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Definition: TO-

TO-

Preposition

1. An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: TO-

DomainDefinitions

Computing

To The country code for Tonga. Heavily used for vanity domains because it looks like the English word "to". (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TO-

English words defined with "TO-": Dys-. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO-": To-beat, To-break, To-brest, Tohew, Toscatter, Toshred, Toswink, Totear. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO-

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed and we're preparing to- (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

I'm sure he didn't take the time to- (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Nah, that thing's too heavy to- (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

It's like a tank full of piranhas over there. And those men would love to- (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: John Sayles)

And you are going to- (American Dreams; writing credit: Jon Harmon Feldman; Michael Foley)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO-

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Colombia

Prudent American companies thinking about coming to Colombia conduct a balanced, pragmatic evaluation of their realistic mid- to- long- range business potential, taking into account the short-term uncertainties. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TO-

"TO-" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "TO-" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)50%3202,518
Adjective (general or positive)50%3202,518
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: TO-

Language Translations for "TO-"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(Pair, To, Versus, VS). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pohjoiseen päin (northwards, to- the north). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עלי ל- (I have to-, I must, it is up to me). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(AT, AT&T, On, through, Thru, To, to-do, Upon, with). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

o-tay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO-

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

RM:Uffizi da transport. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO-

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: to.

 Words containing the letters "o-t"
 

+1 letter: bot, cot, dot, got, hot, jot, lot, mot, not, oat, oft, oot, opt, ort, out, pot, rot, sot, tao, tho, tod, toe, tog, tom, ton, too, top, tor, tot, tow, toy, two, wot.

 

+2 letters: alto, atom, atop, auto, blot, boat, bolt, boot, bort, bota, both, bots, bott, bout, clot, coat, coft, colt, coot, cost, cote, cots, dato, doat, doit, dolt, dost, dote, doth, dots, doty, font, foot, fort, goat, gout, grot, holt, hoot, host, hots, into, iota, jato, jolt, jota, jots, keto, knot, koto, loft, loot, lost, lota, loth, loti, lots, lout, moat, molt, moot, mort, most, mote, moth, mots, mott, nota, note, nowt, oast, oath, oats, obit, omit, onto, oots, opts, orts, otic, otto, oust, outs, phot, plot, poet, port, post, pots, pout, rato, riot, root, rota, rote, roti, rotl, roto, rots, rout, ryot, scot, shot, slot, snot, soft, soot, sort, soth, sots, spot, stoa, stob, stop, stow, swot, taco, taos, taro, thio, thou, thro, tiro, toad, toby, tods, tody, toea, toed, toes, toff, toft, tofu, toga, togs, toil, toit, toke, tola, told, tole, toll, tolu, tomb, tome, toms, tone, tong, tons, tony, took, tool, toom, toon, toot, tope, toph, topi, tops, tora, torc, tore, tori, torn, toro, torr, tors, tort, tory, tosh, toss, tost, tote, tots, tour, tout, town, tows, towy, toyo, toys, trio, trod, trop, trot, trow, troy, twos, typo, tyro, unto, veto, volt, vote, wont, wort, wost, wots.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO-


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 2D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#45

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 002D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544915

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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