- Belonging to them
- Belonging to those people
- His, her, ...
- Not my broadcast there
- Of them
- Owned by them
- Reith may end up belonging to them
- Former worker
- One who has finished his or her working life
- One who has stopped work
- Senior pensioner
- Girl entering society
- One in first appearance
- Society entrant
- A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before
the public.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to
has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
- Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as;
as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
- 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.
- A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an
adulteress.
- A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
- The cowfish.
- To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his
wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
- A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a
woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
- Trial period
- The act of proving; also, that which proves anything;
proof.
- Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine
character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a
person on probation.
- The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to
probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.
- The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications
prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.
- Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in
which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming
qualified for a happier state.