| seeming |
| 1. v. present participle of seem | |
| 2. adj. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual). | |
| seeming friendship | |
| 3. n. Outward appearance. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Apprehension; judgement. | |
| seem |
| 1. v. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | |
| He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. | |
| 2. v. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem. | |
| 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 | |
| never |
| 1. adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | |
| I finally finished, and I never want to do that again. | |
| I repeated the test a hundred times, and never saw a positive result. | |
| I will never tell. | |
| 2. adv. Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | |
| 3. adv. (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). | |
| The police say I stole the car, but I never did it. | |
| You said you were going to mow the lawn today. – I never! | |
| End |
| 1. n. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line. | |
| 2. n. The terminal point of something in space or time. | |
| At the end of the road, turn left. | |
| At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love. | |
| 3. n. (by extension) (euphemistic) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | |
| Is there no end to this madness? | |
| 4. n. (by extension) Death, especially miserable. | |
| He met a terrible end in the jungle. | |
| I hope the end comes quickly. | |
| 5. n. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. | |
| Hold the string at both ends. | |
| My father always sat at the end of the table. | |
| 6. n. Result. | |
| 7. n. A purpose, goal, or aim. | |
| 8. n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. | |
| The Pavillion End | |
| 9. n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. | |
| 10. n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. | |
| 11. n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. | |
| 12. n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. | |
| odds and ends | |
| 13. n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. | |
| 14. v. To finish, terminate. | |
| Is this movie never going to end? | |
| The lesson will end when the bell rings. | |
| The referee blew the whistle to end the game. | |
| endlessly |
| 1. adv. in an endless manner; continuously without limit | |
| constantly |
| 1. adv. (archaic) With steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully. | |
| 2. adv. In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently. | |
| 3. adv. (frequency) Recurring regularly. | |
| I find that I am constantly reminding you to feed your pets. | |
| 4. adv. In an unchangeable or invariable manner; in every case. | |
