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 | |
underline |
1. n. A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or (in electronic documents) that it acts as a hyperlink. | |
2. n. The character (unsupported, _). | |
3. n. (dated) An announcement of a theatrical performance to follow, placed in an advertisement for the current one. | |
4. v. To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore | |
5. v. (figuratively) To emphasise or stress something | |
6. v. (figurative, obsolete) To influence secretly. | |
7. adj. Passing under a railway line. | |
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 | |
mark |
1. n. Boundary, land within a boundary.: | |
2. n. (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier. | |
3. n. (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence. | |
4. n. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. | |
5. n. (archaic) A type of small region or principality. | |
6. n. (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples. | |
7. n. Characteristic, sign, visible impression.: | |
8. n. An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something. | |
9. n. A characteristic feature. | |
A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman. | |
10. n. A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional. | |
11. n. A sign or brand on a person. | |
12. n. A written character or sign. | |
The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly. | |
13. n. A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc. | |
With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy. | |
14. n. (obsolete) Resemblance, likeness, image. | |
15. n. A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral). | |
I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two. | |
16. n. A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such point gained as out of a possible total. | |
What mark did you get in your history test? | |
17. n. Indicator of position, objective etc.: | |
18. n. A target for shooting at with a projectile. | |
19. n. An indication or sign used for reference or measurement. | |
I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark. | |
20. n. The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game. | |
21. n. (obsolete) The female genitals. | |
22. n. (Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free k | |
23. n. (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point. | |
24. n. A score for a sporting achievement. | |
25. n. An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance. | |
26. n. (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures. | |
Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8. | |
27. n. Limit or standard of action or fact. | |
to be within the mark; to come up to the mark | |
28. n. Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station. | |
29. n. (archaic) Preeminence; high position. | |
patricians of mark; a fellow of no mark | |
30. n. (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential. | |
31. n. (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms a | |
32. n. Attention.: | |
33. n. (archaic) Attention, notice. | |
His last comment is particularly worthy of mark. | |
34. n. Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.) | |
35. n. (obsolete) Regard; respect. | |
36. v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark. | |
to mark a box or bale of merchandise | |
to mark clothing with one's name | |
37. v. To indicate in some way for later reference. | |
She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading. | |
This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died. | |
His courage and energy marked him as a leader. | |
38. v. To take note of. | |
Mark my words: that boy's up to no good. | |
39. v. To blemish, scratch, or stain. | |
See where this pencil has marked the paper. | |
The floor was marked with wine and blood. | |
40. v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc. | |
The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests. | |
41. v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register. | |
to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game | |
42. v. (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. | |
43. v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily. | |
44. v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball. | |
45. v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal. | |
46. n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz. | |
47. n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence. | |
48. n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs. | |
49. n. A coin worth one mark. | |
50. v. (imperative, marching) alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command). | |
Mark time, mark! | |
Forward, mark! | |
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. | |
line |
1. n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. | |
The arrow descended in a curved line. | |
2. n. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness. | |
3. n. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure. | |
4. n. (graph theory) An edge of a graph. | |
5. n. (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map. | |
6. n. (geography, ‘the line’ or ‘equinoctial line’) The equator. | |
7. n. (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed. | |
8. n. (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length). | |
9. n. (soccer) The goal line. | |
10. n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness. | |
11. n. A hose or pipe, of any size. | |
a brake line, the main water line to the house | |
12. n. Direction, path. | |
the line of sight; the line of vision | |
13. n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection. | |
I tried to make a call, but the line was dead. | |
a dedicated line; a shared line | |
Please speak up, the line is very faint. | |
14. n. A clothesline. | |
15. n. A letter, a written form of communication. | |
Drop me a line. | |
16. n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc. | |
a line of stages; an express line | |
17. n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces. | |
18. n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation. | |
19. n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure. | |
20. n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord. | |
21. n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode. | |
22. n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark. | |
23. n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body). | |
24. n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contra | |
The line forms on the right. | |
There is a line of houses. | |
25. n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery etc. | |
26. n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage. | |
27. n. A small amount of text. Specifically: | |
28. n. A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of | |
The answer to the comprehension question can be found in the third line of the accompanying text. | |
29. n. A verse (in poetry). | |
30. n. A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie or the like. | |
He was perfecting his pickup lines for use at the bar. | |
"It is what it is" was one his more annoying lines. | |
31. n. A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it. | |
Don't feed me a line! | |
32. n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. | |
33. n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction. | |
Remember, your answers must match the party line. | |
34. n. A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself. | |
line of business, product line | |
How many buses does the line have? | |
The airline is in danger of bankruptcy. | |
35. n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber. | |
36. n. A measure of length: | |
37. n. (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of | |
38. n. One twelfth of an inch. | |
39. n. One fortieth of an inch. | |
40. n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux. | |
41. n. (baseball, slang) The batter’s box. | |
42. n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords. | |
43. n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working). | |
the engine is in line / out of line | |
44. n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug). | |
45. n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine. | |
46. n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup. | |
47. n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter. | |
48. n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together. | |
49. n. (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter. | |
patient had a line inserted | |
line sepsis | |
50. v. To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align. | |
to line troops | |
51. v. To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify. | |
to line works with soldiers | |
52. v. To form a line along. | |
53. v. To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines. | |
to line a copy book | |
54. v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. | |
55. v. To read or repeat line by line. | |
to line out a hymn | |
56. v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line. | |
57. v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground. | |
Jones lined to left in his last at-bat. | |
58. v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight. | |
59. n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax. | |
60. v. To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen. | |
The bird lines its nest with soft grass. | |
to line a cloak with silk or fur | |
to line a box with paper or tin | |
paintings lined the walls of the cavernous dining room | |
61. v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper. | |
62. v. To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money. | |
to line the shelves | |
63. v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate. | |
beneath |
1. adv. Below or underneath. | |
2. prep. Below. | |
3. prep. In a position that is lower in rank, dignity, etc. | |
4. prep. Covered up or concealed by something. | |
text |
1. n. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. | |
2. n. A book, tome or other set of writings. | |
3. n. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message. | |
4. n. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data). | |
5. n. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. | |
6. n. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme. | |
7. n. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing. | |
German text | |
8. v. To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones. | |
Just text me when you get here. | |
I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages. | |
Have you been texting all afternoon? | |
10. v. To write in large characters, as in text hand. | |