To vs. For
Topreposition
Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
Topreposition
Used to indicate purpose.
Topreposition
Used to indicate result of action.
Topreposition
Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
Topreposition
As a.
Topreposition
(arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
Topreposition
(arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Topreposition
Used to indicate the indirect object.
Topreposition
(time) Preceding.
Topreposition
Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Topreposition
At.
Toadverb
Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Toadverb
(nautical) Into the wind.
Toadverb
misspelling of too
Topreposition
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.
Topreposition
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.
Topreposition
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.
Topreposition
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).
Topreposition
In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
Topreposition
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.
Topreposition
Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste; she has a husband to her mind.
Topreposition
Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him.
Topreposition
Addition; union; accumulation.
Topreposition
Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano.
Topreposition
Character; condition of being; purpose subserved or office filled.
Topreposition
expressing motion in the direction of (a particular location)
Topreposition
expressing location, typically in relation to a specified point of reference
Topreposition
expressing a point reached at the end of a range or after a period of time
Topreposition
(in telling the time) before (the hour specified)
Topreposition
approaching or reaching (a particular condition)
Topreposition
expressing the result of a process or action
Topreposition
governing a phrase expressing someone's reaction to something
Topreposition
identifying the person or thing affected by or receiving something
Topreposition
identifying a particular relationship between one person and another
Topreposition
used in various phrases to indicate how something is related to something else (often followed by a noun without a determiner)
Topreposition
indicating a rate of return on something, for example the distance travelled in exchange for fuel used
Topreposition
indicating the power (exponent) to which a number is raised
Topreposition
indicating that two things are attached or linked
Topreposition
concerning or likely to concern (something)
Topreposition
used to introduce the second element in a comparison
Topreposition
placed before a debit entry in accounting.
Toadverb
so as to be closed or nearly closed
Forconjunction
Because, as, since.
Forpreposition
Towards.
Forpreposition
Directed at, intended to belong to.
Forpreposition
In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
Forpreposition
Supporting.
Forpreposition
Because of.
Forpreposition
Over a period of time.
Forpreposition
Throughout an extent of space.
Forpreposition
On behalf of.
Forpreposition
Instead of, or in place of.
Forpreposition
In order to obtain or acquire.
Forpreposition
In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Forpreposition
By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Forpreposition
Despite, in spite of. See: for all
Forpreposition
Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
Forpreposition
Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
Forpreposition
(cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
Forpreposition
To be, or as being.
Forpreposition
(obsolete) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
Forpreposition
Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
Forpreposition
In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
Forpreposition
Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
Forpreposition
Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
Forpreposition
Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; - opposed to against.
Forpreposition
Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; ntending to go to.
Forpreposition
Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
Forpreposition
Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
Forpreposition
Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; - generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
Forpreposition
Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
Forpreposition
Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
Forconjunction
Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
Forconjunction
Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
Fornoun
One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; - the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
