near
IPA: nˈɪr
noun
- The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To come closer to; to approach.
adjective
- Physically close.
- Close in time.
- Closely connected or related.
- Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
- Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
- So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
- Approximate, almost.
- (Britain, in relation to a vehicle) On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
- (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
- (now rare) Stingy; parsimonious.
- (programming, not comparable) Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
adverb
- At or towards a position close in space or time.
- Nearly; almost.
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Examples of "near" in Sentences
- The store is near the corner.
- There are bulrushes near the lake.
- The station is near the neighborhood.
- There are weathercocks near the ocean.
- He is with everything but not in physical nearness.
- The island is about from the shore near the southern end of the loch.
- It is almost always crossed by a tendinous intersection near its insertion.
- Near the scotch barrels, the distillers is talking about the cause of losses.
- The adhesive near the edge affixes that edge to the sheet back near the crease.
- The burn is timed so that as the spacecraft nears apogee when the Moon is near.
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