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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
Barbara Deming

Meaning of "by" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BY

Old English bī; related to Gothic bi, Old High German bī, Sanskrit abhi to, towards.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BY

by  [baɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
By can act as a noun, an adverb and a preposition.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

The preposition is an invariable grammatical category, that has no meaning itself and which serves to link or relate terms.

WHAT DOES BY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

By

By or BY may refer to: ▪ Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament ▪ CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license ▪ Budget Year, a synonym for Fiscal Year ▪ By, Doubs, a commune in the Doubs département of France ▪ By, Norway, a village in the municipality of Åfjord, Norway ▪ Bavaria's official abbreviation ▪ Burundi's FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram country code ▪ Belarus's ISO country code ▪.by, the ccTLD for Belarus ▪ Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic's ISO country code ▪ Thomsonfly's IATA airline code...

Definition of by in the English dictionary

The first definition of by in the dictionary is used to indicate the agent after a passive verb. Other definition of by is used to indicate the person responsible for a creative work. By is also via; through.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BY

bx
by a long chalk
by a long shot
by acclamation
by all manner of means
by all means
by and by
by and large
by chance
by default
by degrees
by dint of
by ear
by easy stages
by far
by fits and starts
by half
by halves
by hand
by heart

Synonyms and antonyms of by in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «by» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of by

Translation of «by» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BY

Find out the translation of by to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of by from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «by» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

在...旁边
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

por
570 millions of speakers

English

by
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بِواسِطَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

силами
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

por
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দ্বারা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

par
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oleh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

・・・によって
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

...곁에서
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dening
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bởi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

द्वारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tarafından
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

da
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przez
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

з
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ved
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of by

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BY»

The term «by» is very widely used and occupies the 35 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «by» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «by» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about by

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10 QUOTES WITH «BY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word by.
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Barbara de Angelis
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
3
Hassanal Bolkiah
With faith and gratitude to Allah the almighty, I declare that tomorrow, Thursday May 1, 2014, will see the enforcement of sharia law phase one, to be followed by the other phases.
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Robert Collier
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
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Sloane Crosley
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
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Barbara Deming
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
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Emma Donoghue
I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
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Kimberly Elise
Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.
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Frederick William Faber
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
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James Fenton
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BY»

Discover the use of by in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to by and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bitten
From the Paperback edition.
Kelley Armstrong, 2009
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Bitten: A Novel (Otherworld Book 1)
Thrown into a desperate war for survival that tests her allegiance to a secret clan of werewolves, Elena must recon with who, and what, she is in this passionate, page-turning novel that begins the Women of the Otherworld series.
Kelley Armstrong, 2004
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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the ...
Insightful. Practical. Ready-to-implement solutions. If you lead people, you can’t afford to miss this book.
Patrick M. Lencioni, 2010
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You Learn by Living
Roosevelt wrote You Learn by Living at the age of seventy-six, just two years before her death. The commonsense ideas'¿¿and heartfelt ideals'¿¿presented in this volume are as relevant today as they were five decades ago.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1960
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SOUL BY SOUL
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade.
Walter JOHNSON, 2009
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Death by Government
This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide.
R. J. Rummel, 2011
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Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain
What's going on here? It's the collision of documentary filmmaking and intellectual property law, and it's the inspiration for this new comic book.
Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins, 2006
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Metaphors We Live By
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how ...
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, 2008
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Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the ...
Glasbeek is known by generations of students for his brilliant, funny lectures at Osgoode Hall Law School. With Wealth by Stealth his informative critique of corporate behaviour becomes available and accessible to all.
H. J. Glasbeek, 2002
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Evolutionary Design by Computers
This book explores related sub-areas of Evolutionary Design, including: * design optimization * creative design * the creation of art * artificial life.
Peter Bentley, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term by is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cricketer dies after being hit by ball in the chest
Bavalan Pathmanathan was fatally injured by a cricket ball to the chest during a cricket match on Sunday 5 June. Photograph: National Pictures. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Injured Winnipeg lawyer Maria Mitousis undeterred by bombing
The Winnipeg lawyer seriously injured by a package-bomb explosion on Friday says the incident hasn't weakened her desire to practice law, ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
3
Iran nuclear talks extended by three days
Nuclear talks in Vienna have been extended by three more days amid disagreements between Russia and the west over lifting an arms ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Teacher who quit in 'sex scandal' hired by clueless high school
“We had no idea of these allegations when Mr. Cain was hired by NJASCS, or at any time since then until we read the recent press reports,” he ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
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Jeremy Prescott: Duke of Edinburgh volunteer killed by lightning is …
A dad-of-two using his spare time to lead a Duke of Edinburgh scheme was one of two men killed by lightning on the Brecon Beacons, it has ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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78-year-old driver in fatal Bayonne Wendy's crash sued by victim's …
19, a BMW sports utility vehicle driven by Garcia smashed into the front entrance of the building and rammed into Ruiu, 89, of Bayonne, police ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
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Jill Scott on Bill Cosby: 'I Stood by a Man I Respected and Loved. I …
Last year, singer Jill Scott publicly defended Bill Cosby despite allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted multiple women. «TIME, Jul 15»
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James Bond due back as 'brutal, damaged' spy in comic by Warren …
With artwork by Jason Masters, who has worked on Batman ... The last James Bond comics were published in 1995, by Dark Horse, and in ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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The BBC licence fee deal is a drive-by shooting
Secretary of state Jeremy Hunt – burned by his handling of the Murdoch attempt during phone-hacking to buy BSkyB – is now responsible for ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Russell Brand confronted by friend of Tunisia victims
Russell Brand was forced to defend his position on the one minute's silence for the victims of the Tunisia beach massacre by a man who lost ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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