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 | |
cut |
1. adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut. | |
2. adj. Reduced. | |
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch. | |
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor. | |
3. adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work. | |
My favourite song had been cut from the show. | |
4. adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw. | |
5. adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point. | |
6. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles. | |
7. adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation | |
8. adj. (Australia, NZ, slang) Emotionally hurt. | |
9. adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive. | |
10. adj. Removed from a team roster. | |
11. adj. (NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol. | |
12. n. An opening resulting from cutting. | |
Look at this cut on my finger! | |
13. n. The act of cutting. | |
He made a fine cut with his sword. | |
14. n. The result of cutting. | |
a smooth or clear cut | |
15. n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove. | |
a cut for a railroad | |
16. n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river | |
17. n. A share or portion. | |
The lawyer took a cut of the profits. | |
18. n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point. | |
19. n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball. | |
20. n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball. | |
21. n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entert | |
22. n. (theatre) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play. | |
The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts. | |
23. n. (cinema) A particular version or edit of a film. | |
24. n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards. | |
The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top. | |
25. n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in. | |
I like the cut of that suit. | |
26. n. A slab, especially of meat. | |
That’s our finest cut of meat. | |
27. n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point. | |
28. n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance. | |
29. n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc. | |
The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified. | |
30. n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit. | |
31. n. A haircut. | |
32. n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups. | |
33. n. A string of railway cars coupled together. | |
34. n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving. | |
a book illustrated with fine cuts | |
35. n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding. | |
36. n. (slang) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise. | |
37. n. A skein of yarn. | |
38. n. (slang) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug. | |
Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut. | |
39. n. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow. | |
40. n. (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass. | |
41. v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something. | |
42. v. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife. | |
43. v. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. | |
Would you please cut the cake? | |
44. v. To form or shape by cutting. | |
I have three diamonds to cut today. | |
45. v. (slang) To wound with a knife. | |
46. v. (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin. | |
The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen. | |
47. v. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to. | |
48. v. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce. | |
Sarcasm cuts to the quick. | |
49. v. To castrate or geld. | |
to cut a horse | |
50. v. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs. | |
51. v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. | |
52. v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce. | |
53. v. To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing. | |
Travis was cut from the team. | |
54. v. To abridge a piece of printed or written work. | |
55. v. To reduce, especially intentionally. | |
They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent. | |
56. v. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.). | |
I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela. | |
57. v. To ignore as a social snub. | |
After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street. | |
58. v. (intransitive, cinema, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities. | |
After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!". | |
59. v. (intransitive, cinema) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another. | |
The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy. | |
60. v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage. | |
61. v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use. | |
Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application. | |
62. v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place. | |
One student kept trying to cut in front of the line. | |
63. v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so. | |
This road cuts right through downtown. | |
64. v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat. | |
65. v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly. | |
The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle. | |
66. v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two. | |
If you cut then I'll deal. | |
67. v. (transitive, slang) To write. | |
cut orders; cut a check | |
68. v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug. | |
through |
1. prep. From one side of an opening to the other. | |
I went through the window. | |
2. prep. Entering, then later leaving. | |
I drove through the town at top speed without looking left or right. | |
3. prep. Surrounded by (while moving). | |
We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up. | |
4. prep. By means of. | |
This team believes in winning through intimidation. | |
5. prep. (North America) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values. | |
from 1945 through 1991; the numbers 1 through 9; your membership is active through March 15, 2013 | |
6. adj. Passing from one side of something to the other. | |
Interstate highways form a nationwide system of through roads. | |
7. adj. Finished; complete. | |
They were through with laying the subroof by noon. | |
8. adj. Valueless; without a future. | |
After being implicated in the scandal, he was through as an executive in financial services. | |
9. adj. No longer interested. | |
She was through with him. | |
10. adj. Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment. | |
The through flight through Memphis was the fastest. | |
11. adj. (association football) In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal. | |
12. adv. From one side to the other by way of the interior. | |
The arrow went straight through. | |
13. adv. From one end to the other. | |
Others slept; he worked straight through. | |
She read the letter through. | |
14. adv. To the end. | |
He said he would see it through. | |
15. adv. Completely. | |
Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through. | |
16. adv. Out into the open. | |
The American army broke through at St. Lo. | |
17. n. A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend. | |
18. n. (obsolete) A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb. | |
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 | |
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. | |
fretsaw |
1. n. A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts. | |
2. v. To cut with a fretsaw. | |
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 | |
create |
1. v. To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:) | |
You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red. | |
2. v. (especially, of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used. | |
3. v. To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape | |
Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele. | |
4. v. To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion. | |
crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties | |
A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam. | |
5. v. To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute. | |
Henry VIII created him a Duke. Last month, the queen created two barons. | |
Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative. | |
Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use! | |
7. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout. | |
8. adj. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation. | |
fretwork |
1. n. ornamental woodwork either carved in low relief or cut through | |