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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
present
1. adj. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
The barbaric practice continues to the present day.
The present manager has been here longer than the last one.
2. adj. Located in the immediate vicinity.
Is there a doctor present? Several people were present when the event took place.
3. adj. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
4. adj. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
5. adj. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
a present wit
6. adj. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
7. adj. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
in the present study, the present article, the present results.
8. adj. Attentive; alert; focused.
Sorry, I was distracted just now, I'll try to be more present from now on.
9. n. The current moment or period of time.
10. n. The present tense.
11. n. A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
12. n. (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
to stand at present
13. v. To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
to present an envoy to the king
14. v. To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
15. v. To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
16. v. (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
17. v. (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
18. v. To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
19. v. To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
20. v. To put on, stage (a play etc.).
The theater is proud to present the Fearless Fliers.
21. v. (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
22. v. (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
Well, one idea does present itself.
23. v. (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
The patient presented with insomnia.
24. v. (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
25. v. (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
At that time, Elbe was presenting as a man.
I was presenting as a boy / a girl / a man / a woman / (a) male / (a) female / masculine / feminine
26. v. To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
Anne Robinson presents "The Weakest Link".
27. v. To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
She was presented with an honorary degree for her services to entertainment.
28. v. To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
29. v. To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
I presented my compliments to Lady Featherstoneshaw.
30. v. To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
31. v. (intransitive, zoology) To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.
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.
wide
1. adj. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
We walked down a wide corridor.
2. adj. Large in scope.
The inquiry had a wide remit.
3. adj. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
That team needs a decent wide player.
4. adj. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
5. adj. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
6. adj. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
The wide, lifeless expanse.
7. adj. Remote; distant; far.
The hut was not wide from the sea.
The cabin is not wide from the lake.
8. adj. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
9. adj. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
a wide character; a wide stream
10. adv. extensively
He travelled far and wide.
11. adv. completely
He was wide awake.
12. adv. away from a given goal
The arrow fell wide of the mark.
13. adv. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
14. n. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
opening
1. v. present participle of open
2. n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.
He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.
3. n. Something that is open.
A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.
He slipped through an opening in the crowd.
4. n. An act or instance of beginning.
There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.
Their opening of the concert with Brass in Pocket always fires up the crowd.
5. n. Something that is a beginning.
6. n. The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread.
7. n. The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
8. n. The first few measures of a musical composition.
9. n. (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess.
John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying endgames.
10. n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?
11. n. A time available in a schedule.
If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.
The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM.
12. n. An unoccupied employment position.
We have an opening in our marketing department.
13. n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
14. n. (math) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
15. adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack
open
1. adj. (not comparable) Not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
Turn left after the second open door.
It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open.
2. adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect
3. adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
Banks are not open on bank holidays.
4. adj. (comparable) Receptive.
I am open to new ideas.
5. adj. (not comparable) Public
He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.
6. adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
The man is an open book.
7. adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
8. adj. (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets ofX, that defines a topological space onX.
9. adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
10. adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.
11. adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
12. adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
an open question
to keep an offer or opportunity open
13. adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
14. adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
an open winter
15. adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
16. adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
17. adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
18. adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
19. adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
20. v. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
Turn the doorknob to open the door.
21. v. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
He opened a path through the undergrowth.
22. v. To bring up, broach.
I don't want to open that subject.
23. v. To enter upon, begin.
to open a discussion
to open fire upon an enemy
to open trade, or correspondence
to open a case in court, or a meeting
24. v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
to open a closed fist
to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
to open a map, book, or scroll
25. v. To make accessible to customers or clients.
I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
26. v. To start (a campaign).
Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
27. v. (intransitive) To become open.
The door opened all by itself.
28. v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
The shop opens at 9:00.
29. v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
30. v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
31. v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
32. v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
33. v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
34. n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
35. n. (electronics) A wire that is broken midway.
The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
36. n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
37. n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.

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