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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
spill
1. v. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
2. v. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
3. v. To drop something that was intended to be caught.
4. v. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
5. v. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
6. v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
7. v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
8. v. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
9. v. (transitive, Australia, politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
10. v. To reveal information to an uninformed party.
He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.
11. n. A mess of something that has been dropped.
12. n. A fall or stumble.
The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
13. n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
14. n. A slender piece of anything.
15. n. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
16. n. A metallic rod or pin.
17. n. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
18. n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
19. n. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
20. n. (Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill
liquid
1. n. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
2. n. (phonetics) A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
3. adj. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
liquid nitrogen
4. adj. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
5. adj. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
6. adj. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
a liquid melody
7. adj. (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
L and R are liquid letters.
8. adj. Fluid and transparent.
the liquid air
upon
1. prep. Physically above and in contact with.
Place the book upon the table.
2. prep. Physically directly supported by.
The crew set sail upon the sea.
She balanced upon one foot.
3. prep. Being followed by another so as to form a series.
hours upon hours, years upon years, mile upon mile of desert
4. prep. At (a prescribed point in time).
The contract was rendered void upon his death.
5. prep. On.
6. adv. Being the target of an action.
He was set upon by the agitated dogs
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
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
spilled
1. v. (chiefly US) simple past tense and past participle of spill
spill
1. v. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
2. v. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
3. v. To drop something that was intended to be caught.
4. v. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
5. v. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
6. v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
7. v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
8. v. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
9. v. (transitive, Australia, politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
10. v. To reveal information to an uninformed party.
He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.
11. n. A mess of something that has been dropped.
12. n. A fall or stumble.
The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
13. n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
14. n. A slender piece of anything.
15. n. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
16. n. A metallic rod or pin.
17. n. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
18. n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
19. n. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
20. n. (Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill
liquid
1. n. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
2. n. (phonetics) A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
3. adj. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
liquid nitrogen
4. adj. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
5. adj. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
6. adj. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
a liquid melody
7. adj. (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
L and R are liquid letters.
8. adj. Fluid and transparent.
the liquid air

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