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I
     1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
             (audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
     2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
     3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
     4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
     5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
     6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
went
     1. v. simple past tense of go
     2. v. (nonstandard) past participle of go
     3. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wend
     4. n. (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
     go
          1. v. To move:
          2. v.          (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like
                        Why don’t you go with us?   This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.   Chris, where are you going? &nbs
          3. v.          (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m
                         Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
                         Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
          4. v.          (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
          5. v.          To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
                        We've only gone twenty miles today.   This car can go circles around that one.
          6. v.          (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
                        We went swimming.   Let's go shopping.
          7. v.          (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
                        Please don't go!   I really must be going.   Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.
          8. v.          (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet.
          9. v. (intransitive, chiefly of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
                The engine just won't go anymore.
          10. v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
                Get ready, get set, go!   On your marks, get set, go!   On your marks, set, go!
                Here goes nothing.   Let's go and hunt.
          11. v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
                It’s your turn; go.
          12. v. (intransitive) To attend.
                I go to school at the schoolhouse.   She went to Yale.   They only go to church on Christmas.
          13. v. To proceed:
          14. v.         (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
                        That went well.   "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks.".
          15. v.          (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
                        Why'd you have to go and do that?
                        Why'd you have to go do that?
                        He just went and punched the guy.
          16. v. To follow or travel along (a path):
          17. v.          To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
                        Let's go this way for a while.
                         She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
          18. v.          To travel or pass along.
          19. v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
                This property goes all the way to the state line.
          20. v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
                Does this road go to Fort Smith?
          21. v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
                You'll go blind.   I went crazy / went mad.   After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
          22. v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
          23. v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
                I don't want my children to go hungry.   We went barefoot in the summer.
          24. v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
                they went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock, the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global
          25. v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
                   The traffic light went straight from green to red.
          26. v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
                How did your meeting with Smith go?
          27. v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
                Well, that goes to show you.   These experiences go to make us stronger.
          28. v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
                qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
          29. v. To pass, to be used up:
          30. v.          (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
                        The time went slowly.
          31. v.          (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
                        After three days, my headache finally went.
          32. v.          (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
                        His money went on drink.
          33. v. (intransitive) To die.
          34. v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
                This chair has got to go.
          35. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
          36. v.          (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
          37. v.          (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
          38. v. To break down or apart:
          39. v.          (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
          40. v.          (intransitive) To break down or decay.
                        This meat is starting to go off.   My mind is going.   She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.
          41. v. (intransitive) To be sold.
                Everything must go.   The car went for five thousand dollars.
          42. v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
                The property shall go to my wife.   The award went to Steven Spielberg.
          43. v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
                How long can you go without water?   We've gone without your help for a while now.   I've gone ten days now without a cigarette.   Can you two go twenty minutes wi
          44. v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
                They've gone one for three in this series.   The team is going five in a row.
          45. v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
          46. v.          (intransitive) To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
                        Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
          47. v.          (intransitive) To be accepted.
                        Anything goes around here.
          48. v.          (intransitive) To be valid.
          49. v. To say (something), to make a sound:
          50. v.          (transitive, slang) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
                        I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!".
                        As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid.".
          51. v.          To make the (specified) sound.
                        Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
          52. v.          (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
                        I woke up just before the clock went.
          53. v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
                The tune goes like this.   As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
          54. v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
                I'll go to court if I have to.
          55. v. To apply or subject oneself to:
          56. v.          To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
                         I'm going to join a sports team.   I wish you'd go and get a job.   He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.
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
school
     1. n. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
           The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
     2. n. A multitude.
     3. v. (lbl, en, intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
     4. n. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
           Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
           Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
     5. n. (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
     6. n. (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
           Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
     7. n. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
           We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
     8. n. An art movement, a community of artists.
     9. n. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
           These economists belong to the monetarist school.
     10. n. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
           I'll see you after school.
     11. n. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
     12. n. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
           He was a gentleman of the old school.
     13. n. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
     14. v. To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)
           Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
     15. v. To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
     16. v. To control, or compose, one's expression.
           She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
but
     1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of.
           Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
     2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
           Everyone but Father left early.
           I like everything but that.
           Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
     3. adv. Merely, only, just.
     4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however.
           I'll have to go home early but.
     5. adv. Used as an intensifier.
           Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it.
     6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation).
           I am not rich but (I am) poor;  not John but Peter went there.
     7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence).
           She is very old but still attractive.
           You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
     8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex
           I cannot but feel offended.
     9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
           It never rains but it pours.
     10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
     11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
     12. conj. (obsolete) Until.
     13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but".
           It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
     14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
     15. n. A limit; a boundary.
     16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
     17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but".
           But me no buts.
I
     1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
             (audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
     2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
     3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
     4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
     5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
     6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
do
     1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
     2. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
                   Do you go there often?
     3. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
                   I do not go there often.
                   Do not listen to him.
     4. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
                   But I do go sometimes.
                   Do tell us.
                   It is important that he do come see me.
     5. v.          (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliari
                   I play tennis; she does too.
              #     They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
     6. v. To perform; to execute.
           All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
     7. v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
     8. v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
           it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do;  this will do me, thanks.
     9. v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
           It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
     10. v. To have (as an effect).
           The fresh air did him some good.
     11. v. (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
           Our relationship isn't doing very well;  how do you do?
     12. v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
           What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
     13. v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
           "Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.
     14. v. To cook.
           I'll just do some eggs.
     15. v. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
           Let’s do New York also.
     16. v. To treat in a certain way.
     17. v. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
     18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
     19. v. (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
           I did five years for armed robbery.
     20. v. To impersonate or depict.
           They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
     21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
     22. v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
     23. v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
           He got done for speeding.
           Teacher'll do you for that!
     24. v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
     25. v. To cheat or swindle.
           That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
     26. v. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
           the novel has just been done into English;  I'm going to do this play into a movie
     27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
           Aren't you done yet?
     28. v. (dated) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
     29. v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
     30. v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
     31. v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
           Do they do haircuts there?
           Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
     32. v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
     33. v. To take drugs.
           I do cocaine.
     34. v. (transitive, in the form be doing somewhere) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
           What's that car doing in our swimming pool? -
     35. n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
           We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
     36. n. (informal) A hairdo.
           Nice do!
     37. n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
     38. n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
     39. n. (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
     40. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
     41. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
     42. n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
     43. adv. (rare) (abbreviation of ditto)
not
     1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
           Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
           Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
     2. adv. To no degree.
           That is not red; it's orange.
     3. conj. And not.
           I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
           He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
     4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
           I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
           Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
     5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
           You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
     6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
Even
     1. n. An ethnic Even: a member of an indigenous people living in the Siberia and the Russian Far East.
     2. adj. Flat and level.
           Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even.
     3. adj. Without great variation.
           Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice.
     4. adj. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
           The distribution of food must be even.
     5. adj. (not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.
           Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers.
     6. adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
     7. adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
     8. adj. (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
           You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even.
     9. adj. parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
     10. adj. (obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
     11. adj. (obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
     12. v. To make flat and level.
           We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.
     13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To equal.
     14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
           Thrice nine evens twenty seven.
     15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
     16. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete.
     17. v. (transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with.
     18. adv. (archaic) Exactly, just, fully.
           I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised.
           You are leaving tonight? — Even so.
           This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
     19. adv. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
           Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
           Did you even make it through the front door?
           That was before I was even born.
     20. adv. Emphasizing a comparative.
           I was strong before, but now I am even stronger.
     21. adv. Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.
           My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even.
     22. adv. also
     23. n. (mathematics) An even number.
           So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds.
     24. n. (archaic, or poetic) Evening.
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.
money
     1. n. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
     2. n. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
           Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
     3. n. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
           money supply;  money market
     4. n. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
     5. n. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
     6. n. Wealth.
           He was born with money.
     7. n. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
     8. n. A person who funds an operation.
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
buy
     1. v. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
           I'm going to buy my father something nice for his birthday.
     2. v. To obtain by some sacrifice.
           I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.
     3. v. To bribe.
           He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.
     4. v. To be equivalent to in value.
           The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.
     5. v. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
           I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!
     6. v. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
           She buys for Federated.
           Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.
     7. v. (poker slang) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
           Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff
     8. n. Something which is bought; a purchase.
           At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.
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.
goat
     1. n. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
     2. n. (slang) A lecherous man.
     3. n. (informal) A scapegoat.
     4. n. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
     5. n. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
     6. v. To allow goats to feed on.
     7. v. To scapegoat.
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