To vs. Wit

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

Witnoun

Sanity.

Witnoun

The senses.

Witnoun

Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

Witnoun

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

Witnoun

Intelligence; common sense.

Witnoun

Humour, especially when clever or quick.

Witnoun

A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Witverb

Know, be aware of constructed with of when used intransitively.

Witpreposition

(Southern American English) lang=en

Witverb

To know; to learn.

Witnoun

Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

Witnoun

A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.

Witnoun

Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

Witnoun

A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.

Witnoun

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Witnoun

mental ability;

Witnoun

a witty amusing person who makes jokes

Witnoun

the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence

Witnoun

good sense

Witnoun

a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour

Witnoun

a witty person

Witverb

have knowledge

Witverb

that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to)

Wit

Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks.