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from

  [fruhm, from; unstressed fruhm]
Use from in a Sentence
–preposition
1. (used to specify a starting point in spatial movement): a train running west from Chicago.
2. (used to specify a starting point in an expression of limits): The number of stores will be increased from 25 to 30.
3. (used to express removal or separation, as in space, time, or order): two miles from shore; 30 minutes from now; from one page to the next.
4. (used to express discrimination or distinction): to be excluded from membership; to differ from one's father.
5. (used to indicate source or origin): to come from the Midwest; to take a pencil from one's pocket.
6. (used to indicate agent or instrumentality): death from starvation.
7. (used to indicate cause or reason): From the evidence, he must be guilty.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME; OE, var. of fram from (prep.), forward (adv.); c. Goth fram, ON frā (see fro ), fram (adv.)
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from   (frŭm, frŏm; frəm when unstressed)   
prep.  
    1. Used to indicate a specified place or time as a starting point: walked home from the station; from six o'clock on. See Usage Notes at escape, whence.
    2. Used to indicate a specified point as the first of two limits: from grades four to six.
  2. Used to indicate a source, cause, agent, or instrument: a note from the teacher; taking a book from the shelf.
  3. Used to indicate separation, removal, or exclusion: keep someone from making a mistake; liberation from bondage.
  4. Used to indicate differentiation: know right from wrong.
  5. Because of: faint from hunger.

[Middle English, from Old English fram, forward, from; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]
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From

From\, prep. [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.] 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.

Experience from the time past to the time present. --Bacon.

The song began from Jove. --Drpden.

From high M[ae]onia's rocky shores I came. --Addison.

If the wind blow any way from shore. --Shak.

Note: From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent with. "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." --Shak. From, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating the sentence. "There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan." --Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv.

Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. --Byron.
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Language Translation for : from
Spanish: de,
German: von,
Japanese: ～から
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from 
O.E. fram, originally "forward movement, advancement," evolving into sense of "movement away," from P.Gmc. *fr- (cf. Goth. fram "from, away," O.N. fra "from," fram "forward"), corresponding to PIE *pr- (see pro).
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FROM
  1. full range of motion
  2. full range of movement
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