to
To is a 2 letter word which starts with the letter T and ends with the letter O for which we found 5 definitions.
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| (prep.) The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it access; and also motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to from. |
| (prep.) Hence it indicates motion course or tendency toward a time a state or condition an aim or anything capable of being regarded as a limit to a tendency movement or action; as he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor. |
| (prep.) In a very general way and with innumerable varieties of application to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object and adjectives nouns and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor. |
| (prep.) As sign of the infinitive to had originally the use of last defined governing the infinitive as a verbal noun and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus ready to go i.e. ready unto going; good to eat i.e. good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; thus I love to learn i.e. I love learning; to die for one's country is noble i.e. the dying for one's country. Where the infinitive denotes the design or purpose good usage formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as what went ye out for see? (Matt. xi. 8). |
| (prep.) In many phrases and in connection with many other words to has a pregnant meaning or is used elliptically. |
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