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 | |
cheat |
1. v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. | |
My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. | |
My husband cheated on me with his secretary. | |
After he found out his wife cheated, he left her. | |
3. v. To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. | |
He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train. | |
I feel as if I've cheated fate. | |
4. v. To deceive; to fool; to trick. | |
My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000. | |
He cheated his way into office. | |
5. v. To beguile. | |
6. n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). | |
7. n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. | |
8. n. The weed cheatgrass. | |
9. n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. | |
10. n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
by |
1. prep. Near or next to. | |
The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
He cheated by his own admission. | |
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
I watched as it passed by. | |
16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
There was a shepherd close by. | |
The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
18. adv. Aside, away. | |
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
20. n. (card games) A pass | |
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
sliding |
1. v. present participle of slide | |
Children were swinging and sliding in the playground. | |
2. n. The motion of something that slides. | |
3. adj. Designed or able to slide. | |
Our yard is just outside the sliding door. | |
slide |
1. v. To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface | |
He slid the boat across the grass. | |
The safe slid slowly. | |
Snow slides down the side of a mountain. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface. | |
The car slid on the ice. | |
3. v. (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base. | |
Jones slid into second. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface. | |
He slid while going around the corner. | |
5. v. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip. | |
to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question | |
6. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance. | |
A ship or boat slides through the water. | |
8. v. (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound. | |
9. v. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. | |
10. n. An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | |
The long, red slide was great fun for the kids. | |
11. n. A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | |
12. n. The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. | |
The slide closed the highway. | |
13. n. An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down. | |
14. n. A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide. | |
15. n. The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress. | |
a slide on the ice | |
16. n. A lever that can be moved in two directions. | |
17. n. A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone. | |
18. n. (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen. | |
19. n. (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint. | |
I still need to prepare some slides for my presentation tomorrow. | |
20. n. (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide. | |
21. n. (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base | |
22. n. (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar. | |
23. n. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time. | |
24. n. (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. | |
25. n. (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. | |
26. n. (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. | |
27. n. A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc. | |
28. n. (footwear) A shoe that is backless and open-toed. | |
29. n. (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech. | |
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. | |
die |
1. v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | |
2. v. followed by of; general use: | |
He died of embarrassment. | |
3. v. followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine(topics, en, Medicine) or the sciencestopics, en, Sciences: | |
He died from heart failure. | |
4. v. followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes: | |
He died for the one he loved. | |
5. v. (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause: | |
6. v. (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner: | |
She died with dignity. | |
7. v. To stop living and undergo (a specified death). | |
He died a hero's death. | |
They died a thousand deaths. | |
8. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely. | |
I'm dying for a packet of crisps. | |
I'm dying for a piss. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead. | |
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother. | |
10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. | |
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him. | |
11. v. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation. | |
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die. | |
12. v. (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. | |
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died. | |
13. v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down. | |
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning. | |
14. v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). | |
15. v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. | |
16. v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. | |
17. v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. | |
to die to pleasure or to sin | |
18. v. (intransitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition. | |
I can't believe I just died to a squirrel! | |
19. v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. | |
20. v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. | |
21. v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. | |
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal... | |
22. n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth. | |
23. n. A device for cutting into a specified shape. | |
24. n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.) | |
25. n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. | |
26. n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. | |
27. n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. | |
28. n. Any small cubical or square body. | |
29. n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. | |
30. n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. | |
31. n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. | |
32. v. topics, en, Death, Dice games | |
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 | |
trick |
1. adj. (slang) Stylish or cool. | |
Wow, your new sportscar is so trick. | |
2. n. Something designed to fool or swindle. | |
It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced. | |
3. n. A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick. | |
And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag. | |
4. n. An entertaining difficult physical action. | |
That's a nice skateboard, but can you do any tricks on it? | |
5. n. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something. | |
tricks of the trade; what's the trick of getting this chair to fold up? | |
6. n. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank. | |
the tricks of boys | |
7. n. (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait. | |
a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning | |
8. n. A knot, braid, or plait of hair. | |
9. n. (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined. | |
I was able to take the second trick with the queen of hearts. | |
10. n. (slang) An act of prostitution. (Generally used with turn.) | |
At the worst point, she was turning ten tricks a day. | |
11. n. (slang) A customer to a prostitute. | |
As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick.". | |
12. n. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs. | |
13. n. (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long. | |
14. n. A toy; a trifle; a plaything. | |
15. v. To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive. | |
You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced. | |
16. v. (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words). | |
17. v. To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out. | |