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preposition

• 1indicating the point in space at which a journey, motion, or action starts:she began to walk away from him I leapt from my bed figurativehe was turning the committee away from appeasement
• indicating the distance between a particular place and another place used as a point of reference:the ambush occurred 50 yards from a checkpoint

• 2indicating the point in time at which a particular process, event, or activity starts:the show will run from 10 to 2

• 3indicating the source or provenance of someone or something:I’m from Hartford she phoned him from the hotel she demanded the keys from her husband
• indicating the date at which something was created:a document dating from the thirteenth century

• 4indicating the starting point of a specified range on a scale:men who ranged in age from seventeen to eighty-four
• indicating one extreme in a range of conceptual variations:anything from geography to literature

• 5indicating the point at which an observer is placed:you can see the island from here figurativethe ability to see things from another’s point of view

• 6indicating the raw material out of which something is manufactured:a varnish made from copal

• 7indicating separation or removal:the party was ousted from power after sixteen years

• 8indicating prevention:the story of how he was saved from death

• 9indicating a cause:a child suffering from asthma

• 10indicating a source of knowledge or the basis for one’s judgment:information obtained from papers, books, and presentations

• 11indicating a distinction:the courts view him in a different light from that of a manual worker