from

[ fruhm, from; unstressed fruhm ]

preposition

1. (used to specify a starting point in spatial movement):

   a train running west from Chicago.

2. (used to specify a starting point in an expression of limits):

   The number of stores will be increased from 25 to 30.

3. (used to express removal or separation, as in space, time, or order):

   two miles from shore;

   30 minutes from now;

   from one page to the next.

4. (used to express discrimination or distinction):

   to be excluded from membership;

   to differ from one's father.

5. (used to indicate source or origin):

   to come from the Midwest;

   to take a pencil from one's pocket.

6. (used to indicate agent or instrumentality):

   death from starvation.

7. (used to indicate cause or reason):

   From the evidence, he must be guilty.

from

/ frɒm; frəm /

preposition

1. used to indicate the original location, situation, etc

   from behind the bushes

   from Paris to Rome

   from childhood to adulthood

2. in a period of time starting at

   he lived from 1910 to 1970

3. used to indicate the distance between two things or places

   a hundred miles from here

4. used to indicate a lower amount

   from five to fifty pounds

5. showing the model of

   painted from life

6. used with the gerund to mark prohibition, restraint, etc

   nothing prevents him from leaving

7. because of

   exhausted from his walk

Word History and Origins

Origin of from¹

First recorded before 950; Middle English, Old English, variant of fram “from, forward”; cognate with Gothic fram, Old Norse frā ( fro ), fram

Word History and Origins

Origin of from¹

Old English fram ; related to Old Norse frā , Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic fram from, Greek promos foremost

Example Sentences

In addition to helping to advance HIV cure research in Cameroon, this collaboration also provided an opportunity for lead author Chantal Emade Nkwelle to travel from Cameroon to work at Wistar for five months, learn many of Wistar's laboratory techniques on HIV research, and transfer them back to the University of Buea.

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This research is one of several discoveries on African chemical compounds that came from the collaboration between Wistar and the University of Buea Centre for Drug Discovery, which began in 2021.

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"This Croton species was chosen for study because it has a long history, along with related African plants, of use in ethnomedicine. For thousands of years, people in Cameroon and neighboring countries have relied on traditional, plant-based medicine from healers to treat a variety of illnesses, from cancer to diabetes and, more recently, even HIV. Our collaboration with the Wistar Institute over and above scientific discovery has also provided us with human development capacity building," says Dr. Ntie-Kang.

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Building on work from similar species of plants used in African ethnomedicine, the research team investigated whether the medicinally active compounds in C. oligandrus could be latency-reversing agents, or LRAs, substances that reactivate latent HIV.

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By isolating compounds from dried powder from the plant's bark, Drs. Tietjen, Ntie-Kang, and their teams were able to run assays designed to test whether the compounds reversed HIV latency in vitro -- a hypothesis that was confirmed for four out of six isolated compounds.

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