NEAR


Meaning of NEAR in English

I. adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

almost/nearly/near perfect

His collection included an almost perfect skeleton of an armadillo.

Her performance was near perfect.

damn near (= almost )

He damn near drowned.

Near East

Ancient Near Eastern literature

near extinction (= being almost becoming extinct )

Wolves have returned to the forest, almost ten years after near extinction.

near/approach a climax

One of the most important trials in recent history is nearing its climax today.

nearest approximation

It was the nearest approximation to a crisis she’d ever experienced.

nearing completion (= almost finished )

The house is nearing completion .

not nearly/nowhere near enough informal (= much less than you need )

We only had $500, and that was nowhere near enough to buy a new camcorder.

nowhere near as...as

She’s nowhere near as pretty as you are.

nowhere near ready/full/finished etc

The building’s nowhere near finished.

sb's nearest/closest rival (= the one that is closest to beating them )

She finished 7.1 seconds ahead of her nearest rival.

the near future (= soon )

A new product launch is planned for the near future.

the nearest available sth

Ruth sat down in the nearest available armchair.

the nearest exit

Please leave the building in an orderly fashion, using the nearest exit.

the nearest/closest equivalent

The corner store was the closest equivalent we had to a supermarket when I was young.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

full

Our team will be as near full strength as possible, although once again injuries are beginning to dog us.

future

Subscriptions Will all members with unpaid subscriptions please forward a remittance in the very near future .

She'd be surprised if it wasn't applied to her rump in the very near future .

Besides the present releases, at least three others are planned for the fairly near future .

In Cowley's opinion, the arrogant little man should be invited to leave the country in the very near future indeed.

It was hoped that there might be one or more lawyers in post in the relatively near future .

The trade of elephant catching and training is likely to die out in the very near future .

There could also be an own brand product in the very near future .

Reading the scriptures, they translate this into the very near future .

impossible

It's been near impossible for anymole to see him since November, when he went into retreat.

And these are in no way direct comparisons - that's near impossible .

perfect

In the latter case the specimen is of near perfect geometry for a torsion test.

Conclusions: The velvet cloth is a near perfect black, but more expensive and less readily available than the other materials.

Unfortunately, strong winds curtailed the sport on a near perfect river level carrying about four inches extra, but fining off.

In the main, larval control would have to be near perfect in its efficiency and to allow very few adults to survive.

In this chapter, I look at what would happen if the acoustic-phonetic front-end did achieve near perfect performance.

■ VERB

come

And for years and years they never came near .

For a time young Jarratt lived in a rural county, where no minister came near .

Gathered, all of them, boys and girls aged eight to twelve, at the play-yard railings when he came near .

She never once attacked others who came near .

They must know by now whether a relief force was coming near .

With all that booze I came near to passing out.

And just then the noble knight came near , on his black horse.

When the boat bringing us over came near to land, I fell to my knees.

damn

My dybbuk set out to drive me crazy, and she damned near did.

Why, Seikaly was damned near fully operational.

draw

As we drew near and I watched 747 after 747 climbing laboriously into the clouds, I wondered what fate befell me.

As lunch-time drew near I decided to let the children listen to the music while they were having their meal.

As closing time drew near , the children grew less.

As the pair drew near he turned and fled.

The roar of the crackling fire drew near and doom seemed inevitable.

Men prosper for a decade, and demons dare not draw near !

Macbean's move comes as the deadline for the second of the quarterly awards draws near .

The bailiff directed all to draw near and give their attendance, promising that they would be heard.

get

He stood up as she got near , taking off his sunglasses politely, and they shook hands.

I guess when you get near forty you kind of change.

We could see them, but we couldn't get near because there was no wind.

In fact, it was sometimes so crowded that customers could not get near !

They played well when you got near enough to hear.

And how are we to get near ?

This is the thanks we get near civil war in the boardroom.

Eventually the vessel got near enough for us to see that it was a passenger steamer.

live

Families living near by were warned to stay indoors because of toxic smoke.

There is a torn up house I live near and the stairs are broken down.

Only those people who live near by are allowed to open accounts.

The next day he and another Bengali boy who lives near by chose another way home, hoping to escape the attackers.

Larger numbers of roe deer live near there and Czechoslovakia still has bears and wolves roaming in the wild.

Let us live near together and be kind to each other and love each other.

Her children all live near , and the house is still full with visiting grandchildren.

miss

He had had numerous prangs and near misses in his motoring life and not one of them had been his fault.

Anything short of a very near miss merely blew them away.

Discuss the reasons for incidents and near misses with your colleagues, so that the lessons can be learned. 7.

The first questionnaire was about their driving experience including the questions about accidents and near misses that were reported in Study 1.

Warlow's claim that the Earth has flipped five times over 13,000 years implies a cosmic near miss every 2600 years.

Several other motorists had near misses .

You only get points for winning, not dominating and near misses !

Like other convergences, it includes at least as many collisions and near misses as genuine meeting points.

stand

A guard with a huge Alsatian stood near by.

Miss Sumida stands near , almost touching me, for most of the conversation.

He felt worse because a policeman, who was standing near , laughed and walked away.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Nearer my God to Thee

be at/near etc the end of your rope

be located in/near etc sth

At Mallia, a similarly designed suite was located in the north-west corner of the temple.

The bulk of the world's rainforests, 97 percent, are located in 27 developing countries.

The four metropolitan areas with the highest rents were located in California: San Jose, $ 1, 330.

The three theaters are located in the center of town.

When you get an office, you will be located in a business world.

While the industrial sector remained small in real terms, much industrial production continued to be located in rural areas.

draw near/closer

As the habeas hearing drew near, Lancaster County officials' concern over these revelations grew noticeable.

As the pair drew near he turned and fled.

As the race drew closer it was time for Paul to take a back seat.

As we drew near and I watched 747 after 747 climbing laboriously into the clouds, I wondered what fate befell me.

Men prosper for a decade, and demons dare not draw near!

The bailiff directed all to draw near and give their attendance, promising that they would be heard.

They drew near the bed and stared down at the boy who lay there sleeping in its drifts of tumbling lace.

Two young boys, of around ten years of age, drawing closer, then parallel, now swiftly passing, past.

near enough

At noon they saw it; then they were near enough to hear it.

Filmer had been sitting with his back to me, it was true, but near enough to overhear.

He is near enough to hear them calling, the words bounced and steered and elongated by the contours of the land.

Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries, but both are near enough to fitness and form.

No one was near enough to accost her or wonder about her presence.

The Trojans were almost near enough to set the ships on fire.

When he saw me, he leaned on his shovel until I was near enough to shake hands.

near the knuckle

not anything like/near

not anywhere near

nowhere near

After eight hours climbing, we were still nowhere near the top of the mountain.

The car was parked in the middle of the street, nowhere near the curb.

the Near East

too close/near for comfort

At times, the similarities are too close for comfort , edging towards the derivative.

But our last memory was of a nightingale pair, singing in competition in territories perhaps too close for comfort .

Cross-addictions may be hotly denied because the subject matter may for some be too close for comfort .

In a wave trough I caught a glimpse of a coral head to port: a little too close for comfort .

Lightning dipped and veered in a manner which was far too close for comfort .

Richard, and you quite see why, finds economy airline seats too close for comfort .

The movement brought him too close for comfort .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Add the cream near the end of the cooking time.

Asha's office is near the vending machines.

Sasha grew up on a farm near Ithaca, New York.

II. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

much

But he's much nearer than he was.

On 23 April the bombing came much nearer .

This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them.

Possibly, but the site of Clairvaux suggests an explanation much nearer at hand.

Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28.

If you'd wanted to go to church you could have gone to St Ermin's which is much nearer .

The answer was much nearer home.

The sounds came from the left this time and were much nearer .

■ NOUN

completion

The purchaser should identify the need for an independent valuation as early as possible to avoid subsequent delay nearer completion .

This is despite the near completion of a £70,000 five year project set up to save the paths.

disaster

It took a couple of near disasters to set me straight.

Once again, he had walked away from near disaster .

end

Breakfast was laid on the floor at the near end of the room.

He had his private spot at the near end , where the bar curves into the wall.

future

Unfortunately we have no vacancies at present nor do I anticipate any in the near future .

Rookie Andrew DeClercq might see something besides garbage-time minutes in the near future .

Fears about the threat of more deportations in the near future are believed to be behind the resistance to the police action.

He had the eerie, crystal-ball feeling that there would be another, newer, sadder sentence in the very near future .

Forget oil and land, water is where the most intractable disputes will arise in the near future .

Hope to see you one day in the near future .

Many of the new jobs being created now or in the near future are transient.

Thus, throughout these chapters there is an ominous foreboding of death to come in the near future .

hospital

The nearest hospital is on the main island, and the boat comes only once or twice a day.

People who need cataract surgery are taken by bus to the nearest hospital for surgery, and returned home the next day.

On occasion we took them to the nearest hospital , but beds were not always available.

He promptly turned off the by-pass and headed for the nearest hospital .

She was rushed to the nearest hospital .

Dawn was taken immediately to the nearest hospital and put on a life-support machine in the Intensive Care Unit.

We were in the heart of the rainforest, a day's travel from the nearest hospital .

miss

Owen had, however, the sense of relief that follows a near miss .

None the less, we do have records of many near misses from relatively modern sources.

I was below, completely unaware of this near miss .

The little girl who had had the near miss with the blackboard was the daughter of a minister.

The near miss is exciting; even shocking.

Rarer are stories of near misses of Earth by cosmic projectiles.

neighbour

A fellow farmer and near neighbour in Duns, Ian was an enthusiastic amateur racing driver.

A near neighbour was recruited as a support worker and she too began to become involved in the family arguments.

The library of course was gutted, but Walker Books, a near neighbour of the school, is coming to the rescue.

The nearest neighbour , a farmer well into his seventies, was more than five miles and a range of low hills away.

Charlton Heston lived on the other side and Warren Beatty was also a near neighbour .

Does your nearest neighbour have a higher profile in the area?

neighbours

In those days, it was a community and most people knew their near neighbours well.

She was here alone with him, miles from the nearest neighbours .

The result was a network of 50,000 cortical points, each connected to its nearest neighbours by a line.

But the church's plans are not popular with the vicarage's nearest neighbours .

post

Silvinho swung the ball in at pace to the near post , where Chris Armstrong glanced it into his own net.

Norbury crossed with an overhead kick and Dublin stabbed a close-range shot inside the near post .

The ball rolls slowly inside the near post .

Paul Bosvelt's cross to the near post appeared to be converted by Kluivert and was credited as such by the referee.

Palace spurned numerous chances before Coleman headed in Southgate's cross at the near post after 56 minutes.

Molby swung in the free-kick and Saunders met it perfectly with his head on the near post to score a spectacular goal.

Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left, cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post .

relative

Specially trained staff interviewed the parents or the nearest relative of any study child who died.

Also, as Sheila Silcock's article highlights, the nearest relative may be unaware of their rights under the Act.

The three woodpeckers are different from their nearest relatives in Java and Borneo.

Outside the compound of the bride's parents the processions were met by similar processional parties of near relatives of the bride.

Anything above this is divided between your spouse and parents or nearest relatives , like a brother.

rival

In January, polls showed Dole was leading his nearest rival by 23 percentage points.

Their hosts are Halstead's nearest rivals for survival.

With their nearest rival , Tesco, they've become far and away the most popular places to do the weekly shop.

side

In total the maria cover some 16 % of the Moon's surface-mostly on the near side .

The near side of the Moon was thoroughly photographed and measured.

As the piston is pushed the near side opens and the air pressure closes the back flap.

Most of the near side of the Moon is bright, rough, high terrain, called the lunar highlands.

Cross to tarmac track on the far side of toilet block ahead, ignoring track on near side.

The near side will also appear to be thicker than the far side.

term

In the near term , it does not intend to pay any dividends, instead ploughing all profits back.

To be competitive, Prodigy is working to achieve feature parity with other on-line services in the near term .

The solution has been to concentrate a lot of the debt relief in the near term .

In the near term , the outlook is mixed.

thing

A little bit of sleep was the nearest thing to consolation left for people like us.

So let us accept that I am the nearest thing to a father that Nana has available.

The Algonquin is the nearest thing I have to a home away from home.

A fast ride on a racing bicycle is the nearest thing in this world to man-powered flight.

Here was perhaps the nearest thing to alchemy that had ever been seen in the field of politics.

Still, as Jane belonged nowhere, Sussex became the nearest thing to home.

town

It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearest town , though in actuality it might be only five or six.

We picked up the bodies of the two cops and took them to the nearest town .

He went into the nearest town and bought a proper shovel.

I had driven to Gondal, the nearest town , to make phone calls and have a wash.

From Calais to Albert, the nearest town to Thiepval, is but a two hour drive.

I offered to take them into the nearest town for tea.

Yet another amazing coincidence, to meet in such a small place more than 100 miles from the nearest town !

Internal flight to Poprad, the nearest town , then transport to point of access into the mountains.

village

It stood some way from the nearest village on the road from Brünn to Olmütz.

The nearest village to Stenay is Baaion.

Christopher's potter friend lived in a farmhouse and the nearest village was called Bourg de Visa.

The nearest village was about five miles away.

We met one nomad driving 40 head of cattle in the baking sun, hours from the nearest village .

He then grabbed the reins and drove back along the road, leaving the wounded post-boy to stagger to the nearest village .

Then they set off over the fields for the nearest village , two miles away.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Martha has to drive 20 miles to the nearest doctor.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Also, as Sheila Silcock's article highlights, the nearest relative may be unaware of their rights under the Act.

And those are just a few with Hall of Fame or near Hall of Fame credentials.

At least things are moving now on 2807 and we may have more news in the near future.

Other men in the car were watching them too, and the near ones were listening.

She'd reach for the nearest man, and pull.

The nearest lakes are Derwentwater and the larger Ullswater where you can take a cruise.

You know how far it was from our farm to the nearest golf course?

III. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

live

So, too, do those people in towns who have the misfortune to live near the wrong warehouse.

For example, even those who did live near their kin did not see them especially often.

Airports attract hotels and businesses; they employ large numbers of well-paid staff who like to live near their work.

Such risk assessment is sometimes complicated by the pressure from relatives who do not live near .

Parents and children will live near to other relatives or even share a house with them.

now

The alliance is now nearing a series of big decisions.

The rolling infantry battle was now nearing the edge of the plateau.

The number of known NEAs of all sizes is now nearing four hundred.

■ NOUN

end

It is more likely that it was an old, sick or diseased specimen that was nearing the end of its life.

One such plan was widely discussed as the decade neared its end .

Redundancies have by no means been restricted to those nearing the end of their careers or whose job performance has been subject to criticism.

Is he nearing the end of his career?

A railcoach from Bispham nearing the end of its journey to the Airport at Squires Gate in 1960. 3.

That work is nearing an end now.

Sir Galahad nearing the end of his quest.

Hubbell is nearing the end of a 21-month federal sentence.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Nearer my God to Thee

be at/near etc the end of your rope

near enough

At noon they saw it; then they were near enough to hear it.

Filmer had been sitting with his back to me, it was true, but near enough to overhear.

He is near enough to hear them calling, the words bounced and steered and elongated by the contours of the land.

Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries, but both are near enough to fitness and form.

No one was near enough to accost her or wonder about her presence.

The Trojans were almost near enough to set the ships on fire.

When he saw me, he leaned on his shovel until I was near enough to shake hands.

near the knuckle

not anything like/near

not anywhere near

nowhere near

After eight hours climbing, we were still nowhere near the top of the mountain.

The car was parked in the middle of the street, nowhere near the curb.

the Near East

too close/near for comfort

At times, the similarities are too close for comfort , edging towards the derivative.

But our last memory was of a nightingale pair, singing in competition in territories perhaps too close for comfort .

Cross-addictions may be hotly denied because the subject matter may for some be too close for comfort .

In a wave trough I caught a glimpse of a coral head to port: a little too close for comfort .

Lightning dipped and veered in a manner which was far too close for comfort .

Richard, and you quite see why, finds economy airline seats too close for comfort .

The movement brought him too close for comfort .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As she neared her home she could see a light in the window.

As the deadline neared, both sides agreed to continue talking.

Nevins is nearing 40 but still looks boyish.

Work is nearing completion.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Or it may be that the race is in fact tightening up as the Nov. 5 Election Day nears.

She neared the exit with relief.

The Worth Valley Railway's standard class four 2-6-4T 80002 nears completion.

Then, as we neared home again, I noticed Iobates' bodyguard hiding in ambush.

When the temperature nears 100, pets can get overheated even when riding in air-conditioned cars.

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