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 | |
abjure |
1. v. to renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. | |
To abjure allegiance to a prince. | |
To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever). | |
2. v. (transitive, obsolete, historical) to cause one to renounce or recant. | |
3. v. to reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. | |
To abjure errors. | |
4. v. to abstain from; to avoid; to shun. | |
errors |
1. n. plural of error | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of error | |
error |
1. n. The state, quality, or condition of being wrong. | |
2. n. A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. | |
3. n. Sin; transgression. | |
4. n. (computing) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination. | |
5. n. (statistics) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one. | |
6. n. (baseball) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly. | |
7. n. (appellate legal) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement. | |
8. n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing. | |
9. v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message. | |
The web-page took a long time to load and errored out. | |
Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there. | |
This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message. | |
10. v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault. | |
The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received. | |
11. v. (nonstandard) To err. | |