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to-be

noun

Etymology

From to + be.

  1. derived from *h₁ésti✻
  2. inherited from wesan
  3. derived from *h₂wes-✻
  4. inherited from *wesaną✻
  5. inherited from *wesan✻
  6. inherited from ġebēon
  7. inherited from been — “to be”
  8. inherited from *bʰuHyéti✻
  9. inherited from *beuną✻
  10. inherited from bēon
  11. inherited from been
  12. compounded as to-be — “to + be”

Definitions

  1. The future, that which is to come.

    • […] I shall be thy mate no more, Tho’ following with an upward mind ⁠The wonders that have come to thee, ⁠Thro’ all the secular to be, But evermore a life behind.
    • Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for to-be. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA