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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
condition
1. n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
2. n. A requirement, term or requisite.
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability. What other planets might have the right conditions for life? The union had a dispute over sick time and other
3. n. (legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
4. n. The health status of a medical patient.
My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition.
5. n. The state or quality.
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal. The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
6. n. A particular state of being.
Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system. Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery. Security is defined as the condition of not being threat
7. n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
A man of his condition has no place to make request.
8. v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
9. v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
10. v. To place conditions or limitations upon.
11. v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
12. v. To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
13. v. To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
14. v. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
15. v. (US, colleges transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
16. v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
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.
student
1. n. A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
She is a student of human interactions.
He is a student of life.
2. n. A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
The students were out raising funds for rag week.
3. n. (in particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school)
Who
1. pron. honoraltcaps, who
2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question)
Who is that? (direct question)
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something).
I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.
4. pron. (relative) The person or people that.
It was a nice man who helped us.
5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who.
6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
has
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
failed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of fail
2. adj. Decayed; worn out.
3. adj. Bankrupt.
The government is unwilling to bail out the failed bank.
fail
1. v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
Throughout my life, I have always failed.
2. v. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
The truck failed to start.
3. v. To neglect.
The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
4. v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
After running five minutes, the engine failed.
5. v. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
6. v. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
I failed English last year.
I failed in English last year.
7. v. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
9. v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
The crops failed last year.
10. v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
11. v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
12. v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
A sick man fails.
13. v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
14. v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
15. v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
16. n. (slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
The project was full of fail.
17. n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
18. n. (slang) A failure (something incapable of success)
19. n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
20. n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
21. adj. (slang) That is a failure.
22. n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
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.
branch
1. n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
2. n. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway
3. n. (in particular) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (In the US, branch is a Southern US term; compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
4. n. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
the branches of a hyperbola
5. n. A location of an organization with several locations.
Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
6. n. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
the English branch of a family
7. n. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
8. n. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
9. n. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
10. n. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
11. n. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
12. n. (rail transport) A branch line.
13. v. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
14. v. (intransitive) To produce branches.
15. v. To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
16. v. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
study
1. v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
I need to study my biology notes.
2. v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
I study medicine at the university.
3. v. To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.
Biologists study living things.
In 2015, scientists found that 82 percent of glaciers studied in China had decreased in size.
4. v. To look at minutely.
He studied the map in preparation for the hike.
5. v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
6. v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
7. n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
8. n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
My study was to avoid disturbing her.
9. n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
The study of languages is fascinating.
10. n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
I made a careful study of his sister.
11. n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
12. n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.
13. n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture
14. n. (of the human face) Bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind.
Geoffrey's face was a study.
Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.
15. n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.
16. n. (academic) A publication.
That new study on noncommutative symmetries looks promising.

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