What does from mean?
Definitions for from
frʌm, frɒm; unstressed frəmfrom
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Wiktionary
frompreposition
With the source or provenance of or at.
frompreposition
With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
frompreposition
With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
Etymology: From Germanic. Cognate with Old High German fruma (German fromm), Middle Dutch vrōme (Dutch vroom), Old Norse framr.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fromprep.
Etymology: fram, Saxon and Scottish.
Your slighting Zulema, this very hour
Will take ten thousand subjects from your power. Dryden.In fetters one the barking porter ty’d,
And took him trembling from his sov’reign’s side. Dryden.Clarissa drew, with tempting grace,
A two-edg’d weapon from the shining case. Alexander Pope.What time would spare from steel receives its date. Alexander Pope.
Thus the hard and stubborn race of man
From animated rock and flint began. Richard Blackmore, Creation.The song began from Jove. Dryden.
Succeeding kings rise from the happy bed. Irene.
The messengers from our sister and the king. William Shakespeare.
I shall find time
From this enormous state, and seek to give
Losses their remedies. William Shakespeare, King Lear.These motions we must examine from first to last, to find out what was the form of the earth. Thomas Burnet, Theo. of the Earth.
He bid her from time to time be comforted. Joseph Addison, Spectat.
When the most high
Eternal Father, from his secret cloud
Amidst, in thunder utter’d thus his voice. John Milton, Par. Lost.Then pierc’d with pain, she shook her haughty head,
Sigh’d from her inward soul, and thus she said. John Dryden, Æn.If an objection be not removed, the conclusion of experience from the time past to the time present will not be sound and perfect. Francis Bacon, War with Spain.
This is evident from that high and refined morality, which shined forth in some of the ancient heathens. Robert South, Sermons.
The king is coming, and I must speak with him from the bridge. ———— How now, Fluellen, cam’st thou from the bridge? William Shakespeare, Henry V.
From high Meonia’s rocky shores I came,
Of poor descent; Acætes is my name. Joseph Addison, Ovid. Met.You are good, but from a nobler cause;
From your own knowledge, not from nature’s laws. Dryden.David celebrates the glory of God from the consideration of the greatness of his works. John Tillotson, Sermon 4.
We sicken soon from her contagious care;
Grieve for her sorrows, groan for her despair. Matthew Prior.Relaxations from plenitude is cured by spare diet, and from any cause by that which is contrary to it. John Arbuthnot, on Alim.
They who believe that the praises which arise from valour are superiour to those which proceed from any other virtues, have not considered. John Dryden, Virg. Æn. Dedication.
What entertainment can be raised from so pitiful a machine? We see the success of the battle from the very beginning. Dryd.
’Tis true from force the strongest titles spring. Dryden.
His regiment lies half a mile at least
South from the mighty power of the king. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.To die by thee, were but to die in jest;
From thee to die, were torture more than death. William Shakespeare, H. VI.By the sacred radiance of the sun,
The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;
By all the operations of the orbs,
From whom we do exist, and cease to be,
Here I disclaim all my paternal care. William Shakespeare, King Lear.Hast thou beheld, when from the goal they start,
The youthful charioteers, with heaving heart,
Rush to the race, and, panting, scarcely bear
Th’ extremes of feverish hope and chilling fear. John Dryden, Virg.From jealousy’s tormenting strife,
For ever be thy bosom free. Matthew Prior.Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
Of diff’rences, which I best thought it fit
To answer from our home. William Shakespeare, King Lear.I lay the deep foundations of a wall,
And Enos, nam’d from me, the city call. John Dryden, Æn.The flood was not the cause of mountains, but there were mountains from the creation. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.
I had, from my childhood, a wart upon one of my fingers. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 997.
The other had been trained up from his youth in the war of Flanders. Edward Hyde, b. viii.
The milk of tygers was his infant food,
Taught from his tender years the taste of blood. Dryden.Were there, from all eternity, no memorable actions done ’till about that time? John Tillotson, Sermon 1.
Any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirrour up to nature. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Do not believe,
That from the sense of all civility,
I thus would play and trifle with your reverence. William Shakespeare.Did you draw bonds to forfeit? Sign, to break?
Or must we read you quite from what we speak,
And find the truth out the wrong way? John Donne.Thrice from the ground she leap’d. John Dryden, Æn. b. ii.
He, which gave them from above such power, for miraculous confirmation of that which they taught, endued them also with wisdom from above, to teach that which they so did confirm. Richard Hooker, b. iii. s. 8.
No sooner were his eyes in slumber bound,
When, from above, a more than mortal sound
Invades his ears. John Dryden, Æn. b. viii.Light demilances from afar they throw. John Dryden, Æn.
With whirlwinds from beneath she toss’d the ship,
And bare expos’d the bosom of the deep. John Dryden, Virgil.An arm arises of the Stygian flood,
Which, breaking from beneath with bellowing sound,
Whirls the black waves and rattling stones around. Dryden.See, to their base restor’d, earth, seas, and air,
And joyful ages from behind, in crowding ranks appear. Dry.The train, proceeding on their way,
From far the town and lofty tow’rs survey. John Dryden, Æn.Then heav’n’s imperious queen shot down from high. Dryd.
In the necessary differences which arise from thence, they rather break into several divisions than join in any one publick interest; and from hence have always risen the most dangerous factions, which have ruined the peace of nations. Edward Hyde.
While future realms his wand’ring thoughts delight,
His daily vision, and his dream by night,
Forbidden Thebes appears before his eye,
From whence he sees his absent brother fly. Alexander Pope, Statius.From where high Ithaca o’erlooks the floods,
Brown with o’er-arching shades and pendent woods,
Us to these shores our filial duty draws. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.When the plantation grows to strength, then it is time to plant it with women as well as with men, that it may spread into generations, and not be pieced from without. Francis Bacon.
If native power prevail not, shall I doubt
To seek for needful succour from without. John Dryden, Æn.Thou too shalt fall by time or barb’rous foes,
Whose circling walls the sev’n fam’d hills enclose;
And thou, whose rival tow’rs invade the skies,
And, from amidst the waves, with equal glory rise. Addison.Here had new begun
My wand’ring, had not he, who was my guide
Up hither, from among the trees appear’d,
Presence divine! John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. viii.My worthy wife our arms mislaid,
And from beneath my head my sword convey’d. John Dryden, Æn.There followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from beyond Jordan. Mat. iv. 25.
Young Aretus, from forth his bridal bow’r,
Brought the full laver o’er their hands to pour,
And canisters of consecrated flour. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.The sea being constrained to withdraw from off certain tracts of lands, which lay ’till then at the bottom of it. John Woodward.
Knights, unhors’d, may rise from off the plain,
And fight on foot, their honour to regain. Dryden.The king with angry threatnings from out a window, where he was not ashamed the world should behold him a beholder, commanded his guard and the rest of his soldiers to hasten their death. Philip Sidney, b. ii.
And join thy voice unto the angel-quire,
From out his secret altar touch’d with hallow’d fire. John Milton.Now shake, from out thy fruitful breast, the seeds
Of envy, discord, and of cruel deeds. John Dryden, Æn. b. vii.Strong god of arms, whose iron sceptre sways
The freezing North and hyperborean seas,
Terror is thine; and wild amazement, flung
From out thy chariot, withers ev’n the strong. Dryden.Whatsoever such principle there is, it was at the first sound out by discourse, and drawn from out of the very bowels of heaven and earth. Richard Hooker, b. i. s. 8.
He, though blind of sight,
Despis’d, and thought extinguish’d quite,
With inward eyes illuminated,
His fiery virtue rous’d
From under ashes into sudden flame. John Milton, Agonistes.From within
The broken bowels, and the bloated skin,
A buzzing noise of bees his ears alarms. John Dryden, Virg. Geor.
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from
From can be defined as a preposition used to indicate the point of origin, starting point, or source of something. It is commonly used to describe the origin of an action, the starting point of a movement or journey, or the source of a particular information or material.
From
From is a preposition indicating the point of origin, starting point, or source of something. It is used to denote the place, position, or time from which an action or movement originates.
Webster Dictionary
From
out 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 aritithesis and correlative of to; as, 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
Etymology: [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. 202. Cf. Fro, Foremost.]
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From
The SQL From clause is the source of a rowset to be operated upon in a Data Manipulation Language statement. From clauses are very common, and will provide the rowset to be exposed through a Select statement, the source of values in an Update statement, and the target rows to be deleted in a Delete statement. FROM is an SQL reserved word in the SQL standard The FROM clause is used in conjunction with SQL statements, and takes the following general form: The From clause can generally be anything that returns a rowset, a table, view, function, or system-provided information like the Information Schema, which is typically running proprietary commands and returning the information in a table form.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
From
from, prep. forth: out of, as from a source: away: at a distance: springing out of: by reason of. [A.S. fram, from; akin to Goth. fram, Ice. frá.]
Editors Contribution
from
To indicate a point, location, value or amount.
It was 50km to the office and another 50km from the office to their house.
Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2020
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FROM
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, From is ranked #47791 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The From surname appeared 443 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname From.
91.8% or 407 total occurrences were White.
6% or 27 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'from' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #29
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'from' in Written Corpus Frequency: #81
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of from in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of from in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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