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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
beat
1. n. A stroke; a blow.
2. n. A pulsation or throb.
a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse
3. n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
4. n. A rhythm.
5. n. (music) specifically The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
6. n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
7. n. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
8. n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
to walk the beat
9. n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
10. n. In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
11. n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
12. n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
the beat of him
13. n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
14. n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
a dead beat
15. n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
16. n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
17. n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
18. v. To hit; strike
As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
19. v. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
20. v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
21. v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
22. v. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
23. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
24. v. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
25. v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
26. v. (transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
27. v. To indicate by beating or drumming.
to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
28. v. To tread, as a path.
29. v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
30. v. To be in agitation or doubt.
31. v. To make a sound when struck.
The drums beat.
32. v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
33. v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
34. v. To arrive at a place before someone.
He beat me there.
The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.
35. v. (transitive, US, slang) to masturbate.
This was the second time he beat off today.
36. v. (intransitive, UK, slang) to have sexual intercourse.
Bruv, She came in just as we started to beat.
37. adj. (US slang) exhausted
After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
38. adj. dilapidated, beat up
Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
39. adj. (gay slang) fabulous
Her makeup was beat!
40. adj. (slang) boring
41. adj. (slang) ugly
42. n. A beatnik.
Red
1. n. A Communist.
2. n. A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit.
3. adj. Communist
the Red Army
4. adj. Having red as its color.
The girl wore a red skirt.
5. adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
Her hair had red highlights.
6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black
I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
7. adj. (often, capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
8. adj. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party
a red state
a red Congress
9. adj. (also British) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germ
the red-black grand coalition in Germany
10. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
11. adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
12. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
13. n. Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from
(color panel, F00000)
14. n. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
15. n. (snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
16. n. Red wine.
17. n. (informal, birdwatching) A redshank.
18. n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
19. n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
20. n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
21. n. (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade
22. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
23. n. (US, colloquial) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
24. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede
25. v. alternative spelling of redd
hot
1. adj. (of an object) Having a high temperature.
He forgot the frying pan was hot, and dropped it suddenly.
2. adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.
It is too hot to be outside. It is hotter in summer than in winter.
3. adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
I was so hot from being in the sun too long. Aren't you hot with that thick coat on?
4. adj. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
5. adj. Feverish.
6. adj. (of food) Spicy.
Before moving to India, I never ate hot food. The Indians love spicy food.
7. adj. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
He's a hot young player, we should give him a trial.
8. adj. Stolen.
hot merchandise
9. adj. (incomparable) Electrically charged.
a hot wire
10. adj. (informal) Radioactive.
11. adj. (slang) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
That girl is hot!
12. adj. (slang) Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
13. adj. (slang) Sexually aroused; horny.
14. adj. Popular; in demand.
His new pickup is hot!
15. adj. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
Am I warm yet? — You're hot!
16. adj. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
17. adj. Fresh; just released.
18. adj. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
19. adj. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
He was finished in a hot minute.
I dated him for a hot second.
20. v. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
21. v. (with up) To become lively or exciting.
metal
1. n. Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.:
2. n. Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and ha
3. n. Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
4. n. (astronomy) An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen
5. n. Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
6. n. (mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.
7. n. (obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
8. n. (tincture) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or.
9. n. Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
10. n. (music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
11. n. (archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper; mettle.
12. n. The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
13. n. (obsolete) The rails of a railway.
14. n. (informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.
15. adj. (music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
16. adj. Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
17. v. To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
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.
Hammer
1. n. (soccer) someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
2. n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
3. n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
4. n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
5. n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
6. n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
7. n. (curling) The last stone in an end.
8. n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
9. n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
10. n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
11. v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
12. v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
13. v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
14. v. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
15. v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
16. v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
17. v. (transitive figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
We hammered them 5-0!

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