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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
set
1. v. To put (something) down, to rest.
Set the tray there.
2. v. To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
I have set my heart on running the marathon.
3. v. To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
4. v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
to set a coach in the mud
5. v. To determine or settle.
to set the rent
6. v. To adjust.
I set the alarm at 6 a.m.
7. v. To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
8. v. To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
Please set the table for our guests.
9. v. To introduce or describe.
I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.
10. v. To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
He says he will set his next film in France.
11. v. To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
This crossword was set by Araucaria.
12. v. To prepare (a stage or film set).
13. v. To fit (someone) up in a situation.
14. v. To arrange (type).
It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.
15. v. To devise and assign (work) to.
The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.
16. v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
17. v. (intransitive) To solidify.
The glue sets in four minutes.
18. v. To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
to set milk for cheese
19. v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.
20. v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
21. v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
22. v. (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
to set seed
23. v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
24. v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
He sets in that chair all day.
25. v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
26. v. (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
The dog sets the bird.
Your dog sets well.
27. v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
28. v. To fit music to words.
29. v. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
to set pear trees in an orchard
30. v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
31. v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
32. v. To place or fix in a setting.
to set a precious stone in a border of metal
to set glass in a sash
33. v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
to set (that is, to hone) a razor
to set a saw
34. v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
to set the sails of a ship
35. v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
to set a psalm
36. v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
to set a broken bone
37. v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
38. v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
39. v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
40. v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
41. v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
to set a good example; to set lessons to be learned
42. v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
It sets him ill.
43. n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
nail set
44. n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
television set
45. n. (alt form, sett): a hole made and lived in by a badger.
46. n. (alt form, sett): pattern of threads and yarns.
47. n. (alt form, sett): piece of quarried stone.
48. n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
49. n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
50. n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
51. n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
the set of a spring
52. n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
53. n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
54. n. A young oyster when first attached.
55. n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
56. n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun)
57. n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
the set of a coat
58. n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
59. adj. Fixed in position.
60. adj. Rigid, solidified.
61. adj. Ready, prepared.
on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!
62. adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
set on getting to his destination
63. adj. Prearranged.
a set menu
64. adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
free
1. adj. (social) Unconstrained.
He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
2. adj. Not imprisoned or enslaved.
a free man
3. adj. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust
4. adj. Generous; liberal.
He's very free with his money.
5. adj. (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
6. adj. Without obligations.
free time
7. adj. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a t
a free school
8. adj. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said
This is a free country.
9. adj. (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
OpenOffice is free software.
10. adj. (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
11. adj. Obtainable without any payment.
The government provides free health care.
12. adj. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) complimentary
Buy a TV to get a free DVD player!
13. adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
14. adj. (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
the free group on three generators
15. adj. (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
z is the free variable in\forall x\exists y:xy=z.
16. adj. (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
17. adj. (linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
18. adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
19. adj. Unobstructed, without blockages.
the drain was free
20. adj. Unattached or uncombined.
a free radical
21. adj. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
You can sit on this chair; it's free.
22. adj. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.
23. adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat. I would like to live free from care in the mountains.
24. adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
a free horse
25. adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
26. adj. (legal) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
free service; free socage
27. adj. (legal) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
a free fishery; a free warren
28. adv. Without needing to pay.
I got this bike free.
29. adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
30. v. To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.
31. n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) (abbreviation of free kick).
32. n. free transfer
33. n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
release
1. n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
2. n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
3. n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
The video store advertised that it had all the latest releases.
4. n. That which is released, untied or let go.
They marked the occasion with a release of butterflies.
5. n. The giving up of a claim.
6. n. Liberation from pain or suffering.
7. n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
8. n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
9. n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
10. n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
11. n. A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
12. n. The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
13. v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
He released his grasp on the lever.
14. v. To make available to the public.
They released the new product later than intended.
15. v. To free or liberate; to set free.
He was released after two years in prison.
16. v. To discharge.
They released thousands of gallons of water into the river each month.
17. v. (telephone) (of a call) To hang up.
If you continue to use abusive language, I will need to release the call.
18. v. (legal) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder r
19. v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
to release an ordinance
20. v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
21. v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
22. v. To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
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.
discharge
1. v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
2. v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
3. v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
4. v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
5. v. To expel or let go.
6. v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
7. v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
8. v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
9. v. (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
10. v. (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
11. v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
to discharge a prisoner
12. v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
13. v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
14. v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
15. v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
to discharge a cargo
16. v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
A pipe discharges water.
17. v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
He discharged a horrible oath.
18. v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
19. v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
20. n. (symptom) Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
21. n. The act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
22. n. The act of expelling or letting go.
23. n. The process of unloading something.
24. n. The process of flowing out.
25. n. (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
26. n. (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
27. n. (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
28. n. (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
obligations
1. n. plural of obligation
obligation
1. n. The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
2. n. A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
3. n. A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
4. n. (legal) A legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement.
X shall be entitled to subcontract its obligation to provide the Support Services.>
debts
1. n. plural of debt
debt
1. n. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
2. n. The state or condition of owing something to another.
I am in your debt.
3. n. Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
4. n. (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
responsibility
1. n. The state of being responsible, ac, or answerable.
Responsibility is a heavy burden.
2. n. A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held ac.
Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility!
The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world - Harry S. Truman
3. n. (military) The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
4. n. (military) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
etc
1. adv. alternative form of etc.

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