle of check
He checked his watch for the third time.
check
1. n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
2. n. An inspection or examination.
I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.
3. n. A control; a limit or stop.
checks and balances
The castle moat should hold the enemy in check.
4. n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: sc=Latinx, ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
Place a check by the things you have done.
5. n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.
6. n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.
7. n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.
8. n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
9. n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
10. n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad
11. n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
12. n. A small chink or crack.
13. v. To inspect; to examine.
Check the oil in your car once a month.
Check whether this page has a watermark.
14. v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
15. v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or veri
Check the items on the list that interest you.
Check off the items that you've checked (inspected).
Check the correct answer to each question.
16. v. To control, limit, or halt.
Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.
17. v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
Check your data against known values.
18. v. To leave in safekeeping.
Check your hat and coat at the door.
19. v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.
20. v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.
That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check!
21. v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.
22. v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked.
23. v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
24. v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
25. v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
26. v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
27. v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
The sun checks timber.
28. v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
29. v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
30. v. To act as a curb or restraint.
31. v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
32. n. (textiles usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
The tablecloth had red and white checks.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
passenger
1. n. One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
2. n. (falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
3. n. (obsolete) A passer-by; a wayfarer.
4. v. (intransitive) To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
check
1. n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
2. n. An inspection or examination.
I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.
3. n. A control; a limit or stop.
checks and balances
The castle moat should hold the enemy in check.
4. n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: sc=Latinx, ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
Place a check by the things you have done.
5. n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.
6. n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.
7. n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.
8. n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
9. n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
10. n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad
11. n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
12. n. A small chink or crack.
13. v. To inspect; to examine.
Check the oil in your car once a month.
Check whether this page has a watermark.
14. v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
15. v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or veri
Check the items on the list that interest you.
Check off the items that you've checked (inspected).
Check the correct answer to each question.
16. v. To control, limit, or halt.
Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.
17. v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
Check your data against known values.
18. v. To leave in safekeeping.
Check your hat and coat at the door.
19. v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.
20. v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.
That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check!
21. v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.
22. v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked.
23. v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
24. v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
25. v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
26. v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
27. v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
The sun checks timber.
28. v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
29. v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
30. v. To act as a curb or restraint.
31. v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
32. n. (textiles usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
The tablecloth had red and white checks.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
system
1. n. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
There are eight planets in the solar system.
2. n. (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as opp
3. n. (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
4. n. (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
5. n. (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
6. n. (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
the digestive system the nervous system
7. n. A set of alters, or the multiple (individual with multiple personalities due to e.g. a disassociative personality disorder) who contains them.
8. n. A method or way of organizing or planning.
Many people believed communism was a good system until the breakup of the Soviet Union.
allowing
1. v. present participle of allow
allow
1. v. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest
2. v. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition
3. v. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
To allow a sum for leakage.
4. v. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
To allow a son to be absent.
Smoking allowed only in designated areas.
5. v. To not bar or obstruct.
Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.
6. v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
7. v. To take into account by making an allowance.
When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
8. v. To render physically possible.
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
10. v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
changes
1. n. plural of change
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of change
change
1. v. (intransitive) To become something different.
The tadpole changed into a frog. Stock prices are constantly changing.
2. v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
The fairy changed the frog into a prince. I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit.
3. v. To replace.
Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb. After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt.
4. v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing. The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started.
5. v. To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
It's your turn to change the baby.
6. v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
7. v. (archaic) To exchange.
8. v. To change hand while riding (a horse).
to change a horse
9. n. The process of becoming different.
The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
10. n. Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
Can I get change for this $100 bill please?
11. n. A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
12. n. Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.
13. n. Coins (as opposed to paper money).
Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.
14. n. A transfer between vehicles.
The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
15. n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
16. n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
17. n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
18. n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
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
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
ticket
1. n. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
2. n. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
3. n. A citation for a traffic violation.
4. n. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
5. n. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
6. n. (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.
7. n. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
That's the ticket.
I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
8. n. (dated) A little note or notice.
9. n. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
10. n. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
11. n. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
12. v. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
13. v. To mark with a ticket.
to ticket goods in a retail store

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