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 | |
treat |
1. v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with). | |
2. v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion. | |
Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty. | |
3. v. To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking. | |
The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement. | |
4. v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone). | |
Only let my family live, I treat thee. | |
5. v. To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way. | |
You treated me like a fool. | |
She was tempted to treat the whole affair as a joke. | |
6. v. To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward. | |
I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval. | |
I've done so well this month, I'll treat you all to dinner (or 'Dinner is my treat.) | |
My husband treated me to a Paris holiday for our anniversary. | |
(politics) To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter. | |
7. v. To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. | |
They treated me for malaria. | |
8. v. To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind. | |
He treated the substance with sulphuric acid. | |
I treated the photo somewhat to make the colours more pronounced. | |
9. v. To provide something special and pleasant. | |
10. n. An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others. | |
I took the kids to the zoo for a treat. | |
Here are some healthy Halloween treats for ghouls and witches of all ages. | |
11. n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure. | |
It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage. | |
12. n. A snack food item designed to be given to pets. | |
I lured the cat into her carrier by throwing a couple of treats in there. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation. | |
14. n. (obsolete) An entreaty. | |
cattle |
1. n. Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc). | |
Do you want to raise cattle? | |
2. n. Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses. | |
3. n. (pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny. | |
4. n. (obsolete, English law, sometimes ) chattel | |
goods and cattle | |
5. n. (rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle. | |
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. | |
sheep |
1. n. A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis. | |
2. n. A timid, shy person who is easily led by others. | |
3. n. Sheepskin leather. | |
4. n. (speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat. | |
5. n. (chiefly humorous) plural of shoop | |
by |
1. prep. Near or next to. | |
The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
He cheated by his own admission. | |
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
I watched as it passed by. | |
16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
There was a shepherd close by. | |
The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
18. adv. Aside, away. | |
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
20. n. (card games) A pass | |
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
immersion |
1. n. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed. | |
2. n. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism. | |
3. n. Deep engagement in something. | |
4. n. (UK, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater. | |
5. n. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding. | |
6. n. (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion. | |
7. n. (linguistics) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
chemical |
1. adj. Of or relating to chemistry. | |
2. adj. Of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Of or relating to alchemy. | |
4. n. (chemistry, sciences) Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy. | |
5. n. (colloquial) An artificial chemical compound. | |
I color my hair with henna, not chemicals. | |
6. n. (slang) An addictive drug. | |
solution |
1. n. A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances. | |
2. n. An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem. | |
3. n. The answer to a problem. | |
4. n. (marketing) A product, service or suite thereof. | |
5. n. (legal, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt. | |
6. n. The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid; dissolution. | |
7. n. (medicine, archaic) The crisis of a disease. | |
8. v. To treat with a solution. | |