adverb |
1. On hand; nearby: Stand by. |
2. Aside; away: We put it by for later. |
3. Up to, alongside, and past: The car raced by. |
4. Into the past: as years go by. |
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idiom |
1. by oneself Without company; alone: went by herself. |
2. by oneself Without help: wrote the book by myself. |
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noun |
1. Variant of bye1. |
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preposition |
1. Close to; next to: the window by the door. |
2. With the use or help of; through: We came by the back road. |
3. Up to and beyond; past: We drove by the house. |
4. At or to: stopped by the bakery; came by the house. |
5. In the period of; during: sleeping by day. |
6. Not later than: by 5:30 P.M. |
7. In the amount of: letters by the thousands. |
8. To the extent of: shorter by two inches. |
9. According to: played by the rules. |
10. With respect to: siblings by blood. |
11. In the name of: swore by the Bible to tell the truth. |
12. Through the agency or action of: was killed by a bullet. |
13. Used to indicate a succession of specified individuals, groups, or quantities: One by one they left. They were persuaded little by little. |
14. Used in multiplication and division: Multiply 4 by 6 to get 24. |
15. Used with measurements: a room 12 by 18 feet. |
16. Toward. Used to express direction with points of the compass: south by east. |
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