| 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 | |
| insult |
| 1. v. To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). | |
| 2. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over or against someone). | |
| 3. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. | |
| 4. n. An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude. | |
| 5. n. Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality. | |
| The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears. | |
| 6. n. (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack. | |
| 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. | |
| slight |
| 1. adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe. | |
| a slight (i.e. feeble) effort; a slight (i.e. not deep) impression; a slight (i.e. not convincing) argument; a slight (i.e. not thorough) examination; a slight (i.e. not | |
| 2. adj. Not stout or heavy; slender. | |
| a slight but graceful woman | |
| 3. adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea). | |
| A slight stone | |
| The sea was slight and calm | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect. | |
| 5. adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as goods). | |
| A gullible chapman was fooled into buying really slight goods. | |
| 6. adj. (dated) Slighting; treating with disdain. | |
| 7. v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of. | |
| 8. v. To give lesser weight or importance to. | |
| 9. v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully. | |
| 10. v. (transitive military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition. | |
| 11. v. To make even or level. | |
| 12. v. To throw heedlessly. | |
| 13. n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy. | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) Sleight. | |
