from
frʌm
Why bread is made 'from' flour
The picture Footprints stay on the spot while the body has already pulled away from it. The place you left is still clearly visible behind you. TO travels until it touches the far end; FROM breaks away from the starting point.
Where the picture shows up in from
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the place it pulls out of
The train leaves from platform two.
ðə treɪn liːvz frʌm ˈplætfɔːrm tuː
Platform two is the spot the train pulls away from.
The train slides away, leaving an empty stretch of platform behind it.
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the place time starts
We're open from nine in the morning.
wɪər ˈoʊpən frʌm naɪn ɪn ðə ˈmɔːrnɪŋ
Nine in the morning is where our open hours begin.
A nail is driven into the left end of the bar of hours, and the line runs on from there.
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the place it came out of
This letter is from the bank.
ðɪs ˈletər ɪz frʌm ðə bæŋk
The bank is the place this letter set out from.
The envelope slips out of the bank's door and into your hand.
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the gap you widen
Keep the medicine away from children.
kiːp ðə ˈmedɪsn əˈweɪ frʌm ˈtʃɪldrən
Keep a wide gap between the medicine and the children.
Two hands push the medicine and the child further and further apart.
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what it used to be
This bread is made from rice flour.
ðɪs bred ɪz meɪd frʌm raɪs ˈflaʊər
Rice flour went in, and this bread is what came out of it.
Rice flour loses its own shape and walks out as a loaf of bread.
All of it in one picture
FROM is a hand pointing back at the place you left. Point it at a platform and you get a departure; point it at a time and you get an opening hour. Point it at the door an envelope came out of and you get a source, widen the space between two things and you get separation, point it at what something used to be and you get a raw material. Wherever FROM appears, a place is visible behind, left behind.