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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
sow
1. n. A female pig.
2. n. A female bear.
3. n. A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
4. n. A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
5. n. (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
6. n. A sowbug.
7. n. (military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
8. v. To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
9. v. (figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
10. v. (figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
scatter
1. v. To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
The crowd scattered in terror.
2. v. To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
3. v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
4. v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
5. v. To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
to scatter hopes or plans
6. v. To be dispersed upon.
Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.
7. n. The act of scattering or dispersing.
8. n. A collection of dispersed objects.
principles
1. n. plural of principle
principle
1. n. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
We need some sort of principles to reason from.
2. n. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.
3. n. (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
I don't doubt your principles.
You are clearly a person of principle.
It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.
4. n. (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
Bernoulli's Principle
The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
The principle of the internal combustion engine
5. n. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle.
6. n. (obsolete) A beginning.
7. n. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
8. n. An original faculty or endowment.
9. v. To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
ideas
1. n. plural of idea
idea
1. n. (philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
2. n. (obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
3. n. (obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
4. n. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.
5. n. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
6. n. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
I have an idea of how we might escape.
7. n. A purposeful aim or goal; intent
If you keep sweet-talking her like that, you're going to talk her right out of her pants.
Yeah, that's the idea.
8. n. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.
9. n. (music) A musical theme or melodic subject.
opinions
1. n. plural of opinion
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of opinion
opinion
1. n. A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing.
I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
2. n. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
3. n. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
4. n. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
5. n. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
6. n. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
etc
1. adv. alternative form of etc.
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.
concrete
1. adj. Real, actual, tangible.
Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete, even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
2. adj. Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.
3. adj. Particular, specific, rather than general.
While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help. concrete ideas
4. adj. United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.
5. adj. (modifying a noun, not comparable) Made of concrete, a building material.
The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
6. n. (obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.
7. n. Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
8. n. (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
9. n. Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
10. n. (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
11. v. (usually transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
12. v. (usually transitive) To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
13. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body.
Things
1. n. plural of Thing
2. n. plural of thing
3. n. One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff
Have you brought all your things with you?
Get your hands off my things!
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of thing
thing
1. n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
2. n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
3. n. An individual object or distinct entity.
4. n. (informal) Something that is existent or generally recognised.
Bacon pie? Is that a thing?
5. n. legal
6. n. Whatever can be owned.
7. n. Corporeal object.
8. n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion.
What do you mean you don't twerk, Stacy? It's the latest thing!
9. n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
Hold on, let me just grab my things.
10. n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
get me a thing of apple juice at the store; I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans
11. n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.
12. n. (slang) A penis.
13. n. A living being or creature.
you poor thing; she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place; I met a pretty blond thing at the bar
14. n. That which matters; the crux.
that's the thing: we don't know where he went; the thing is, I don't have any money
15. n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.
16. n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
17. n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
18. v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
growth
1. n. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
2. n. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
3. n. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
4. n. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
propagation
1. n. the multiplication or natural increase in a population
2. n. the dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number
3. n. (physics) the act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave
4. n. (genetics) the elongation part of transcription
5. n. (religion) winning new converts
6. n. some degree of success in the spread of propaganda
like
1. v. (transitive, archaic) To please.
2. v. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
I like hamburgers
I like skiing in winter
I like the Seattle Mariners this season
3. v. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
4. v. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
I like to go to the dentist every six months
She likes to keep herself physically fit
we like to keep one around the office just in case
5. v. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
6. v. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
He liked to have been too late.
7. v. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
8. v. (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
9. v. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.
I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.
10. n. (usually plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
Tell me your likes and dislikes.
11. n. (internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.
12. adj. Similar.
My partner and I have like minds.
13. adj. (obsolete) Likely; probable.
14. adv. (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park.
15. adv. (archaic, colloquial) Likely.
16. adv. (obsolete) In a like or similar manner.
17. n. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.
It was something the likes of which I had never seen before.
18. n. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
to play the like
19. conj. (colloquial) As, the way.
20. conj. As if; as though.
It looks like you've finished the project.
It seemed like you didn't care.
21. prep. Similar to, reminiscent of.
These hamburgers taste like leather.
22. part. (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Scouse) A delayed filler.
He was so angry, like.
23. part. (colloquial) A mild intensifier.
She was, like, sooooo happy.
24. part. (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty
There were, like, twenty of them.
And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.
25. part. (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase.
I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”
26. interj. (Liverpool, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement.
divint ye knaa, like?
seeds
1. n. plural of seed
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of seed
seed
1. n. A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
2. n. (botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
3. n. An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
4. n. Semen.
A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
5. n. A precursor.
the seed of an idea; which idea was the seed (idea)?
6. n. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
7. n. The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
8. n. The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
The rookie was a surprising top seed.
9. n. Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
10. n. Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
11. n. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
the seed of Abraham
12. n. Race; generation; birth.
13. v. To plant or sow an area with seeds.
I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
14. v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
15. v. To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.
16. v. (sports) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
17. v. (internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent.
18. v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
19. v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
20. v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see

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