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Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒm/
enpr: frŭm
ipa: /fɹʌm/
enpr: frəm
ipa: /fɹəm/
rhymes: -ɒm
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: frome
Etymology: From Middle English from (“from”), from Old English from, fram (“forward, from”), from Proto-West Germanic *fram, from Proto-Germanic *fram (“forward, from, away”). Cognate with Old Saxon fram (“from”) and Old High German fram (“from”), Danish frem (“forth, forward”), Danish fra (“from”), Swedish fram (“forth, forward”), Swedish från (“from”), Norwegian Nynorsk fram (“forward”), Norwegian Nynorsk frå (“from”), Icelandic fram (“forward, on”), Icelandic frá (“from”), Albanian pre, prej. More at fro.
Senses: examples: text: Paul is from New Zealand.
text: I got a letter from my brother.
text: You can't get all your news from the Internet.
text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
glosses: Used to indicate source or provenance.
examples: text: This manuscript is from the 1980s.
glosses: Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
examples: text: He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
text: He departed yesterday from Chicago.
text: This figure has been changed from a one to a seven.
text: Face away from the wall!
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
examples: text: The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
text: Tickets are available from 17th July.
text: The store will be open from nine in the morning, but I’ll be at home from Wed. evening (on).
glosses: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point in time.
examples: text: Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
text: Start counting from 1.
glosses: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
examples: text: You can study anything from math to literature.
glosses: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
examples: text: It's hard to tell from here.
text: Try to see it from his point of view.
text: The bomb went off just 100 yards from where they were standing.
text: From the top of the lighthouse you can just see the mainland.
glosses: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
examples: text: I’ve been doing this from pickney.
text: I’ve been a bad boy from a little youth.
ref: 2021 August 17, TStackz & Kapz, “BGB”, 1:01–1:03:
glosses: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
examples: text: After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.
text: The general was ousted from power.
glosses: Indicating removal or separation.
examples: text: 20 from 31 leaves 11.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Indicating removal or separation.
Denoting a subtraction operation.
raw_tags: not in formal use
examples: text: She was barred from entering.
text: A parasol protects from the sun.
glosses: Indicating exclusion.
examples: text: Your opinions differ from mine.
text: He knows right from wrong.
text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: Indicating differentiation.
examples: text: It's made from pure gold.
glosses: Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
examples: text: Too many people die from breast cancer.
glosses: Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
Synonyms: sense: with the source or provenance of or at
word: out of
sense: subtraction
word: take away
Derived terms: abstract away from
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
bang from the buck
buy out from under
come from below
come in from the cold
drink from the fire hydrant
a distance
all accounts
all reports
an early age
a standing start
A to Z
away
behind
cradle to grave
day to day
father to son
first to last
here on in
here on out
home
Kashmir to Kanyakumari
memory
moment to moment
off of
that time on
the first
the river to the sea
the top
this time on
fromward
fromwards
week to week
get out from under
gift from heaven
gift from the goddesses
gift from the Gods
gift from the heavens
grin from ear to ear
grow away from
hell from above
hencefrom
herefrom
know one's arse from one's elbow
know one's head from one's ass
know someone from Eve
let this cup pass from me
manna from heaven
Nina from Carolina
Nina from Pasadena
putt from the rough
raise from the dead
roll from one's tongue
roll from the tongue
run away from
run from the tongue
sell out from under
separate the men from the boys
separation from bed and board
speech from the throne
squeeze blood from a turnip
take one's cue from
thencefrom
therefrom
trip from the tongue
whencefrom
wherefrom
you can't pour from an empty cup