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English
Preposition
by means of
- By using (an object or an approach).
1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
1951 June, “Notes and News: The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 423:Some stone was being loaded into standard gauge wagons by means of a portable conveyor belt.
Synonyms
Translations
By using
- Arabic: بِوَاسِطَة (bi-wāsiṭa)
- Egyptian Arabic: باستخدام (besteḵdām)
- Azerbaijani: vasitəsilə
- Bengali: করে (bn) (kore)
- Catalan: mitjançant (ca), per mitjà de (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎬᏗ (gvdi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 用 (jung6)
- Mandarin: 用 (zh) (yòng), 以 (zh) (yǐ), 依靠 (zh) (yīkào), 藉著／借著 (zh) (jièzhe), 借着 (jièzhe)
- Czech: pomocí (cs)
- Dutch: aan de hand van, door middel van
- Esperanto: per (eo), pere de
- Finnish: avulla (fi)
- French: au moyen de (fr)
- Galician: por medio de (gl)
- German: mittels (de), mittelst (de), vermittels (de)
- Italian: per opera di, per mezzo di, a cura di, tramite (it), mediante (it)
- Japanese: で (ja) (de)
- Khmer: ដោយ (km) (daoy), តាមមធ្យោបាយ (taam matyoobaay), តាមរយៈ (taam rea’yea’)
- Korean: 로 (-ro), 으로 (-euro)
- Lao: ທາງ (thāng)
- Latin: per (la) (+ accusative), ab (la) (+ ablative)
- Navajo: yee
- Polish: przy pomocy (pl), za pomocą (pl), przy użyciu (pl)
- Portuguese: por meio de (pt)
- Russian: при по́мощи (ru) (pri pómošči), посре́дством (ru) (posrédstvom)
- Spanish: por medio de
- Swedish: genom (sv), medelst (sv)
- Telugu: గుండా (te) (guṇḍā)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: aracılığıyla (tr), vasıtasıyla (tr)
- Vietnamese: bằng (vi)
- Volapük: medü (vo)
- Welsh: trwy, trwy gyfrwng
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