Perhaps vs Beside - What's the difference?
perhaps | beside |
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* "...will live until he dies perhaps , and then lie down in clover." --Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl (song)
Next to; at the side of.
Not relevant to.
Besides; in addition to.
* Alexander Pope:
otherwise; else
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias :
As adverbs the difference between perhaps and beside
is that perhaps is while beside is otherwise; else.As a preposition beside is
next to; at the side of.perhaps
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Synonyms
* belike * maybe * mayhap * peradventure * perchancebeside
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.