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Abrest vs Brest - What's the difference?

abrest | brest |

As an adverb abrest

is .

As a noun brest is

.

abrest

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • :* {{quote-book
  • , year=1885 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=John McElroy , title=The Red Acorn , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Eleven hundred superb young fellows, marching four abrest , with bayonets fixed … }}
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  • , date= , year=1982 , first= , last= , author= , authorlink= , title=Newsletter , site=The English Spelling Society citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-09-06 , passage=Draw a breth for progress, / Tred abrest ahed. }}
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  • , date=1994-02-28 , year= , month= , first= , last= , author= , coauthors= , title=Networking Careers On-line , volume=11 , issue=9 , page=56 , magazine=Network World , publisher=IDG , issn=0887-7661 citation , passage=… was designed to provide you with the information you need to keep abrest of current opportunities … }}
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  • , year=1998 , year_published= , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Bernard DeVoto , quotee=Boit, 1792 , title=The Course of Empire , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , isbn=9780395924983 , page= , passage=This day saw an appearance of a spacious harbour abrest the Ship, haul'd our wind … }}
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  • , year=2006 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Helen Lee , title=Where in the World?: Stories from Everywhere , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Review and Herald Pub Assoc , isbn=9780828018746 , page=316 , passage=He read the words scribbled under the star: "Stand abrest qurtsbolder bring in line with hill … " }}
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  • , year=2007 , year_published= , edition=First , editor= , author=Nirali Prakashan , title=Corporate Planning and Strategic Human Resources Management , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9789380064147 , page=3.8 , passage=Keeping abrest of technological developments requires a careful assessment … }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, abrest ----

    brest

    English

    (wikipedia Brest)

    Etymology 1

    From a (etyl) word for "hill," see Scottish Gaelic bre.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A port city in Brittany, France.
  • Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A city in Belarus, on the border with Poland.