| 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 | |
| kick |
| 1. v. To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg. | |
| Did you kick your brother? | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something. | |
| He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick. | |
| 3. v. To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg. | |
| Kick the ball into the goal. | |
| 4. v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily. | |
| 5. v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity. | |
| He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding. | |
| 6. v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem). | |
| I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit. | |
| 7. v. To move or push suddenly and violently. | |
| He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast. | |
| 8. v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling. | |
| 9. v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move. | |
| 10. v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders. | |
| Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen. | |
| 11. n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee. | |
| A kick to the knee. | |
| 12. n. The action of swinging a foot or leg. | |
| The ballerina did a high kick and a leap. | |
| 13. n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing. | |
| I finally saw the show. What a kick! | |
| I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick. | |
| 14. n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity. | |
| 15. n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to kick. | |
| 16. n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet. | |
| The car had a nasty kick the whole way. | |
| The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table. | |
| 17. n. Piquancy. | |
| 18. n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance. | |
| 19. n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot. | |
| 20. n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball. | |
| a long kick up the field. | |
| 21. n. A recoil of a gun. | |
| 22. n. (informal) Pocket. | |
| 23. n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race. | |
| 24. v. To die. | |
