FARTHER


Meaning of FARTHER in English

I. adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

go

Britain has gone farther than any country in the West towards getting a balance between private affluence and public consumption.

But he went farther than Frankenstein, for his interests were also scientific.

There were warning signs now to deter people from going farther .

We have to go farther and farther out to show the real desert.

He cleared his mind and went farther into the vast cathedral.

Then he decided to go farther .

Herodotus can only get us so far; to go farther we need another guide.

Why did one balloon go farther or faster than another?

move

Internet radio has moved farther down that last road.

Residents fearful of their wells becoming contaminated would like to see the one of the wells moved farther south.

The line of towns and smaller farms moved farther west.

Chemistry has lacked as players and coach move farther apart.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A reduced-power transmission would reach out to the fringe of our force and, it was hoped, not farther .

A third of its people are homeless and many of them have fled Chechnya altogether in search of safety farther afield.

If she strapped them down to make herself look boyish they just stuck out a foot farther down, and ached.

It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred.

The Navy and its shipyards remain, and have even gained work from closures farther up the coast.

There could be other events, like the flamethrower attack on an observation post farther along the border.

II. adjective

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore.

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