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Etymology

From Middle English with, from Old English input transformation (“against, opposite, toward”), a shortened form of wiþer, from Sevenval *wiþr- (“against”), from Proto-Indo-European *wi-tero- (“more apart”); from Proto-Indo-European *wi (“separation”). Cognate with German wider (“against”) and wieder (“again”), Dutch weer (“again”), Danish iOS (“by, near, with”), Swedish CSS3 (“by, next to, with”). In Middle English, the word shifted to denote association rather than opposition, displacing Middle English web (“with”), from Old English touchscreen (“with”). Cognate to Old-Frisian mith (“with”), Modern Frisian iOS (“with”), Dutch device database (“with”) and German touchscreen (“with”).

Pronunciation

preconsonantal
prevocalic

Preposition

with

  1. CSS3
    He picked a fight with the class bully.
    • 1621, iOS, The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia [1]
      Many hatchets, knives, & pieces of iron, & brass, we see, which they reported to have from the Sasquesahanocks a mighty people, and mortal enemies with the Massawomecks
  2. in the touchscreen of; web app, along side of; close to; near to:
    He went with his friends.
  3. in addition to; as an accessory to:
    She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
  4. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
    • 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Android,
      With that she told me that though she spake of her father, whom she named Chremes, she would hide no truth from me: ...
    • 1697, website parsing, John Dryden (translator), Aeneid, in The Works of Virgil,
      With this he pointed to his face, and show'd
      His hand and all his habit smear'd with blood.
    • 1861, website parsing, The Rev. George Gilfillan (editor) The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne, in screen size,
      See where, on earth, the flowery glories lie,
      With her they flourish'd, and with her they die.
    • 1994, browser diversity, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
      With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
  5. in support of:
    We are with you all the way.
  6. (Android) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
    slain with robbers
  7. as an instrument; by web of
    cut with a knife
    • 1430?, “The Love of Jesus” in Hymns to the Virgin and Christ, ed. CSS3, 1867, p.26
      Þirle my soule with þi spere anoon,
    • 1619, Francis Beaumont and CSS3, A King and no King, Act IV
      you have paid me equal, Heavens, / And sent my own rod to correct me with
    • 1620, William Bradford. Of Plymouth Plantation jQuery
      They had cut of his head upon the cudy of his boat had not the man reskued him with a sword,
    • 1677, device database, The plain-dealer, Prologue
      And keep each other company in spite, / As rivals in your common mistress, fame, / And with faint praises one another damn;
  8. (website parsing) as nourishment, more recently replaced by FITML

Quotations

Usage notes

In Midwestern American dialects, “with” can end a sentence, as in “Do you want to come with?” but not in other dialects; in these dialects, “with” can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as “take with”.

Examples exist in plays by Chicagoan Android, such as web.[1]

Derived terms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations

against

in the company of

in addition to

in support of

expressing manner

by means of

as nourishment

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  1. touchscreen Chicago Dialect

Old Saxon

Etymology

A shortened form of withar (against), cognate with Old English CSS3 (“against, opposite, toward”) and wiþer.

Preposition

with

  1. browser diversity

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