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    to
    [to͞o, tə]
    preposition
    1. expressing motion in the direction of (a particular location):
      "walking down to the mall" · "my first visit to Africa"
      • expressing location, typically in relation to a specified point of reference:
        "forty miles to the south of the site" · "place the cursor to the left of the first word"
      • expressing a point reached at the end of a range or after a period of time:
        "a drop in profits from $105 million to around $75 million" · "from 1938 to 1945"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        (in telling the time) before (the hour specified):
        "it's five to ten"
    2. approaching or reaching (a particular condition):
      "Christopher's expression changed from amazement to joy" · "she was close to tears"
      Similar:
      toward
      in the direction of
      so as to approach
      so as to near
      on the way to
      on the road to
      en route for
      in the vicinity of
      Opposite:
      away from
      • 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:
      "you were terribly unkind to her"
      • identifying the recipient or intended recipient of something:
        "he wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents" · "I am deeply grateful to my parents"
    4. identifying a particular relationship between one person and another:
      "he is married to Jan's cousin" · "she is senior advisor to the chief executive officer"
      • in various phrases indicating how something is related to something else (often followed by a noun without a determiner):
        "made to order" · "a prelude to disaster"
      • indicating a rate of return on something, e.g., the distance traveled in exchange for fuel used, or an exchange rate that can be obtained in one currency for another:
        "it only does ten miles to the gallon"
      • mathematics
        (to the)
        indicating the power (exponent) to which a number is raised:
        "ten to the minus thirty-three"
    5. indicating that two things are attached:
      "he had left his bike chained to a fence" · "they are inextricably linked to this island"
    6. concerning or likely to concern (something, especially something abstract):
      "a threat to world peace" · "a reference to Psalm 22:18"
    7. used to introduce the second element in a comparison:
      "it's nothing to what it once was"
    infinitivemarker
    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" · "I am going to tell you a story" · "we tried to help"
      • expressing an outcome, result, or consequence:
        "he was left to die" · "he managed to escape"
      • expressing a cause:
        "I'm sorry to hear that"
      • indicating a desired or advisable action:
        "I'd love to go to France this summer" · "the leaflet explains how to start a recycling program" · "we asked her to explain"
      • indicating a proposition that is known, believed, or reported about a specified person or thing:
        "a house that people believed to be haunted"
      • (about to)
        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" · "something to eat"
      • 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
    to (adverb)
    1. so as to be closed or nearly closed:
      "he pulled the door to behind him"
      Opposite:
      loose
    Origin
    Old English tō (adverb and preposition), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch toe and German zu.
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