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# away

«away» in Mova's school dictionary: **off to another place, not here any more: the bird flew away** — 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

adverb; adjective (an away game)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Away means off to another place, not here any more: the bird flew away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m1)

2) Away means at a distance: the beach is 2 km away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m2)

3) Away means not at home: she is away on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m3)

4) Away can mean on and on: he worked away all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m4)

5) Away means in the future: the party is two weeks away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m5)

6) (rough) «Go away!», «Get away from me!» tell someone to leave rudely; (UK, Ireland) «Away with you!» or «Get away!» can also mean «I don't believe you». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m6)

7) (euphemism) «Passed away» means died, and «put away» can mean sent to prison or (for a pet) put to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m7)

8) (formal) The exam voice says «removed», «withdrawn», «deducted», «situated at a distance of». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m8)

9) Give away means to hand something over for free, or to reveal a secret by accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#m9)

### sense in the lessons

in «take away», «give away», «go away», «fly away», «run away»: things leave a group and the count goes down; «take away» is another name for subtract; distance «5 km away»; time «3 days away»; in sport an «away game»; in everyday life «put away your toys», «right away» (at once), «throw away», «a takeaway» (UK, Australia, NZ: food to take home); in rough talk «go away», «get away»; as a euphemism «passed away»; in the exam voice «removed», «deducted», «withdrawn»

### examples

- When some of a group goes away, we subtract. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x1)
- Take 16 away from 17. How many remain? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x2)
- Zoe gives away 4 of her 10 toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x3)
- 3 of the 9 birds fly away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x4)
- Please put your books away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x5)
- The school is two blocks away from my house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x6)
- Come here right away! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x7)
- Never run away from a grown-up in a crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x8)
- Christmas is only 5 sleeps away! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x9)
- Go away, I'm busy counting! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x10)
- Our old dog passed away last year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x11)
- Subsequently, 4 of the 10 articles were removed from Zoe's possession; state the number remaining. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x12)
- I cannot even give him away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/#x13)

### note

«take away», «give away», «fly away» all make the group smaller: subtract; «removed», «withdrawn» and «deducted» in an exam do the same. Trap: in «take 5 away from 12» the starting number comes after «from»: 12 − 5. «right away» means at once, with no maths sense; «5 km away» is a distance, not a removal; «5 sleeps away» is 5 nights to wait. «passed away» means someone died: they are not coming back. «takeaway» is food, not subtraction.

### In the corpora

- [On a motorway, after a breakdown everyone gets out and waits behind the barrier, away from the traffic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/8/)
- [Grown-ups call very sweet romantic film scenes "soppy", and children are allowed to look away or roll their eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/15/)
- [Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/6/)
- [Non-urgent appointments can be weeks away because doctors have more patients than time; urgent problems are seen sooner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/10/)
- [Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic, and they can be controlled but not cured.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «away» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/away/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.