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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
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.
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.
become
1. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
2. v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
What became of him after he was let go?
It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve.
3. v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
She became a doctor when she was 25.
The weather will become cold after the sun goes down.
4. v. To be proper for; to beseem.
5. v. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
That dress really becomes you.
twisted
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of twist
2. adj. Contorted.
3. adj. Wound spirally.
4. adj. Mentally disturbed or unsound.
The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.
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.
physically
1. adv. In a physical manner.
2. adv. According to the laws of physics.
3. adv. Using physical force.
4. adv. (obsolete) According to the rules of medicine.
He that lives physically must live miserably. — Cheyne.
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.
mentally
1. adv. In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.

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