transcription, транскрипция: [ ənʌðə(r) ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Another thing or person means an additional thing or person of the same type as one that already exists.
Mrs. Madrigal buttered another piece of toast...
We’re going to have another baby.
DET : DET sing-n
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Another is also a pronoun.
The demand generated by one factory required the construction of another...
PRON
2.
You use another when you want to emphasize that an additional thing or person is different to one that already exists.
I think he’s just going to deal with this problem another day...
The counsellor referred her to another therapist.
DET : DET sing-n
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Another is also a pronoun.
He didn’t really believe that any human being could read another’s mind.
PRON
3.
You use another at the beginning of a statement to link it to a previous statement.
Another change that Sue made was to install central heating.
DET : DET sing-n
4.
You use another before a word referring to a distance, length of time, or other amount, to indicate an additional amount.
Continue down the same road for another 2 kilometres until you reach the church of Santa Maria...
He believes prices will not rise by more than another 4 per cent.
DET : DET amount
5.
You use one another to indicate that each member of a group does something to or for the other members.
...women learning to help themselves and one another...
PRON : v PRON , prep PRON
6.
If you talk about one thing after another , you are referring to a series of repeated or continuous events.
They kept going, destroying one store after another.
PHRASE : PHR after v
7.
You use or another in expressions such as one kind or another when you do not want to be precise about which of several alternatives or possibilities you are referring to.
...family members and visiting artists of one kind or another crowding the huge kitchen...
PHRASE : usu n PHR