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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
make
1. v. To create.
2. v. To build, construct, or produce.
We made a bird feeder for our yard.
I'll make a man out of him yet.
3. v. To write or compose.
I made a poem for her wedding.
He made a will.
4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
make war
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
God made earth and heaven.
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
8. v. To constitute.
They make a cute couple.
This makes the third infraction.
One swallow does not a summer make.
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10. v. To add up to, have a sum of.
Two and four make six.
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret.
I don’t know what to make of it.
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
This company is what made you.
She married into wealth and so has it made.
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
The citizens made their objections clear.
This might make you a bit woozy.
Did I make myself heard?
Scotch will make you a man.
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
You're making her cry.
I was made to feel like a criminal.
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
The teacher made the student study.
Don’t let them make you suffer.
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
They made westward over the snowy mountains.
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
They made away from the fire toward the river.
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
23. v. To move at (a speed).
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
24. v. To appoint; to name.
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
They hope to make a bigger profit.
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
She made ten points in that game.
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
30. v. To enact; to establish.
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be.
She'll make a fine president.
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind.
make plans
made a questionable decision
33. v. To perform a feat.
make a leap
make a pass
make a u-turn
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of.
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with.
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
What make of car do you drive?
41. n. How a thing is made; construction.
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
The camera was of German make.
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
45. n. A person's character or disposition.
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
51. n. (slang) A promotion.
52. n. A home-made project
53. n. (basketball) A made basket.
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
extremely
1. adv. (degree) To an extreme degree.
thin
1. adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
2. adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
thin wire; thin string
3. adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
thin person
4. adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
5. adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
6. adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
7. adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
8. adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
a thin disguise
9. n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
10. n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
chocolate mint thins
potato thins
11. v. To make thin or thinner.
12. v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
13. v. To dilute.
14. v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
15. adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
seed sown thin
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.
wasted
1. adj. Not profitably used.
2. adj. Ravaged or deteriorated.
3. adj. Emaciated and haggard.
4. adj. (slang) very drunk or stoned.
5. adj. (medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
6. v. simple past tense and past participle of waste
waste
1. n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
2. n. Excrement or urine.
The cage was littered with animal waste
3. n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
4. n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
5. n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
6. n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
7. n. A vast expanse of water.
8. n. A disused mine or part of one.
9. n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
That was a waste of time
Her life seemed a waste
10. n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
11. n. Gradual loss or decay.
12. n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
13. n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
14. n. (legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or charact
15. n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
16. adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
17. adj. Barren; desert.
18. adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
19. adj. Superfluous; needless.
20. adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
21. v. to devastate, destroy
22. v. To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
23. v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
24. v. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
25. v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
26. v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
27. v. (legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

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