of(2) (iou) and Rosenthal's vein (medicine)

of(2) (iou)

of preposition.

I. Of motion, direction, distance.
Indicating the thing, place, or direction from which something goes, comes, or is driven or moved, or from which action is directed: from, away from, out of; so as no longer to lie, rest, or lean on. obsolete exc. as OFF preposition 1 & following and closely connected to an adverb, as out of, (now only poet.) forth of, (now colloq. & dial.) off of. OE.
N. Watts She took the material off of the wall.
Orig., indicating a point of time (or stage of life, etc.) from which something begins or proceeds: from (now only in as of: see AS adverb etc.). Now (in of late, of recent years, of old, of yore, etc.), indicating a period during which something takes place or obtains: during, in the course of. OE.
Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona One that I brought up of a puppy. I. Murdoch Hugh's relations with his son..had unaccountably improved of late.
Indicating a situation, condition, or state into or out of which something moves: from, out of. OE-L16.
Indicating a point of departure in terms of which some position is defined. Now only following a point of the compass & in within a mile of, within an hour of, within an ace of, etc., wide of, (chiefly N. Amer.) back of, upwards of (a number or amount), etc. OE.
Country Life About 100 miles south of the western Pyrenees.
b. In expressing the time: from or before (a specified hour), to. N. Amer. & dial. E19.
L. Stewart 'What time is it now?' 'Quarter of six.' A. Beattie He told her it was ten of three in the morning.
II.
Indicating separation or removal of something from an owner or affected person or thing. After (chiefly trans.) verbs, adjectives, & (now rare) some verbal nouns and nouns of action. OE.
cure of, cleanse of, clear of, etc.; bring to bed of, deliver of (a child), empty of, lighten of, rid of, etc.; deprive of, divest of, drain of, rob of, strip of, etc.; recover of, etc.; whole of (a wound); free of, pure of, etc.; bare of, barren of, destitute of, devoid of, void of, etc.
III. Of origin or source.
Indicating a thing, place, or person from which or whom something originates, comes, or is acquired or sought. After certain verbs & verbal derivs., & after a noun (with a pple of such a verb implied or understood). OE.
borrow of, buy of, receive of, win of, etc.; take advantage of, take leave of, etc.; ask of, beg of, demand of, desire of, expect of, inquire of, request of, require of, etc.; learn of, hear of.
R. Burns Three noble chieftains, and all of his blood. Thackeray Of English parents, and of a good English family of clergymen, Swift was born in Dublin.
IV. Of the source or starting-point of action, emotion, etc.
Indicating the mental or non-material source or spring of action, emotion, etc., or the cause, reason, or ground of an action, occurrence, fact, feeling, etc.: out of, from, as an outcome, expression, or consequence of; because of, on account of. OE.
of one's own accord, of choice, of course, of necessity, of right, of one's own free will, etc.; die of, perish of, etc.; savour of, smell of, taste of, etc.; sick of, weary of, etc.; ashamed of, afraid of, fearful of, etc.; glad of, proud of, vain of, etc.
V. Indicating the agent or doer.
Introducing the agent after a passive verb (most frequently after pa. pples expressing a continued non-physical action): by. Now arch. & literary. OE.
Bible (AV): Acts 12:23 Hee was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost. E. A. Freeman Otho was not loved of his kinsfolk.
After a noun, indicating its doer, maker, or author. ME.
G. Grove A composition of Haydn's Dating about 1785. N. Frye The tremendous finales of Beethoven. I. Murdoch Which are the most important plays of Shakespeare?
Indicating the doer of something characterized by an adjective (alone or qualifying a noun) or a pa. pple qualified by an adverb. (Foll. by to do, (less frequently) that he, she, etc., did.) M16.
bad of, clever of, foolish of, good of, kind of, right of, rude of, silly of, stupid of, wrong of, etc.
F. W. Newman It was not a proud thing of Paul to say. L. Carroll It was most absurd of you to offer it! Listener It seems..niggling of Graham Hough to complain.
VI. Indicating means or instrument.
Indicating a thing by means of or with which something is done: with. obsolete exc. dial. OE.
Indicating a substance on which a person, animal, etc., lives or feeds, or a means of sustenance or livelihood: on. arch. LME.
VII.
Indicating the material or substance of which something is made or consists. After verbs, after a noun (connecting the material immediately with the thing). OE.
make a fool of, make much of, make the best of, etc.
J. D. Clark The knife or scraper..was also made of wood. L. Bruce Yea, brothers, I was of mortal flesh. V. S. Pritchett The headboard was of monumental walnut.
b. Indicating former condition from which a transformation has taken place into a specified condition. arch. OE.
Spenser Streight of beasts they comely men became.
Connecting two nouns of which the former denotes the class of which the latter is a particular example or of which the former is a connotative and the latter a denotative term. OE.
the city of Rome, the Isle of Wight, etc.
Connecting two nouns of which the former is a collective term, a classificatory word, a quantitative or numeral word, or the name of something having component parts, and the latter is the substance or elements of which this consists. ME.
Ld Macaulay A reward of five hundred pistoles. A. White Any sort of coercion..makes me feel like an animal in a trap.
Connecting two nouns in sense-apposition: in the form of; arch. in the person of, in respect of being, to be, for. ME.
Chesterfield Allowed to be the best scholar of a gentleman in England. Byron Juan was quite 'a broth of a boy'.
VIII.
Indicating the subject-matter of thought, feeling, or action: concerning, about, with regard to, in Reference to. After intrans. verbs & some trans. verbs and their objects, esp. of learning, knowing, thinking, and expressing thought, after adjectives, & arch. after nouns OE.
read of, think of, dream of, tell of, write of, etc.
D. Abse This Dr Aristotleeverybody has heard of him. W. Golding A junior saint of whom next to nothing is known.
IX.
Indicating things or a thing of which a part is expressed by the preceding words. Preceded by a word of number or quantity (which may be equal to the whole), by a noun denoting a class (also followed by the same noun in the pl., in intensive phrs., by a superl. or compar. or equivalent, & after the verb partake (formerly also part, participate). Also (literary) followed by an adjective used absol. OE.
W. Cowper The sagacious of mankind. Byron All that it had of holy he has hallowed. G. Greene There's a good many of us, ma'am. Day Lewis Thirty men of us here Came out to guard the star-lit village. A. Sampson The fellows..are supposed to be the cream of Oxford intellectuals. I. Murdoch They had read most of Scott, Jane Austen, Trollope, Dickens. H. Carpenter Edward Lear..was the youngest of twenty children. New Yorker Sixty-six thousand people, all of them intelligent-looking. Lancet A Scot of Scots, he was born in 1912. J. A. Dudgeon One of the earliest and most significant discoveries.
b. Without preceding partitive word: a portion of, one of, a member of, some of, some. arch. OE.
Keats As though of hemlock I had drunk. Browning Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us. J. D. Chambers The bread should be of the whitest and finest.
Followed by a possess.: orig. distinguishing the preceding word(s) from others of the same class possessed by the referent of the noun or pronoun, later indicating simple possession. ME.
Defoe This was..a false step of the..General's. A. White I wish I had something..to send you of my own. D. E. Westlake James Stewart put on that sheepskin-lined jacket of his.
X. Expr. possession and being possessed.
Belonging to (a place) as a native or resident, as situated, existing, or taking place there, as forming part of it, as deriving a title from it, etc. OE.
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the King of Spain, the President of the United States, the Queen of England, etc.
T. Hardy They were all young fellows of..the neighbourhood. W. S. Maugham The sight of the..houses of Calais filled him with elation.
Related to (a thing or person) as ruler, superior, possessor, holder of that office, etc.; with responsibility for, in charge of. OE.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Minister of Health, Secretary of State, etc.
J. G. Frazer The king of the Matabeles.
Belonging to (a person or thing) as something that he, she, or it has or possesses, or as a quality or attribute; having a specified relationship to (a person). ME.
M. McLuhan The value of the movie medium. E. Taylor Boy-friend of my mother's just came in. D. Abse He buckled the bumper of the car. G. Household The force and speed of the tide.
Related to (a thing) in a way defined, specified, or implied by the preceding words; belonging to (an action etc.) as that to which it relates. ME.
cause of, effect of, origin of, reason of, result of, etc.; correlative of, counterpart of, opposite of, original of, etc.; copy of, derivative of, image of, likeness of, etc.; square of, cube of, logarithm of, tangent of, differential of, etc.
Belonging to (a time) as existing or taking place in it; typical or characteristic of (a particular period). E16.
Listener It is absolutely of its time. F. Wilkinson Both men and women of the period used muffs. A. F. Loewenstein She wished for her rage of earlier in the day.
XI.
Expressing an objective relation. After a noun of action, after a verbal noun in -ing (also (now dial.) what was formerly a verbal noun governed by in or a, now identified with a pres. pple), & after an agent-noun. OE.
Addison Notions and Observations..made in his reading of the Poets. T. Hardy Want of breath prevented a continuance of the story. J. Ruskin We must cease throwing of stones. C. Dawson A Food-gatherer and an eater of shell-fish. Observer The singing of devotional songs called bhajans. Atlantic A rival to the border collie in the Management of sheep.
XII.
Repr. an original genitive dependent on a verb or adjective. After intrans. verbs (now rare, formerly esp. with verbs of sense and asking); with trans. verbs with a personal obj., introducing a secondary or non-personal obj.; & with adjectives. (In meaning often passing into Other branches but sometimes distinct and sometimes with hardly more than a constructional force.) ME.
balk of, defraud of, disappoint of, frustrate of, etc.; accuse of, convict of, suspect of, etc.; avail oneself of, bethink oneself of, etc.; fruitful of, redolent of, etc.; prodigal of, scant of, short of, sparing of, etc.; capable of, incapable of, susceptible of, etc.; worthy of, guilty of, guiltless of, innocent of, etc.; certain of, uncertain of, confident of, doubtful of, sure of, etc.; aware of, conscious of, ignorant of, etc.; careful of, careless of, forgetful of, hopeful of, hopeless of, mindful of, regardless of, neglectful of, observant of, watchful of, etc.; desirous of, enamoured of, envious of, fond of, jealous of, suspicious of, etc.; apprehensive of, descriptive of, destructive of, expressive of, indicative of, productive of, etc.; characteristic of, symbolic of, etc.
XIII.
Indicating that in respect of which a quality is attributed, or a fact is predicated: in respect of, in the matter of, in point of, in. After an adjective (now arch. & literary exc. in certain phrs., as hard of hearing), a noun (arch. exc. in of age), & (formerly) a verb. ME.
Cornhill Magazine Hard he was of hand and harder of heart. Punch A lethal chamber for all over fifty years of age.
XIV.
Indicating a quality or Other distinguishing mark by which a person or thing is characterized, identified, or described. ME.
H. Mackenzie The man of feeling. Joyce Birds of prey..swooping from eyries. V. S. Pritchett It is felt unnatural for a man of his size to be living alone. F. Tuohy This had been a country of coffee plantations.
Indicating quantity, age, extent, price, or Other measurable thing. ME.
Guardian Most..were probably Leftist rebels at the age of twenty. C. A. W. Guggisberg With a length of twenty-eight feet and standing seventeen to eighteen feet at the shoulder.
Indicating an action, fact, or thing that distinguishes, characterizes, identifies, or specifies a time, place, etc. (Passing into branch X.) ME.
country of one's birth, land of one's birth, etc.in time of drought, in time of need, in time of war, etc.
Followed by a noun of action with possess., equivalent to a pass. ppl phr., indicating the agent and action of which something is the object or product. E16.
Keats Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving.
XV.
Indicating a point or space of time: at some time during, in the course of, on, (now only implying repetition or regularity, in of an evening, of a Sunday afternoon, of nights, etc.); arch. during, for (a space of time), (latterly only in neg. contexts). LME.
Phrases: (A selection of cross-refs. only is included.) all of a colloq. completely in or into a specified state. all of a sudden: see SUDDEN noun 1. have a bad of it, have a good of it, etc., have a thoroughly bad etc. . of all people etc. (in apposition to a noun or pronoun) as the least expected, likely or desirable person etc. (to do the thing in question). of all the cheek, of all the nerve, etc.: expr. indignation at a person's impudence. of a sudden: see SUDDEN noun 1. of a truth: see TRUTH noun. of kin: see KIN noun. of late lately, recently. of no CONSEQUENCE. of old formerly, long ago. of oneself by one's own impetus or motion, spontaneously, without the instigation or aid of another. of sorts: see SORT noun2. of the clock arch. = O'CLOCK. of yore arch. = of old above. send of an errand arch. colloq. send on an errand.
? The primary sense 'away, away from' is retained only as OFF preposition. From its original sense, of was naturally used in the expression of the notions of removal, separation, privation, derivation, origin or source, starting-point, spring of action, cause, agent, instrument, material, etc. Its scope was enlarged even in Old English, by its use to render Latin ab, de, or ex, in constructions where the native idiom would not have used it, and from early Middle English by its use as the equivalent of French de, which represented not only Latin de in its various prepositional uses, but which had also come to substitute for the Latin genitive case. A selection only of words foll. by of is mentioned here: see the main noun, verb, adjective, etc., of the phrase.

Rosenthal's vein (medicine)

Rosenthal's vein

Synonym: basal vein of Rosenthal.

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