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 | |
harass |
1. v. To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts. | |
2. v. To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest. | |
3. v. To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties. | |
To harass good people is no different than speaking ill of them. | |
4. n. (obsolete) devastation; waste | |
5. n. (obsolete) worry; harassment | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
persistent |
1. adj. Obstinately refusing to give up or let go. | |
She has had a persistent cough for weeks. | |
2. adj. Insistently repetitive. | |
There was a persistent knocking on the door. | |
3. adj. Indefinitely continuous. | |
There have been persistent rumours for years. | |
4. adj. (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off. | |
Pine cones have persistent scales. | |
5. adj. (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it. | |
Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program. | |
6. adj. (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function | |
7. adj. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient. | |
requests |
1. n. plural of request | |
request |
1. v. to express the need or desire for | |
2. v. to ask somebody to do something | |
3. n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). | |
4. n. A formal message requesting something. | |
5. n. condition, Condition of being sought after. | |
6. n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested. | |