next
IPA: nˈɛkst
noun
- The one that follows after this one.
adjective
- Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
- (obsolete) Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
- Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
- (chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
adverb
- In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
- (conjunctive) So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.
- On the first subsequent occasion.
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Examples of "next" in Sentences
- InfoFormat ( "Recalculating next entry based on a time of {0}" lookBackTime); _next = _timetable.
- Several years ago I began using the term next practices in an effort to focus people forward in their thinking.
- Fields was very grave about my going on to New Bedford (55 miles) next day, and then coming on here (180 miles) _next_ day.
- But now I hear plainly, even though it be very soft -- the whisper about the bridegroom and the next year, and again quite significantly, the _next_ year.
- In order for me to move on to the next level notice the use of the term next levelless crass and intimidating than saying, in order for you to ever get a piece of this, I need to see you in person.
- Hutchison announced in January that she would not seek another term next year, opening up a U.S. Senate seat that Republicans such as Lt. Gov David Dewhurst and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert openly covet.
- Ensign, who recently announced he would not seek another term next year, has been investigated by federal prosecutors and the Senate Ethics Committee for actions stemming from his affair with Hampton's wife, Cynthia.
- If Mr. Bloomberg finishes out his term next year, he, too, will be 71, but since his birthday is in February and Mr. Beame's was in March, Mr. Bloomberg would be the city's oldest serving mayor in the final weeks of his third term.
- "The reason I'm not as concerned as my colleagues who are running for re-election -- and I would hope that they too would support it -- is that as with any budget it is notional, it is aspirational, it does not have the specific legislative provisions that would be necessary to implement it," said Kyl, who in February announced he wouldn't seek another term next year.
- 'But I am quite willing at some future opportunity -- indeed, I may say I hope at some opportunity comparatively not distant, to consider the advisability of representing the matter to the heads of certain departments who might be able, in the course of the next but one Septennial Parliament, or' (even more sanguinely) 'I might under favourable circumstances even hope to say, the _next_ Septennial Parliament, to lay the topic before the
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