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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
incorporate
     1. v. To include (something) as a part.
           The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
           to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
     2. v. To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
           Incorporate air into the mixture.
     3. v. To admit as a member of a company
     4. v. To form into a legal company.
           The company was incorporated in 1980.
     5. v. (US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state government
     6. v. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
     7. v. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
     8. adj. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
     9. adj. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
     10. adj. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
           an incorporate banking association
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.
ideas
     1. n. plural of idea
     idea
          1. n. (philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
          2. n. (obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
          3. n. (obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
          4. n. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
                The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.
          5. n. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
          6. n. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
                I have an idea of how we might escape.
          7. n. A purposeful aim or goal; intent
                If you keep sweet-talking her like that, you're going to talk her right out of her pants.
                Yeah, that's the idea.
          8. n. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
                He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.
          9. n. (music) A musical theme or melodic subject.
into
     1. prep. Going inside (of).
           Mary danced into the house.
     2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
           We left the house and walked into the street.
           The plane flew into the open air.
     3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
           The car crashed into the tree;  I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
     4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
           I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.   Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
     5. prep. After the start of.
           About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
     6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
           She's really into Shakespeare right now;  I'm so into you!
     7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
           The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
     8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
           Five into three is fifteen.
     9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
           Three into two won't go.
           24 goes into 48 how many times?
     10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
           Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
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.
work
     1. n. (heading) Employment.
     2. n.          Labour, occupation, job.
                   My work involves a lot of travel.
     3. n.          The place where one is employed.
                   He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
     4. n.          One's employer
                   “I want to go to the R.E.M. reunion concert but I'm not sure if my work will let me off.”
     5. n. (heading) Effort.
     6. n.          Effort expended on a particular task.
                   Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
     7. n.          Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
                   We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
     8. n.          Something on which effort is expended.
                   There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
     9. n.          (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
                   Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
     10. n.          (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
     11. n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
           We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
     12. n. Product; the result of effort.:
     13. n.          (often, in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
                   There's a lot of guesswork involved.
     14. n.          (often, in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
                   We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
     15. n.          A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
                   It is a work of art.
                   the poetic works of Alexander Pope
     16. n.          A fortification.
                   William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
     17. n. (slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
     18. n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
     19. n. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
           Tell me you're using clean works at least.
     20. v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
           He’s working in a bar.
     21. v.          Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
                   I work in a national park
                   she works in the human resources department
                   he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
     22. v.          Followed by as. Said of one's job title
                   I work as a cleaner.
     23. v.          Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
                   she works for Microsoft
                   he works for the president
     24. v.          Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
                   I work closely with my Canadian counterparts
                   you work with computers
                   she works with the homeless people from the suburbs
     25. v. To effect by gradual degrees.
           he worked his way through the crowd
           the dye worked its way through
           using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand
     26. v. To embroider with thread.
     27. v. To set into action.
           He worked the levers.
     28. v. To cause to ferment.
     29. v. (intransitive) To ferment.
     30. v. To exhaust, by working.
           The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
     31. v. To shape, form, or improve a material.
           He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
     32. v. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
           she works the night clubs
           the salesman works the Midwest
           this artist works mostly in acrylics
     33. v. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
     34. v. To provoke or excite; to influence.
           The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
     35. v. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
           She knows how to work the system.
     36. v. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
           I cannot work a miracle.
     37. v. To cause to work.
           He is working his servants hard.
     38. v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
           he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work
     39. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
           They worked on her to join the group.
     40. v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
     41. v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
           His fingers worked with tension.
           A ship works in a heavy sea.
     42. v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
           this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well
     43. v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
     44. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
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