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 | |
cause |
1. n. (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result. | |
They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding. | |
2. n. (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion. | |
There is no cause for alarm. | |
The end of the war was a cause for celebration. | |
3. n. A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends. | |
4. n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair. | |
6. n. (legal) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action. | |
7. v. To set off an event or action. | |
The lightning caused thunder. | |
8. v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority. | |
His dogged determination caused the fundraising to be successful. | |
9. v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. | |
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 | |
drop |
1. n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid. | |
Put three drops of oil into the mixture. | |
2. n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall. | |
On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop. | |
3. n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping. | |
That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn't break any bones. | |
4. n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point. | |
I left the plans at the drop, like you asked. | |
The Drop (film title) | |
5. n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute. | |
The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch. | |
6. n. (chiefly British, Australian) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage | |
He usually enjoys a drop after dinner. | |
7. n. (chiefly British, when used with the definite article (the drop)) alcoholic spirits in general. | |
It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine. | |
8. n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky. | |
9. n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge. | |
10. n. (American football) A dropped pass. | |
Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end. | |
11. n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back. | |
The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open. | |
12. n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick. | |
13. n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference. | |
14. n. (sports) relegation from one division to a lower one | |
15. n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies. | |
16. n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in tempo, bass, and/or overall tone; also known | |
17. n. (US, banking dated) An unsolicited credit card issue. | |
18. n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain. | |
19. n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc. | |
20. n. (architecture) A gutta. | |
21. n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's deck; a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet; a curtain which falls in front of a theat | |
22. n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging. | |
23. n. A drop press or drop hammer. | |
24. n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. | |
25. n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only. | |
26. n. The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole, that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key. | |
27. v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid). | |
28. v. To drip (a liquid). | |
29. v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down). | |
A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky. | |
30. v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). | |
Don't drop that plate! The police ordered the men to drop their weapons. | |
31. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground. | |
Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private! If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop and roll. | |
33. v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop. | |
35. v. To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation. | |
The moderator would drop hints whenever the students struggled. She would sometimes drop off to sleep straight after dinner. | |
36. v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money). | |
37. v. To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.). | |
I'm tired of this subject. Will you just drop it? | |
38. v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc. | |
The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday. We can take our vacation when the price of fuel drops. Watch for the temperature to drop sharply, then you'll know the reaction is comp | |
39. v. To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message). | |
Drop me a note when you get to the city. | |
40. v. To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down, to shoot down. | |
Make any sudden movements and I will drop you! | |
41. v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.). | |
Cockneys drop their aitches. | |
42. v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman being out. | |
Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball | |
43. v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD. | |
They had never dropped acid. | |
44. v. To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose. | |
I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée. | |
45. v. To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list. | |
I've been dropped from the football team. | |
46. v. (Rugby football) To score a goal by means of a drop-kick. | |
47. v. (transitive, slang) To impart. | |
I drop knowledge wherever I go. Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody's business. | |
48. v. (transitive, music, computing, colloquial) To release to the public. | |
They dropped "Hip-Hop Xmas" in time for the holidays. | |
That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs i.e. publish my personal information. | |
49. v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey. | |
That guy can drop the bass like a monster. I love it when he drops his funky beats. | |
50. v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution. | |
"Hip-Hop Xmas" dropped in time for the holidays. | |
51. v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note. | |
52. v. To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course. | |
I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time and I couldn't go anymore. | |
53. v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling. | |
Drop a basket of fries. | |
54. v. To lower; to move to a lower position. | |
55. v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty. | |
Billy's voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12. | |
56. v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality. | |
The song, 180 beats per minute, drops to 150 BPM near the end. My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2. | |
57. v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by. | |
drop by soon; drop in on her tomorrow | |
58. v. To give birth to. | |
to drop a lamb | |
59. v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. | |
60. v. (slang) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty. | |
heavily |
1. adv. In a heavy manner. | |
She fell heavily into bed. | |
He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots. | |
The great clod trod heavily on my toes! | |
2. adv. With a great weight. | |
heavily burdened | |
3. adv. To a considerable degree, to a great extent. | |
He relied heavily on the data collected by the others. | |
He drank heavily. | |
heavily in debt; heavily tattooed | |
4. adv. In a manner designed for heavy duty. | |
heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls | |
5. adv. So as to be thick or heavy. | |
heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms | |
6. adv. In a laboured manner. | |
he breathed heavily | |