for
Pronunciation: [fɒ:]
Average Rank: 14
Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICTprep. 为, 因为, 至于 conj. 因为 [计] DOS批处理命令:对一组参数重复执行指定的命令
Detailed Explanations:
- prep. In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration
- of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes
- place.
- prep. Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action;
- the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state;
- the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
- prep. Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the
- end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves,
- or is done.
- prep. Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which,
- anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side
- of; -- opposed to against.
- prep. Indicating that toward which the action of anything is
- directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
- prep. Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything
- acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a
- compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
- prep. Indicating that in the character of or as being which
- anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
- prep. Indicating that instead of which something else controls in
- the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is
- done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of;
- -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
- prep. Indicating the space or time through which an action or
- state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
- prep. Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of
- which, anything is done.
- conj. Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old
- English, the reason of anything.
- conj. Since; because; introducing a reason of something before
- advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of
- an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly
- equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is
- sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by
- what has gone before.
- n. One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side;
- that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis
- of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Word Frequency Rankings
Wikipedia
#10Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage
Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus
TV & Movie Scripts
#17Conversational and colloquial usage
Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus
Project Gutenberg
#14Classical and literary usage
Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus
Insights
This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.
Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.