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[ adjective ] close at hand
Examples "the nearby towns" "concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)The two older boys , Hans and Anders , his junior by a year , therefore went daily to the home of a warm and friendly wigmaker nearby for instruction in German ; his wife taught the two boys to read and write Danish . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)It was established in a_couple_of buildings in the shopping district , with only a_few professors , but all eminent men , and a_few hundred eager students housed in nearby dwellings . (Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)For a number of years Kentucky , Louisiana and several other states have been building state sponsored vocational education schools that serve nearby school districts in several counties . Transportation may be provided from nearby school districts . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] not far away in relative terms
Examples "she works nearby" "the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)Ants carry_away the seeds so better be sure that there are no ant hills nearby . (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)The magnetic_moment of an unpaired electron associated nearby may have a tremendous influence on the magnetic_resonance properties of nuclei . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)When they were refused entrance to his brother 's house nearby , they smashed down the door , broke the window , and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room . There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who , though numbering in the fifties , had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Rummaging through a stack of drawers nearby , you unearthed an antique French chess_set in ivory and sandalwood , which , along with two box_Kodaks , you added to your haul . |
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