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   to

   /tuː/

   preposition

   • 1. expressing motion in the direction of (a particular location): "walking down to the shops"
   • ▪ expressing location, typically in relation to a specified point of reference: "forty miles to the south of the site"
   • ▪ expressing a point reached at the end of a range or after a period of time: "a drop in profits from £105 m to around £75 m"
   • ▪ (in telling the time) before (the hour specified): British "it's five to ten"
   • 2. approaching or reaching (a particular condition): "Christopher's expression changed from amazement to joy"
   • ▪ expressing the result of a process or action: "smashed to smithereens"
   • ▪ governing a phrase expressing someone's reaction to something: "to her astonishment, he smiled"
   • 3. identifying the person or thing affected by or receiving something: "you were terribly unkind to her"
   • 4. identifying a particular relationship between one person and another: "he is married to his cousin Emma"
   • ▪ used in various phrases to indicate how something is related to something else (often followed by a noun without a determiner): "made to order"
   • ▪ indicating a rate of return on something, for example the distance travelled in exchange for fuel used: "my car only does ten miles to the gallon"
   • ▪ indicating the power (exponent) to which a number is raised: "ten to the minus thirty-three"
   • 5. indicating that two things are attached or linked: "he had left his dog tied to a drainpipe"
   • 6. concerning or likely to concern (something): "a threat to world peace"
   • 7. used to introduce the second element in a comparison: "the club's nothing to what it once was"
   • 8. placed before a debit entry in accounting.

   infinitive marker

   • 1. used with the base form of a verb to indicate that the verb is in the infinitive.
   • ▪ expressing purpose or intention: "I set out to buy food"
   • ▪ expressing an outcome or result: "she was left to die"
   • ▪ expressing a cause: "I'm sorry to hear that"
   • ▪ indicating a desired or advisable action: "I'd love to go to France this summer"
   • ▪ indicating a proposition that is known, believed, or reported about a specified person or thing: "a house that people believed to be haunted"
   • ▪ forming a future tense with reference to the immediate future: "he was about to sing"
   • ▪ after a noun, indicating its function or purpose: "a chair to sit on"
   • ▪ after a phrase containing an ordinal number: "the first person to arrive"
   • 2. used without a verb following when the missing verb is clearly understood: "he asked her to come but she said she didn't want to"

   adverb

   • 1. so as to be closed or nearly closed: "he pulled the door to behind him"

   Word Origin Old Englishtō (adverb and preposition), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch toe and German zu.

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