Along vs Beside - What's the difference?
along | beside |
By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
* {{quote-book, 1892, Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), chapter=(The Adventure of the Cooper Beeches), (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), page=294
, passage=They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor}}
* , chapter=3
, title= * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.
* Bible, 1 (w) vi. 12
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
* {{quote-book, 1892, Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), chapter=(The Boscombe Valley Mystery), (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), page=93
, passage=Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows.}}
* , chapter=13
, title= In company; together.
Onward, forward, with progressive action.
* , chapter=1
, title= Next to; at the side of.
Not relevant to.
Besides; in addition to.
* Alexander Pope:
otherwise; else
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias :
As prepositions the difference between along and beside
is that along is by the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to while beside is next to; at the side of.As adverbs the difference between along and beside
is that along is in company; together while beside is otherwise; else.along
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)citation
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
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Stents to Prevent Stroke, passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}
- The kinewent along the highway.
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Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
Synonyms
* alongst (archaic)Derived terms
* alongside * herealong * therealong * wherealongAdverb
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Synonyms
* alongst (archaic)Derived terms
* go along to get alongDerived terms
{{der3 , all along , along of , along the lines , along those lines , along with , come along , get along , rock along }}Statistics
*beside
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- A small table beside the bed
- That is beside the point
- To all beside , as much an empty shade, / An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with besides . See .Derived terms
* besidely * beside oneself * beside the point * besidesAdverb
(-)- Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.