To vs That - What's the difference?
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In the direction of, and arriving at.
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(time) Preceding.
(Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) at
Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
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(nautical) Into the wind.
because, in that.
so, so that.
* 1714 , (Alexander Pope), The Rape of the Lock , III.1:
* 1833 , Parley's Magazine , volume 1, page 23:
* 2009 , Dallas R. Burdette, Biblical Preaching and Teaching (ISBN 1615790853), page 340:
* 2008 , Zoe Williams, The Guardian , 23 May 2008:
(archaic, or, poetic) seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), The Comedy of Errors :
* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), (A Tale of Two Cities):
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* 1864 , T. S. Norgate's translation of the Iliad , book 10, page 613:
* 1892 , Paolo Segneri, The Manna of the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of the Year :
* 1610 , (William Shakespeare), The Tempest , act 1, scene 2, page 4:
The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "(l)", or if expressing distinction.
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(lb) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action
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(lb) The aforementioned quality; (used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement).
* 1910 , Helen Granville-Barker, An Apprentice to Truth , page 214:
(lb) Which, who.
* (William Shakespeare), Hamlet , act 1, scene 4:
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, title= (degree) To a given extent or degree.
(degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
To such an extent; so, such. (in positive constructions).
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(philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
* 1998 , David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han , page 247:
As nouns the difference between to and that
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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.
- To' err is human, ' to forgive divine.
- To be, or not to be: that is the question: /
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- "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 / finnaPreposition
(English prepositions)- We are walking to the shop.
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- 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.
- one to one = 1:1
- ten to one = 10:1.
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- 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.
- ten to''' ten'' = 9:50; ''We're going to leave at ten '''to (the hour).
- Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
See also
* atAdverb
(-)- Please push the door to .
- He went in his room, pushed the door to , without fastening the latch.
Synonyms
* closed, shutAntonyms
* open, ajarSee 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 8Statistics
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(wikipedia that)Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- He told me that the book is a good read.
- I believe that''' it is true.'' — ''She is convinced '''that he is British.
- Be glad that you have enough to eat.
- The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
- Ellen's mamma was going out to pay a visit, but she left the children a large piece of rich plumcake to divide between them, that they might play at making feasts.
- Jesus died that we might live "through" Him.
- The noise was so loud that she woke up.
- The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
- My dad apparently always said that no child of his would ever be harassed for its poor eating habits, and then I arrived, and I was so disgusting that he revised his opinion.
- What, are you mad, that you do reason so?
- In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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- “She must be wonderfully fascinating,” said Mrs Morel, with scathing satire. “She must be very wonderful, that you should trail eight miles, backward and forward, after eight o’clock at night.”
- Was John there? — Not that''' I saw.'' — — — ''How often did she visit him? — Twice '''that I saw.
- " I will go anywhere that she may wish if she will go with me,"
- "Would that my rage and wrath would somehow stir me, / Here as I am, to cut off thy raw flesh / And eat it."
- "Oh, that they would be wise, and would understand, "
- I pray thee, mark me — that a brother should / Be so perfidious! —
Usage notes
* That'' can be used to introduce subordinate clauses, but can just as easily be omitted: one can say either "he told me that it's a good read" (in which case the second clause is a "''that clause") or "he told me it's a good read" (in which case the second clause is a "bare clause"). * Historically, "that" was usually preceded by a comma ("he told me, that it is a good read") — such usage was, for example, recommended by the grammarian Joseph Robertson in his 1785 essay On Punctuation — but this is now generally considered nonstandard. * Historically, that'' was sometimes used after a preposition to introduce a clause which was the object of the preposition, as in "after that things are set in order here, we'll follow them" (Shakespeare, ''1 Henry VI''), which simply means "after things are set in order..." and would be worded thus in modern English.''The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1903)Determiner
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Derived terms
* thatness *Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- To be, or not to be: that is the question: / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them?
- [He] was qualified and fitted, both intellectually and morally, — and that to an exceptional extent — to be the Head
- "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that . I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
- However, the British were unable to do much about it short of going to war with St Petersburg, and that the government was unwilling to do.
- I've never seen someone beaten unconscious before. That ’s lesbians for you.
- He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
- "She is very honourable," said Mrs. Thompson, solemnly. "Yes, one sees she is that , and so simple-minded."
- the CPR course that she took really came in handy
- By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
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Usage notes
* Some authorities prescribe that that'' should only be used in restrictive contexts (where the relative clause is part of the identification of the noun phrase) and ''which'' or ''who''/''whom'' should be used in non-restrictive contexts; in other words, they prescribe "I like the last song on the album, which John wrote". In practice, both ''that'' and ''which are found in both contexts. * In a restrictive relative clause, that'' is never used as the object of a preposition unless the preposition occurs at the end of the clause; ''which'' is used instead. Hence "this is the car I spoke of" can be rendered as "this is the car ''that'' I spoke of" or "this is the car of which I spoke", but not as *"this is the car of ''that I spoke." * That'' refers primarily to people or things; ''which'' refers primarily to things, and ''who'' refers primarily to people. Some authorities insist ''who''/''whom'' be used when making reference to people, but others, such as the ''Merriam-Webster'' dictionary, write that such prescriptions are "without foundation" and use of ''that in such positions is common and "entirely standard". Hence, one sees both "he is the man who invented the telephone" and "he is the man that invented the telephone." * When that'' (or another relative pronoun, like ''who'' or ''which ) is used as the subject of a relative clause, the verb agrees with the antecedent of the pronoun. Thus "The thing that is...", "The things that are...", etc. * In the past, bare that'' could be used, with the meaning "the thing, person, etc indicated", where modern English requires ''that which'' or ''what''. Hence the King James translation of John 3:11 is "We speak ''that'' we do know, and testify ''that'' we have seen" while the New International Version has "we speak ''of what'' we know, and we testify ''to what we have seen".Antonyms
* (that thing) here, there, this, yon, yonderDerived terms
* at thatAdverb
(-)- "The ribbon was that''' thin." "I disagree, I say it was not '''that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner..."
- I'm just not that sick.
- I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
- Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
- This was carried with that little noise that for a good space the vigilant Bishop was not awak'd with it.
Noun
(en noun)- As such, they do not have the ontological weight of "Being" and "Not-being," but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats .