Next vs Another - What's the difference?
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Following in a sequence.
Being closer to the present location than all other items.
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, title= Nearest following (of date, time, space or order).
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, title= (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
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The one immediately following the current or most recent one
Closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
On the first subsequent occasion,
On the side of; next to.
* 1900 , The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices , translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:
The one that follows after this one.
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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, 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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As determiners the difference between next and another
is that next is the one immediately following the current or most recent one while another is one more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.As an adjective next
is following in a sequence.As an adverb next
is in a time, place or sequence closest or following.As a preposition next
is on the side of; next to.As a noun next
is the one that follows after this one.next
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* previous * (closest to seven days ahead) last, thisDeterminer
(en determiner)- Next week would be a good time to meet.
- I'll know better next time.
- The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now.
Adverb
(-)- They live in the next closest house.
- It's the next best thing to ice cream.
- Next , we stripped off the old paint.
- Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next ?
- When we next meet, you'll be married.
Antonyms
* previouslyPreposition
(English prepositions)- The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians .
Noun
(-)- ''Next , please, don't hold up the queue!
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.}}
