about meaning
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[əˈbaʊt] 
US Canada: British Columbia Canada: Ontario WAbout
- About may refer to: About.com, an online source for original information and advice. abOUT, an LGBT magazine About URI scheme, an internal URI scheme About box, displays information about a computer software
- Adjective
- Moving around; astir.
- out and about; up and about
- In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
- Normally active and capable.
- After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.
- Moving around; astir.
- Adverb
- Not distant; approximate.
- Why, then, I see, ‘tis time to look about, / When every boy Alphonsus dares control.
- And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
- about as cold; about as high
- In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
- On the move; active; astir.
- To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
- to face about; to turn one's self about
- OBS Preparing; planning.
- (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
- a mile about, and a third of a mile across
- (chiefly Canada, US) COL Going to; on the verge of; intending to.
- Not distant; approximate.
- Preposition
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
- Near; not far from; regarding approximately time, size, quantity.
- On the point or verge of.
- On one's person; nearby the person.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
- He knew more about what was occurring than anyone.
- (figuratively) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in possession of; in control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
- He has his wits about him.
- In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. [ …] Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In Scopie there are three Bulgarian schools; the two have about 60 scholars each, and the third, the largest of the three, has more than 100 scholars.
- I barely mentioned the band's name before he went off on one about how commercial the top forty is these days.
- I think we should feel out your mom's thoughts about this before we decide anything.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- About 20 percent of patients need to be retransplanted.
- About half of the genes encode sarcomeric proteins including α-cardiac actin, myosin heavy chain, troponin, tropomyosin, metavinculin, α-actinin and therefore overlap with those in HCM.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The sink is blocked, put a rod down the plug hole and shuggle it about.
- This is the heart of grassroot development – the funds get where they ought to be, in projects the people actually care about.
- That's the third party Brenda's been to this week. She certainly gets about.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Meaning of about for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "about" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also an adverb, more specifically, a degree adverb and an uncomparable adverb. It's also a preposition.- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Adverbs
- Degree adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Degree adverbs
- Prepositions
- Adjectives
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- fr about
- en about-face
- fr abouta
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