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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
sketch
     1. v. To make a brief, basic drawing.
           I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
     2. v. To describe briefly and with very few details.
           He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
     3. n. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
     4. n. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
     5. n. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
     6. n. A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show, a skit
     7. n.          a brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano
     8. n.          a brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
     9. n. (informal) An amusing person.
     10. n. (slang) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
           to keep sketch
     11. n. (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
     12. n. (math) A category together with a set of limit cones and a set of colimit cones.
     13. adj. Sketchy, shady, questionable.
out
           See also individual phrasal verbs such as come out, go out, put out, take out, pull out, and so on.
     1. adv. Away from the inside or the centre.
           The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
     2. adv. Away from home or one's usual place.
           Let's eat out tonight
     3. adv. Outside; not indoors.
           Last night we slept out under the stars.
     4. adv. Away from; at a distance.
           Keep out!
     5. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
           Switch the lights out.
           Put the fire out.
     6. adv. To the end; completely.
           I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
     7. adv. Used to intensify or emphasize.
           The place was all decked out for the holidays.
     8. adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
           The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.
     9. adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
           Wilson was bowled out for five runs.
     10. prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside.
           He threw it out the door.
     11. prep. (colloquial) Outside.
           It's raining out.
           It's cold out.
     12. n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
           They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
     13. n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fieldi
     14. n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicke
     15. n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
     16. n. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
     17. n. (mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
     18. n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
     19. n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
     20. v. To eject; to expel.
     21. v. To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender.
     22. v. To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
     23. v. To reveal (a secret).
           A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
     24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
     25. v. To become apparent.
     26. adj. Not at home; not at one's office or place of employment.
           I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment.
     27. adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
           Did you hear? Their newest CD is out!
     28. adj. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.
           He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby!
     29. adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender.
           It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.
     30. adj. (of flowers) In bloom.
           The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out.
     31. adj. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.
           The sun is out, and it's a lovely day.
     32. adj. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning.
           I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home.
     33. adj. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility.
           Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one.
     34. adj. No longer popular or in fashion.
           Black is out this season. The new black is white.
     35. adj. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more
           Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out.
     36. adj. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount.
           Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out.
           The measurement was out by three millimetres.
     37. adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.
     38. interj. (procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
           Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out.
draw
     1. v. To move or develop something.:
     2. v.          To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.
     3. v.          To deduce or infer.
                   He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts.
     4. v.          (intransitive) (of drinks, especially tea) To leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.
                   Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for three minutes before pouring.
     5. v.          To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.
                   to draw money from a bank
     6. v.          To take into the lungs; to inhale.
     7. v.          (used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go.
                   We drew back from the cliff edge.
                   The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.
                   Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale.
     8. v.          To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
     9. v.          (transitive, obsolete) To withdraw.
     10. v.          (archaic) To draw up (a document).
                   to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange
     11. v. To exert or experience force.:
     12. v.          To drag, pull.
     13. v.          (intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.
                   This horse draws well.
                   A ship's sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.
     14. v.          To pull out (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).
                   They drew their swords and fought each other.
     15. v.          To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.
                   The carriage draws easily.
     16. v.          (archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.
     17. v.          (of curtains, etc.) To close.
                   You should draw the curtains at night.
     18. v.          (of curtains, etc.) To open.
                   She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight.
     19. v.          (cards) To take the top card of a deck into hand.
                   At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.
     20. v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
     21. v.          To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.
                   draw water from a well;  draw water for a bath;  the wound drew blood
     22. v.          To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
     23. v.          (figurative) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
     24. v.          To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
                   A ship draws ten feet of water.
     25. v.          (intransitive, medicine, dated) To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.
     26. v.          (intransitive, dated) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.
                   A chimney or flue draws.
     27. v.          (analogous) To consume, for example, power.
                   The circuit draws three hundred watts.
     28. v. To change in size or shape.:
     29. v.          To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.
                   to draw a mass of metal into wire
     30. v.          (intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.
     31. v. To attract or be attracted.:
     32. v.          To attract.
                   The citizens were afraid the casino would draw an undesirable element to their town.  I was drawn to her.
     33. v.          To induce a reticent person to speak.
                   He refused to be drawn on the subject
     34. v.          (hunting) To search for game.
     35. v.          To cause.
     36. v.          (intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
     37. v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
           She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem.
     38. v. To disembowel.
           He will be hanged, drawn and quartered.
     39. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
           We drew last time we played.  I drew him last time I played him.  I drew my last game against him.
     40. v. A random selection process.
     41. v.          To select by the drawing of lots.
                   The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday.
     42. v.          To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.
                   He drew a prize.
     43. v.          (poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.
                   Jill has four diamonds; she'll try to draw for a flush.
     44. v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
     45. v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
     46. v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
     47. v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
     48. n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
           The game ended in a draw.
     49. n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
           The draw is on Saturday.
     50. n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
     51. n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out. Different from a tie.
     52. n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
     53. n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
     54. n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
     55. n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
     56. n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
     57. n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
     58. n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
     59. n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
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.
trace
     1. n. An act of tracing.
           Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
     2. n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
     3. n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
     4. n. A very small amount.
           All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
     5. n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
     6. n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
     7. n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
     8. n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop actio
     9. n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
     10. n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
     11. n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
     12. n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
     13. v. To follow the trail of.
     14. v. To follow the history of.
     15. v. To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
           He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
     16. v. To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
     17. v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
     18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
     19. v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
     20. v. (lbl, en, computer, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
an
     1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
     2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
     3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
     4. conj. (archaic) If
     5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
           An it harm none, do what ye will.
     6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
     7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
     8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
           I was only going twenty miles an hour.
outline
     1. n. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
     2. n. The outer shape of an object or figure.
     3. n. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
     4. n. A general description of some subject.
     5. n. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
     6. n. A preliminary plan for a project.
           the outline of a speech
     7. n. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
     8. n. (fishing) A setline or trotline.
     9. v. To draw an outline of.
     10. v. To summarize.
           Wikipedia items featuring books usually outline them after giving their background.
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