Expressing distance or motion. • From (a place); off. • Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). • From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). • Expressing separation. • Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object. • Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective. • Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb. • Expressing origin. • Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent. • Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual. • Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of. • Indicates the source or cause of the verb. • Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective. • Expressing agency. • Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by). • Used to introduce the “subjective genitive”; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also ‘Possession’ senses below). • Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective. • Expressing composition, substance. • Used to indicate the material or substance used. • Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object. • Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun. • Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class. • Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; “which is also”. • Introducing subject matter. • 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. • Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning. • Introduces its subject matter. • Having partitive effect. • Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; “from among”. • Indicates a given part. • Some, an amount of, one of. • Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below; see also double possessive). • Expressing possession. • Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare “origin” senses, above. • Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. • 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.) • Forming the “objective genitive”. • Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action. • Expressing qualities or characteristics. • Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier; in respect to, as regards. • Indicates a quality or characteristic; “characterized by”. • Indicates quantity, age, price, etc. • Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree. • Expressing a point in time. • During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. • For (a given length of time). • Indicates duration of a state, activity etc. • Before (the hour); to (the hour). • Often used without the hour.