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 | |
wet |
1. adj. Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. | |
Synonyms: wetting | |
Water is wet. | |
2. adj. Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water. | |
Synonyms: damp, saturated, soaked, Thesaurus:wet | |
I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet. | |
3. adj. Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce. | |
4. adj. Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed. | |
This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper. | |
5. adj. Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied. | |
6. adj. Of weather or a time period: rainy. | |
Synonyms: damp, raining, rainy | |
It’s going to be wet tomorrow. | |
7. adj. (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie. | |
Synonyms: green, wet behind the ears | |
That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday. | |
8. adj. (slang) (of women) Sexually aroused and thus having a vulva moistened with vaginal secretions. | |
Synonyms: horny, moist, Thesaurus:randy | |
He got me all wet. | |
9. adj. (Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character. | |
Synonyms: feeble, hopeless, useless | |
Don’t be so wet. | |
10. adj. (slang) Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition. | |
11. adj. (slang) Refreshed with liquor; drunk. | |
12. adj. (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter. | |
13. adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid. | |
the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed | |
14. n. Liquid or moisture. | |
15. n. Rainy weather. | |
Don't go out in the wet. | |
16. n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized) | |
17. n. (UK, pejorative) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, contrasted with dry. | |
18. n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink. | |
19. n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition. | |
20. v. To cover or impregnate with liquid. | |
21. v. To accidentally urinate in or on. | |
Johnny wets the bed several times a week. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To make or become wet. | |
23. v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate. | |
24. v. misspelling of whet | |
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. | |
stain |
1. n. A discoloured spot or area. | |
2. n. A blemish on one's character or reputation. | |
3. n. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it. | |
4. n. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible. | |
5. n. (heraldry) Any of a number of non-standard tinctures used in modern heraldry. | |
6. v. To discolour. | |
to stain the hand with dye | |
armour stained with blood | |
7. v. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation | |
8. v. To coat a surface with a stain | |
to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc. | |
the stained glass used for church windows | |
9. v. (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain. | |
10. v. (transitive, cytology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features | |
11. v. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison. | |
an |
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
4. conj. (archaic) If | |
5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
object |
1. n. A thing that has physical existence. | |
2. n. objective, Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something. | |
3. n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action. | |
4. n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed. | |
Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years. | |
The convertible, once the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred. | |
Where's your object of ridicule now? | |
5. n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure. | |
6. n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which function, functions operate. Thus, a category consists of a set of element objects and the functions that operate on them. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect. | |
8. v. 'panget | |
9. v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection. | |
I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal. | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason. | |
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. | |
completely |
1. adv. (manner) In a complete manner | |
Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number 2 pencil. | |
2. adv. (degree) To the fullest extent or degree; totally. | |
He is completely mad. | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
some |
1. pron. A certain number, at least one. | |
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder. | |
2. pron. An indefinite quantity. | |
Can I have some of them? | |
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part. | |
please give me some of the cake; everyone is wrong some of the time | |
4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one. | |
Some people like camping. | |
5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of. | |
Would you like some grapes? | |
6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un). | |
Would you like some water? | |
After some persuasion, he finally agreed. | |
7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown. | |
I've just met some guy who said he knew you. | |
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v. | |
8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately. | |
He had edited the paper for some years. | |
9. det. (informal) A remarkable. | |
He is some acrobat! | |
10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly | |
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos. | |
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat. | |
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded. | |
physical |
1. adj. Having to do with the body. | |
Are you feeling any physical effects? | |
2. adj. Having to do with the material world. | |
It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind. | |
3. adj. Involving bodily force. | |
This team plays a very physical game, so watch out. | |
4. adj. Having to do with physics. | |
The substance has a number of interesting physical properties. | |
5. adj. (computing) Not virtual; directly corresponding to hardware operation. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative. | |
7. n. Physical examination. | |
How long has it been since your last physical? | |
quality |
1. n. Level of excellence. | |
This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality. | |
Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income. | |
2. n. A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person. | |
One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily. | |
While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers. | |
Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system. | |
3. n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.) | |
A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality. | |
Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth. | |
4. n. The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items. | |
5. n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture. | |
6. n. (emergency medicine) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like. | |
To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?". | |
7. adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose. | |
We only sell quality products. | |
That was a quality game by Jim Smith. | |
A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements. | |