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to
1[ too; unstressed too, tuh ]
preposition
- (used for expressing motion or direction toward a point, person, place, or thing approached and reached, as opposed to from ):
They came to the house.
- (used for expressing direction or motion or direction toward something) in the direction of; toward:
from north to south.
- (used for expressing limit of movement or extension):
He grew to six feet.
- (used for expressing contact or contiguity) on; against; beside; upon:
a right uppercut to the jaw;
Apply varnish to the surface.
- (used for expressing a point of limit in time) before; until:
to this day;
It is ten minutes to six.
We work from nine to five.
- (used for expressing aim, purpose, or intention):
going to the rescue.
- (used for expressing destination or appointed end):
sentenced to jail.
- (used for expressing agency, result, or consequence):
to my dismay;
The flowers opened to the sun.
- (used for expressing a resulting state or condition):
He tore it to pieces.
- (used for expressing the object of inclination or desire):
They drank to her health.
- (used for expressing the object of a right or claim):
claimants to an estate.
- (used for expressing limit in degree, condition, or amount):
wet to the skin;
goods amounting to $1000;
Tomorrow's high will be 75 to 80°.
- (used for expressing addition or accompaniment) with:
He added insult to injury.
They danced to the music.
Where is the top to this box?
- (used for expressing attachment or adherence):
She held to her opinion.
- (used for expressing comparison or opposition):
inferior to last year's crop;
The score is eight to seven.
- (used for expressing agreement or accordance) according to; by:
a position to one's liking;
to the best of my knowledge.
- (used for expressing reference, reaction, or relation):
What will he say to this?
- (used for expressing a relative position):
parallel to the roof.
- (used for expressing a proportion of number or quantity) in; making up:
12 to the dozen;
20 miles to the gallon.
- (used for indicating the indirect object of a verb, for connecting a verb with its complement, or for indicating or limiting the application of an adjective, noun, or pronoun):
Give it to me.
I refer to your work.
- (used as the ordinary sign or accompaniment of the infinitive, as in expressing motion, direction, or purpose, in ordinary uses with a substantive object.)
- Mathematics. raised to the power indicated:
Three to the fourth is 81 (34 = 81).
adverb
- toward a point, person, place, or thing, implied or understood.
- toward a contact point or closed position:
Pull the door to.
- toward a matter, action, or work:
We turned to with a will.
- into a state of consciousness; out of unconsciousness:
after he came to.
t.o.
2abbreviation for
- turnover.
- turn over.
T.O.
3abbreviation for
- telegraph office.
to
1/ tʊ; tuː; tə /
preposition
- used to indicate the destination of the subject or object of an action
he climbed to the top
- used to mark the indirect object of a verb in a sentence
telling stories to children
- used to mark the infinitive of a verb
he wanted to go
- as far as; until
working from Monday to Friday
- used to indicate equality
16 ounces to the pound
- against; upon; onto
put your ear to the wall
- before the hour of
five minutes to four
- accompanied by
dancing to loud music
- as compared with, as against
the score was eight to three
- used to indicate a resulting condition
they starved to death
he tore her dress to shreds
- a dialect word for at 1
where's it to?
he's to town
adverb
- towards a fixed position, esp (of a door) closed
to
2the internet domain name for
- Tonga
Word History and Origins
Origin of to1
Word History and Origins
Origin of to1
Idioms and Phrases
- to and fro. fro ( def 2 ).
Example Sentences
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
Well, the numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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