| 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 | |
| patch |
| 1. n. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole. | |
| His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away. | |
| 2. n. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. | |
| I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch. | |
| 3. n. A repair intended to be used for a limited time; (differs from previous usage in that it is intended to be a temporary fix and the size of the repair is irrelevant). This usage can mean that the repai | |
| Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply a patch to the hole so that everything can dry off.or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a prope | |
| "This patch should hold until you reach the city," the mechanic said as he patted the car's hood. | |
| 4. n. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size) | |
| The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s. | |
| To me, a normal cow is white with black patches, but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats. | |
| Doesn't that patch of clouds looks like a bunny? | |
| When ice skating, be sure to stay away from reeds: there are always thin patches of ice there, and you could fall through. | |
| I never get first place because on track eight, right after you pass the windmill, there's a patch of oil in the road that always gets me. | |
| 5. n. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground. | |
| Scattered patches of trees or growing corn. | |
| 6. n. An area of professional responsibility | |
| 7. n. (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark. | |
| 8. n. (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound. | |
| 9. n. (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time. | |
| Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine. | |
| 10. n. (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch. | |
| He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch. | |
| 11. n. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting. | |
| 12. n. (computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program or that describes changes made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug. | |
| 13. n. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it. | |
| 14. n. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. | |
| 15. n. (often, patch cable, patch cord etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment. | |
| 16. n. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable). | |
| 17. v. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like | |
| MY coat needs patching. | |
| 18. v. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on. | |
| 19. v. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt. | |
| 20. v. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt. | |
| 21. v. A temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system. | |
| 22. v. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner | |
| a truce has been patched up. | |
| 23. v. (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence: | |
| 24. v. To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade. | |
| 25. v. To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program. | |
| 26. v. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable. | |
| I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer. | |
| 27. n. (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. | |
| repair |
| 1. v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. | |
| to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship | |
| to repair a shattered fortune | |
| 2. v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for. | |
| to repair a loss or damage | |
| 3. n. The act of repairing something. | |
| I took the car to the workshop for repair. | |
| 4. n. The result of repairing something. | |
| If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork. | |
| 5. n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair. | |
| The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair. | |
| 6. n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place. | |
| our annual repair to the mountains | |
| 7. n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt. | |
| 8. v. To transfer oneself to another place. | |
| to repair to sanctuary for safety | |
| 9. v. to pair again | |
| 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. | |
| refurbish |
| 1. v. To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance. | |
