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 | |
twist |
1. n. A twisting force. | |
2. n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | |
3. n. The form given in twisting. | |
4. n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted. | |
5. n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together. | |
6. n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc. | |
7. n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc. | |
8. n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage. | |
9. n. (authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. | |
10. n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance) | |
11. n. A rotation of the body when diving. | |
12. n. A sprain, especially to the ankle. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A twig. | |
14. n. (slang) A girl, a woman. | |
15. n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked. | |
16. n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together. | |
Damascus twist | |
17. n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. | |
18. n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin. | |
19. n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination. | |
a twist toward fanaticism | |
20. v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. | |
21. v. To join together by twining one part around another. | |
22. v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. | |
23. v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. | |
24. v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate. | |
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns. | |
25. v. To turn a knob etc. | |
26. v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating. | |
27. v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings). | |
28. v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction. | |
29. v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. | |
30. v. To cause to rotate. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). | |
32. v. To coax. | |
33. v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. | |
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 | |
wring |
1. v. To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out. | |
You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry. | |
2. v. To obtain by force. | |
The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal. | |
3. v. To hold tightly and press or twist. | |
Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously. | |
He said he'd wring my neck if I told his girlfriend. | |
He wrung my hand enthusiastically when he found out we were related. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish. | |
5. v. To kill an animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting. | |
6. v. To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture. | |
7. v. To distort; to pervert; to wrest. | |
8. v. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance. | |
9. v. (nautical) To bend or strain out of its position. | |
to wring a mast | |
10. n. A powerful squeezing or twisting action. | |
I grasped his hand and gave it a grateful wring. | |
11. n. (archaic) A press; a device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider. | |
something |
1. pron. An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. | |
I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what. | |
I have something for you in my bag. | |
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today. | |
2. pron. (colloquial, of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree. | |
The performance was something of a disappointment. | |
That child is something of a genius. | |
3. pron. (colloquial, of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify. | |
She has a certain something. | |
4. pron. (colloquial, often with really or quite) Somebody or something who is superlative in some way. | |
He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice. | |
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing. | |
5. adj. Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify. | |
6. adv. (degree) Somewhat; to a degree. | |
The baby looks something like his father. | |
7. adv. (degree, colloquial) To a high degree. | |
8. v. Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song. | |
9. n. An object whose nature is yet to be defined. | |
10. n. An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense). | |