for

Pronunciation: [fɒ:]

Average Rank: 14

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

prep. 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
Collins Rating:
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#10

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 99.9% (Top 99.9% most frequent)
99.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#17

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 99.8% (Top 99.8% most frequent)
99.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#14

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 99.9% (Top 99.9% most frequent)
99.9%

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.