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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
crack
1. v. (intransitive) To form cracks.
It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
2. v. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
3. v. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
4. v. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
5. v. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
6. v. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
His voice cracked with emotion.
7. v. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
8. v. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
9. v. To make a crack or cracks in.
The ball cracked the window.
10. v. To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
11. v. To strike forcefully.
She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
12. v. To open slightly.
Could you please crack the window?
13. v. To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)
They managed to crack him on the third day.
14. v. To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)
I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
15. v. To overcome a security system or a component.
It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
They finally cracked the code.
16. v. To cause to make a sharp sound.
to crack a whip
17. v. To tell (a joke).
The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
18. v. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
19. v. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
20. v. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
I'd love to crack open a beer.
Let's crack a tube and watch the game.
21. v. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
22. v. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
23. n. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
A large crack had formed in the roadway.
24. n. A narrow opening.
We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
Open the door a crack.
25. n. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
26. n. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
27. n. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
28. n. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
29. n. (informal) An attempt at something.
I'd like to take a crack at that game.
30. n. (vulgar, slang) Vagina.
I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!
31. n. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
32. n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
The crack was good.
That was good crack.
He/she is quare good crack.
The party was great crack.
33. n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
What's the crack?
What's this crack about a possible merger.
34. n. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
35. n. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
36. n. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
37. n. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
38. n. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
He has a crack.
39. n. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
40. n. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
41. n. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
42. n. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
43. n. (slang) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
I'll be with you in a crack.
44. adj. Highly trained and competent.
Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
45. adj. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
She's a crack shot with that rifle.
open
1. adj. (not comparable) Not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
Turn left after the second open door.
It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open.
2. adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect
3. adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
Banks are not open on bank holidays.
4. adj. (comparable) Receptive.
I am open to new ideas.
5. adj. (not comparable) Public
He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.
6. adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
The man is an open book.
7. adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
8. adj. (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets ofX, that defines a topological space onX.
9. adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
10. adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.
11. adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
12. adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
an open question
to keep an offer or opportunity open
13. adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
14. adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
an open winter
15. adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
16. adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
17. adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
18. adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
19. adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
20. v. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
Turn the doorknob to open the door.
21. v. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
He opened a path through the undergrowth.
22. v. To bring up, broach.
I don't want to open that subject.
23. v. To enter upon, begin.
to open a discussion
to open fire upon an enemy
to open trade, or correspondence
to open a case in court, or a meeting
24. v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
to open a closed fist
to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
to open a map, book, or scroll
25. v. To make accessible to customers or clients.
I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
26. v. To start (a campaign).
Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
27. v. (intransitive) To become open.
The door opened all by itself.
28. v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
The shop opens at 9:00.
29. v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
30. v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
31. v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
32. v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
33. v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
34. n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
35. n. (electronics) A wire that is broken midway.
The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
36. n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
37. n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.
along
1. prep. By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
2. prep. In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.
3. adv. In company; together.
John played the piano and everyone sang along.
4. adv. Onward, forward, with progressive action.
Don't stop here. Just move along.
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.
seam
1. n. (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.Wp
2. n. A suture.
3. n. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
4. n. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
5. n. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
6. n. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
7. n. (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
8. v. To put together with a seam.
9. v. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
10. v. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
11. v. To crack open along a seam.
12. v. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
13. v. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
14. n. (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
15. n. (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
16. n. (dialect) grease; tallow; lard

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