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 | |
amalgamate |
1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join. | |
to amalgamate two races | |
to amalgamate one race with another | |
2. v. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury. | |
3. v. (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups. | |
4. adj. coalesced; united; combined | |
one |
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. | |
In some religions, there is only one god. | |
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth. | |
One person, one vote. | |
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. | |
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. | |
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. | |
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. | |
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully. | |
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. | |
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other. | |
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). | |
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge. | |
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. | |
"driver", noun: one who drives. | |
9. n. The digit or figure 1. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | |
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill. | |
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. | |
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote. | |
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. | |
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". | |
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?! | |
Someone help me; I'm always losing! | |
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1! | |
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular. | |
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries. | |
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. | |
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.". | |
18. adj. Sole, only. | |
He is the one man who can help you. | |
19. adj. Whole, entire. | |
Body and soul are not separate; they are one. | |
20. adj. In agreement. | |
We are one on the importance of learning. | |
21. adj. The same. | |
The two types look very different, but are one species. | |
22. adj. Being a preeminent example. | |
He is one hell of a guy. | |
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". | |
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”. | |
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. | |
race |
1. n. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post | |
The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others. | |
We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest. | |
2. n. Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed. | |
3. n. (computing) A race condition. | |
4. n. A progressive movement toward a goal. | |
the race to cure cancer--> | |
5. n. A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel. | |
6. n. A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised. | |
7. n. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life. | |
8. n. The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest). | |
The drivers were racing around the track. | |
10. v. To compete against in such a race. | |
I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed. | |
As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door. | |
Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room. | |
12. v. (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission. | |
13. n. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics: | |
14. n. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical defin | |
15. n. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type. | |
Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa. | |
The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race. | |
16. n. A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare species, subspecies). | |
A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men. | |
17. n. A group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared social characteristics. | |
18. n. (taxonomy) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; an informal term for a subspecies. | |
19. n. A breed or strain of domesticated animal. | |
20. n. (figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science). | |
The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur. | |
Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision. | |
21. n. (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour. | |
22. n. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition. | |
23. n. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger. | |
24. v. obsolete form of raze | |
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 | |
another |
1. det. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. | |
Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks. | |
2. det. Not the same; different. | |
Do you know another way to do this job? | |
3. det. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else. | |
He has never known another like her. | |
4. pron. An additional one of the same kind. | |
This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another? | |
5. pron. One that is different from the current one. | |
I saw one movie, but I think I will see another. | |
6. pron. One of a group of things of the same kind. | |
His interests keep shifting from one thing to another. | |