{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "baɪ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/by.ogg" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.\nCognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Preposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Near or next to.\nThe mailbox is by the bus stop." }, { "mean": "From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.\nThe stream runs by our back door.\nHe ran straight by me." }, { "mean": "Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).\nBe back by ten o'clock!.\nWe'll find someone by the end of March.\nWe will send it by the first week of July." }, { "mean": "Indicates the person or thing that does or causes something: Through the action or presence of.", "submean": [ "Following a passive verb.\nThe matter was decided by the chairman.\nThe boat was swamped by the water.\nHe was protected by his body armour.\n2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez.", "Following a noun.\nThere was a call by the unions for a 30% pay rise.", "(not in common modern use) Following an adjective.\nI was aghast by what I saw.\n1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.109:\nIn other directions the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred ." ] }, { "mean": "Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.\nThere are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare" }, { "mean": "Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.\nI avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.\nBy Pythagoras' theorem, we can calculate the length of the hippopotamus.\nWe went by bus.\nI discovered it by chance.\nBy 'maybe' she means 'no'.\nThe electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.\n1909, Archibald Marshall , chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:\n\"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make,\" said Jim, \"but I was at Winchester and New College.\" ¶ \"That will do,\" said Mackenzie. \"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. \"\n1945, Neva L. Boyd, Handbook of Recreational Games, Dover, published 1975, →ISBN, page 16:Players: Can we get there by candlelight? ¶ Gatekeepers: Yes and back again.\n1960, Dr. Seuss, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish\nBy the light of the moon, / by the light of a star / they walked all night" }, { "mean": "Indicates an authority according to which something is done.\nBy the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.", "submean": [ "Invokes an authority in an oath.\nBy Jove! I think she's got it!\nBy all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.\nc. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong\n1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:'By my soul! I believe something bad has happened me,' he muttered, and popped up his window, and looked out, half dreaming over the church-yard on the park beyond " ] }, { "mean": "Indicates a means of classification or organisation.\nI sorted the items by category.\nTable 1 shows details of our employees broken down by sex and age." }, { "mean": "Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy\nOur stock is up by ten percent.\nHis date of birth was wrong by ten years." }, { "mean": "In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.\nWe went through the book page by page.\nWe crawled forward by inches." }, { "mean": "(with the) Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)\nsold by the yard; cheaper if bought by the gross\nHe drinks brandy by the bucketful!" }, { "mean": "per; with or in proportion to each.\nHis health was deteriorating by the day.\nThe pickers are paid by the bushel." }, { "mean": "Indicates a referenced source: According to.\nHe cheated by his own admission.\nBy my reckoning, we should be nearly there.\n1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated‎, page 81:Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are." }, { "mean": "Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.\nIt is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.\nThe room was about 4 foot by 6 foot.\nThe bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm." }, { "mean": "(horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.\nShe's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress." }, { "mean": "(chiefly Yeshivish) At, with, among\nAre you eating by Rabbi Fischer? (at the house of)\nBy Chabad, it's different. 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Come by before you leave." }, { "mean": "Aside, away.\nThe women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Out of the way, off to one side.\na by path, a by room" }, { "mean": "Subsidiary, incidental.\nby catch, a by issue" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Alternative form of bye." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Alternative spelling of bye." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "전치사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "인터젝션", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }