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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
soil
1. n. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
2. n. The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
3. n. The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature
4. n. Country or territory.
The refugees returned to their native soil.
Kenyan soil
5. n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
6. n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
7. n. Dung; compost; manure.
night soil
8. v. To make dirty.
9. v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
10. v. (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
11. v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
12. v. To make invalid, to ruin.
13. v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
14. n. (euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
15. n. (medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
16. n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
17. v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to
to soil a horse
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.
stain
1. n. A discoloured spot or area.
2. n. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
3. n. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
4. n. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
5. n. (heraldry) Any of a number of non-standard tinctures used in modern heraldry.
6. v. To discolour.
to stain the hand with dye
armour stained with blood
7. v. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
8. v. To coat a surface with a stain
to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
the stained glass used for church windows
9. v. (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
10. v. (transitive, cytology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
11. v. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
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
dirty
1. adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty.
2. adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty.
3. adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.
4. adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.
5. adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
I won't accept your dirty money!
6. adj. Out of tune.
You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.
7. adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
The old flag was a dirty white.
8. adj. (computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.
9. adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
None of y'all get into my car if you're dirty.
10. adj. (informal) (Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".)
He lives in a dirty great mansion.
11. adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
dirty weather
12. adv. In a dirty manner.
to play dirty
13. v. To make (something) dirty.
14. v. To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
15. v. To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
16. v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

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