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You're listening to Joanna
She has an American accent.
NGSL Rank: 27
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Meanings
preposition
- identifying the agent performing an action.
- indicating the means of achieving something.E.g. malaria can be controlled by attacking the parasite
- indicating the amount or size of a margin.E.g. the shot missed her by miles
- indicating a deadline or the end of a particular time period.E.g. I've got to do this report by Monday
- indicating location of a physical object beside a place or object.E.g. remains were discovered by the roadside
- indicating the period in which something happens.E.g. this animal always hunts by night
- concerning; according to.E.g. anything you do is all right by me
- used in mild oaths.E.g. it was the least he could do, by God
adverb
- so as to go past.E.g. a car flashed by on the other side of the road
noun
- variant spelling of bye1.
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Meanings
prefix
- subordinate; incidental; secondary.E.g. by-election
bye
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Meanings
noun
- the transfer of a competitor directly to the next round of a competition in the absence of an assigned opponent.E.g. he has a bye into the second round
- a run scored from a ball that passes the batsman without being hit (recorded as an extra, not credited to the individual batsman).
- one or more holes remaining unplayed after a match has been decided.
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