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 | |
conceal |
1. v. To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret. | |
He tried to conceal the truth about his health. | |
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 | |
masks |
1. n. plural of mask | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of mask | |
mask |
1. n. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. | |
a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask | |
2. n. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. | |
3. n. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade | |
4. n. A person wearing a mask. | |
5. n. (obsolete) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters. | |
6. n. (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron. | |
7. n. (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere. | |
8. n. (fortification) A screen for a battery | |
9. n. (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ. | |
10. n. (Puebloan, anthropology) A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American masks. (The term is objected as an appropriate translation by Puebloan peoples as it emphasiz | |
11. n. (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask. | |
12. n. (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image. | |
13. n. (heraldiccharge) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears. | |
14. v. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. | |
15. v. To disguise; to cover; to hide. | |
16. v. (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. | |
17. v. (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check. | |
to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out | |
18. v. (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade | |
19. v. (intransitive) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way | |
20. v. (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask. | |
21. v. (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting the associated bit. | |
22. n. A mesh. | |
23. n. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag. | |
24. n. (UK dialectal) Mash. | |
25. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash. | |
26. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort. | |
27. v. (transitive, Scotland dialectal) To be infused or steeped. | |
28. v. (UK dialectal, Scotland) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew. | |
29. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse. | |
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 | |
disguise |
1. n. Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another. | |
A cape and moustache completed his disguise. | |
2. n. (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath. | |
3. n. The act of disguising, notably as a ploy | |
Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies. | |
4. v. To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity. | |
Spies often disguise themselves. | |
5. v. To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance. | |
He disguised his true intentions. | |
6. v. (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. | |