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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
lower
1. adj. comparative form of low: more low
2. adj. bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
3. adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
4. adv. comparative form of low: more low
5. v. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
lower a bucket into a well
to lower a sail of a boat
6. v. to pull down
to lower a flag
7. v. To reduce the height of
lower a fence or wall
lower a chimney or turret
8. v. To depress as to direction
lower the aim of a gun
9. v. To make less elevated
to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
10. v. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
lower the temperature
lower one's vitality
lower distilled liquors
11. v. To bring down; to humble
lower one's pride
12. v. (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
13. v. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
lower the price of goods
lower the interest rate
14. v. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
15. v. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
16. v. alternative spelling of lour.
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.
flag
1. n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
2. n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
3. n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
4. n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
5. n. (construction) (abbreviation of flagstone:) a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or tiling
6. n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
7. n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain option
8. n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
9. n. (British) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
10. n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itsel
11. n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) i
12. v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
13. v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
14. v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
Please flag down a taxi for me.
15. v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
16. v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.
17. v. (computing) To signal (an event).
The compiler flagged three errors.
18. v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
Flag the debug option before running the program.
19. v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
20. v. (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
21. v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
22. v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
23. v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
to flag the wings
24. v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
25. n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
26. n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
27. n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
28. n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
29. v. To pave with flagstones.
Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.
30. n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
31. n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
32. n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
33. n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value

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