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 | |
try |
1. v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive. | |
I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t. | |
I'll come to dinner soon. I'm trying to beat this level first. | |
2. v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate. | |
3. v. To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine. | |
4. v. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out. | |
to try out the wild corn from the good | |
5. v. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil | |
6. v. To extract wax from a honeycomb | |
7. v. To test, to work out. | |
8. v. To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle. | |
I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade. | |
9. v. To put to test. | |
I shall try my skills on this. | |
10. v. (specifically) To test someone's patience. | |
You are trying my patience. | |
Don't fucking try me. | |
11. v. To taste, sample, etc. | |
Try this—you’ll love it. | |
12. v. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test. | |
to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a person's opinions | |
13. v. (legal) To put on trial. | |
He was tried and executed. | |
14. v. To experiment, to strive. | |
15. v. To have or gain knowledge of by experience. | |
16. v. To work on something. | |
You are trying too hard. | |
17. v. (obsolete) To do; to fare. | |
How do you try! (i.e., how do you do?) | |
18. v. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms. | |
to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions | |
19. v. (euphemism, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child. | |
20. v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind. | |
21. v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests. | |
The light tries his eyes. | |
Repeated failures try one's patience. | |
22. v. (slang) To want | |
I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that. | |
23. n. An attempt. | |
I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it. | |
24. n. An act of tasting or sampling. | |
I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it. | |
25. n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football. | |
Today I scored my first try. | |
26. n. (dialect) A screen, or sieve, for grain. | |
27. n. (American football) a field goal or extra point | |
28. adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent. | |
tasting |
1. n. A small amount of food or drink. | |
2. n. The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it. | |
3. v. present participle of taste | |
taste |
1. n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals. | |
2. n. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. | |
Dr. Parker has good taste in wine. | |
3. n. Personal preference; liking; predilection. | |
I have developed a taste for fine wine. | |
4. n. (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole. | |
5. n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. | |
6. v. To sample the flavor of something orally. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished. | |
The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic. | |
8. v. To experience. | |
I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise. | |
They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. | |
9. v. To take sparingly. | |
10. v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
food |
1. n. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | |
The innkeeper brought them food and drink. | |
2. n. A foodstuff. | |
3. n. (figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains. | |
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought. | |
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul. | |
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. | |
drink |
1. v. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | |
He drank the water I gave him. | |
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. | |
2. v. (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | |
Jack drank the whole bottle by himself. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages. | |
You've been drinking, haven't you? | |
No thanks, I don't drink. | |
4. v. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. | |
5. v. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. | |
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco. | |
7. n. A beverage. | |
I’d like another drink please. | |
8. n. A (served) alcoholic beverage. | |
Can I buy you a drink? | |
9. n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have. | |
He was about to take a drink from his root beer. | |
10. n. A type of beverage (usually mixed). | |
My favourite drink is the White Russian. | |
11. n. Alcoholic beverages in general. | |
12. n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water. | |
If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink! | |
13. n. (archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink | |