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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
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
moist
1. adj. Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp.
2. adj. Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears.
3. adj. Of weather, climate etc.: rainy, damp.
4. adj. (science, now historical) Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterised by wetness.
5. adj. (obsolete) Watery, liquid, fluid.
6. adj. (medicine) Characterised by the presence of pus, mucus etc.
7. adj. (colloquial) Sexually lubricated (of the vagina); sexually aroused, turned on (of a woman).
8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To moisten.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
glutinous
1. adj. glue-like, sticky, viscid.
2. adj. Of the nature of gluten.
3. adj. Containing gluten.
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
Stick
1. n. (Ireland) A member of the Official IRA.
2. n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
3. n. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
4. n. (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
5. n. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
6. n. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
7. n. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
8. n. (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
9. n. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
10. n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
11. n. (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
12. n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
13. n. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
(US) My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
14. n. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
15. n. (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves
16. n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
17. n. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (th
I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.
18. n. # (US, colloquial) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
# I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
19. n. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to
20. n. (aviation) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
21. n. (computing) A memory stick.
22. n. (dated, metal typesetting) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
23. n. (jazz, slang) The clarinet. (more often called the liquorice stick)
24. n. (sports) A stick-like item:
Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
25. n. (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
26. n. (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
27. n. (US, slang) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
28. n. # The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
# He shoots a mean stick of pool.
29. n. (sports) Ability; specifically:
30. n. (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
31. n. (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
32. n. (baseball) General hitting ability.
33. n. (hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
34. n. (slang) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
35. n. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
36. n. (magic) An assistant planted in the audience.
37. n. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
38. n. (military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.
39. n. (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
40. n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
41. n. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to
42. n. (slang) Corporal punishment; beatings.
43. n. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
He really gave that digging some stick. = he threw himself into the task of digging
She really gave that bully some stick. = she berated him (this sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment")
Give it some stick!
44. n. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
45. n. A measure.
46. n. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
47. n. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.
48. v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
49. v. (transitive, printing, slang) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
to stick type
50. n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
51. n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
52. n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
53. v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
The tape will not stick if it melts.
54. v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
55. v. To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
56. v. (intransitive) To persist.
His old nickname stuck.
57. v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
58. v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
59. v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
60. v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
61. v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
62. v. To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
Stick the label on the jar.
63. v. To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
Stick your bag over there and come with me.
64. v. To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
to stick a needle into one's finger
65. v. (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
66. v. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
to stick an apple on a fork
67. v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
68. v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
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
adhere
1. v. (intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
wax adhered to his finger
2. v. (intransitive, figurative) To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.
3. v. (intransitive, figurative) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
4. v. (Scotland, legal) To affirm a judgment.

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