"how-to" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From how + to. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|how|to}} how + to Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} how-to (not comparable)
  1. that gives advice or instruction on a particular topic Tags: not-comparable Translations (that gives advice or instruction on a particular topic): מעשי m Literally (ma'así) (Hebrew), “practical” (Hebrew), tanácsadó (Hungarian), ismertető (Hungarian), come fare pl or [feminine, masculine, plural, singular] (Italian), ཁྲིད་ཀྱི (khrid kyi) (Tibetan), སློབ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི (slob khrid kyi) (Tibetan), བསླབ་བྱའི (bslab bya'i) (Tibetan)
    Sense id: en-how-to-en-adj-h4j1L0Jt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Tibetan translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 47 43 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 17 43 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 45 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 45 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 27 37 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 26 38 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 25 39 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: howto, how to

Noun

Forms: how-tos [plural]
Etymology: From how + to. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|how|to}} how + to Head templates: {{en-noun}} how-to (plural how-tos)
  1. A brief informal description of how to accomplish a specific task. Translations (description of how to accomplish a task): zo-doe-je-dat (Dutch), כיצד לבצע (keytsád l'vatséa) (Hebrew), איך לעשות (eykh la'asót) (Hebrew), מדריך (madríkh) (Hebrew), ལམ་སྟོན Literally (lam ston) (Tibetan), “showing the way” (Tibetan), སློབ་ཁྲིད (english: slob khrid) (Tibetan)
    Sense id: en-how-to-en-noun-T91qrNMq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Tibetan translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 47 43 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 17 43 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 45 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 45 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 27 37 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 25 43 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 31 39 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 26 38 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 25 39 36 Disambiguation of 'description of how to accomplish a task': 62 38
  2. A book or other guide describing how to accomplish tasks in a certain field
    Sense id: en-how-to-en-noun-3DRJ6SEc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Tibetan translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 47 43 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 17 43 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 45 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 45 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 27 37 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 26 38 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 25 39 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: howto, how to

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for how-to meaning in English (5.1kB)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.