Another vs Anything - What's the difference?
another | anything |
One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Not the same; different.
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*, chapter=22
, title= *1979 , Micheal Ende, The Neverending Story , p.53 , ISBN 0140386335
*:But that is another''''' story and will be told '''''another time.
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, title= Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.
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In any way, any extent or any degree.
Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; .
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
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*{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Edward S. Moffat, title=Go Forth and Find, page=81-82
, passage=Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.}}
Someone or something of importance.
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* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 6, author=Cindy Chupack, title=An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce, work=New York Times
, passage=So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi. }}
As a determiner another
is one more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.As an adverb anything is
in any way, any extent or any degree.As a pronoun anything is
any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other;.As a noun anything is
someone or something of importance.another
English
Alternative forms
* anoda (Jamaican English) * anotha, anotha' (AAVE- eye dialect)Determiner
(head)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
Usage notes
* As a fused head construction another'' may have a possessive ''another's'' (''plural:'' ''others'', or possessive plural ''other ). It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others. ** **: These two imparadised in one another's arms. * Sometimes, the word "whole" is inserted into another by the common process of tmesis, giving: "a whole nother." This is a colloquialism that some recommend avoiding in formal writing. The prescribed alternatives are "a whole other" or "another whole." * There may be ambiguity: "I need another chair." may mean "My chair needs to be replaced." or "I need an additional chair [and I need to keep my existing chair]."Derived terms
* another county heard from * one another * tomorrow is another day *References
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*anything
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Adverb
(-)- That isn't anything like a car.
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
Derived terms
() * anything else * anything goes * anythingarian * as anything * if anything * not much of anything * not that there's anything wrong with thatNoun
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