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adverb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adverb
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
lasted approximately an hour
Sense 2 adverb
all around or on all sides
dirty clothes lying around (or about)
Sense 3 adverb
in the area or vicinity
a few spectators standing about
Sense 4 adverb
used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
wandering about with no place to go
Sense 5 adverb
in or to a reversed position or direction
about face
Sense 6 adverb
in rotation or succession
turn about is fair play
Sense 7 adverb
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
the job is (just) about done
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