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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
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.
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