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გამოთქმა: /bʌɪ/

წინდებული

Universal
  • 1identifying the agent performing an action:
  • after a passive verb:the door was opened by my cousin Annie damage caused by fire
  • after a noun denoting an action:a clear decision by the electorate years of hard fund-raising work by local people
  • identifying the author of a text, idea, or work of art:a book by Ernest Hemingway
  • 2 [often with verbal noun] indicating the means of achieving something:malaria can be controlled by attacking the parasite they substantiate their opinions by the use of precise textual reference they plan to provide further working capital by means of borrowing
  • indicating a term to which an interpretation is to be assigned:what is meant by ‘fair’?
  • indicating a name according to which a person is known:she mostly calls me by my last name
  • indicating the means of transport selected for a journey:the cost of travelling by bus I travelled to Folkestone by rail
  • indicating the other parent of someone’s child or children:Richard is his son by his third wife
  • indicating the sire of a pedigree animal, especially a horse:a black filly by Goldfuerst
  • (followed by a noun without a determiner) in various phrases indicating how something happens:I heard by chance that she has married again Anderson, by contrast, rejects this view she ate by candlelight
  • 3indicating the amount or size of a margin:the shot missed her by miles the raising of VAT by 2.5%
  • indicating a quantity or amount:billing is by the minute the drunken yobbos who turned up by the cartload
  • in phrases indicating something happening repeatedly or progressively, typically with repetition of a unit of time:colours changing minute by minute the risk becomes worse by the day
  • identifying a parameter:a breakdown of employment figures by age and occupation
  • expressing multiplication, especially in dimensions:a map measuring 400 by 600 mm she multiplied it by 89
  • 4indicating a deadline or the end of a particular time period:I’ve got to do this report by Monday by now Kelly needed extensive physiotherapy
  • 5indicating location of a physical object beside a place or object:remains were discovered by the roadside the pram was by the dresser
  • past and beyond:I drove by our house
  • 6indicating the period in which something happens:this animal always hunts by night
  • 7concerning; according to:anything you do is all right by me she had done her duty by him
  • 8used in mild oaths:it was the least he could do, by God I swear by Almighty God

ზმნისართი

Universal
  • so as to go past:a car flashed by on the other side of the road he let only a moment go by

არსებითი სახელი

Universal
  • variant spelling of bye1.

by and by

before long; eventually.

by the by (or bye)

incidentally:where’s Hector, by the by?

by and large

on the whole; everything considered:mammals have, by and large, bigger brains than reptiles
[originally in nautical use, describing the handling of a ship both to the wind and off it]

by oneself

  • 1alone:she lives in the apartment by herself
  • 2unaided:the patient often learns to undress by himself

by way of

see way.

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