{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "əˈbəv" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/above.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "A circle above (sense 2) a square\nFrom Middle English above, aboven, abuven, from Old English ābufan, onbufan, from on (“on”) + bufan (“over”), (akin to Icelandic ofan (“from above”), Middle Dutch bōven, Old Frisian bova, Middle High German bobene) from bī (“by”) + ufan (“over”); also cognate with Danish oven, Dutch boven, German oben, Swedish ovan, Old Saxon oƀan, Old High German obana.\nThe preposition, adjective and the noun derive from the adverb." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Preposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing. \nHe always put his coat on above his sweater." }, { "mean": "In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface. \nAntonyms: below, beneath\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 1:20:And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the moving creature that hath life, and foule that may flie above the earth in the open firmament of heauen.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.\n2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them." }, { "mean": "Farther north than. \nIdaho is above Utah." }, { "mean": "Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise." }, { "mean": "(figuratively) Higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume, or pitch, etc. than; out of reach; not exposed to; not likely to be affected by; incapable of negative actions or thoughts. \nEven the chief of police is not above suspicion.\nHe was always above reproach.\nI thought you said you were above these kinds of antics.\nThat's above my comprehension.\nto cut above average\n1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act I, scene i:Thy worth, sweet friend, is far above my gifts,\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Acts 26:13:At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightnes of the Sunne, shining round about mee, and them which iourneyed with me." }, { "mean": "Higher in rank, status, or position. \nto stand head and shoulders above the rest\n1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary ‎, London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 557:☞ This word is often pronounced wrop, rhyming with top, even by ſpeakers much above the vulgar." }, { "mean": "(Scotland) In addition to; besides. \nabove and beyond the call of duty\nover and above" }, { "mean": "Surpassing in number or quantity; more than. \nThat amount is way above our asking price." }, { "mean": "In preference to." }, { "mean": "Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;\nThe owner was above taking more than a token salary." }, { "mean": "Beyond; on the other side." }, { "mean": "(theater) Upstage of." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Directly overhead; vertically on top of. \n2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything." }, { "mean": "Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go. \n1913, Ambrose Bierce, Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories:Nobody has lived in it since the summer of 1879, and it is fast going to pieces. For some three years before the date mentioned above, it was occupied by the family of Charles May\n1905, Emanuel Swedenborg, chapter 19, in Heaven and Hell:That angels are men in the most complete form, and enjoy every sense, may be seen above (n. 73-77); and that the light in heaven is far brighter than the light in the world (n. 126-132)." }, { "mean": "Into or from heaven; in the sky. \nHe's in a better place now, floating free as the clouds above." }, { "mean": "In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream." }, { "mean": "Higher in rank, power, or position. \nHe appealed to the court above." }, { "mean": "(archaic) In addition." }, { "mean": "More in number." }, { "mean": "Above zero; above freezing. \nIt was a cold day at only 5 above." }, { "mean": "(biology) On the upper half or the dorsal surface of an animal.\nThe sparrow I saw was rufous above and off-white below." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Of heaven; heavenly." }, { "mean": "(by ellipsis) Being located higher on the same page or on a preceding page." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Heaven." }, { "mean": "Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page." }, { "mean": "Higher authority." }, { "mean": "(archaic) betterment, raised status or condition.\n1896, William Morris, The Well at the World's End:Withal they saw of him that he had no doubt but that they should come to their above on the morrow," } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Category:English phrasal verbs with particle (above)" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "전치사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }