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 | |
slur |
1. n. An insult or slight. | |
a racial slur | |
2. n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | |
3. n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). | |
4. n. (obsolete) A trick or deception. | |
5. n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them. | |
6. v. To insult or slight. | |
7. v. To run together; to articulate poorly. | |
to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk. | |
8. v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly. | |
9. v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. | |
10. v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. | |
11. v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. | |
12. v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle. | |
syllables |
1. n. plural of syllable | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of syllable | |
syllable |
1. n. (linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of o | |
2. n. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable. | |
3. n. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle. | |
4. v. (transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables. | |