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"it is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield" "he took his sword from his side" "light proceeds from the sun" "separate the coarse wool from the fine" "men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse" "the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds" "men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony"prepositionOut of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; the anitithesis and correlative of to;Opposite:
Definition that contains from
- out from one's possession
- off from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
- away from one's possession
- away from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
- better from a position of superiority or authority
- around from beginning to end; throughout
- best from a position of superiority or authority
- since From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object.
- since From a definite past time until now.
- outside from or between other countries