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To vs Pho - What's the difference?

to | pho |

As nouns the difference between to and pho

is that to is thaw, weather conditions that make snow and ice melt while pho is a vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken.

to

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal) ter * (contraction) t' * (abbreviation)

Particle

(en-part)
    • I want to leave.
    He asked me what to do.
    I don’t know how to say it.
    I have places to''' go and people '''to see.
  • * 1711 , :
    • To' err is human, ' to forgive divine.
  • * , Scene 1:
    • To be, or not to be: that is the question: /
  • * 2010 July, , headline [http://web.archive.org/web/20100705003703/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfMucgz8wUGUNUNXRyIyqzY6lWwQD9GM98N83]:
    • Odds are, BP to get new CEO this year
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 10 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=To' that end, the home supporters were in good voice ' to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.}}
    • "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to , but it was closed."
    If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to .

    Derived terms

    * going to / gonna * got to / gotta * have to / hafta * ought to / oughta * supposed to / supposta * used to / usta * want to / wanna * fixing to / finna

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • In the direction of, and arriving at.
    • We are walking to the shop.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
    • Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
    • He devoted himself to education.
    They drank to his health.
    • That is something to do.
    • His face was beaten to a pulp.
    • similar to''' ...'', ''relevant '''to''' ...'', ''pertinent '''to''' ...'', ''I was nice '''to''' him'', ''he was cruel '''to''' her'', ''I am used '''to walking.
  • (arithmetic)
    • one to one = 1:1
    ten to one = 10:1.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0-1 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=In total, the Reds had 28 shots to their opponent's nine, and 15 corners to the Baggies' three.}}
  • (arithmetic) .
    • Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
    Three to the power of two is nine.
    Three to the second is nine.
    • I gave the book to him.
  • (time) Preceding.
    • ten to''' ten'' = 9:50; ''We're going to leave at ten '''to (the hour).
  • (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) at
    • Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.

    See also

    * at

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
    • Please push the door to .
  • * 1913 ,
    • He went in his room, pushed the door to , without fastening the latch.
  • (nautical) Into the wind.

    • Synonyms

    * closed, shut

    Antonyms

    * open, ajar

    See also

    * come to * heave to * lean-to * set-to * to and fro * (English Citations of "to")

    References

    * Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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    pho

    English

    (wikipedia pho)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken.
  • * 1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations , p. 802 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003591769;view=1up;seq=816]
    • PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man,(SIC) a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.
  • * 2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic , vol. 203, issue 3 [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature6/]
    • Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.

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