about
IPA: ʌbˈaʊt
adjective
- Moving around; astir.
- In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
- Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.
adverb
- On all sides; around.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
- (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
- (obsolete or rare) In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
- (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
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Examples of "about" in Sentences
- Ermmmmm..i think you were talking about...about..about that game.
- Basically, they'll talk about that and cook, and they'll talk aboutߞ
- Yeah, people here think about it all the time, talk about it, but only with those they trust implicitly, but it's damned hard to do.
- I, too, lament this..and will be doing something about it like I mentioned last month..about reading more complete series..which is what my "older" books mentioned above will consist of.
- I was about to host the meeting of my "Movie Group" about a dozen people who gather monthly to watch together some film of substance and then discuss it afterwards over a pot-luck dinner.
- (Neo-Meinongians might also want to say that on their view, ˜3 is prime™ is about the number 3, but in saying this, they would be using ˜about™ in a way that doesn't entail the existence of 3.)
- So when I say that walls need to come down, I mean that we all need to be more honest about what our jobs mean, why we work and how they can be improved, which means tolerance for talking *about* work in a social context.
- When in the late summer of 2008 he first publicly floated a trial balloon about seeking a third term, he did it by saying he\'d have to \ "seriously think about\" running if the Council decided to upend the two-term constraint.
- But then, I began having doubts about my former side, when I noticed that conservative magazines were full of articles talking at length *about* liberals, but rarely a quote *by* one, and when there were, a sentence fragment, often proving to be taken out of context themselves.
- If you LISTEN to what he says you will hear loud and clear how much he cares about the state of this country and how he wants to provide solutions to the issues we face, including tax relief, healthcare for everyone and addressing the disaster that Bill Clinton ** knew about and did nothing about** known as global warming.
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