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The preposition "to" may have, in English, several values, as follows:

Value	UNL	Examples
		English	UNL
complement (necessary argument)	obj	refer to a dictionary	obj(refer, dictionary)
direction (towards)	to	go to the city	to(go, city)
final place	plt	go to the bottom	plt(go, bottom)
purpose	pur	go to discuss	pur(go, discuss)
addressee	gol	answer to John	gol(answer, John)
final state	gol	nursed her back to health	gol(nurse, health)
final time	tmt	worked from nine to five	tmt(work, 5)
comparison	bas	superior to the others	bas(superior, others)
degree or extent	man	smooth to the touch	man(smooth, touch)
manner	man	parallel to the road	man(parallel, road)

Observations

The preposition "to" must be replaced by its equivalents in the following situations:

to = against

Their faces pressed to the windows = Their faces pressed against the windows

to = of

looked for the top to the jar = looked for the top of the jar

to = before

ten to five = ten before five