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.
- Now put a penny somewhere on the label near the center.
- 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.
- Grady asked for the same 10-year-sentence Payne had just given Oncale, but the judge imposed a term near the middle of the federal guideline range.
- An 'one chair I did see to: right in the bay, near Jennie, I set 'Leven -- I guess with just a kind of a blind feelin' that I wanted to get her _near_.
- The world in which people were near -- _near_ -- to one another and loved each other, the world Donal had always belonged to even when he was a little boy, she now knew and lived in.
- But he learned them soon; for Solomon immediately dropped down from the big willow and alighted on the bank near Mr. Frog — altogether _too near_ him, in fact, for the tailor’s comfort.
- Turkey-Buzzard Tom Bonney -- immediately claimed sanctuary in the jail, on the grounds that they had been near to -- get that; I think that indicates the line they're going to take at the trial -- _near_ to a political assassination.
- In the rear stands a mash-tub with a sheepskin stretched over it for a drum, and near it is the drummer-boy, a child of six; a bugle, a cornet and a bassoon are laid in a corner, and two or three boys stand near_.) _Sergeant George_.
- "Ah! Were you, then, near that brave corps!" exclaimed the other, with something like honest, natural feeling, for the first time exhibited in his voice and meaning; "I honour men who were only _spectators_ of so much courage, especially if they took a tolerably _near_ view of it.
- _How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth_, _from the farthest firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished us_, _make poetry for a mind that has no movements of awe and tenderness_, _no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near_?
- Historical Show-man, with such new gifts and arts; a true Magician, who had in his closet a mirror which possessed the property of revealing, not the past nor the present only, but the future, 'with a near aim,' an aim so _near_ that it might well seem 'magical'; and that a cloud was flaming in it, even then, 'which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.'