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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
multiply
1. v. To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
2. v. (transitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication on (a number).
when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers
3. v. (intransitive) To grow in number.
4. v. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
5. v. (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.
6. v. (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
7. n. (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
8. adv. In many or multiple ways.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
three
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 3.
4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length.
Put all the threes in a separate container.
5. n. A person who is three years old.
All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
6. n. The playing card featuring three pips.
7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer)
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.
into
1. prep. Going inside (of).
Mary danced into the house.
2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The plane flew into the open air.
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
5. prep. After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you!
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
Five into three is fifteen.
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
three
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 3.
4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length.
Put all the threes in a separate container.
5. n. A person who is three years old.
All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
6. n. The playing card featuring three pips.
7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer)
parts
1. n. plural of part
2. n. (plural only) Intellectual ability or learning.
He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
3. n. (plural only, usually with “these”, colloquial) Vicinity, region.
4. n. (plural only, euphemistic) The genitals, short for private parts.
5. v. third-person singular present indicative of part
part
1. n. A portion; a component.
2. n. A fraction of a whole.
Gaul is divided into three parts.
3. n. A distinct element of something larger.
The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
4. n. A group inside a larger group.
5. n. Share, especially of a profit.
I want my part of the bounty.
6. n. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
7. n. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
8. n. A section of a document.
Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
9. n. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
10. n. (math, dated) A factor.
3 is a part of 12.
11. n. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
12. n. Duty; responsibility.
to do one’s part
13. n. Position or role (especially in a play).
We all have a part to play.
14. n. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
15. n. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
16. n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
17. n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
18. n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
19. v. (intransitive) To leave someone's company; (rare, poetic, literary) to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.
20. v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
21. v. To divide in two.
to part the curtains
22. v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle.
23. v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
24. v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
25. v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
26. v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
27. v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
to part gold from silver
28. v. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
29. v. (transitive, internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
30. adj. Fractional; partial.
Fred was part owner of the car.
31. adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.
Part finished
layers
1. n. plural of layer
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of layer
layer
1. n. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.
After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer.
2. n. An item of clothing worn under or over another.
It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers.
3. n. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.
4. n. One of the items in a hierarchy.
mired in layers of deceit
5. v. to cut or divide (something) into layers
6. v. to arrange (something) in layers.
Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.
7. n. A person who lays things, such as tiles.
8. n. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
When dealing with an infestation of headlice, the first step is to eliminate the layers.
9. n. A hen kept to lay eggs.
10. n. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
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.
thrice
1. adv. (dated) Three times.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
amount
1. n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
2. n. A quantity or volume.
Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
The dogs need different amounts of food.
3. n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
4. v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
It amounts to three dollars and change.
5. v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
His response amounted to gross insubordination
6. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.

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