| 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 | |
| free |
| 1. adj. (social) Unconstrained. | |
| He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted. | |
| 2. adj. Not imprisoned or enslaved. | |
| a free man | |
| 3. adj. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust | |
| 4. adj. Generous; liberal. | |
| He's very free with his money. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent. | |
| 6. adj. Without obligations. | |
| free time | |
| 7. adj. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a t | |
| a free school | |
| 8. adj. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said | |
| This is a free country. | |
| 9. adj. (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. | |
| OpenOffice is free software. | |
| 10. adj. (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. | |
| 11. adj. Obtainable without any payment. | |
| The government provides free health care. | |
| 12. adj. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) complimentary | |
| Buy a TV to get a free DVD player! | |
| 13. adj. (abstract) Unconstrained. | |
| 14. adj. (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators. | |
| the free group on three generators | |
| 15. adj. (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers. | |
| z is the free variable in\forall x\exists y:xy=z. | |
| 16. adj. (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound. | |
| 17. adj. (linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme. | |
| 18. adj. (physical) Unconstrained. | |
| 19. adj. Unobstructed, without blockages. | |
| the drain was free | |
| 20. adj. Unattached or uncombined. | |
| a free radical | |
| 21. adj. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. | |
| You can sit on this chair; it's free. | |
| 22. adj. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose. | |
| In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free. | |
| 23. adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated. | |
| We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat. I would like to live free from care in the mountains. | |
| 24. adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited. | |
| a free horse | |
| 25. adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of. | |
| 26. adj. (legal) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base. | |
| free service; free socage | |
| 27. adj. (legal) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common. | |
| a free fishery; a free warren | |
| 28. adv. Without needing to pay. | |
| I got this bike free. | |
| 29. adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly. | |
| 30. v. To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses. | |
| 31. n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) (abbreviation of free kick). | |
| 32. n. free transfer | |
| 33. n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | |
| disengage |
| 1. n. (fencing) A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry | |
| 2. v. To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks | |
| loosen |
| 1. v. To make loose. | |
| to loosen a knot; to loosen one's grip / hold on something | |
| After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To become loose. | |
| I noticed that my seatbelt had gradually loosened during the journey. | |
| 3. v. To disengage (a device that restrains). | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone. | |
| 5. v. To free from restraint; to set at liberty. | |
| 6. v. To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To create a breach or rift between (two parties). | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sail away (from the shore). | |
| 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. | |
| untangle |
| 1. v. To remove tangles or knots from. | |
| With gentle combing, untangle your hair. | |
| 2. v. (transitive, by extension, figurative) To remove confusion or mystery from. | |
| It took a while, but he finally untangled the problem. | |
