In vs. Of

Inpreposition

Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.

Inpreposition

Contained by.

Inpreposition

Within.

Inpreposition

Surrounded by.

Inpreposition

Part of; a member of.

Inpreposition

Pertaining to; with regard to.

Inpreposition

At the end of a period of time.

Inpreposition

Within a certain elapsed time

Inpreposition

During (said of periods of time).

Inpreposition

Coming at the end of a word.

Inpreposition

Into.

Inpreposition

Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.

Inpreposition

Indicating an order or arrangement.

Inpreposition

Denoting a state of the subject.

Inpreposition

Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.

Inpreposition

Wearing (an item of clothing).

Inpreposition

Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.

Inpreposition

(of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.

Inpreposition

Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.

Inverb

To enclose.

Inverb

To take in; to harvest.

Inadverb

(not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.

Inadverb

Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.

Inadverb

(sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.

Inadverb

(UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.

Inadverb

After the beginning of something.

Innoun

A position of power or a way to get it.

Innoun

(sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings

Innoun

A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.

Innoun

abbreviation of inch

Inadjective

In fashion; popular.

Inadjective

Incoming.

Inadjective

Furled or stowed.

Inadjective

(legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.

Inadjective

(cricket) Currently batting.

Inadjective

Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.

Inpreposition

The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.

Inpreposition

With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.

Inpreposition

With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.

Inpreposition

With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.

Inpreposition

With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.

Inpreposition

With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.

Inpreposition

With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; - sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.

Inpreposition

With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.

Inadverb

Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).

Inadverb

With privilege or possession; - used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.

Innoun

One who is in office; - the opposite of out.

Innoun

A reëntrant angle; a nook or corner.

Inverb

To inclose; to take in; to harvest.

Innoun

a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot

Innoun

a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite

Innoun

a state in midwestern United States

Inadjective

holding office;

Inadjective

directed or bound inward;

Inadjective

currently fashionable;

Inadverb

to or toward the inside of;

Inadverb

inside an enclosed space

Inpreposition

expressing the situation of something that is or appears to be enclosed or surrounded by something else

Inpreposition

expressing motion with the result that something ends up within or surrounded by something else

Inpreposition

expressing a period of time during which an event happens or a situation remains the case

Inpreposition

expressing the length of time before a future event is expected to happen

Inpreposition

(often followed by a noun without a determiner) expressing a state or condition

Inpreposition

indicating the quality or aspect with respect to which a judgement is made

Inpreposition

expressing inclusion or involvement

Inpreposition

indicating someone's occupation or profession

Inpreposition

indicating the language or medium used

Inpreposition

indicating the key in which a piece of music is written

Inpreposition

as an integral part of (an activity)

Inpreposition

expressing a value as a proportion of (a whole)

Inadverb

expressing movement with the result that someone or something becomes enclosed or surrounded by something else

Inadverb

expressing the situation of being enclosed or surrounded by something

Inadverb

expressing arrival

Inadverb

(of the tide) rising or at its highest level.

Inadjective

present at one's home or office

Inadjective

fashionable

Inadjective

(of the ball in tennis and similar games) landing within the designated playing area.

Inadjective

batting

Innoun

a position of influence with someone powerful or famous

Ofpreposition

Expressing distance or motion.

Ofpreposition

From (of distance, direction), "off".

Ofpreposition

Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).

Ofpreposition

From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).

Ofpreposition

Before (the hour); to.

Ofpreposition

Expressing separation.

Ofpreposition

Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.

Ofpreposition

Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.

Ofpreposition

(obsolete) Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.

Ofpreposition

Expressing origin.

Ofpreposition

Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.

Ofpreposition

Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.

Ofpreposition

(following an intransitive verb) Indicates the source or cause of the verb.

Ofpreposition

(following an adjective) Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.

Ofpreposition

Expressing agency.

Ofpreposition

(following a passive verb) Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).

Ofpreposition

Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).

Ofpreposition

(following an adjective) Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.

Ofpreposition

Expressing composition, substance.

Ofpreposition

(after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) Used to indicate the material or substance used.

Ofpreposition

(directly following a noun) Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.

Ofpreposition

Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.

Ofpreposition

Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.

Ofpreposition

Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".

Ofpreposition

Introducing subject matter.

Ofpreposition

Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.

Ofpreposition

(following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.

Ofpreposition

(following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter.

Ofpreposition

Having partitive effect.

Ofpreposition

(following a number or other quantitive word) Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".

Ofpreposition

(following a noun) Indicates a given part.

Ofpreposition

Some, an amount of, one of.

Ofpreposition

Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).

Ofpreposition

Expressing possession.

Ofpreposition

Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.

Ofpreposition

Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.

Ofpreposition

Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)

Ofpreposition

Forming the "objective genitive".

Ofpreposition

Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.

Ofpreposition

Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Ofpreposition

Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier; in respect to, as regards.

Ofpreposition

Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".

Ofpreposition

Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.

Ofpreposition

Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.

Ofpreposition

Expressing a point in time.

Ofpreposition

During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.

Ofpreposition

For (a given length of time).

Ofpreposition

(after a noun) Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.

Ofverb

(usually in modal perfect constructions) lang=en or ’ve, chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.

Ofpreposition

In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; - used in a variety of applications; as:

Ofpreposition

Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood.

Ofpreposition

Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven.

Ofpreposition

Denoting the material of which anything is composed, or that which it contains; as, a throne of gold; a sword of steel; a wreath of mist; a cup of water.

Ofpreposition

Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company.

Ofpreposition

Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; due to; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity.

Ofpreposition

Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements; they talked of many things.

Ofpreposition

Denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.

Ofpreposition

Denoting identity or equivalence; - used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba.

Ofpreposition

Denoting the agent, or person by whom, or thing by which, anything is, or is done; by.

Ofpreposition

Denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod.

Ofpreposition

Denoting passage from one state to another; from.

Ofpreposition

During; in the course of.

Ofpreposition

expressing the relationship between a part and a whole.

Ofpreposition

with the word denoting the part functioning as the head of the phrase

Ofpreposition

after a number, quantifier, or partitive noun, with the word denoting the whole functioning as the head of the phrase

Ofpreposition

expressing the relationship between a scale or measure and a value

Ofpreposition

expressing an age

Ofpreposition

indicating an association between two entities, typically one of belonging, in which the first is the head of the phrase and the second is something associated with it

Ofpreposition

expressing the relationship between an author, artist, or composer and their works collectively

Ofpreposition

expressing the relationship between a direction and a point of reference

Ofpreposition

expressing the relationship between a general category or type and the thing being specified which belongs to such a category

Ofpreposition

following a noun derived from or related to a verb.

Ofpreposition

followed by a noun expressing the subject of the verb underlying the first noun

Ofpreposition

followed by a noun expressing the object of the verb underlying the first noun

Ofpreposition

where the head of the phrase is a predicative adjective

Ofpreposition

indicating the relationship between a verb and an indirect object.

Ofpreposition

with a verb expressing a mental state

Ofpreposition

expressing a cause

Ofpreposition

indicating the material or substance constituting something

Ofpreposition

expressing time in relation to the following hour