What does from mean
What does from mean
what does «from before» mean here?
I get the meaning through context but what I have never read «from before» used in such a manner. Could you please help me understand what does it mean and how to use it in sentences?
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I have encountered from before throughout my life although I cannot find literary examples. For example: «I knew him from before the war» = «I knew him during some period that preceded the war».
This is how the phrase is used here. «A story of detention is a catalogue of things destroyed: not just years lost to captivity, but all of life’s labour from before» = «A story of detention is a catalogue of things destroyed: not just years lost to captivity, but all of life’s labour during the period that preceded captivity». In this case the terminal . captivity is implied by its previous mention, rather than explicit as in my . war example.
I don’t think this is standard usage, considering «from» is a preposition there and should be followed by a noun and and not an adverb. (I’m not fully clear on this point, though!)
As for the meaning of this part of the sentence, it is that whatever hardwork or toil one has done before one’s detention, it all goes down the drain.
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What does from = mean inside a javascript function?
I have the following call:
Can someone explain what the «from =» is doing here. I note that when I run JSHint then it tells me ‘from’ is not defined.
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Can someone explain what the «from =» is doing here.
It is assigning a value to a variable called from
I note that when I run JSHint then it tells me ‘from’ is not defined.
Without the var you create a global variable.
look’s like it’s just a variable here
It’s just a variable. from doesn’t mean anything special in JavaScript. It’s probably being declared with var from somewhere, if they’ve used proper coding practices. Try searching for that string.
If JSHint is complaining about it, it may not have been properly declared. You might want to rewrite that line as var from = a.split(‘ ‘); for best practice.
from is just the name of a variable, just like ukDatea and ukTimea in the code above. In JavaScript if you use a new variable name without using the keyword var before it, the variable becomes global, which is what JSHint is trying to tell you when it says that from is not defined.
It should either be defined somewhere else in the code (like var from ) or you need to add the var keyword before it right here, which will make the line look like this:
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What does “from your end” mean?
Did they come to you and immediately make you feel a relationship was being offered with the Russians that you’d like to develop? Or did you seek it from your end?
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In this context, the word ‘end’ is referring to one (of two) members in the communication: you and the Russians. The question is asking whether the Russians sought a relationship with you, or if you sought a relationship with the Russians.
It might be helpful to try replacing the word ‘end’ with ‘perspective’:
Or did you seek it from your perspective?
«From your end» means «on your part»
In English when someone says «from your end» they mean, from your side of the communication, referring to you communicating with the Russians in your specific example.
Before cell phones, there were land line phones and older communications that were not wireless but required wires to connect two people in conversations. Each wire «end» was at one person’s location.
So if you were to be on a land-line phone conversation with the Russians there would be two ends/sides to this connection, your end and their end of the communication.
The other side of an activity or transaction that responds.
I wrote so many letters to you, but got nothing in reply from your end.
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Definitions for From
frʌm, frɒm; unstressed frəm From
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word From.
Wiktionary (2.54 / 13 votes) Rate this definition:
With the source or provenance of or at.
With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
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 (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
Etymology: fram, Saxon and Scottish.
1. Away; noting privation.
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.
2. Noting reception.
What time would spare from steel receives its date. Alexander Pope.
3. Noting procession, descent, or birth.
The song began from Jove. Dryden.
Succeeding kings rise from the happy bed. Irene.
4. Noting transmission.
The messengers from our sister and the king. William Shakespeare.
5. Noting abstraction; vacation from.
6. With to following; noting succession.
7. Out of; noting emission.
8. Noting progress from premises to inferences.
9. Noting the place or person from whom a message is brought.
10. Out of: noting extraction.
11. Because of. Noting the reason or motive of an act or effect.
You are good, but from a nobler cause;
From your own knowledge, not from nature’s laws. Dryden.
We sicken soon from her contagious care;
Grieve for her sorrows, groan for her despair. Matthew Prior.
12. Out of. Noting the ground or cause of any thing.
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.
13. Not near to. Noting distance.
14. Noting separation or recession.
15. Noting exemption or deliverance.
From jealousy’s tormenting strife,
For ever be thy bosom free. Matthew Prior.
16. At a distance. Noting absence.
17. Noting derivation.
18. Since. Noting distance from the past.
The milk of tygers was his infant food,
Taught from his tender years the taste of blood. Dryden.
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.
20. Noting removal.
21. From is very frequently joined by an ellipsis with adverbs: as, from above, from the parts above; from below, from the places below; of which some are here exemplified. 22. From above.
24. From beneath.
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.
Then heav’n’s imperious queen shot down from high. Dryd.
28. From thence. Here from is superfluous.
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.
29. From whence. From is here superfluous.
31. From without.
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.
32. From is sometimes followed by another preposition, with its proper case. 33. From amidst.
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.
35. From beneath.
There followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from beyond Jordan. Mat. iv. 25.
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.
And join thy voice unto the angel-quire,
From out his secret altar touch’d with hallow’d fire. John Milton.
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.
Webster Dictionary (3.00 / 14 votes) Rate this definition:
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.]
Freebase (2.50 / 4 votes) Rate this definition:
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 (3.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:
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 (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
To indicate a point, location, value or amount.
It was 50km to the office and another 50km from the office to their house.
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British National Corpus
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
what does this word mean
1 что
что э́то (тако́е)? — what is this?
что зна́чит э́то сло́во? — what does this word mean?
он не зна́ет, что э́то зна́чит — he does not know what this means
что (вы сказа́ли)? — what did you say?
что е́сли он не придёт? — what if he does not come?
что де́лать? — what is to be done?
для чего́ э́то употребля́ется / слу́жит? — what is it (used) for?
что он из себя́ представля́ет? — what kind of person is he?
он пришёл по́здно, что бы́ло необы́чно — he came late, which was unusual
(та) кни́га, что на столе́ — the book that / which is on the table
(та) кни́га, что он дал ей — the book (that) he gave her
э́то всё, что там напи́сано — that is all that is written there
всё, что он знал — all he knew
э́то та са́мая кни́га, что он дал ей — this is the very book he gave her
да́йте ему́ не э́то письмо́, а то, что она́ принесла́ вчера́ — don’t give him this letter, but the one she brought yesterday
е́сли что случи́тся — if anything happens
что. что (одно. другое) — this. that; some. other
что оста́вил, что взял с собо́й — this [some things] he left, that [other things] he took with him
что вы! (нет, не верно) — no!, by no means!, far from it!
что до — as for; with regard to, concerning
что до него́, он согла́сен — as to / for him, he agrees
что до меня́ — as for me; as far as I am concerned
что ему́ до э́того — what does he care for / about it; what does it matter to him
что ж, он сде́лает э́то сам — well [all right], he will do it himself
что ж(е) из э́того?, ну и что ж(е)? — well, what of that?; so what does it mean?
(ну и) что ж(е), что. — what does it matter if.
ну и что ж, что он не умён — what does it matter if he is not too bright
что за, что. за разг. (при вопросе: какой) — what; (какого рода и т.п.) what kind / sort of; ( при восклицании) what (+ a, an, если данное слово может употребляться с неопределённым артиклем)
что за кни́ги там?, что там за кни́ги? — what books are those?
что э́то за де́рево? — what kind of tree is it?
что и говори́ть вводн. сл. разг. — there is no denying; it has to be admitted; let’s face it
что к чему́ — what is what
не понима́ть, что к чему́ — not know what is what
знать, что к чему́ — know the how and why of things; know a thing or two
что ли разг. — perhaps, may be
оста́вить э́то здесь, что ли? — shall I perhaps leave it here?
что ни день, пого́да меня́ется — the weather changes every day
что он ни ска́жет, интере́сно — whatever he says is interesting
что бы ни случи́лось — whatever happens
что по́льзы / про́ку / то́лку разг. — what is the use / sense
что с ва́ми? — what is the matter with you?
что тут тако́го? — what’s wrong with that?
в чём де́ло?, что случи́лось? — what is the matter?
не что ино́е как — nothing other than, nothing less than, nothing short of
ни за что — 1) (тж. ни за что на све́те; ни в коем случае) not for anything in the world 2) ( напрасно) for nothing at all
оста́ться ни при чём — get nothing for one’s pains
с чего́ бы э́то вдруг? — what’s the cause?, now, why?
то, что — what
он по́мнит то, что она́ сказа́ла — he remembers what she said
э́то не то, что он ду́мал — it is not what he thought
э́то не то, чего́ он ожида́л — it is not what he expected
уйти́ ни с чем — go away empty-handed; get nothing for one’s pains
чего́ бы. не — what. wouldn’t
чего́ бы он не дал за э́то! — what wouldn’t he give for that!
чего́ до́брого разг. — may. for all I know
он чего́ до́брого опозда́ет — he may be late for all I know
чего́ там разгова́ривать — what is the use of talking
чего́ то́лько. не — what. not
чего́ то́лько он не ви́дел! — what hasn’t he seen!, the things he has seen!; there’s precious [‘pre-] little he hasn’t seen!
он сказа́л, что она́ придёт — he said (that) she would come
э́то так про́сто, что ка́ждый поймёт — it is so simple that anybody can understand it
э́то тако́е тру́дное сло́во, что он не мо́жет его́ запо́мнить — it is such a difficult word that he cannot remember it
то, что — (the fact) that
то, что он э́то сде́лал, их удиви́ло — (the fact) that he did it surprised them
он узна́л о том, что она́ уе́хала — he learnt that she had left
они́ узна́ли [ду́мали, вообража́ли, предполага́ли], что он у́мный челове́к — they knew [thought, imagined, supposed] him to be a clever man
они́ ожида́ли, что он придёт — they expected him to come
что. что (как. так и) — whether. or
потому́. что — см. потому I
что ты не ложи́шься спать? — why aren’t you going to bed?
что же ты молча́ла? — why didn’t you say anything?
2 что
он не знает, что это значит — he does not know what this means
он пришел поздно, что не было обычно — he came late, which was not usual
та книга, что на столе — the book that is on the table
(та) книга, что он дал ей — the book that he gave her; the book he gave her
это все, что там написано — that is all that is written there
все, что он знал — all he knew
дайте ему не это письмо, а то, что она принесла вчера — do not give him this letter, but the one she brought yesterday
к чему — what for, what’s the use of
не за что — don’t mention it, no problem
не к чему — there is no sense/point in doing
не что иное как — nothing but, nothing else than, nothing more nor less than
ни к чему — разг. it is of no use to smb.; there is no need to do smth.
что к чему — what’s what, what it’s all about
что ли — разг. perhaps, maybe, or something
А мне-то что? — what’s it to me, what do I care?
вот что — now, look here
к чему бы это — разг. what could that mean
ни за что на свете — not for anything, not for all the world
уйти ни с чем — to go away empty-handed, to go away having achieved nothing; to get nothing for one’s pains
что ни слово, то ложь — every word is a lie
то, что — (the fact) that
он сказал, что она придет — he said (that) she would come
это так просто, что каждый поймет — it is so simple that anybody can understand it
это такое трудное слово, что он не может его запомнить — it is such a difficult word that he cannot remember it
то, что он это сделал, их удивило — (the fact) that he did it surprised them
он узнал о том, что она уехала — he learnt that she had left
они думали, что он умный человек — they thought him to be a clever man
они ожидали, что он придет — they expected him to come
3 что
он не знает, что это значит — he does not know what this means
для чего это употребляется, служит? — what is that used for?
он пришёл поздно, что не было обычно — he came late, which was not usual
(та) книга, что на столе — the book that is on the table
(та) книга, что он дал ей — the book that he gave her; the book he gave her
это всё, что там написано — that is all that is written there
всё, что он знал — all he knew
тот самый. что — the same. that
это та самая книга, что он дал ей — this is the very book that he gave her
дайте ему не это письмо, а то, что она принесла вчера — do not give him this letter, but the one she brought yesterday
то, что — what
он помнит то, что она сказала — he remembers what she said
это не то, что он думал — it is not what he thought
это не то, чего он ожидал — it is not what he expected
что. что ( одно. другое ) — this. that:
что оставил, что взял с собой — this he left, that he took with him
что за, что. за разг. — ( при вопросе: какой ) what; ( какого рода и т. п. ) what kind / sort of; ( при восклицании ) what (+ a , an , если данное слово может употребляться с неопред. артиклем )
что за книги там?, что там за книги? — what are those books over there?
♢ что до — with regard to, concerning
что до него, он согласен — as to / for him, he agrees
что до меня. — as far as I am concerned.
что ж, он сделает это см — why, he will do it himself
ну и что ж(е)? — well, what of that?
оставить это здесь, что ли? — perhaps leave it here; leave* it here, eh?
что ни день, погода меняется — the weather changes every day
что он ни скажет, интересно — whatever he says is interesting
что пользы, что толку разг. — what is the use / sense
не что иное как — nothing other than, nothing less than, nothing short of
это ему хоть бы что — that is nothing to him; he thinks nothing of that
чего бы не — what:
чего только не — what. not:
чего только он не видел! — what hasn’t he seen!, the things he has seen!
в чём дело?, что случилось? — what is the matter?
с чего бы это вдруг? — what’s the cause?, now, why?
что и говорить разг. — there is no denying, it cannot be denied
не понимать, что к чему — not know* what is what
знать, что к чему — know* the how and why of things
уйти ни с чем — go* away empty-handed, или having achieved nothing; get* nothing for one’s pains
он сказал, что она придёт — he said (that) she would come
это так просто, что каждый поймёт — it is so simple that anybody can understand it
это такое трудное слово, что он не может его запомнить — it is such a difficult word that he cannot remember it
то, что — (the fact) that
то, что он это сделал, их удивило — (the fact) that he did it surprised them
он узнал о том, что она уехала — he learnt that she had left
они ожидали, что он придёт — they expected him to come
потому. что см. потому I
4 означать
что означа́ет э́то сло́во? — what does this word mean?
5 Что означает это слово?
6 значить
что э́то зна́чит? — what does it mean?, what’s all this about?
что зна́чит э́то сло́во? — what’s the meaning of this word?
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