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(ATON) Any navigational device external to a vessel or aircraft specifically intended to assist navigators in determining their position or safe course, or to warn them of dangers or obstructions to navigation. A good example might be a buoy or a lighthouse.
This is an expression which means to put an end to something. For example you could say that rain put paid to the cricket match, meaning it stopped play.
To go mousing about is to go poking about into holes and corners.
To break, kill: e.g. "Went out with the air rifle and potted a few birds. "Used my sling on a few windows... managed to pot a few!!". Probably in relation to bagging game for the (cooking) 'pot'.
v put an end to: We were going to have a picnic in the park but the weather put paid to that.
To throw a light substance, as a flat stone, or a shell, with a careless jerk. Also means to turn aside, or start, as a horse, to sheer. And means, to hang about.
To and from is Australian rhyming slang for an Englishman (pom).
Add insult to injury is slang for aggravate an already difficult situation, further upset someone.
This is an expression which means to put an end to something. For example you could say that rain put paid to the cricket match, meaning it stopped play.
To take refuge in a tree, usually said of a wild animal. To tree oneself, is to conceal oneself behind a tree.
We go to school from ages 5 to 18. You might go to school from ages 5 thru 18. We don't say thru in that context at all. If we did though, we would say "through"!
 To brag and pretend to be rich.
To and fro is London Cockney rhyming slang for snow.
Shouting to Huey and Ralph is American slang for to vomit
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Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste; she has a husband to her mind.
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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.
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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.
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To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
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A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
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Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him.
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Addition; union; accumulation.
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Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano.
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Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
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In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
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An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
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Character; condition of being; purpose subserved or office filled.
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To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.
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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.
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A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall.
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Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state.
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A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
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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).
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Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as, they engaged hand to hand.
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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.
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