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 | |
resolve |
1. v. To find a solution to (a problem). | |
2. v. To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain. | |
to resolve a riddle | |
3. v. To solve again. | |
I’ll have to resolve the equation with the new values. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. | |
I resolve to finish this work before I go home. | |
5. v. To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle. | |
He was resolved by an unexpected event. | |
6. v. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet. | |
After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences. | |
7. v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state. | |
8. v. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. | |
9. v. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance. | |
10. v. (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something. | |
11. v. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up. | |
12. v. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid). | |
13. v. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid. | |
14. v. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour). | |
15. v. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour. | |
16. v. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease. | |
17. v. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers. | |
18. n. Determination, will power. | |
It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery. | |
anything |
1. pron. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other. | |
I would not do it for anything or any ring. | |
2. pron. (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison. | |
3. n. Someone or something of importance. | |
4. adv. In any way, any extent or any degree. | |
That isn't anything like a car. | |
She's not anything like as strong as me. | |
complex |
1. adj. Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple. | |
a complex being; a complex idea | |
2. adj. Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated. | |
3. adj. (mathematics) Of a number, of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is a square root of −1. | |
complex function | |
4. adj. (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself. | |
5. n. A network of interconnected systems. | |
military-industrial complex | |
6. n. A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base. | |
7. n. An assemblage of related things; a collection. | |
8. n. (psychology) A psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing. | |
Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss. | |
9. n. An organized cluster of thunderstorms. | |
10. n. (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules. | |
11. n. (math) A complex number. | |
12. v. (chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance | |
13. v. To complicate. | |
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. | |
its |
1. det. Belonging to it. | |
2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it. | |
3. n. plural of it | |
elements |
1. n. plural of element | |
2. n. (pluralonly) Outdoor weather, such as wind or rain. | |
3. n. (pluralonly) The basic tenets of an area of knowledge. | |
4. n. (pluralonly) The bread and wine of the Eucharist. | |
element |
1. n. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. | |
Letters are the elements of written language. | |
2. n. (chemistry) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms | |
3. n. One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air. | |
4. n. (legal) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved. | |
5. n. (set theory) One of the objects in a set. | |
6. n. Any of the teeth of a zip fastener. | |
7. n. A small part of the whole. | |
an element of doubt; an element of the picture | |
8. n. (plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains. | |
exposed to the elements | |
9. n. A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to. | |
to be in one's element | |
10. n. (Christianity, usually plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion. | |
11. n. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic. | |
You sometimes find the hooligan element at football matches. | |
12. n. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it. | |
The element in this electric kettle can heat the water in under a minute. | |
13. n. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags. | |
14. v. (obsolete) To compound of elements. | |
15. v. (obsolete) To constitute and be the elements of. | |