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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
boil
1. n. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
2. n. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.
3. n. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
4. n. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
5. v. To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
Boil some water in a pan.
6. v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Boil the eggs for two minutes.
Is the rice boiling yet?
7. v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
8. v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
It’s boiling outside!
9. v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
10. v. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
to boil sugar or salt
11. v. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
12. v. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
the boiling waves of the sea
13. v. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
His blood boils with anger.
sugar
1. n. Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
2. n. A specific variety of sugar.
3. n. (chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
4. n. A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
5. n. A term of endearment.
I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
6. n. (slang) A kiss.
7. n. (chiefly southern US, slang) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
8. n. (informal) Diabetes.
9. n. (dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.
10. n. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
11. n. (US, slang) heroin Heroin.
12. v. To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
John heavily sugars his coffee.
13. v. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
14. v. (US, Canada regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the prepositi
15. v. (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moth, moths.
16. v. (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
17. interj. (informal, euphemistic) Used in place of shit!
Oh, sugar!
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.
salt
1. n. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
2. n. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
3. n. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
4. n. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
5. n. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
6. n. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
7. n. (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
8. n. (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
Attic salt
9. n. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
10. n. (figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
11. n. (Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.
There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
12. adj. Salty; salted.
salt beef; salt tears
13. adj. Saline.
a salt marsh; salt grass
14. adj. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
a salt mine
The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
15. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
16. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
17. v. To add salt to.
to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
18. v. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
The brine begins to salt.
19. v. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
20. v. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
21. v. (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
22. v. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
23. v. To include colorful language in.
24. v. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

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