A word used to express the relation of direction or tendency, with many modified and related senses.In the direction of; unto; toward: indicating direction or motion toward a place, point, goal, state, condition, or position, or toward something to be done or to be treated: opposed to from.As far as: indicating a point or limit reached or to be reached in space, time, or degree; expressing extent of continuance, or proceeding, or degree of comprehension, or inclusion.For; unto: indicating an actual or supposed limit to movement or action, or denoting destination, design, purpose, or aim: as, the horse is broken to saddle or harness.Unto: indicating a result or effect produced; denoting a consequence or end: as, he was flattered to his ruin; it was reported to her shame.Upon; besides: denoting addition, contribution, or possession.Upon; on: denoting contact, junction, or union.Compared with: denoting comparison, proportion, or measure.Against; over against: denoting opposition, contrast, or antithesis: as, to wager three to one; they engaged hand to hand.In accordance, congruity, or harmony with: denoting agreement, adaptation, or adjustment: as, a plan drawn to scale; painted to the life.In accompaniment with: as, she sang to his guitar.In the character, quality, or shape of; for; as.Regarding; concerning: as to: denoting relation: as, to plead to the charge; to speak to the question.Denoting application or attention: as, he fell to work.In connection with; appurtenant: denoting attribution, appurtenance, or belonging: as, a cap with a tassel to it.In a great variety of cases to supplies the place of the dative in other languages: it connects transitive verbs with their indirect or distant objects, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action.After adjectives, it points to the person or thing with respect to which, or in whose interest, a quality is shown or perceived: as, a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind.To is used as ordinary “sign” of the infinitive (like the corresponding zu in German, à and de in French, a and di in Italian, att in Swedish, etc).To is not used before the infinitive after the ordinary auxiliaries, as do, will, can, may, etc.; also not after various other verbs, as, see, hear, let, etc.; while after a few it is sometimes omitted or sometimes retained against more common usage to the contrary. After a noun or an adjective to is always used.To was formerly used even after another preposition, especially for, and is still so used dialectally and vulgarly: as, what are you going for to do? Rarely after other prepositions, as from; but very commonly after about, about to signifying immediate futurity: as, he is about to go.After be and have, the infinitive with to denotes something future, especially with the implication of duty or necessity: as, it is still to do (or to be done); I have it to do (or have to do it).Colloquially, an inflnitive after to, when it is a repetition of a preceding inflnitive, is often omitted: as, I don't go because I don't wish to.In various obsolete, provincial, or colloquial uses: after; against; at; by; for; in; of; on; with; before; etc.To a place in view; forward; on.To the thing to be done: denoting motion and application to a thing.To its place; together: denoting the joining or closing of something separated or open: as, shut the door to.In a certain direction: as, sloped to.Till.An old spelling of too, toe, two.n. A Japanese grain and liquid measure containing 1097.52 cubic inches, or a little less than half an imperial bushel.n. A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, being the preposition and adverb to so used: as in toname.n. A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning ‘apart, away,’ and denoting separation, negation, or intensity