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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
exceed
1. v. To be larger, greater than (something).
The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
2. v. To be better than (something).
The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.
3. v. To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
4. v. (intransitive) To predominate.
5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
weight
1. n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
2. n. An object used to make something heavier.
3. n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
4. n. Importance or influence.
5. n. (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
He's working out with weights.
6. n. (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
7. n. (physics, proscribed) (synonym of mass) (in general circumstances)
8. n. (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
9. n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
10. n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
11. n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
12. n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
13. n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
14. n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
15. n. Pressure; burden.
the weight of care or business
16. n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
17. n. (slang) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
He was pushing weight.
18. v. To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
19. v. (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
20. v. To load, burden or oppress someone.
21. v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
22. v. To bias something; to slant.
23. v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
24. v. (transitive, sport) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
Mass
1. n. (Roman Catholic Church) The principal liturgical service of the Church, including a scripture service and a eucharistic service, which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and
2. n. A similar ceremony offered by a number of Christian churches.
3. n. (music) A musical composition set to portions of the Mass.
4. n. (physical) Matter, material.
5. n. A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, u
6. n. (obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
7. n. (physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is m
8. n. (pharmacy) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
9. n. (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
10. n. (bodybuilding) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
11. n. (proscribed) (synonym of weight)
12. n. A large quantity; a sum.
13. n. (quantity) Large in number.
14. n. Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
15. n. The principal part; the main body.
16. n. A large body of individuals, especially persons.
The mass of spectators didn't see the infraction on the field.
A mass of ships converged on the beaches of Dunkirk.
17. n. (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.
The masses are revolting.
18. v. To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
19. v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
I mass 70 kilograms
20. adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.
21. adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse.
22. n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
23. n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
24. n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
25. n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
26. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

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