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 | |
love |
1. n. Strong affection. | |
2. n. A profound and caring affection towards someone. | |
A mother’s love is not easily shaken. | |
My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life. | |
3. n. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being. | |
4. n. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone. | |
I have never been in love as much as I have with you. | |
5. n. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something. | |
My love of cricket knows no bounds. | |
6. n. A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. | |
7. n. (colloquial, British) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. | |
Hello love, how can I help you? | |
8. n. A thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm. | |
9. n. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction. | |
10. n. (euphemistic) Sexual activity. | |
11. n. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair. | |
12. n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young. | |
13. n. (altcaps, Love, , personification of love). | |
14. n. (obsolete) A thin silk material. | |
15. n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba. | |
16. v. (usually transitive sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | |
I love my spouse. I love you! | |
17. v. To need, thrive on. | |
Mold loves moist, dark places. | |
18. v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. | |
I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair | |
19. v. (usually transitive sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something). | |
20. v. To derive delight from a fact or situation. | |
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte. | |
21. v. To lust for. | |
22. v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.) | |
I wish I could love her all night long. | |
23. v. (transitive, obsolete, or UK dialectal) To praise; commend. | |
24. v. (transitive, obsolete, or UK dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on. | |
25. n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score. | |
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova. | |
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 | |
one |
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. | |
In some religions, there is only one god. | |
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth. | |
One person, one vote. | |
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. | |
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. | |
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. | |
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. | |
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully. | |
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. | |
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other. | |
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). | |
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge. | |
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. | |
"driver", noun: one who drives. | |
9. n. The digit or figure 1. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | |
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill. | |
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. | |
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote. | |
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. | |
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". | |
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?! | |
Someone help me; I'm always losing! | |
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1! | |
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular. | |
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries. | |
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. | |
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.". | |
18. adj. Sole, only. | |
He is the one man who can help you. | |
19. adj. Whole, entire. | |
Body and soul are not separate; they are one. | |
20. adj. In agreement. | |
We are one on the importance of learning. | |
21. adj. The same. | |
The two types look very different, but are one species. | |
22. adj. Being a preeminent example. | |
He is one hell of a guy. | |
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". | |
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”. | |
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. | |
entire |
1. adj. (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete. | |
We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening. | |
2. adj. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation. | |
3. adj. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. | |
4. adj. (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ. | |
5. adj. (of a male animal) Not gelded. | |
6. adj. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. | |
7. adj. Internal; interior. | |
8. n. (now rare) The whole of something; the entirety. | |
9. n. An uncastrated horse; a stallion. | |
10. n. (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted. | |
11. n. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery. | |
heart |
1. n. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. | |
2. n. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general. | |
The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart. | |
3. n. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. | |
a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart | |
4. n. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit. | |
5. n. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. | |
6. n. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. | |
Listen, dear heart, we must go now. | |
7. n. Personality, disposition. | |
a cold heart | |
8. n. (figurative) A wight or being. | |
9. n. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes (unsupported, <3). | |
10. n. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols. | |
11. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card. | |
12. n. The centre, essence, or core. | |
The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest. | |
Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life. | |
13. v. (transitive, humorous, informal, mostly, internet slang) To be fond of. (Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.) | |
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to be devoted. | |
15. v. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. | |
16. v. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
soul |
1. n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death. | |
2. n. The spirit or essence of anything. | |
3. n. Life, energy, vigor. | |
4. n. (music) Soul music. | |
5. n. A person, especially as one among many. | |
6. n. An individual life. | |
Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank. | |
7. n. (math) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry. | |
8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind. | |
9. v. To beg on All Soul's Day. | |
10. v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance. | |
regard |
1. n. A steady look, a gaze. | |
2. n. One's concern for another; esteem. | |
3. n. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. | |
4. n. The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. | |
He is held in great regard in Whitehall. | |
5. v. To look at; to observe. | |
She regarded us warily. | |
6. v. To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. | |
I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil. | |
He regards honesty as a duty. | |
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. | |
8. v. To face toward. | |
9. v. To have to do with, to concern. | |
That argument does not regard the question. | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. | |
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 | |
deep |
1. adj. (heading, of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards. | |
2. adj. Extending far down from the top or surface; having its bottom far down. | |
We hiked into a deep valley between tall mountains. | |
There was a deep layer of dust on the floor; the room had not been disturbed for many years. | |
3. adj. Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference. | |
The shelves are 30 centimetres deep. — They are deep shelves. | |
4. adj. In a (specified) number of rows or layers. | |
a crowd three deep along the funeral procession | |
5. adj. Thick. | |
That cyclist's deep chest allows him to draw more air. | |
6. adj. Voluminous. | |
to take a deep breath / sigh / drink | |
7. adj. A long way inside; situated far in or back. | |
deep into the forest; deep in the forest | |
8. adj. # (cricket, baseball, softball) Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative | |
# He is fielding at deep mid wicket. | |
# She hit a ball into deep center field. | |
9. adj. # (sports) A long way forward. | |
# a deep volley | |
10. adj. # (American football) Relatively farther downfield. | |
11. adj. (heading, intellectual, social) Complex, involved. | |
12. adj. Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious. | |
That is a deep thought! | |
13. adj. To a significant, not superficial, extent. | |
I just meant to help out a little, but now I'm deep into it. | |
They're deep in discussion. | |
14. adj. Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure. | |
a deep subject or plot | |
15. adj. Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning. | |
16. adj. (sound, voice) Low in pitch. | |
She has a very deep contralto voice. | |
17. adj. (of a color) Dark and highly saturated. | |
That's a very deep shade of blue. | |
18. adj. (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken). | |
He was in a deep sleep. | |
19. adj. Immersed, submerged (in). | |
deep in debt; deep in the mud; waist-deep in the muddy water | |
20. adj. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads. | |
21. adv. Deeply. | |
22. n. (literary, with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc. | |
creatures of the deep | |
23. n. (literary, with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation. | |
the deep of night | |
24. n. (rare) A deep shade of colour. | |
25. n. (US, rare) The profound part of a problem. | |
26. n. (with "the") The sea, the ocean. | |
27. n. (cricket) A fielding position near the boundary. | |
Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep. | |
respect |
1. n. an attitude of consideration or high regard | |
He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him. | |
we do respect people for their dignity and worth. | |
2. n. good opinion, honor, or admiration | |
3. n. (always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death. | |
The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet. | |
4. n. a particular aspect, feature or detail of something | |
This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects. | |
5. n. Good will; favor | |
6. v. To have respect for. | |
She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly. | |
7. v. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right. | |
I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense. | |
8. v. To abide by an agreement. | |
They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded. | |
9. v. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed. | |
10. v. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem. | |
12. v. (obsolete) To look toward; to face. | |
13. interj. (Jamaica) hello, hi | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
affection |
1. n. The act of affecting or acting upon. | |
2. n. The state of being affected. | |
3. n. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition | |
4. n. An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind | |
5. n. A feeling of love or strong attachment. | |
6. n. (medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady. | |
7. v. to feel an affection, emotion or love for. | |