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by
Preposition
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near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
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at some time before (the given time).
Be back by ten o'clock!
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if something is done by somebody, it is done through their action
The matter was decided by the chairman.
The boat was swamped by the water.
He was protected by his body armour.
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if something is created by somebody, they are the creator, author, etc.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare.
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shows how someone does something
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
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using the rules or logic of.
I sorted the items by category.
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with a change of. In this case, by shows how much something has changed.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
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shows how slowly, or how quickly, someone does something (used in the form "X by X" or "by Xs")
We went through the book page by page.
We crawled forward by inches.
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If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you multiply mathx/math × mathy/math.
Five multiplied by seven is 35.
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If you divide mathx/math by mathy/math, you find how many mathy/maths are in mathx/math.
35 divided by seven is five.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
breast
Noun
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A woman's breasts are the two soft round parts on her chest.
She learned that the cancer in her breast had spread to her leg.
Some mothers start to lose their breast milk two or three months after a child is born.
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Your breast is the area between your neck and your belly.
A warm feeling spread in his breast as she stepped closer.
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Breast is bird meat that comes from the front of the bird
Skinless, boneless chicken breasts have very little flavour when grilled.
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A bird's breast is the front of its body below its head.
The Robin is a plump bird with bright orange-red breast.
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The breast of a jacket or shirt is the part that goes over your breast.
My father pulled a cigarette from his breast pocket.
breast
Verb
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If you breast a hill, mountain, etc., you come to the top of it.
He breasted the hill and saw the town in front of him.