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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
pass
1. v. Physical movement.
2. v. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
They passed from room to room.
3. v. To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
You will pass a house on your right.
4. v. (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make
The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
John passed Suzie a note.
The torch was passed from hand to hand.
5. v. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
6. v. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
7. v. (sport) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
8. v. # (transitive, football) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
9. v. # To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
10. v. # (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
11. v. (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
12. v. To put in circulation; to give currency to.
pass counterfeit money
13. v. (lbl, en, transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
14. v. To change in state or status
15. v. (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
He passed from youth into old age.
16. v. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
17. v. (intransitive) To die.
His grandmother passed yesterday.
18. v. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
He passed his examination.
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
19. v. (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legis
Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
The bill passed both houses of Congress.
The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
20. v. (intransitive, legal) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.
21. v. To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal
He passed the bill through the committee.
22. v. (intransitive, legal) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
23. v. To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
24. v. (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
25. v. To move through time.
26. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
Their vacation passed pleasantly.
27. v. (transitive, of time) To spend.
What will we do to pass the time?
28. v. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
29. v. (intransitive) To continue.
30. v. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
You're late, but I'll let it pass.
31. v. To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
32. v. (intransitive) To happen.
It will soon come to pass.
33. v. To be accepted.
34. v. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
35. v. (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging
36. v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
37. v. (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
38. v. To do or be better.
39. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
40. v. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
42. n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
a mountain pass
43. n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
the passes of the Mississippi
44. n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
45. n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
46. n. An attempt.
My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
47. n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
48. n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
49. n. A sexual advance.
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
50. n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
51. n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
52. n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
53. n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
54. n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
55. n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
56. n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
57. n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
58. n. (cookery) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
59. n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.
60. n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
61. n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
Anyone want to trade passes?
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.
course
1. n. A sequence of events.
The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
2. n. A normal or customary sequence.
3. n. A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
4. n. Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
5. n. A learning program, as in a school.
I need to take a French course.
6. n. (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
7. n. A stage of a meal.
We offer seafood as the first course.
8. n. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
9. n. A path that something or someone moves along.
His illness ran its course.
10. n. The itinerary of a race.
The cross-country course passes the canal.
11. n. A racecourse.
12. n. The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
13. n. (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
14. n. (golf) A golf course.
15. n. (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
16. n. (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
17. n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
18. n. (in the courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
19. n. A row or file of objects.
20. n. (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
21. n. (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
22. n. (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
23. n. (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.
24. v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
The oil coursed through the engine.
Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
25. v. To run through or over.
26. v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
27. v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
to course greyhounds after deer
28. adv. (colloquial) alternative form of of course
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.
Test
1. n. (cricket) (sometimes test) a Test match
2. n. A challenge, trial.
3. n. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
4. n. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
5. n. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
6. n. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
7. n. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
8. n. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
9. v. To challenge.
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
10. v. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
11. v. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument
12. v. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
13. v. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
14. v. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
He tested positive for cancer.
15. v. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
to test a solution by litmus paper
16. n. (obsolete) A witness.
17. v. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
18. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.
19. n. (informal, slang) testosterone
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
gain
1. prep. (obsolete) Against.
2. adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
the gainest way
3. adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
4. adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
5. adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
6. adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
7. adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
8. adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
gain quiet (= fairly/pretty quiet)
9. n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
10. n. What is gained.
11. n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
12. v. To acquire possession of.
Looks like you've gained a new friend.
13. v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
The sick man gains daily.
14. v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
to gain a battle; to gain a case at law
15. v. To increase.
16. v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
I'm gaining (on you).
gain ground
17. v. To reach.
to gain the top of a mountain
18. v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
19. v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
I've been gaining.
20. v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
21. n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
credit
1. v. To believe; to put credence in.
Someone said there were over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that.
2. v. (transitive, accounting) To add to an account (confer debit.)
Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice.
For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account.
The full amount of the purchase has been credited to your account.
3. v. To acknowledge the contribution of.
I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district.
Credit the point guard with another assist.
4. v. To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
5. n. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
6. n. Recognition and respect.
I give you credit for owning up to your mistake.
He arrived five minutes late, but to his credit he did work an extra ten minutes at the end of his shift.
7. n. Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
She received a singing credit in last year's operetta.
8. n. (television/film, usually plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
They kissed, and then the credits rolled.
9. n. (law, business, finance) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you.
10. n. The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
a long credit or a short credit
11. n. (US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
What do you mean my credit is no good?
12. n. (accounting) An addition to certain accounts.
13. n. (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit?
14. n. A source of value, distinction or honour.
That engineer is a credit to the team.
15. n. An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
To repair your star cruiser will cost 100,000 credits.
Would you like to play? I put in a dollar and I've got two credits left.
16. n. Recognition for having taken a course (class).
If you do not come to class, you will not get credit for the class, regardless of how well you do on the final.
17. n. A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
Dude, I just need 3 more credits to graduate – I can take socio-linguistics of Swahili if I want.
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
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.
class
1. n. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
Often used to imply membership of a large class.
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
2. n. (sociology) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
3. n. The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
4. n. Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
5. n. (education, and un) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
6. n. A series of classes covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
7. n. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
8. n. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
9. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
10. n. Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
11. n. (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
The class of all sets is not a set.
Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
12. n. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
13. n. (object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
an abstract base class
14. n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
15. v. To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
16. v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
17. v. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
18. adj. (Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous
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
qualify
1. v. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
2. v. To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
3. v. To certify or license someone for something.
4. v. To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
5. v. (now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
6. v. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
7. v. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
8. v. (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
9. n. (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
academically
1. adv. In an academic style or way; from an academic perspective.Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
academically disadvantaged demographic group
Academically, the football team is counter-productive.

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