make phone calls <to> its value

[raymondaliasapollyon]

Hello,

Can you find the definition of 'to' as used in the following sentence?

The top-up card enbales you to make phone calls to its value.

Can you find this sense in the dictionary?

I'd appreciate your help.

 

[london calling]

The top-up card enbales enables you to make phone calls to its value.

Hello. It sounds odd to me. Where did you find it? Was it written by a native speaker?

That said , I understand it to mean that if you top up the card with (say) ten pounds credit, you will be able to make phone calls for a total cost of no more than ten pounds, i.e. when you run out of credit.

 

[Glenfarclas]

It's definition 14 in our dictionary, Raymond.

 

[raymondaliasapollyon]

It's definition 14 in our dictionary, Raymond.

No, I am asking abot the preposition to in 'to its value'.

I adpated the example from a dictionary. And it's written by native speakers.

The original version is someting like 'you can make phone calls to the value of this card'.

 

[london calling]

Native speakers from which country? It still sounds strange to me. Please quote your source, raymond.

 

[Loob]

Was your original source this definition of "top-up card" in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, raymond?

a card that you buy for a mobile/cell phone so that you can make more calls to the value of the card

I'd say that "to", there, = " up to".

Edit: I suppose that's WR Random House definition 3.

 

[Parla]

I'd say that "to", there, = " up to".

 

[raymondaliasapollyon]

Was your original source this definition of "top-up card" in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, raymond? I'd say that "to", there, = " up to".

Edit: I suppose that's WR Random House definition 3.

I don't have the WR Random House Dictioanry. Could you please list the definition?

Thank you.

 

[Nunty]

I suppose definition 3 in our on-site dictionary (the one Loob is referring to) is the closest: to.

That usage is a little awkward to my ear. I hear it as an elision of "up to".

 

[london calling]

Was your original source this definition of "top-up card" in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, raymond? I'd say that "to", there, = " up to".

Loob, the link is to 'To Autumn' by Keats.

 

[Loob]

Thanks, london. I can't seem to get the link to point to the Oxford Advance Learner's Dictionary, so I've now deleted it: better that than pointing to completely the wrong thing.

 

[Glenfarclas]

No, I am asking abot the preposition to in 'to its value'.

Oh, sorry, I was looking at the other "to." In that case, it's definition 8 in the WordReference dictionary.

 

[Loob]

So we have two votes for WordReference Random House definition 3:

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2015

3. (used to express a limitation of movement or growth):

He grew to six feet.​

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2015

3. (used for expressing limit of movement or extension):

He grew to six feet.​

and one vote for definition 8 in the WordReference dictionary ~ presumably this definition 8:

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2015

8. (used to express a limitation in degree or amount):

I was chilled to the bone.​

I think that at base we agree: the idea in the original OALD sentence is "up to".