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More at off.", "A spelling of /əv/ influenced by Etymology 1.", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "o, o', a" } ] }, { "name": "Preposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Expressing distance or motion.", "submean": [ "(now obsolete or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), \"off\". \n", "(obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). \n", "From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). \nThere are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Expressing separation.", "submean": [ "Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object. \nFinally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.\n", "Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective. \nHe seemed devoid of human feelings.\n", "(obsolete) Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb. \n" ] }, { "mean": "Expressing origin.", "submean": [ "Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent. \nThe word is believed to be of Japanese origin.\n", "Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.\nJesus of Nazareth (after hometown)\nAnselm of Canterbury (after diocese)\nAnselm of Aosta (after birthplace)\nAnselm of Bec (after monastery)\nPedro II of Brazil (after dominion)\nMrs Miggins of Gasworks Road, Mudchester (after place of residence)", "Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of. \nThe invention was born of necessity.\n", "(following an intransitive verb) Indicates the source or cause of the verb. \nIt is said that she died of a broken heart.\n", "(following an adjective) Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective. \nI am tired of all this nonsense.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Expressing agency.", "submean": [ "(following a passive verb) Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by). \nI am not particularly enamoured of this idea.\n", "Used to introduce the \"subjective genitive\"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}} \nThe contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.\n", "(following an adjective) Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective. \nIt was very brave of you to speak out like that.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Expressing composition, substance.", "submean": [ "(after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) Used to indicate the material or substance used. \nMany 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.\n", "(directly following a noun) Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object. \nShe wore a dress of silk.\n", "Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun. \nWhat a lot of nonsense!\n", "Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class. \nWelcome to the historic town of Harwich.\n", "Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; \"which is also\". \nI'm not driving this wreck of a car.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Introducing subject matter.", "submean": [ "Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to. \nI'm always thinking of you.\n", "(following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning. \nHe told us the story of his journey to India.\n", "(following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter. \nThis behaviour is typical of teenagers.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Having partitive effect.", "submean": [ "(following a number or other quantitive word) Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; \"from among\". \nMost of these apples are rotten.\n", "(following a noun) Indicates a given part. \n", "(now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. \nOn the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.\n", "Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below). \nHe is a friend of mine.\n" ] }, { "mean": "Expressing possession.", "submean": [ "Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare \"origin\" senses, above.}} \nHe was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.\n", "Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. \nThe owner of the nightclub was arrested.\n", "Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the \"possessive genitive\". 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Or even open.’\n1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 340:\"You couldn't of known,\" Livio says." } ] }, { "name": "Symbol", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(stenoscript) Abbreviation of off, often" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "“of” inPaul Heacock , editors, Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, →ISBN; reproduced on the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, retrieved 21 July 2017." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "전치사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "기호.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }