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Definition: Near |
NearAdjective1. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call". 2. Being on the left side; "the near or nigh horse is the one on the left"; "the animal's left side is its near or nigh side". 3. Closely resembling the genuine article; "near beer"; "a dress of near satin". 4. Giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man". 5. With or in a close or intimate relationship; "a good friend"; "my sisters and brothers are near and dear". 6. Very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness". 7. (comparative of `close') indicating the one of two that is the shorter distance away; "take the near street and ten turn right". Adverb1. Near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation"; "her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the fire". 2. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; (`near' is used informally for `nearly' as in "I was near exhausted by the run"; `most' is used informally for `almost' as in "most everybody agrees"). Verb1. Move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "near" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Once every 10, 000 years or so they come close to the sun. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Near meaning mean, is rather a curious play on the word close (close-fisted). What is "close by" is near. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Near, Nearly. "James is not near so good a scholar as his brother is." Use nearly. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its launch in honor of Gene Shoemaker, is an unmanned spacecraft designed to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. The primary scientific objectives of NEAR were to return data on the bulk properties, composition, mineralogy, morphology, internal mass distribution and magnetic field of Eros. Secondary objectives include studies of regolith properties, interactions with the solar wind, possible current activity as indicated by dust or gas, and the asteroid spin state. These data will be used to help understand the characteristics of asteroids in general, their relationship to meteoritess and comets, and the conditions in the early solar system. To accomplish these goals, the spacecraft is equipped with an X-ray/gamma ray spectrometer, a near infrared imaging spectrograph, a multi-spectral camera fitted with a CCD imaging detector, a laser rangefinder, and a magnetometer. A radio science experiment was also be performed using the NEAR tracking system to estimate the gravity field of the asteroid. The total mass of the instruments is 56 kg, and they require 81 W power.
Mission Profile
The ultimate goal of the mission was to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros from orbit for approximately one year. Eros is an S-class asteroid approximately 13 x 13 x 33 km in size, the second largest near-Earth asteroid. Initially the orbit was circular with a radius of 200 km. The radius of the orbit was brought down in stages to a 50 x 50 km orbit on 30 April 2000 and decreased to 35 x 35 km on July 14 2000. The orbit was raised over succeeding months to a 200 x 200 km orbit and then slowly decreased and altered to a 35 x 35 km retrograde orbit on December 13, 2000. The mission ended with a touchdown in the "saddle" region of Eros on February 12, 2001.
- Launch Date/Time: 1996-02-17 at 20:43:27 UTC
- On-orbit dry mass: 487 kilograms
- Nominal Power Output: 1800 Watts
After launch on a Delta 7925-8 (a Delta II Lite launch vehicle with nine strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 48 (PAM-D) third stage) and exit from Earth orbit, NEAR entered the first part of its cruise phase. It spent most of this phase in a minimal activity "hibernation" state, which ended a few days before the flyby of the 61 km diameter asteroid 253 Mathilde on June 27, 1997. The spacecraft flew within 1200 km of Mathilde at 12:56 UT at 9.93 km/sec, returning imaging and other instrument data. On July 3, 1997 NEAR executed the first major deep space maneuver, a two-part burn of the main 450 Newton thruster. This decreased the velocity by 279 m/sec and lowered perihelion from 0.99 AU to 0.95 AU. The Earth gravity assist swingby occurred on January 23, 1998 at 7:23 UT. The closest approach was 540 km, altering the orbital inclination from 0.5 to 10.2 degrees, and the aphelion distance from 2.17 to 1.77 AU, nearly matching those of Eros. Instrumentation was active at this time.
The first of four scheduled rendezvous burns on December 20, 1998 at 22:00 UT aborted due to a software problem. Contact was lost immediately after this and was not re-established for over 24 hours. The original mission plan called for these four burns to be followed by an orbit insertion burn on January 10, 1999, but the abort of the first burn and loss of communication made this impossible. A new plan was put into effect in which NEAR flew by Eros on December 23, 1998 at 18:41:23 UT at a speed of 0.965 km/s and a distance of 3827 km from the center of mass of Eros. Images of Eros were taken by the camera, data was collected by the near IR spectrograph, and radio tracking was performed during the flyby. A rendezvous maneuver was performed on January 3 1999 involving a thruster burn to match NEAR's orbital speed to that of Eros. A hydrazine thruster burn took place on January 20 to fine-tune the trajectory. On August 12 a 2 minute thruster burn slowed the spacecraft velocity relative to Eros to 300 km/hr.
Orbital insertion around Eros occurred on 14 February 2000 at 15:33 UT (10:33 AM EST) after NEAR completed a 13 month heliocentric orbit which closely matched the orbit of Eros. A rendezvous maneuver was completed on February 3 at 17:00 UT, slowing the spacecraft from 19.3 to 8.1 m/s relative to Eros. Another maneuver took place on February 8 increasing the relative velocity slightly to 9.9 m/s. Searches for satellites of Eros took place on January 28, and 4 and 9 February, none were found. The scans were for scientific purposes and to mitigate any chances of collision with a satellite. NEAR went into a 321 x 366 km orbit around Eros on February 14. The orbit was slowly decreased to a 35 km circular polar orbit by July 14. NEAR remained in this orbit for 10 days and then was backed out in stages to a 100 km circular orbit by September 5 2000. Maneuvers in mid-October led to a flyby of Eros within 5.3 km of the surface at 07:00 UT on 26 October.
Following the flyby NEAR moved to a 200 km circular orbit and shifted the orbit from prograde near-polar to a retrograde near-equatorial orbit. By December 13, 2000 the orbit was shifted back to a circular 35 km low orbit. where NEAR will remain until the nominal end of mission on February 12, 2001. Starting on January 24 2001 the spacecraft began a series of close passes (5 to 6 km) to the surface and on January 28 passed 2 to 3 km from the asteroid. The spacecraft then made a slow controlled descent to the surface of Eros ending with a touchdown in the "saddle" region of Eros on February 12, 2001 at approximately 20:01 UT (3:01 p.m. EST). To the surprise of the controlers, the spacecraft was undamaged and operational after the landing.
Spacecraft and Subsystems
The spacecraft has the shape of an octagonal prism, approximately 1.7 m on a side, with four fixed gallium arsenide solar panels in a windmill arrangement, a fixed 1.5 m X-band high-gain radio antenna with a magnetometer mounted on the antenna feed, and an X-ray solar monitor on one end (the forward deck), with the other instruments fixed on the opposite end (the aft deck). Most electronics are mounted on the inside of the decks. The propulsion module is contained in the interior.
The craft is three-axis stabilized and uses a single bipropellant (hydrazine / nitrogen tetroxide) 450 Newton (N) main thruster, and four 21 N and seven 3.5 N hydrazine thrusters for propulsion, for a total delta-V potential of 1450 m/s. Attitude control is achieved using the hydrazine thrusters and 4 reaction wheels. The propulsion system carries 209 kilograms of hydrazine and 109 kilograms of NTO oxidizer in two oxidizer and three fuel tanks.
Power is provided by four 1.8 by 1.2 meter gallium arsenide solar panels which can produce 400 Wattss at 2.2 AU (NEAR's maximum distance from the Sun) and 1800 Watts at 1 AU. Power is stored in a 9 amp-hour, 22-cell rechargeable super nickel-cadmium battery.
Spacecraft guidance is achieved through the use of a sensor suite of five digital solar attitude detectors, an inertial measurement unit, (IMU) and a star tracker camera pointed opposite the instrument pointing direction. The IMU contains hemispherical resonator gyroscopes and accelerometers. Four reaction wheels (arranged so that any three can provide complete three-axis control) are used for normal attitude control. The thrusters are used to dump angular momentum from the reaction wheels, as well as for rapid slew and propulsive maneuvers. Attitude control is to 0.1 degree, line-of-sight pointing stability is within 50 microradians over 1 second, and post-processing attitude knowledge is to 50 microradians.
The command and data handling subsytem is composed of two redundant command and telemetry processors and solid state recorders, a power switching unit, and an interface to two redundant 1553 standard data buses for communications with other subsystems. The solid state recorders are constructed from 16 Mbit IBM Luna-C DRAMs. One recorder has 1.1 Gigabits of storage, the other has 0.67 Gigabits.
The NEAR mission was the first launch of NASA's Discovery program, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. The construction, launch, and 30 day cost for this mission is estimated at $122 million.
Reference
- Text adapted from public domain NASA webpage.
External Links
- NSSDC Master Catalog: Spacecraft - NEAR Shoemaker
- NASA JPL: NEAR Shoemaker, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "NEAR Shoemaker."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NEAR | English | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous | Geography |
| NEADEC | English | Near East Animal Production and Health Centre | N/A |
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Synonyms: NearSynonyms: about (adj), all but (adj), almost (adj), approximate (adj), cheeseparing (adj), close (adj), closer (adj), dear (adj), good (adj), just about (adj), most (adj), near(a) (adj), nearly (adj), nigh (adj), nigh(a) (adj), penny-pinching (adj), virtually (adj), well-nigh (adj), approach (v), come near (v), come on (v), draw close (v), draw near (v), go up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: far (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approach | Verb: approach, approximate, appropinquate; near; get near, go near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue; tread on the heels of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land. |
Destiny | Adjective: impending; Verb: destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect; (expected); looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant; (producing). |
Earliness | Sudden; (instantaneous); unexpected; near, near at hand; immediate. |
Futurity | Adjective: future, to come; coming; (impending); next, near; close at hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect; (expectation). |
Parsimony | Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious. |
Similarity | Approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Near |
| English words defined with "near": come near ♦ To come near to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "near": Near Side, Nowhere near so. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "near": Unnear. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Near" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (near). |
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Screenplays | I would if it didn't give me a shock every time I come near it (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) I do, even if I'm never to see you again, I want at least to live near you. (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick) I was just nowhere near your neighborhood (Singles; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) It's near the preschool (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | EVERYTIME YOU'RE NEAR (I KEEP FORGETTIN' (EVERY TIME YOU'RE NEAR); performing artist: Michael McDonald) When I don't have you near (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba) You just need someone near (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply) That the time of Christ was near ("El Shaddai"; performing artist: Amy Grant) Near your soul (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Near the Big Chakra (1971) The House Near the Prado (1969) Don't Go Near the Water (1957) Near the Trail's End (1931) The Near Lady (1923) | |
Song Titles | I Keep Forgettin' (Everytime You're Near) (performing artist: Michael McDonald) Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From A Planet Near Mars (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
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 | 1) A temporary administration building for M.D. Anderson was set up in 1940 in this converted residence known as "the oaks" on the former Baker Estate near downtown Houston. 2) biochemistry and biology laboratories were set up in late 1942 by five scientists using this one-time stable and carriage house on the old Baker Estate. The first patients were seen in other converted residential quarters starting in March, 1944. 3) the permanent home for University of Texas M.D. Anderson hospital began taking shape in the early 1950s in the newly designated Texas Medical Center, which only a few years earlier had been "way out in the woods". 4) M.D. Anderson's first seven-story structure was opened for patient care on March 19, 1954. This initial building contained 310 beds, which were phased into use over a five-year period, along with facilities for cancer research and educational activities. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | If there is a pair of tufts near the base of the siphon, and a ventral row of tufts, or a row of straight hairs following the pecten, the genus is identified as Culiseta. Credit: CDC. |
 | Exterior view of mobile Public Health Clinic near Brunswick, GA. Car, automobile. Credit: CDC. |  | Swirling Skies Near Ireland. Credit: NASA. |
 | This is an artist's concept of the near stellar environment of the star Beat Pictoris. This ... Credit: NASA. |  | The Hubble telescope has captured a flurry of star birth near the heart of the barred spiral ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Near-infrared image of young binary stars with a faint companion (a planet?). (Produced with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA. |  | This image was taken by NEAR as it flew by the Earth-Moon system in January 1998. Credit: NASA. |
 | Hurricane Nora near Baja California on 22 September 1997 1800 UT, asviewed by NOAA GOES-9.The image is a false color composite created from the visible, 4 micron and11 micron channels. Credit: NASA. |  | A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. Credit: NASA. |
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| "Cuban Kids near Cienfuegos" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "I spent an afternoon chasing these kids around their farmyard. The only Spanish I knew was "Yo El Hombre Secreto!" or "I am a secret agent man." I think they thought that was pretty funny." | "Near Shinjuku station" by Tomas Cermak Commentary: ""Neon wood" near JR Shinjuku station in the center of Tokyo." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Andrew Marvell | But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near. |
Confucius | The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. |
Euripides | Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. |
John Dryden | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. |
Lord Byron | Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim. |
Napoleon Hill | If you must slander, don't say it, but write it in the sand near the water's edge. |
Novalis | We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life too near paralyses art. |
| The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And if I have not taken away the conqueror's land, which, being vanquished, it is impossible I should; scarce any other spoil I have done him can amount to the value of mine, supposing it equally cultivated, and of an extent any way coming near what I had overrun of his. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Within six months after the coming into force of the present Treaty the German Government must restore to the French Government the trophies, archives, historical souvenirs or works of art carried away from France by the German authorities in the course of the war of 1870-1871 and during this last war, in accordance with a list which will be communicated to it by the French Government; particularly the French flags taken in the course of the war of 1870-1871 and all the political papers taken by the German authorities on October 1o, 1870, at the chateau of Cercay, near Brunoy (Seine-et-Oise) belonging at the time to Mr. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Already we use together a large number of islands; more may well be entrusted to our joint care in the near future. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She knew a family near Maple Grove who had tried it, and been obliged to separate before the end of the first quarter |
Double Acrostic: Two little girls | Carroll, Lewis | TWO little girls near London dwell, More naughty than I like to tell |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | As he drew near the town, he took an impression of change from the series of familiar objects that presented themselves |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Lucky are they who can get near them |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly was sitting over near the dictionaries |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He might whale you if you go near him. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Glumdalclitch stood upon a stool on the floor, near my table, to assist and take care of me. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | That way I looked between and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Blebs-Cysts on or near the surface of the lungs. (references) | |
The adenoids are located near the eustachian tubes. (references) | ||
It can also occur near the mouth, anus, or on the hands. (references) | ||
Business | New restaurants are planned in the near future. (references) | |
This is not expected to change in the near future. (references) | ||
This could represent tough competition in the near future. (references) | ||
Children | Greece | The idea of setting up satellite elementary schools near Romani camps has been set aside in favor of the policy of integration (except for preschool centers). (references) |
South Africa | In 2000 juveniles awaiting trial were transferred to secure care centers after it was discovered that they were being held with adult prisoners and receiving insufficient medical attention at Pollsmoor prison near Cape Town. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Indonesia | The law restricts demonstrations near specific sites. (references) |
Economic History | Cape Verde | The U.S. market is targeted for the near future. (references) |
Swaziland | Climate: Near temperate, semitropical and semiarid. (references) | |
Moldova | Such civil disturbances are unlikely in the near future. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | On April 11, two bombs exploded in an alley near a BNP rally in Dhaka. (references) |
Somalia | On May 10, a landmine explosion near Ballidogle airstrip killed a man. (references) | |
East Timor | In March 2000, militia members reportedly killed a villager near Maliana. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Suriname | The leaders threatened to isolate the western part of the country if the Government did not take measures against uncontrolled logging near indigenous villages. (references) |
Canada | These legal challenges include one from the Liberal Party that contends that the treaty should have been submitted to a referendum and one from the Gitanyow, an indigenous group located near the Nisga'a, who contend that the treaty awarded more than 85 percent of their traditional tribal lands to the Nisga'a. (references) | |
Indonesia | This includes, but is not limited to, groups such as the Dayak population in Kalimantan, some of whom live in remote forest areas, indigenous communities located throughout Papua, and economically disadvantaged families living as sea nomads on boats near Riau in eastern Sumatra and near Makassar (Ujung Pandang) in southern Sulawesi. (references) | |
Minorities | Bulgaria | Also in June, a night guard in a vegetable garden shot and killed two Romani men in Mogila, near Yambol. (references) |
Bulgaria | In June in Ravnogor, near Plovdiv, the local priest ordered a group of Evangelical Christians to leave the village. (references) | |
Ukraine | In Kiev crosses remained on the territory of an old Jewish cemetery near the site of the Nazi massacre at Babyn Yar. (references) | |
Political Economy | Jordan | The next round of Parliamentary elections is expected near the end of 2001. (references) |
OMAN | A significant proportion of Oman's rural population lives near the poverty line. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | The Austrian government, moreover, has ruled out a lifting of the ban in the near future. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ghana | The political system includes recognized opposition parties, which express their views freely within Parliament and won a near majority of the parliamentary seats in the 2000 election. (references) |
United Kingdom | Although none of the main parties formally accepted the blueprint, and during the following months the devolved government was near collapse several times, significant progress continued on many fronts. (references) | |
Trade | Eritrea | More products will be added to the list in the near future. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Off Ring Road, near Sankara Circle. (references) |
Ghana | Troas Street, Osu, near Shell Station. (references) | |
Argentina | One is Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, near downtown. (references) | |
Women | Niger | Prostitution, which is illegal and hidden, is more prevalent near major mining and military sites. (references) |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | Batam Island, near Singapore, is the largest. (references) |
Belize | The minimum age for employment is 17 years for work near hazardous machinery. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered, A rustic standing near, I said: "He cannot hear it blowing!" "'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going." "Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!" "Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'." I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." Pobeter Dunko |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John McCain | Oh, I think that's right. I think this release of Taliban that took place near Kandahar, the problems that people have moving around the country, the problems that our media are having, you know, with people holding them up and extorting them. |
Julianne Moore | That happens to me at the end of a movie. You know I'm fine at the beginning and then near the end I start getting depressed because I realize I've made all the wrong choices. |
Karl Lagerfeld | This I can answer as a question in a few years because in the middle of things, you can not answer because you have not the distance. What you think it is may be seen from the near future. |
Liza Minnelli | Well, we're going to have to ask David that. I know that I'm going to be playing New York for sure. And I'd love to get out near you. I mean, I love Georgia. |
Rush Limbaugh | We're nowhere near the earth's capacity, which is yet another myth. |
Walter Cronkite | I did. We had one, unfortunately, at CBS many years ago, who worked in the near Middle East and Greece, in that area, Turkey and so forth. And it turned out later that he confessed that he had been working for the government as a spy. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The British Government was accordingly apprised by our minister near it that such was the light in which the subject was to be regarded. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Marys River, near the boundary of the State of Georgia. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I can not refrain from expressing the pleasure I feel at the near approach of that desirable event. |
Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 | In any action calculated to promote an object so near the heart of everyone who truly loves his country I will zealously unite with the coordinate branches of the Government. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Attack and terror increased, spurred and encouraged by the belief that the United States lacked the will to continue and that their victory was near. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We must not relax our efforts to restore military strength just as we near our goal of a fully equipped, trained, and ready professional corps. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Congress and I are near agreement on sweeping welfare reform. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Near" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 79.26% of the time. "Near" is used about 16,697 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 79.26% | 13,234 | 687 |
| Adverb (general) | 16.27% | 2,717 | 3,377 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.32% | 554 | 11,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.8% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.31% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16,697 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "near" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Near | Last name | 1,000 | 13,203 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "near". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Assos | N/A | Biblical | Coming near |
| Azaliah | N/A | Biblical | Near the Lord |
| Esli | N/A | Biblical | Near me |
| Goshen | N/A | Biblical | Drawing near |
| Hazezon-tamar | N/A | Biblical | Drawing near to bitterness |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "near": a near miss ♦ a near thing ♦ ad near ♦ as near as ♦ as near as i can judge ♦ be near ♦ be near at hand ♦ be near one's last ♦ be very near ♦ brign near ♦ bring near ♦ bring near and touch ♦ bringing near ♦ come near ♦ come near to doing smth. ♦ coming near ♦ draw near ♦ draw near to ♦ drawing near ♦ Environment Near Death ♦ Far and near ♦ getting near ♦ go near ♦ in the near future ♦ is it far or near ♦ it was a near miss ♦ live near ♦ near at hand ♦ near beer ♦ near by ♦ near collision ♦ near death ♦ near desert ♦ Near Drowning ♦ near Earth object ♦ near east ♦ Near Eastern equine encephalomyelitis ♦ near enough ♦ near field ♦ near future ♦ near gale ♦ near here ♦ near hour ♦ near infrared ♦ near instantaneous companded audio multiplex ♦ near large town ♦ near miss ♦ near or nigh ♦ near real time ♦ near relation ♦ near run ♦ near side ♦ near sight ♦ near sightedness ♦ near silk ♦ near the center of the city ♦ near the centre of the city ♦ near the knuckle ♦ near the school ♦ near the wind ♦ near there ♦ near to ♦ near to confinement ♦ near to death ♦ near translation ♦ near vision ♦ near work ♦ nothing near so ♦ nowhere near ♦ ring near ♦ sail near ♦ sail near the wind ♦ sail too near the wind ♦ take one's stand near the door ♦ that was a near guess ♦ the near east ♦ the near horse ♦ to come near ♦ To come near to ♦ To get near ♦ very near ♦ warm one's feet near the fire. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "near": near-abortion, near-absence, near-absolute, near-abstract, near-academic, near-accident, near-admissible, near-anarchy, near-and, near-antiques, near-apocalyptic, near-apoplexy, near-appropriate, near-arithmetical, near-as-damn-it, near-at-hand, near-autonomy, near-bald, near-bank, near-bankrupt, near-bankruptcy, near-basilectal, near-black, near-blackness, near-blind, near-blindness, near-boiling, near-boom, near-breakdown, near-bribery, near-brilliance, near-by, near-cadavers, near-camera-ready, near-canonical, near-capacity, near-cash, near-catastrophic, near-certain, near-certainties, near-certainty, near-chaos, near-chaotic, near-clean, near-coastal, near-collapse, near-collision, near-collisions, near-coma, near-complete, near-comprehension, near-contemporaries, near-contemporary, near-continent, near-continual, near-continuous, near-crash, near-daily, near-dark, near-darkness, near-darwinist, near-death, near-definitive, near-degenerate, near-deification, near-deified, near-delirious, near-demented, near-demonic, near-derelict, near-desert, near-deserted, near-despair, near-dictatorial, near-dipolar, near-disaster, near-disastrous, near-disbelief, near-disintegration, near-dismissal, near-distance, near-distant, near-dormitory, near-doubling, near-drought, near-drowned, near-drowning, near-drownings, near-duties, near-earth, near-eastern, near-empty, near-endemic, near-equal, near-equals, near-equi-status, near-equity, near-equivalence, near-equivalent, near-escape, near-establishment, near-excellent, near-exclusive, near-exhaustion, near-extinct, near-extinction, near-fainting, near-family, near-famine, near-famous, near-farcical, near-fatal, near-faultless, near-feudal, near-field, near-flat, near-fluorescent, near-flush, near-fore, near-foreleg, near-forgiving, near-forgotten, near-fourfold, near-foveal, near-frantic, near-fratricidal, near-freezing, near-front, near-full, near-future, near-gale, near-geometric, near-ghetto, near-ground, near-hagiography, near-handsomeness, near-heroic, near-homicidal, near-homophone, near-homophony, near-hopeless, near-horizon, near-horizontal, near-hysteria, near-hysterical, near-ideal, near-identical, near-identity, near-idleness, near-illegible, near-images, near-immortal, near-impassable, near-impenetrable, near-impossibility, near-impossible, near-inarticulate, near-incarceration, near-incoherent, near-incredulity, near-independent, near-indian, near-indifference, near-industrial, near-inedible, near-inextricable, near-inflationary, near-infrared, near-infra-red, near-insolvency, near-instant, near-instantaneous, near-integrity, near-interminable, near-invincible, near-invisibility, near-invisible, near-ir, near-irreverent, near-knackered, near-landlocked, near-leather, near-legendary, Near-legged, near-level, near-line, near-linear, near-linearity, near-literal, near-live, near-magical, near-market, near-marxist, near-masterpiece, near-maximal, near-mediterranean, near-meeting, near-merger, near-metamorphic, near-miracle, near-miraculous, near-miss, near-misses, near-monastic, near-money, near-monominerallic, near-monopoly, near-monospecific, near-monster, near-moribund, near-mystical, near-naked, near-nakedness, near-natural, near-neighbour, near-neighbours, near-net, near-nightmare, near-normal, near-novels, near-nuclear, near-obscurity, near-optimum, near-pacifist, near-panic, near-paralysis, near-parental, near-passion, near-pathological, near-peak, near-perfect, near-perfection, near-permanent, near-perpendicular, near-persecution, near-photographic, near-pink, near-polar, near-post, near-poverty, near-priceless, near-printing, near-profile, near-puppet, near-pure, near-quarrel, near-rebellion, near-record, near-relation, near-relative, near-religious, near-replica, near-residual, near-restriction, near-reunion, near-reverence, near-revolutionary, near-riot, near-room-temperature, near-rp, near-ruin, near-ruined, near-ruins, near-sacred, near-sacrilege, near-saints, near-satanic, near-senile, near-sensational, near-shapeless, near-shaven, near-shore, near-side, near-sighted, near-silence, near-silent, near-similar, near-simultaneity, near-site, near-six, near-smile, near-sobbing, near-solitude, near-sonic, near-space, near-specific, near-spent, near-spherical, near-square, near-stagnant, near-stagnation, near-standard, near-starvation, near-still, near-straight, near-stranger, near-strangers, near-strangling, near-submission, near-suburban, near-suffocation, near-suicidal, near-supporting, near-surface, near-synonym, near-synonymity, near-synonyms, near-synonymy, near-teenage, near-tender, near-term, near-terrorist, near-the-knuckle, near-threshold, near-tide, near-to, near-to-hand, near-toothless, near-top, near-total, near-to-the-soil, near-touchable, near-transparent, near-triggering, near-tropical, near-twice, near-two, near-typeset, near-ultraviolet, near-unanimity, near-unanimous, near-unconscious, near-universal, near-universality, near-upright, near-uv, near-vacuum, near-vagrancy, near-verbatim, near-vertical, near-victim, near-victory, near-violent, near-virgin, near-wagnerian, near-war, near-wellbore, near-white, near-worthless, near-zero. | |
Ending with "near": damn-near, ever-drawing-near, next-near, ver-near. | |
Containing "near": predator-near-nest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "near"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | na (about, after, behind, close, nearby, to, toward, towards), aanstaande (close, nearby, next). (various references) | |
Albanian | afër (about, at, at hand, beside, by, close, close to, hard by, near to, nearby, next to, nigh). (various references) | |
Arabic | عند (at, by, if possible), في مستوي, لدى (at, at the side of, to, with), قريب (adjacent, akin, approaching, close, cognate, connection, connexion, contiguous, impending, kin, kinsman, nearby, nearer, next of kin, nigh, on familiar terms, propinquity, related, relational, relative, thereabout, thereabouts), قرب (approach, beside, bring closer, close to, closeness, nearness, next to, prefer, proximity, towards, vicinity), حميم (bosom, chummy, close, crony, familiar, friendly, intimate, special, warm), تقريبا (about, all but, almost, most, nearly, quasi, roughly, somewhere, thereabouts, upward, upwards, well nigh), عند (at, with), على مقربة من, على مقربة (about, close to, nigh, proximate), القريب (close, relative), إقترب (approach, bear up, draw near), بالقرب (over, within easy reach), بإلقرب. (various references) | |
Breton | tost. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | засягащ някого отблизо, икономично (economically), пестелив (abstemious, canny, economical, forehanded, frugal, husbandly, parsimonious, provident, saving, spare, sparing, thrifty), пестеливо (carefully, economically, frugally, sparingly), почти (about, almost, approximately, half, like, nearly, next to, nigh, on, practically, say, something like, virtually, well nigh), почти точен, приближавам се до (touch on), приблизителен (approximate, approximative, proximate, round, rude), приблизително (about, approximately, at a rough guess, much, nearly, roughly, round about, some, something like, somewhere about), пряк (direct, forthright, immediate, lineal, straight), близо до (alongside, by, nearby, next, nigh), близко (closely, inly, intimately, nearly), интимен (downstage, familiar, fireside, informal, inner, inofficial, intimate, keyhole, pally, personal, private, privy, tete a tete, thick), буквален (diplomatic, literal, textual, verbal, word), стиснат (cheeseparing, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, mean, mingy, penurious, sparing, squeezed, tight, tight-fisted), наближавам (draw near, verge on), наблизо (around, by, close, hard, hereabout, in the offing, near by, nigh, within easy reach), недалеч от, отсамен (nearest), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), който имитира, който прилича на, който замества, който виси на косъм, кратък (brief, compact, concise, curt, horary, little, short, swift, transient, transitory), точен (accurate, careful, correct, exact, express, faithful, just, literal, minute, narrow, perfect, pinpoint, precise, precision, proper, punctual, refined, right, rigorous, scientific, sensitive, straight, strict, true, unerring, veracious, well-directed), близък (adjacent, akin, allied to, chummy, close, familiar, impendent, kindred, neighboring, neighbouring, next, nigh, pally, pressing, prospective, sister, solid, sympathetic, thick, toward). (various references) | |
Catalan | pròxim (close, nearby, next). (various references) | |
Chinese | 邇 , 近 (approximately, close), 靠近 (approach), 靠 (against, by, depend upon, lean on, to support), 瀕 , 在附近 (Around), 接近 (close to), 汔 , 比鄰 (neighbor, next to, next-door neighbor), 傍 (nestle), 促 (to hasten, to hurry, to promote, to rush). (various references) | |
Croatian | kod (at). (various references) | |
Czech | u (aft, at, beside, by, on, over, up, with), blízko (by, close, close at hand, hard by, next to, nigh). (various references) | |
Danish | nærheden (about, close, nearby), nær (about, close, nearby), hos (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to, with). (various references) | |
Dutch | komend (close, nearby, next), eerstvolgend (close, nearby, next), aanstaand (close, following, nearby, next). (various references) | |
Esperanto | proksime de (close to), proksime al (close to), proksime (close, nearby), proksiman, proksima (close, nearby, next), apud (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Faeroese | nær (about, as, close, nearby, when), náminda (about, close, nearby), undir liðini á (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to), fyri hond (about, close, nearby), øðrumegin við (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Farsi | نزدیک شدن (Accede, Approach, Nigh, Verge), نزدیک (About, Adjacent, At, Beside, Besides, By, Close, Contiguous, Hailfellow, In, Neighbor, Nigh, Proximate, Upcoming), قریب (About, Nigh), تقریبا (About, Almost, Much, Nigh, Some), صمیمی (Chum, Chummy, Cordial, Hailfellow, Heartfelt, Intimate, Privy, Real, Sincere, Unaffected, Warm). (various references) | |
Finnish | lähellä (at a short distance, close, close by, near by), läheinen (adjacent, close, intimate, nearby, near-by, next). (various references) | |
French | proche (nearby, neighbor, next), près (nearby), prochaine (nearby, next), près de (near to, nearby, nearly, next to). (various references) | |
French Canadian | près. (various references) | |
Frisian | takomme (close, nearby, next), oankomme (arrive, close, end up, get, nearby, next), by (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
German | nahe (about, close, contiguous, kinship, nearby, next, nigh), bei (about, among, at, beside, by, despite, during, in, in case of, near to, nearby, next to, nr, of, on, to, upon, with). (various references) | |
Greek | κοντά (about, close, nearby). (various references) | |
Guarani | ypýpe (near to). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | bò (side). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | afërm (close, intimate, nearby, next, relations, relatives), afër (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליד (at, beside, by, close to, next to, on), לקרב (approach, bring closer, bring near), להתקרב (approach, approximate, draw near), להדי, לגשת (approach, come near, set to, start), קרוב (approximation, at hand, bringing near, close, drawing near, nearness, next, nigh, proximity), על יד (alongside, by, close by, next to), אצל (at, at someone's place, by, in, to, with), כמעט (about, all but, almost, nearly, virtually), גב (back, by, elevation, hind part of, rim), בסמוך (close to), סמוך ל- (whereabouts). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mellett (along, at, beside, by, death-watch, given the proper conditions, near to, nearby, next, next to, nip and tuck, past, to dwell on sg, to give sy the cut direct, to rush past sy, with), majdnem (all but, almost, just, little short of it, much, narrowly, nearly, next door to, nigh, pretty near, quasi, to be scarcely able to keep one's head above water, well nigh, wellnigh, within an inch), hajszálon múló. (various references) | |
Indonesian | dekat (at, by, close, imminent, nearby, nigh), dekap, damping. (various references) | |
Irish | fogus. (various references) | |
Italian | vicino (about, adjacent, by, close, convenient, early, forthcoming, handy, near by, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, nigh), prossimo (close, coming, early, forthcoming, nearby, neighbor, neighbour, next, proximo), accanto (alongside, beside, near by, nearby, next, next to, nigh, past). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 近い (close by, short), 近く (neighbourhood, vicinity), 直ぐ側 (immediately), 程近い , 程近い , 手近 (familiar, handy), の辺りに (by, close by, gasp, in the neighborhood of, in the vicinity of, pant, yes), 傍 (beside, besides, close, edge, proximity, side, third person, vicinity, while), 側 2 (beside, close, vicinity), 側 (beside, besides, case, close, edge, part, proximity, row, side, surroundings, third person, vicinity, while). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すぐそば (immediately), そば (beside, besides, close, proximity, soba, vicinity, while), のほとりに (by, close by, in the neighborhood of, in the vicinity of), ほどちかい, てぢか (familiar, handy), ちかい (basement, block, boundary, bounds of the earth, cellar, close by, landmass, oath, short, vow), ちかく (earth core, earth's crust, neighbourhood, perception, vicinity). (various references) | |
Korean | 의 가까이에. (various references) | |
Manx | faare (adjacent, presence; towards you, proximity), er gerrey (approaching, close to, imminent), er cheu (pro), cruin (masts), aare. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nær (at, beside, by, close, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | near. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earnay.(various references) | |
Polish | obok (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to), blisko (about, close, nearby), bliski (close, nearby, next). (various references) | |
Portuguese | perto (aboard, about, anigh, by, close, hard, hereby, nearby, next-door, nigh, on), próximo (approximate, by, close, close by, coming, convenient, forthcoming, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next-door, oncoming, proximate, speedy, up). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | próximo (next), próxima, perto. (various references) | |
Quechua | plasaneqpi (near the town square), mayuneqpi (near the river), inlishaneqpi (near the church). (various references) | |
Romanian | lângã (beside, by, in the vicinity of, next, over), aproape de (about, anigh, around, at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to, toward, towards). (various references) | |
Russian | у (at, beside, by, in, near to, next to, off, over), около (about, abt about, around, around [], at, beside, by, cca circa, in the neighbourhood of, in the vicinity of, near to, nearly, next to, nr near, some [], toward, towards). (various references) | |
Scottish | gar (although he should, although not : gar an till e, although: *ga-ro. For ga, va. warm at a fire, warm), gair (call), faisg (at, beside, by, near to, near to it, near: See fagus, nearby, next to, pick off vermin: for root See caisg), fagus , faisg, aig (at, beside, by, in the possession of, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tik (close, hereby, teak, tic), taman (dark, dim, just, just right, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, narrow, opaque, tenebrous), susedan (neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring), približiti se (approach, approximate, bring closer, get on to), pri (at, in, on, over, towards), pored (along, alongside, alongside of, bedside, beside, besides, by, close to, next to, notwithstanding, past, spite: in spite of), obližnji (nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, vicinal), jedva (barely, faintly, hairbreadth, hardly, scarce, scarcely), blizu (by, close, close to, hard, near to, nearby, nearly, vicinity: in the vicinity), blizak (close, imminent, impendent, nigh). (various references) | |
Spanish | cerca (aboard, about, around, by, close, fence, nearby, nigh, short), próximo (approaching, close, coming, following, forthcoming, future, handy, impending, nearby, next, proximate), entrante (bight, close, entrant, following, future, inbound, incoming, ingoing, inlet, nearby, new, next, starter), cercano (close, evident, handy, near by, nearby, neighboring, neighbouring, nigh), cerca de (about, against, approximately, around, at, beside, by, close to, near to, nearby, next to, nigh). (various references) | |
Swahili | karibu (nearby). (various references) | |
Swedish | nära (at hand, cherish, close, close to, closely, entertain, impolite, intimate, nearly, nigh, off, proximate, up-close), när (about, as, close, nearby, that, when, with). (various references) | |
Tagalog | malapit, malápit (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Thai | ในระยะเวลาอันใกล้, ใกล้เข้ามา, ใกล้ (be-, by, close, on). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaklaşmak (approach, approximate, be pushing, bear down on, close, come close to, come near, come on, come up, converge, draw, draw close, draw near, draw on, get hotter, get warmer, go on for, push, step up, verge, walk up, walk up to), yaklaşık olarak (almost, approximately, as nearly as I can tell, in the neighborhood of, in the neighbourhood of, roundly, something like, thereabout, thereabouts), yakınlaşmak (affiliate, be drawn to smb., knit up), yakında (at hand, ere long, fast by, hard by, incidentally, nearby, round, shortly, soon), yakın (adjacent, akin, akin to, approximate, at hand, by, close, close to, close-rage, connate, connected, connection, connexion, contiguous, convenient, familiar, handy, hard, hard by, immediate, imminent, inseparable, intimate, near at hand, nigh, not far, pending, proximate, relative, thick, within reach, within walking distance), samimi (candid, childlike, chummy, companionable, cordial, devout, earnest, familiar, folksy, forthright, Frank, free, freehearted, friendly, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, intimate, jannock, on the square, open armed, openhearted, outspoken, pally, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, truthful, undesigning, unequivocal, warm, whole-hearted), hemen hemen (about, all but, almost, at close quarters, barely, much, nearly, next door to, next to, nigh, practically, pretty much, proximate, scarcely, well nigh), eli sıkı (close-fisted, hard-fisted, mean, shabby, skinny, tight, tight-fisted), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), bitişik (adjacent, adjoined, adjoining, attached, close, conjunct, connate, connected, contiguous, juxtaposed to, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яakyn, golaя (about, next), duldegюir (neighborly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | майже не (no), дріб'язковий (cheeseparing, fribble, mean-spirited, niggling, nugacious, nugatory, penny-wise, pettifogging, piddling, toy, trifling), поблизу (about, alongside, anear, anigh, around, aside, beside, by, hereabout, hereabouts, hereby, nearby, nigh, thereabout, thereabouts, thereby), прилеглий (abutting, adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring), підходити (approach, become, befall, befit, beseem, come up to, draw on, like, nigh, pertain, satisfy), ближче до, близький (agnate, akin, allied, approximate, congenial, contiguous, familiar, intimate, nearby, neighbor, neighbour, nigh), близько (about, anigh, around, at close range, bain, close, closely, familiarly, hard upon, near at hand, nearly, nigh, short, something like, somewhere, thereabout, thereabouts), безпосередньо (direct, directly, first hand, immediately, live, nearly, straight), бережливо (abstemiously), біля (against, alongside, anigh, around, at, by, nearly, next, on, round), мало (few, scantily), мало не (almost, nearly), до (against, as far as, at, before, by, down, ere, for, into, of, on, or, previous to, previously to, prior to, till, to, to the, toward, towards, until, unto, while), майже повний, сусідній (adjacent, adjoining, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door, surrounding), наближатися (approach, appropinquate, approximate, be anear, come near, draw, nigh, verge, wear), недалеко (about, nearby), незабаром (after a while, anon, before long, ere long, near at hand, odd-come-shortly, presently, shortly, soon), ощадливо (abstemiously, economically, frugally), важкий (arduous, awkward, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, heavyweight, laborious, leaden, muggy, opulent, ponderous, robust, sweaty, toilful, toilsome, trying, wall eyed, walloping, weighty), коло (anear, anigh, aside, by, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, on, orb, ring, round, verge, wheel), короткий (brief, compendious, concise, curt, recapitulative, recapitulatory, short), тісно пов'язаний, скоро (anon, early, in a while, odd-come-shortly, shortly, soon), скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), скупо (grudgingly, meanly, scantily), схожий (affined, akin, alike, analogous, approximate, cognate, compatible, like, resemblant, similar), майже (about, all but, almost, anear, approximately, as good as, but, half, hard upon, just about, much, nearby, nearly, next door to, next to, nigh, nighly, practically, quasi, quite, well nigh, within). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sát tỉ mỉ chi ly, không xa chi ly, keo kiệt bên trái, keo kiệt (iron-fisted, miserly, scrimpy, skimpingly, stingy), gần (by, closely, hard, inch, near-by, nearly, next, proximate, verge, well-nigh), chắt bóp, cận thân giống, ở gần; sắp tới. (various references) | |
Welsh | gerllaw (adjacent, at hand, beside), ger (at, beside, by, near to, next to), cyfagos (adjacent, neighboring), closio (close), agos (almost, approximate, nigh). (various references) | |
Wolof | wetu. (various references) | |
Yucatec | naats' (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Zulu | eduze (at, beside, by, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | peri, plesios. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | admovebat, admovens, admovere, admoveri, admovissent, admovit, adposita, adpositae, adpositaque, adpositi, adpositis, adpositus, adpositusque, adpropinquo, adsedero, adsedit, adsidebat, adsidentium, adstabant, adstabit, adstabo, adstans, adstantes, adstanti, adstantibus, adstantium, adstat, adstetit, adstiterunt, adstitit, alloes, appetentes, appetitus, appetunt, appetuntur, aserim, circa, circiter, circum, congressi, congressis, congressus, iuxta, juxta, prope, propinqua, propinqui, propinquis, propinquo, propinquorum, propinquos, propinquum, propinquus, propius, propter, superstes, superstitem. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | â, âiti, aiwi, asne, ava-, avi-, upa, upa-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 9, Verse 38 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EgguV de oushV luddhV th iopph oi maqhtai akousanteV oti petroV estin en auth apesteilan duo andraV proV auton parakalounteV mh oknhsai dielqein ewV autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum autem prope esset Lydda ab Ioppe discipuli audientes quia Petrus esset in ea miserunt duos viros ad eum rogantes ne pigriteris venire usque ad nos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And for Lidda was nyy Joppe, the disciplis herden that Petre was thereynne, and senten twei men to hym, and preieden, That thou tarie not to come to vs. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Lydda was nye to Ioppa and the disciples had hearde that Peter was there they sent vnto hym desyrynge him that he wolde not be greved to come vnto them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent to him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And because Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having knowledge that Peter was there, sent two men to him, requesting him to come to them straight away. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 9, Verse 38 |
| Albanian | Dhe, duke qenë se Lida është afër Jopës, dishepujt, kur morën vesh se Pjetri ndodhej atje, i dërguan dy burra që ta lutnin të vijë tek ata pa vonesë. |
| Cebuano | Ug tungod kay ang Lida duol ra man sa Jope, sa pagkadungog sa mga tinun-an nga si Pedro didto sa Lida, siya ilang gipaadtoan ug duha ka tawo nga sa ingon nagpakilooy kaniya, "Umari ikaw kanamo sa walay langan." |
| Chinese | 呂 大 原 與 約 帕 相 近 ． 門 徒 聽 見 彼 得 在 那 裡 、 就 打 發 兩 個 人 去 見 他 、 央 求 他 說 、 快 到 我 們 那 裡 去 、 不 要 耽 延 。 |
| Croatian | A kako je Lida blizu Jope, uèenici èuše da je Petar ondje i poslaše k njemu dva èovjeka s molbom: "Doði k nama, ne oklijevaj!" |
| Danish | Men efterdi Lydda var nær ved Joppe, udsendte Disciplene, da de hørte, at Peter var der, to Mænd til ham og bade ham: "Kom uden Tøven over til os!" |
| Dutch | En alzo Lydda nabij Joppe was, de discipelen, horende, dat Petrus aldaar was, zonden twee mannen tot hem, biddende, dat hij niet zou vertoeven tot hen over te komen. |
| Finnish | Ja koska Lydda oli lähellä Joppea, niin opetuslapset, kun kuulivat Pietarin olevan siellä, lähettivät kaksi miestä hänen luoksensa pyytämään: "Tule viipymättä meidän tykömme". |
| French | Comme Lydde est près de Joppé, les disciples, ayant appris que Pierre s`y trouvait, envoyèrent deux hommes vers lui, pour le prier de venir chez eux sans tarder. |
| German | Nun aber Lydda nahe bei Joppe ist, da die Jünger hörten, daß Petrus daselbst war, sandten sie zwei Männer zu ihm und ermahnten ihn, daß er sich's nicht ließe verdrießen, zu ihnen zu kommen. |
| Hungarian | Mivelhogy pedig Lidda Joppéhoz közel vala, a tanítványok meghallván, hogy Péter ott van, küldének két férfiút õ hozzá, kérve, hogy késedelem nélkül menjen át hozzájuk. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yope tidak seberapa jauh dari Lida. Jadi pada waktu pengikut-pengikut Yesus di Yope mendengar Petrus berada di Lida, mereka mengutus dua orang pergi kepada Petrus dengan pesan ini, "Cepat-cepatlah datang kemari." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sebab negeri Lidda itu berdekat dengan Yoppe, kedengaranlah kepada murid-murid bahwa Petrus ada di sana, lalu disuruhkan dua orang kepadanya mengajak dia, "Jangan lambat datang kepada kami." |
| Italian | E poiché Lidda era vicina a Giaffa i discepoli, udito che Pietro si trovava là, mandarono due uomini ad invitarlo: «Vieni subito da noi!». |
| Maori | Na, i te mea e tata atu ana a Raira ki Hopa, ka rongo nga akonga kei reira a Pita, a ka tonoa e ratou tokorua nga tangata ki a ia, hei mea, Kaua e whakaroa te haere mai ki a matou. |
| Norwegian | Og da Lydda ligger nær ved Joppe, og disiplene hadde hørt at Peter var der, sendte de to menn til ham og bad: Dryg ikke med å komme hit til oss! |
| Portuguese | Como Lida era perto de Jope, ouvindo os discípulos que Pedro estava ali, enviaram-lhe dois homens, rogando-lhe: Não te demores em vir ter conosco. |
| Rumanian | Fiindcq Lida este aproape de Iope, ucenicii, cknd au auzit cq Petru este acolo, au trimes doi oameni la el, sq -l roage: Nu pregeta sq vii pknq la noi. |
| Shuar | Jupe péprusha Rítianmaya Tíjiuch ámiayi. Júpenmaya Yus-shuar Rítianam Pítiur pujan nekaawar Jimiará aishmankan akatrar akupkarmiayi, Júpenam wari Winití tusar. |
| Spanish | Como Lida estaba cerca de Jope, los discípulos, al oír que Pedro estaba allí, le enviaron dos hombres para que le rogaran: "No tardes en venir hasta nosotros." |
| Swahili | Yopa si mbali sana na Luda; kwa hiyo wafuasi waliposikia kwamba Petro alikuwa Luda, wakawatuma watu wawili kwake na ujumbe: "Njoo kwetu haraka iwezekanavyo." |
| Swedish | Då nu Lydda låg nära Joppe och lärjungarna hade hört att Petrus var där, sände de två män till honom och bådo honom att utan dröjsmål komma till dem. |
| Uma | Topetuku' Yesus hi Yope mpo'epe karia-na Petrus hi Lida, apa' ngata Yope toe mohu' -wadi hi Lida. Toe pai' rahubui rodua tauna hilou hi Petrus, merapi' bona napesahui tumai hi Yope. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "near": nearby, neared, nearer, nearest, nearing, nearlier, nearliest, nearly, nearness, nearnesses, nears, nearshore, nearside, nearsides, nearsighted, nearsightedly, nearsightedness, nearsightednesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "near": anear, bilinear, colinear, collinear, curvilinear, interlinear, linear, noncollinear, nonlinear, overnear, rectilinear, trilinear, unilinear. (additional references) | |
Words containing "near": aneared, anearing, anears, colinearities, colinearity, collinearities, collinearity, curvilinearities, curvilinearity, inearth, inearthed, inearthing, inearths, interlinearly, interlinears, linearise, linearised, linearises, linearising, linearities, linearity, linearization, linearizations, linearize, linearized, linearizes, linearizing, linearly, nonearning, nonearnings, nonlinearities, nonlinearity, rectilinearly, tonearm, tonearms, unearmarked, unearned, unearth, unearthed, unearthing, unearthliness, unearthlinesses, unearthly, unearths. (additional references) | |
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"Near" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ena, enan, enare, ener, enor, enr, enra, inar, inear, kear, n'a, naaa, Naar, nae, Naea, Naei, naer, naey, nafr, nahar, nair, Najaar, Najara, Namar, naor, nar, Narai, narf, narg, narj, narq, narr, naru, narx, Navaar, navar, nawr, Nazara, nber, nder, neac, Neacra, nead, neah, neam, nean, neard, neare, neari, nearl, nearo, neary, neas, Neau, neay, neaz, Neca, necar, necare, necra, Neda, nedar, neeh, neej, Neer, neery, neez, nefar, nefax, nega, negar, negare, Nehari, nei, Neikrug, neir, neiw, neiz, nema, neor, neox, neoz, ne'r, nera, nerat, nerb, Nere, nerg, neri, nerl, nern, nerp, nerr, neru, nerw, nesaf, nesar, neu, neuk, Neum, neur, nevah, Neward, newarm, Newart, Neyra, nezar, ngaru, nher, Niacro, niad, niae, niag, Niam, Niar, niav, Niaz, Nibari, nidr, Niemax, Nier, nigar, nimr, nior, nira, nivr, Nizar, Njema, noaa, noar, Nodar, Noehr, noerc, nomar, nour, nuar, nwrac, nyar, Nygaar, Nyiro, nymr, oear, Onera, uear, zear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "near" (pronounced ni"r) |
| 3 | n i" r | auctioneer, bioengineer, conventioneer, domineer, electioneer, engineer, mutineer, pioneer, Rainier, reengineer, sneer, souvenir, veneer. |
| 2 | -i" r | adhere, Amir, appear, austere, bandolier, beer, belvedere, bombardier, Brigadier, budgeteer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, cheer, Chevalier, clear, commandeer, dear, deer, disappear, ear, emir, fear, financier, fleer, Frere, frontier, gear, gondolier, hear, here, insincere, interfere, jeer, Kier, Lear, marketeer, mere, mir, overhear, pamphleteer, peer, persevere, pier, premier, premiere, profiteer, queer, Racketeer, reappear, rear, rehear, revere, sear, sere, severe, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, spear, Speer, speir, sphere, steer, summiteer, unclear, veer, volunteer, year, Zaire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: earn. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ane, are, ear, era, ern, nae, ran. | |
-2 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: anear, anger, antre, arena, arpen, caner, crane, denar, earns, frena, learn, nacre, namer, nares, nears, ramen, rance, ranee, range, raven, redan, regna, reman, renal, reran, rewan, saner, snare, yearn. | |
+2 letters: airmen, aliner, almner, anears, anergy, angers, angler, answer, anther, antler, antres, arcane, ardent, arenas, argent, arisen, arpens, arpent, arseno, arsine, astern, atoner, bander, banger, banker, banner, banter, barmen, barren, borane, brazen, cancer, caners, canker, canner, canter, careen, carmen, carnet, carney, carnie, carven, casern, cavern, cedarn, centra, cornea, craned, cranes, craven, damner, dancer, dander, danger, danker, darken, darned, darnel, darner, denari, denars, denary, earing, earned, earner, enamor, endear, engram, enrage, enrapt, entera, entrap, enwrap, errand, errant, fainer, fanner, fawner, fraena, furane, gainer, gander, ganger, garden, garner, garnet, genera, german, gnawer, graben, grange, graven, hanger, hanker, harden, harken, hernia, inaner, infare, kraken, lancer, lander, lanker, lanner, larine, leaner, learns, learnt, linear, loaner, manger, manner, manure, marine, marten, meaner, merman, moaner, nabber, nacred, nacres, nagger, nailer, naiver, namers, napery, napper, narine, narked, natter, nature, nearby, neared, nearer, nearly, neater, nectar, neural, onager, orange, ornate, pander, panier, panzer, parent, pawner, planer, prance, preman, ragmen, rained, ramens, rances, ranees, ranged, ranger, ranges, ranked, ranker, rankle, ranted, ranter, rapine, rappen, ratine, ratten, ravens, ravine, reagin, reason, recane, recant, redans, reearn, regain, regina, regnal, rehang, reloan, remain, remand, remans, renail, rename, rental, repand, replan, resawn, retain, retina, sander, sanger, sarsen, senary, senora, snared, snarer, snares, sterna, tanker, tanner, tanrec, tavern, thenar, trance, trepan, unbear, unread, unreal, urbane, vainer, vanner, vernal, wander, wanier, wanner, wanter, warden, warned, warner, warren, weaner, yarned, yarner, yawner, yearns, zander, zanier. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Abbreviations 24. Acronyms | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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