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# far

«far» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long way 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 (far, farther or further, farthest or furthest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Far means a long way away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#m1)

2) «How far» asks what the distance is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#m2)

3) Far means very much, as in far bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#m3)

4) «So far» means up to now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: asks about distance: «how far» means find the distance; «so far» means up to now (an amount done); «far more» in comparisons; science: far-away stars and planets; everyday life and safety: don't go too far from home; phrases: «as far as», «far away», «by far», «far from»

### examples

- How far did she walk? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x1)
- The school is 3 km far from home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x2)
- How far is it from A to B? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x3)
- So far, he has read 40 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x4)
- Do not go far from the tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x5)
- The stars are very far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x6)
- This book is by far the best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x7)
- The moon is far from Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x8)
- The geese were soon far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/far/#x9)

### note

«How far» asks for a distance. «So far» means up to now (an amount done). Trap: «so far» gives the part done, not the total. Usually say «3 km from home», not «3 km far from home».

### In the corpora

- [The answer is worked out on huge computers far away, in buildings called data centres; nobody is typing it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/5/)
- [Small models use far less energy than very big ones, which is one reason small models are worth making.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/12/)
- [Forced perspective is a camera trick: something close to the camera looks huge and something far away looks tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/21-filters-edits-and-fake-photos/14/)
- [Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/0/)
- [Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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