adverb
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Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
example
Please push the door to.
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Into the wind.
preposition
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Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
example
We are walking to the shop.
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Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
example
He devoted himself to education.
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Used to indicate result of action.
example
His face was beaten to a pulp.
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Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.
example
To everyone's great relief, the tuneless carol singers finally ceased their warbling.
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Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
example
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
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Denotes the end of a range.
example
It takes 2 to 4 weeks to process typical applications.
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As a.
example
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); took her to wife (took her as a wife); was sold to slave (was sold as a slave).
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Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
example
I have ten dollars to your four.
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Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
example
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
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(time) Preceding.
example
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
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Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
example
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
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At.
example
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.