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 | |
warp |
1. n. The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally: | |
2. n. The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape. | |
3. n. The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally. | |
4. n. A distortion: | |
5. n. A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively). | |
6. n. A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration. | |
7. n. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft. | |
8. n. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding. | |
9. n. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag. | |
10. n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp. | |
11. n. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp. | |
12. n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them. | |
13. n. (obsolete, outside, dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc. | |
a warp of fish | |
14. v. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | |
15. v. To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform. | |
The moisture warped the board badly. | |
to warp space and time | |
The trauma had permanently warped her mind. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform. | |
Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced | |
17. v. To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias. | |
His perspective had warped after his extreme experiences. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate. | |
19. v. (ambitransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | |
20. v. To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. | |
21. v. (ambitransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme). | |
22. v. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing). | |
23. v. To move: | |
24. v. (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship throug | |
25. v. (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method. | |
26. v. (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects. | |
27. v. To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp. | |
28. v. (ambitransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely. | |
29. v. (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter. | |
30. v. (transitive, very, rare, obsolete) To throw. | |
space |
1. n. Of time.: | |
2. n. (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. | |
3. n. A specific (specified) period of time. | |
4. n. An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. | |
5. n. Unlimited or generalized physical extent.: | |
6. n. Distance between things. | |
7. n. Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something). | |
8. n. Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of th | |
9. n. The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. | |
10. n. The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. | |
11. n. A bounded or specific physical extent.: | |
12. n. A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. | |
13. n. (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. | |
14. n. A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. | |
15. n. (metal type) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one e | |
16. n. A gap; an empty place. | |
17. n. (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates. | |
18. n. (mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these me | |
Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory. | |
19. n. (figuratively) A marketplace for goods or services. | |
innovation in the browser space | |
20. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander. | |
21. v. To set some distance apart. | |
Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill. | |
The cities are evenly spaced. | |
22. v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text. | |
This paragraph seems badly spaced. | |
23. v. (transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit. | |
The captain spaced the traitors. | |
24. v. (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
time |
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. | |
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time | |
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. | |
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. | |
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. | |
Time slows down when you approach the speed of light. | |
4. n. (physics, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration. | |
An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change. | |
5. n. A duration of time. | |
6. n. A quantity of availability of duration. | |
More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finish | |
7. n. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression. | |
a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other compet | |
8. n. (slang) The serving of a prison sentence. | |
The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time. | |
9. n. An experience. | |
We had a wonderful time at the party. | |
10. n. An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs. | |
Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs | |
11. n. (with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day. | |
In my time, we respected our elders. | |
12. n. (only in singular, sports) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play. | |
13. n. An instant of time. | |
14. n. How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device. | |
Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery | |
15. n. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive). | |
it’s time for bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going | |
16. n. A numerical indication of a particular moment. | |
at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones | |
17. n. An instance or occurrence. | |
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember. | |
see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake | |
Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that! | |
18. n. (of pubs) Closing time. | |
Last call: it's almost time. | |
19. n. The hour of childbirth. | |
20. n. (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined. | |
It was his time. | |
21. n. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment. | |
Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time. | |
22. n. Ratio of comparison. | |
your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this | |
23. n. (grammar, dated) Tense. | |
the time of a verb | |
24. n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division. | |
common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. | |
25. v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | |
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block. | |
26. v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | |
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl. | |
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m. | |
27. v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. | |
28. v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay. | |
29. v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. | |
30. v. To measure, as in music or harmony. | |
31. interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause. | |