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Definition & Synonyms
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• By
- (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
- (pref.) Against.
- (adv.) Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
- (pref.) With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.
- (pref.) On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
- (pref.) Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.
- (adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.
- (adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.
- (pref.) Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.
- (pref.) In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
Synonyms:
Aside, Away, Bye, Past, Side,
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• Byss
- (n.) See Byssus, n., 1.
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• Byssiferous
- (a.) Bearing a byssus or tuft.
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• Bysmottered
- (p.a.) Bespotted with mud or dirt.
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• Byssolite
- (n.) An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.
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• Bystander
- (n.) One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
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• Byssin
- (n.) See Byssus, n., 1.
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• Byssoid
- (a.) Byssaceous.
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• Byssi
- (pl. ) of Byssus
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• Byssuses
- (pl. ) of Byssus
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Launched, Splend, Housing, Sway, Deserve, Meaning, Flourished, Keno, Hobble, Signatures, Menace, Cerebral Palsy, Signatures, Accord, Kennelly, Heaviside Layer, Ambients, Society, Mumps, Hoaring, Elapse, Excommunicable, Appears, Dominant, Justify, Accord, Housing, Hoarded, Asleep, H, Tomb, Society, Lorry, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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