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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
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.
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
boasting
1. v. present participle of boast
2. n. The making of boasts.
boast
1. n. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
2. n. Something that one brags about.
It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
3. n. (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
4. v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
5. v. To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
6. v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
7. v. (squash) To play a boast shot.
8. v. To possess something special.
The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
His family boasted a famous name.
9. v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
10. v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
false
1. adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
2. adj. Based on factually incorrect premises.
false legislation, false punishment
3. adj. Spurious, artificial.
false teeth
4. adj. (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
5. adj. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
a false witness
6. adj. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises
7. adj. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar
8. adj. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
9. adj. (music) Out of tune.
10. adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
11. n. One of two options on a true-or-false test.
The student received a failing grade for circling every true and false on her quiz.
pretenses
1. n. plural of pretense
pretense
1. n. (US) A false or hypocritical profession
under pretense of friendliness
2. n. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
with only a pretense of accuracy
3. n. An unsupported claim made or implied.
4. n. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

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