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. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |
any |
1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all. | |
I will not remain here any longer. | |
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways! | |
2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all. | |
do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good | |
3. det. No matter what kind. | |
choose any items you want; any person may apply | |
4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s). | |
Any may apply. | |
controlling |
1. adj. Exerting control over a person or thing. | |
His mother is very controlling. | |
2. v. present participle of control | |
3. n. The act of exerting control. | |
control |
1. v. To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of. | |
With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck. | |
2. v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated. | |
3. n. Influence or authority over something. | |
The government has complete control over the situation. | |
4. n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent. | |
5. n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button. | |
6. n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control. | |
7. n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure. | |
8. n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan. | |
9. n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register. | |
10. n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. | |
11. n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric- | |
12. n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control. | |
influence |
1. n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions. | |
I have absolutely no influence over him. | |
2. n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change. | |
I'm not able to exercise influence over him. | |
3. n. A person or thing exerting such power or action. | |
He has been a great influence on the voters during the elections. | |
4. n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth. | |
5. n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx. | |
6. n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction. | |
7. v. To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce. | |
The politician wants to influence the public. | |
I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence. | |
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill. | |
especially |
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially. | |
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal. | |
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something. | |
Invite them all, especially Molly. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |
anything |
1. pron. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other. | |
I would not do it for anything or any ring. | |
2. pron. (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison. | |
3. n. Someone or something of importance. | |
4. adv. In any way, any extent or any degree. | |
That isn't anything like a car. | |
She's not anything like as strong as me. | |
which |
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied. | |
Which song made the charts? | |
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that. | |
Show me which one is bigger. | |
They couldn't decide which song to play. | |
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned. | |
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen. | |
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived. | |
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one. | |
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied). | |
Which is bigger?; Which is which? | |
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied). | |
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE. | |
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle. | |
He had to leave, which was very difficult. | |
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part. | |
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that). | |
7. n. An occurrence of the word which. | |
exerts |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of exert | |
exert |
1. v. To put in vigorous action. | |
I exerted myself in today's training. | |
2. v. To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. | |
He considered exerting his influence on John to gain an advantage for himself. | |
undue |
1. adj. Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient. | |
To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment. | |
2. adj. That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified. | |
3. adj. (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable. | |
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. | |
evil |
1. adj. Intending to harm; malevolent. | |
an evil plot to kill innocent people | |
2. adj. Morally corrupt. | |
Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil? | |
3. adj. Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.). | |
4. adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious. | |
an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop | |
6. adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice | |
Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way. | |
7. n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | |
The evils of society include murder and theft. | |
Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control. | |
8. n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm. | |
9. n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). | |
influence |
1. n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions. | |
I have absolutely no influence over him. | |
2. n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change. | |
I'm not able to exercise influence over him. | |
3. n. A person or thing exerting such power or action. | |
He has been a great influence on the voters during the elections. | |
4. n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth. | |
5. n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx. | |
6. n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction. | |
7. v. To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce. | |
The politician wants to influence the public. | |
I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence. | |
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill. | |