Word Finder - nearest

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Physically close.

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I can't see near objects very clearly without my glasses.

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Close in time.

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The end is near.

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Closely connected or related.

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The deceased man had no near relatives.

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Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.

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a near friend

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Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.

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a version near to the original

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So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.

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a near escape

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Approximate, almost.

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The two words are near synonyms.

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(in relation to a vehicle) On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).

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The near front wheel came loose.

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Next to the driver, when he is on foot; on the left of an animal or a team.

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the near ox; the near leg

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Immediate; direct; close; short.

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Stingy; parsimonious.

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Closest to.

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Mercury is the planet nearest the Sun.

She made her way to the nearest waiting room.

The nearest cottage was still some distance away.

One adjutant, nearest the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing.

He strode beside her, whipping out his cell as they headed toward the nearest exit.

The dolphin carried him with great speed to the nearest shore.

His body was the nearest available leaning post, so she helped herself, burying her face in his chest.

He located the nearest death-dealer and approached.

The next nearest is on the moon and a logistical nightmare.

They were a long way from the nearest hotel and Katie wanted to see him as much as possible.

The massive lake was roughly round with a panhandle on the side nearest the fortress.

Move them to the nearest underground site today.

I calculated the nearest emerops from there.

Lana glanced at Mike as he released her and dashed into the nearest of the three buildings.

Han sat in the corner of her room nearest the door.

He walked down the line to the nearest of the five the demons had approached with offers and paused before the Immortal with icy blue eyes.

Katie ignored the looks of those nearest her, and Hannah looked around, happy.

Darian remained for another long moment before Traveling to the nearest town, determined to figure out what was going on.

Fred O'Connor was nearest and talked in subdued and nervous conversation, reaching for a paper and pencil to take down a number.

After explaining the situation and giving her address, she turned down the road toward the nearest public area – a service station 2 miles away.

The population of the nearest big city was growing.

The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell place, and had begun to sort my seeds, and collected materials with which to make a wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with; but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife--every man has such a wife--changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him.

Jenn sensed the next vamp charge her and spun, burying her knife in the neck of the nearest before she lashed out with a kick at the next.

They entered a dark dining hall, where a pot of tea and two tea cups sat waiting for them next to a carafe of amber alcohol at the table nearest the entrance.

She trailed, groping around the wall nearest the door until she found a light switch.

She exited the brightly lit room into the hallway, crossing to look out the nearest window at the falling snow.

They grew silent when he appeared, and those nearest him scattered.

He moved to the edge of the table nearest Jade and crossed his arms as he leaned against it.

She'd wondered why A'Ran's water supplies were located on the nearest moon, a logistical obstacle.

He watched as Mansr expertly organized the evacuations and aligned the space battle to keep the Yirkins' attention off the ships fleeing the planet's surface for the nearest moon, Kiera.

I'm sending the coords for the nearest facility.

Elise shouted, leaping atop the nearest boulder with her laser aimed at him.

He had a four-hour helo and hiking trip ahead of him to their nearest secure comms facility tucked into natural cave a few ranges over.

It was a grueling two-day walk to the nearest emerops facility.

She moved to the nearest empty crate and placed the baby inside it.

He launched to his feet again, this time flinging a dagger at the Other nearest him.

Its power raced through her and out, sending the guardsman nearest her flying.

He located the nearest Watcher and Traveled, appearing in a small attic.

The nearest house was much farther than she thought.

Figures they're somewhere where our nearest station is ten miles out.

The nearest vamps bowed their heads and moved away from him.

Their form, however, is not sufficiently characteristic to warrant this identification, though it may be noted that the nearest approximation to phallic worship is found amongst the most typical of African peoples, viz.

The orthodox Conservatives and some democrats who were jealous of his influence, while afraid to beard the great statesman himself, combined to assail his nearest friends.

The third player, who does any measuring that may be necessary to determine which bowl or bowls may be nearest the jack, holds almost as responsible a position as the captain, whose place, in fact, he takes whenever the skip is temporarily absent.

The Neuroptera, with their similar foreand hind-wings and their campodeiform larvae, seem to stand nearest to the presumed isopteroid ancestry, but the imago and larva are often specialized.

Still it seems advisable to furnish some connected account of the progress made in the ornithological knowledge of the British Islands and those parts of the European continent which lie nearest to them or are most commonly sought by travellers, the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America, South Africa, India, together with Australia and New Zealand.

The local drawbacks and difficulties once surmounted, Venice by her geographical position became the seaport nearest the heart of Europe.

On the death of Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1402, his large possessions broke up, His neighbours and his generals seized what was nearest to hand.

When concealment is no longer possible terrestrial species, like the Lycosidae, dart swiftly to the nearest shelter afforded by crevices in the soil, stones, fallen leaves or logs of wood, while those that live in bushes, like the Argyopidae, drop straight to the ground and lie hidden in the earth or in the fallen vegetation beneath.

Their language, which is neither monosyllabic nor tonic, has nothing in common with that of the MonAnnam group. It has, moreover, been pointed out that had the Malays been driven southwards by the stronger races of the mainland of Asia, it might be expected that the people inhabiting the country nearest to the border between Siam and Malaya would belong to the Malayan and not to the Mon-Annam or Mon-Khmer stock.

From the properties of the ellipse, A is the pericentre or nearest point of the orbit to the centre of attraction and B the apocentre or most distant point.