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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
reduce
1. v. To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
2. v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
3. v. To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
4. v. To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
to reduce a province or a fort
5. v. To bring to an inferior state or condition.
to reduce a city to ashes
6. v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
7. v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
8. v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
9. v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
10. v. (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
11. v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
12. v. (transitive, legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
13. v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
14. v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
a book reduced into English
strength
1. n. The quality or degree of being strong.
It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
2. n. The intensity of a force or power; potency.
He had the strength of ten men.
3. n. The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
4. n. A positive attribute.
We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
5. n. (obsolete) Armed force, body of troops.
6. n. (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
7. v. (obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen.
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.
energy
1. n. The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
2. n. The capacity to do work.
3. n. (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
Units:
SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
CGS: erg (erg)
Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT
4. n. An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved
5. n. (RPG, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
debilitate
1. v. To make feeble; to weaken.
The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.

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