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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
form
1. n. To do with shape.:
2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back.
5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
a republican form of government
11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
a matter of mere form
12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society.
13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
To apply for the position, complete the application form.
16. n. Level of performance.
The team's form has been poor this year.
The orchestra was on top form this evening.
17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
participial forms; verb forms
18. n. The den or home of a hare.
19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
22. n. (geometry) A quantic.
23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement.
24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
26. v. (intransitive) To take shape.
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero
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.
separate
1. adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
2. adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
3. v. To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
Separate the articles from the headings.
4. v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
5. v. To cause (things or people) to be separate.
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
6. v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
7. v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
8. n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
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
boiling
1. v. present participle of boil
2. n. The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
3. n. An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
4. adj. That boils or boil.
boiling kettle boiling oil
5. adj. (informal, hyperbole) Of a thing: extremely hot or active.
The radiator is boiling – I’m going to turn it down a bit.
6. adj. (informal, hyperbole) Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.
I’m boiling – can’t we open a window?
7. adj. (informal, hyperbole) Of the weather: very hot.
It’s boiling out today!
8. adv. (of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely
He was boiling mad.
boil
1. n. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
2. n. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.
3. n. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
4. n. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
5. v. To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
Boil some water in a pan.
6. v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Boil the eggs for two minutes.
Is the rice boiling yet?
7. v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
8. v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
It’s boiling outside!
9. v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
10. v. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
to boil sugar or salt
11. v. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
12. v. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
the boiling waves of the sea
13. v. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
His blood boils with anger.
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.
evaporation
1. n. The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
2. n. The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
3. n. (archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.

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