Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If something is ~ a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
They heard footsteps in the main room, ~ a door...
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Beyond is also an adverb.
The house had a fabulous view out to the Strait of Georgia and the Rockies ~.
ADV: n ADV, and ADV
2.
If something happens ~ a particular time or date, it continues after that time or date has passed.
Few jockeys continue race-riding ~ the age of 40...
= past
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Beyond is also an adverb.
The financing of home ownership will continue through the 1990s and ~.
ADV: and ADV
3.
If something extends ~ a particular thing, it affects or includes other things.
His interests extended ~ the fine arts to international politics and philosophy.
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4.
You use ~ to introduce an exception to what you are saying.
I knew nothing ~ a few random facts.
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5.
If something goes ~ a particular point or stage, it progresses or increases so that it passes that point or stage.
Their five-year relationship was strained ~ breaking point...
It seems to me he’s ~ caring about what anybody does.
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6.
If something is, for example, ~ understanding or ~ belief, it is so extreme in some way that it cannot be understood or believed.
What Jock had done was ~ my comprehension...
Sweden is lovely in summer–cold ~ belief in winter...
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7.
If you say that something is ~ someone, you mean that they cannot deal with it.
The situation was ~ her control.
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8.
~ the pale: see pale
~ someone’s means: see means
~ your wildest dreams: see dream
~ a joke: see joke