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To be + {infinitive} means to be expected to - in the sense that there is a a plan or process and the action you are describing is the next or expected step of that plan or process (or as @user8399 sa …

Would is expressing the conditional mood here. With our luck, the dog would bite him and he would make us move out. The sentence is saying there's a possibility the dog might bite him, and that …

Great means "very much" or "intense". Dedicate has multiple meanings. It can mean to memorialize or commemorate someone/something along with the creation of a new building or other artistic work - …

Inform usually means something like to tell - but you've encountered a somewhat less common meaning which means to give form to or create a form of.

If you want to express that A and B are physically connected, such that moving A also moves B, to is the preposition to use (i.e. connected to, tied to, leashed to, etc.) While it's unusual to see ha …

I'm not sure the origin of this superstition/trope or whatever you want to call it, but dreaming of falling is associated with doom and a premonition of dying. Also, the word abyss can be sometimes a …

As you have discovered, switch off here is vague and without more context, it really could mean any of the three. I would tend to assume C if I heard these words without any context at all, as if so …

Construct takes an object, and gerunds can take objects. The monument is an object of constructing. Their constructing the monument was something of a feat You can use of X to explicitly provid …

A sample describes something taken from or captured from reality or a bigger picture, e.g. the code exists in production or "real life." An example can be contrived and not exist in reality, and may …

A symbol is a representation of a something, but not the actual thing itself. A symbolic victory similarly means a victory that happened and technically looks like a victory, but doesn't have the eff …

Temperature words are sometimes used to describe colors. Reddish colors are warm and bluish colors are cold. Since light can give color to things, temperature words also can be used to describe ligh …

Here's a good guess: The terms of a battle are the conditions which each opposing side has to deal with, besides things they control. Obviously one side would like to make the other side have terms …

It's not incorrect. To can mean toward. You can say "method to X" to mean "method that is used to move toward goal/desired state X"

Even has a couple of meanings, one of them means "same level as something else" ("even with X" or "X and Y are even"), and another is "not tilted" ("X is even"). An unrelated additional meaning, when …

Territory is a fancy word for area, especially when there are multiple forces "fighting" or in contest for a single area, and then territory can be used to describe an area owned by something or someo …