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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.
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.
ambition
1. n. Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition.
2. n. An object of an ardent desire.
My ambition is to own a helicopter.
3. n. A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
4. n. A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
5. n. (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
6. v. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
aspirations
1. n. plural of aspiration
aspiration
1. n. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor.
Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game.
2. n. The action of aspirating.
3. n. (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
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.
hopes
1. n. plural of hope
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of hope
hope
1. n. (lb or un) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
2. n. The actual thing wished for.
3. n. A person or thing that is a source of hope.
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
4. n. (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.
5. v. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.
I am still hoping that all will turn out well.
6. v. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
7. v. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
8. v. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
I hope you all the best.
9. n. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.
10. n. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
11. n. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

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