within

«within» in Mova's school dictionary: inside a limit, not going past it: «within 20», «within… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

preposition, adverb

meaning for a pupil

1) Within means inside a limit, not going past it: «within 20», «within an hour». tree →

2) Within means inside a place or group: «within the school grounds». tree →

sense in the lessons

numbers up to a limit, such as 20: «Adding within 20»; a time limit: «within 10 minutes»; phrases: «within reach», «within an hour», «within the rules»

examples

• Today's lesson: Adding within 20. tree →
• Taking away within 10. tree →
• All the answers are within 100. tree →
• Please return the book within two weeks. tree →
• Keep the medicine out of a child's reach, not within it. tree →
• Stay within the school grounds at lunch. tree →
• The pizza will arrive within 30 minutes. tree →
• We live within walking distance of the park. tree →
• Within the Dun there was disorder. tree →

note

Tells that the numbers stay small; carries no operation clue. «within 20» means the numbers are 20 or less.

In the corpora

• Parents often make a shortlist of names, and the name must be registered officially within a few weeks of the birth.
• A work mood can follow a grown-up home and usually fades within an hour or so.
• A newborn calf stands within about an hour so that it can drink milk and keep up with the herd.
• Peter and Rosemary Grant watched the finches' beaks change within just a few years after a drought.
• A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «within» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.