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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
lower
     1. adj. comparative form of low: more low
     2. adj. bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
     3. adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
     4. adv. comparative form of low: more low
     5. v. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
           lower a bucket into a well
           to lower a sail of a boat
     6. v. to pull down
           to lower a flag
     7. v. To reduce the height of
           lower a fence or wall
           lower a chimney or turret
     8. v. To depress as to direction
           lower the aim of a gun
     9. v. To make less elevated
           to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
     10. v. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
           lower the temperature
           lower one's vitality
           lower distilled liquors
     11. v. To bring down; to humble
           lower one's pride
     12. v. (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
           I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
     13. v. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
           lower the price of goods
           lower the interest rate
     14. v. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
           The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
     15. v. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
     16. v. alternative spelling of lour.
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
flag
     1. n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
     2. n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
     3. n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
     4. n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
     5. n. (construction) (abbreviation of flagstone:) a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or tiling
     6. n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
     7. n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain option
     8. n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
     9. n. (British) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
     10. n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itsel
     11. n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) i
     12. v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
     13. v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
     14. v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
           Please flag down a taxi for me.
     15. v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
           to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
     16. v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
           I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
           Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.
     17. v. (computing) To signal (an event).
           The compiler flagged three errors.
     18. v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
           Flag the debug option before running the program.
     19. v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
     20. v. (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
           The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
     21. v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
           His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
     22. v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
     23. v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
           to flag the wings
     24. v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
     25. n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
     26. n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
     27. n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
     28. n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
     29. v. To pave with flagstones.
           Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.
     30. n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
     31. n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
     32. n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
     33. n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
particularly
     1. adv. (focus) Especially, extremely.
           The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.
     2. adv. (degree) To a great extent.
     3. adv. Specifically, uniquely or individually.
     4. adv. In detail; with regard to particulars.
     5. adv. (dated) In a particular manner; fussily.
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
national
     1. adj. Of or having to do with a nation.
     2. adj. (by extension) Of or having to do with a country (sovereign state).
           Import tariffs were raised for the national interest.
     3. n. A subject of a nation.
           The diplomats were advised not to interact with any foreign nationals except on official duty.
     4. n. (usually in the plural) A tournament in which participants from all over the nation compete.
           After winning the regional tournament, the team advanced to the nationals.
ensign
     1. n. A badge of office, rank, or power.
     2. n. The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.
     3. n. A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour.
           Synonyms: ancient
     4. n. (nautical) The principal flag or banner flown by a ship to indicate nationality.
     5. n. Any prominent flag or banner.
     6. n. (historical) A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.
     7. v. (obsolete) To designate as by an ensign.
     8. v. To distinguish by a mark or ornament.
     9. v. (heraldry) To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
           Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
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
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
partially
     1. adv. To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.
hoisted
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of hoist
     hoist
          1. v. To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
          2. v. (transitive, sport) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory, often used figuratively.
          3. v. (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
          4. v. (intransitive) To be lifted up.
          5. v. (transitive, comptheory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
          6. n. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
          7. n. The act of hoisting; a lift.
                Give me a hoist over that wall.
          8. n. The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
          9. n. The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
          10. n. The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.
position
     1. n. A place or location.
     2. n. A post of employment; a job.
     3. n. A status or rank.
           Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
     4. n. An opinion, stand or stance.
           My position on this issue is unchanged.
     5. n. A posture.
           Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
     6. n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
           Stop running all over the field and play your position!
     7. n. (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm or institution.
     8. n. (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
     9. n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
     10. n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
     11. v. To put into place.
in
     1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
     2. prep.          Contained by.
                   The dog is in the kennel.
     3. prep.          Within.
     4. prep.          Surrounded by.
                   We are in the enemy camp.   Her plane is in the air.
     5. prep.          Part of; a member of.
                   One in a million.   She's in band and orchestra.
     6. prep.          Pertaining to; with regard to.
                   What grade did he get in English?
                   Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
     7. prep.          At the end of a period of time.
                   They said they would call us in a week.
     8. prep.          Within a certain elapsed time
                   Are you able to finish this in three hours?   The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
     9. prep.          During (said of periods of time).
                   in the first week of December;  Easter falls in the fourth lunar month;   The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
     10. prep.          (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
                   English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
     11. prep. Into.
           Less water gets in your boots this way.
     12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
           In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
     13. prep.          Indicating an order or arrangement.
                   My fat rolls around in folds.
     14. prep.          Denoting a state of the subject.
                   He stalked away in anger.   John is in a coma.
     15. prep.          Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
                   You've got a friend in me.   He's met his match in her.
     16. prep.          Wearing (an item of clothing).
                    I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
     17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
     18. prep.          (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
                   Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
                   The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
                    Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
     19. prep.          Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
                   Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
                   His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
                   When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
     20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
     21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
     22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
           Is Mr. Smith in?
     23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
           Suddenly a strange man walked in.
     24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
           He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
     25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
           What's that in?
     26. adv. After the beginning of something.
     27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
           His parents got him an in with the company
     28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
     29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
     30. adj. In fashion; popular.
           Skirts are in this year.
     31. adj. Incoming.
           the in train
     32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
     33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
           in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
     34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
     35. n. Inch.
order
     1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
     2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
     3. n. The state of being well arranged.
           The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
     4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
           to preserve order in a community or an assembly
     5. n. A command.
     6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
     7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles
           St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
     8. n. An association of knights
           the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
     9. n. any group of people with common interests.
     10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
     11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
           Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
     12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
           the higher or lower orders of society
           talent of a high order
     13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
           to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
     14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu
     15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
     16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
           a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
     17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
     18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
     19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id
     20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
     21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
     22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
     23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
           A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.
     24. v. To set in some sort of order.
     25. v. To arrange, set in proper order.
     26. v. To issue a command to.
           to order troops to advance
           He ordered me to leave.
     27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
           to order groceries
     28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
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
render
     1. v. (ditransitive) To cause to become.
           The shot rendered her immobile.
     2. v. To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
           The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.
     3. v. To translate into another language.
           to render Latin into English
     4. v. To pass down.
           render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment)
     5. v. To make over as a return.
           They had to render the estate.
     6. v. To give; to give back; to deliver.
           render aid; render money
           to render an account of what really happened
     7. v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
     8. v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
           rendering images
     9. v. To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
     10. v. To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
           rendering of fat into soap
     11. v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
           Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking.
     12. v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
           to render with stucco
     13. v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
           A rope renders well, that is, passes freely.
     14. v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
     15. v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
     16. v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
     17. n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
     18. n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
           A low-resolution render might look blocky.
     19. n. (obsolete) A surrender.
     20. n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
     21. n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
     22. n. One who rends.
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.
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
return
     1. v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
           Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
     2. v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
           To return to my story...
     3. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
     4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
     5. v. To place or put back something where it had been.
           Please return your hands to your lap.
     6. v. To give something back to its original holder or owner.
           You should return the library book within one month.
     7. v. To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
           If the goods don't work, you can return them.
     8. v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
     9. v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
           The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.
     10. v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
           If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
     11. v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
     12. v. To say in reply; to respond.
           to return an answer;  to return thanks
     13. v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
     14. v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
           This function returns the number of files in the directory.
     15. v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
           to return the lie
     16. v. To report, or bring back and make known.
           to return the result of an election
     17. v. (by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
     18. n. The act of returning.
           I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
     19. n. A return ticket.
           Do you want a one-way or a return?
     20. n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
           Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
     21. n. An answer.
           a return to one's question
     22. n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
           election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
     23. n. Gain or loss from an investment.
           It yielded a return of 5%.
     24. n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
           Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
     25. n. (computing) A carriage return character.
     26. n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
     27. n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
     28. n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
     29. n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
     30. n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
     31. n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction
           A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
salute
     1. n. A formal gesture made in honor of someone or something, usually with the hand or hands in one of various particular positions.
           The soldiers greeted the dignitaries with a crisp salute.
     2. n. Any action performed for the purpose of honor or tribute.
           The orchestra performed the concert as a salute to Gershwin.
     3. n. A pyrotechnic device primarily designed to produce a loud bang.
     4. v. To make a gesture in honor of someone or something.
           They saluted the flag as it passed in the parade.
     5. v. To act in thanks, honor, or tribute; to thank or extend gratitude; to praise.
           I would like to salute the many dedicated volunteers that make this project possible.
     6. v. (Ireland, informal) to wave, to acknowledge an acquaintance.
           I saluted Bill at the concert, but he didn't see me through the crowd.
     7. v. To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
     8. v. To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
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