| 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 | |
| group |
| 1. n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | |
| there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group | |
| A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals. | |
| 2. n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | |
| 3. n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve. | |
| 4. n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together. | |
| Did you see the new jazz group? | |
| 5. n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other. | |
| 6. n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. | |
| 7. n. (chemistry) A functional group. | |
| Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group. | |
| 8. n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society. | |
| 9. n. (military) An air force formation. | |
| 10. n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata. | |
| 11. n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. | |
| 12. n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. | |
| 13. n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes. | |
| 14. n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division. | |
| 15. n. (business) A commercial organization. | |
| 16. v. To put together to form a group. | |
| group the dogs by hair colour | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group. | |
| 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. | |
| categorize |
| 1. v. To assign a category; to divide into classes. | |
| First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions. | |
| again |
| 1. adv. Another time; once more. | |
| 2. adv. Over and above a factor of one. | |
| 3. adv. Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. | |
| Great, thanks again! | |
| 4. adv. Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember. | |
| What's that called again? | |
| 5. adv. I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement. | |
| Again, I'm not criticizing, I just want to understand. | |
| 6. adv. Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here". | |
| Approach B is better than approach A in many respects, but again, there are difficulties in implementing it. | |
| 7. adv. (obsolete) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point. | |
| Bring us word again. | |
| 8. adv. Back (to a former place or state). | |
| We need to bring the old customs to life again. | |
| The South will rise again. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) In return, as a reciprocal action; back. | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) In any other place. | |
| 11. adv. (obsolete) On the other hand. | |
| 12. adv. Moreover; besides; further. | |
| 13. prep. (obsolete or dialectal) Against. | |
