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 | |
bind |
1. v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass. | |
Just to make the cheese more binding | |
3. v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. | |
I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence. | |
These are the ties that bind. | |
5. v. To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc. | |
to bind grain in bundles to bind a prisoner | |
6. v. To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind. | |
Gravity binds the planets to the sun. | |
Frost binds the earth. | |
7. v. To couple. | |
8. v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie. | |
to bind the conscience to bind by kindness bound by affection commerce binds nations to each other | |
9. v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant. | |
10. v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve. | |
to bind an apprentice bound out to service | |
11. v. To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. | |
12. v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something. | |
to bind a belt about one to bind a compress upon a wound | |
13. v. To cover, as with a bandage. | |
to bind up a wound | |
14. v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action. | |
Certain drugs bind the bowels. | |
15. v. To put together in a cover, as of books. | |
The three novels were bound together. | |
16. v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together. | |
17. v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location. | |
18. v. (dialect) To complain; to whine about something. | |
19. n. That which binds or ties. | |
20. n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary. | |
21. n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine. | |
22. n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes. | |
23. n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break. | |
the Maróczy Bind | |
24. n. The indurated clay of coal mines. | |
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 | |
tie |
1. n. A knot; a fastening. | |
2. n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. | |
3. n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie. | |
4. n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally. | |
It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score. | |
5. n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened. | |
6. n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond. | |
the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance | |
7. n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together. | |
Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes. | |
8. n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails. | |
9. n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw). | |
10. n. (sports) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition. | |
The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957. | |
11. n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes (not to be confused with a slur). | |
12. n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set. | |
13. n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site. | |
14. n. (graph theory) A connection between two vertices. | |
15. v. To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. | |
Tie this rope in a knot for me, please. | |
Tie the rope to this tree. | |
16. v. To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. | |
Tie a knot in this rope for me, please. | |
17. v. To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. | |
Tie him to the tree. | |
18. v. To secure (something) by string or the like. | |
Tie your shoes. | |
19. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering. | |
They tied for third place. | |
They tied the game. | |
20. v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering. | |
He tied me for third place. | |
21. v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation. | |
originally |
1. adv. (not comparable) As it was in the beginning. | |
Originally, this paper was white, but over the years it has yellowed with age. | |
2. adv. In an original manner. | |
They had to think originally to come up with those creative ideas. | |
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. | |
loop |
1. n. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening. | |
2. n. The opening so formed. | |
3. n. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself. | |
Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints. | |
4. n. A ring road or beltway. | |
5. n. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition. | |
6. n. A complete circuit for an electric current. | |
7. n. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied. | |
8. n. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex. | |
9. n. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point. | |
10. n. (transportation) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point. | |
11. n. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element. | |
12. n. A loop-shaped intrauterine device. | |
13. n. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane. | |
14. n. A small, narrow opening; a loophole. | |
15. n. alternative form of loupes (mass of iron). | |
16. n. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure. | |
17. v. To form something into a loop. | |
18. v. To fasten or encircle something with a loop. | |
19. v. To fly an aircraft in a loop. | |
20. v. To move something in a loop. | |
21. v. To join electrical components to complete a circuit. | |
22. v. To duplicate the route of a pipeline. | |
23. v. To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up. | |
24. v. (intransitive) To form a loop. | |
25. v. (intransitive) To move in a loop. | |
The program loops until the user presses a key. | |
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. | |
ring |
1. n. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle. | |
2. n. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc. | |
3. n. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc. | |
4. n. (British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration. | |
5. n. (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove. | |
6. n. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve. | |
7. n. An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a s | |
8. n. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. | |
9. n. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle. | |
10. n. A circular group of people or objects. | |
a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood | |
11. n. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet. | |
12. n. (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge. | |
13. n. A piece of food in the shape of a ring. | |
onion rings | |
14. n. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest. | |
15. n. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices. | |
a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale) | |
16. n. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule. | |
a benzene ring | |
17. n. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles. | |
18. n. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek. | |
19. n. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter. | |
20. n. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring). | |
21. n. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle. | |
22. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card. | |
23. v. To surround or enclose. | |
The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas. | |
24. v. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle. | |
They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year. | |
25. v. To attach a ring to, especially for identification. | |
We managed to ring 22 birds this morning. | |
26. v. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring. | |
to ring a pig's snout | |
27. v. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally. | |
28. n. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. | |
The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley. | |
The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air. | |
29. n. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound. | |
The name has a nice ring to it. | |
30. n. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something. | |
Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood. | |
31. n. (colloquial) A telephone call. | |
I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands. | |
32. n. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated. | |
33. n. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. | |
St Mary's has a ring of eight bells. | |
34. v. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. | |
The bells were ringing in the town. | |
35. v. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. | |
The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel. | |
36. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound. | |
Whose mobile phone is ringing? | |
37. v. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound. | |
That does not ring true. | |
38. v. (transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone). | |
I will ring you when we arrive. | |
39. v. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo. | |
40. v. (intransitive) To produce music with bells. | |
41. v. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. | |
42. n. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive oper | |
The set of integers,\mathbbZ, is the prototypical ring. | |
43. n. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element. | |
The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set2\mathbbZ of even integers to be a ring. | |