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About   /əbˈaʊt/   Listen
preposition
About  prep.  
1.
Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." "Bind them about thy neck."
2.
In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you?"
3.
Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. "Lampoons... were handed about the coffeehouses." "Roving still about the world."
4.
Near; not far from; determining approximately time, size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." "About my stature." "He went out about the third hour." Note: This use passes into the adverbial sense.
5.
In concern with; engaged in; intent on. "I must be about my Father's business."
6.
Before a verbal noun or an infinitive: On the point or verge of; going; in act of. "Paul was now aboutto open his mouth."
7.
Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." "She must have her way about Sarah."


adverb
About  adv.  
1.
On all sides; around. "'Tis time to look about."
2.
In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
3.
Here and there; around; in one place and another. "Wandering about from house to house."
4.
Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; also of quantity, number, time. "There fell... about three thousand men."
5.
To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.
To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish.
To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come.
To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels?"
Round about, in every direction around.





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... sidled. 'Well, I'm sure now!' said she. 'Here's a start, Mr. Tudor; to be brought downstairs at this time of night; and I'm sure I don't know what it's about'; and then she shook her curls, and twitched her dress, and made as though she were going to pass through the room to her accustomed place ...
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... has been told. The fifth son, Prince Danyal, described as tall, well-built, good-looking, fond of horses and elephants, and clever in composing Hindustani poems, was addicted to the same vice as his brother Murad, and died about this time from the same cause. His death was a great blow to Akbar, who had done all in his power to wean his son from his excesses, and had even obtained a promise that he would renounce them. ...
— Rulers of India: Akbar • George Bruce Malleson
... modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
... power to help themselves, the free people of color organized a society which in 1804 opened a school with John Trumbull as teacher.[1] About the same time the African Episcopalians founded a colored school at their church.[2] A colored man gave three hundred pounds of the required funds to build the first colored schoolhouse in Philadelphia.[3] In 1830 one fourth of the ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson
... they discharge their functions; the other, the inferior, is called the plebeian aedileship. When they have chosen the higher aediles, they then take the vote again for the election of the others. Now as Marius was manifestly losing in the votes for the curule aedileship, he forthwith changed about and became a candidate for the other aedileship. But this was viewed as an audacious and arrogant attempt, and he failed in his election; but though he thus met with two repulses in one day, which never happened ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long


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