Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: In addition to the uses shown below, '~' is used in phrasal verbs such as ‘go ~ with’, ‘play ~’, and ‘string ~’.
1.
If you move or look ~ something such as a road, you move or look towards one end of it.
Newman walked ~ the street alone...
The young man led Mark Ryle ~ a corridor...
I looked ~ the length of the building.
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2.
If something is situated ~ a road, river, or corridor, it is situated in it or beside it.
...enormous traffic jams all ~ the roads.
...houses built on piles ~ the river...
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3.
When someone or something moves ~, they keep moving in a particular direction.
She skipped and danced ~...
The wide road was blocked solid with traffic that moved ~ sluggishly.
ADV: ADV after v
4.
If you say that something is going ~ in a particular way, you mean that it is progressing in that way.
...the negotiations which have been dragging ~ interminably...
My life is going ~ nicely.
ADV: ADV after v
5.
If you take someone or something ~ when you go somewhere, you take them with you.
This is open to women of all ages, so bring ~ your friends and colleagues...
ADV: ADV after v
6.
If someone or something is coming ~ or is sent ~, they are coming or being sent to a particular place.
She invited everyone she knew to come ~...
ADV: ADV after v
7.
You use ~ with to mention someone or something else that is also involved in an action or situation.
The baby’s mother escaped from the fire ~ with two other children...
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8.
If something has been true or been present all ~, it has been true or been present throughout a period of time.
I’ve been fooling myself all ~...
PHRASE: PHR with cl, PHR after v
9.
~ the way: see way