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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
bite
     1. v. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
           As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
     2. v. To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
     3. v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
           That dog is about to bite!
     4. v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
           If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
     5. v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
           I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
     6. v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
           For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
     7. v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
           Are the fish biting today?
     8. v. (intransitive, metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
           I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
     9. v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
           These mosquitoes are really biting today!
     10. v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
           It bites like pepper or mustard.
     11. v. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
           Pepper bites the mouth.
     12. v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
     13. v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
           The anchor bites.
     14. v. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
           The anchor bites the ground.
     15. v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
           This music really bites.
     16. v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
           You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
     17. v. (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
           He always be biting my moves.
     18. n. The act of biting.
     19. n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
           That snake bite really hurts!
     20. n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
           After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
     21. n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
           There were only a few bites left on the plate.
     22. n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
           That's really a bite!
     23. n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
           That song is a bite of my song!
     24. n. A small meal or snack.
           I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
     25. n. (figuratively) aggression
     26. n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
     27. n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
     28. n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
     29. n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
lightly
     1. adv. In a light manner.
           As a teacher, I don't take rudeness in class lightly.
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