| 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 | |
| match |
| 1. n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. | |
| My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today. | |
| 2. n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority. | |
| 3. n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. | |
| He knew he had met his match. | |
| 4. n. A marriage. | |
| 5. n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage. | |
| 6. n. Suitability. | |
| 7. n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition. | |
| 8. n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics. | |
| The carpet and curtains are a match. | |
| 9. n. An agreement or compact. | |
| 10. n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts o | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to. | |
| Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together. | |
| These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match. | |
| 12. v. To agree, to be equal, to correspond to. | |
| His interests didn't match her interests. | |
| 13. v. To make a successful match or pairing. | |
| They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly. | |
| 14. v. To equal or exceed in achievement. | |
| She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better. | |
| 15. v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate. | |
| 16. v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges. | |
| to match boards | |
| 17. n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface. | |
| He struck a match and lit his cigarette. | |
| objects |
| 1. n. plural of object | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of object | |
| especially |
| 1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially. | |
| 2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal. | |
| 3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something. | |
| Invite them all, especially Molly. | |
| clothes |
| 1. n. (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel. | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) plural of cloth. | |
| 3. n. The covering of a bed; bedclothes. | |
| 4. v. third-person singular present indicative of clothe | |
