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Next vs Sext - What's the difference?

next | sext |

As nouns the difference between next and sext

is that next is the one that follows after this one while sext is the fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon or sext can be a sexual text message.

As an adjective next

is following in a sequence.

As a determiner next

is the one immediately following the current or most recent one.

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 verb sext is

to send a sext message.

next

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal) * (l) (Scotland)

Adjective

(-)
  • Following in a sequence.
  • Being closer to the present location than all other items.
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  • Nearest following (of date, time, space or order).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
  • *
  • Antonyms

    * previous * (closest to seven days ahead) last, this

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • The one immediately following the current or most recent one
  • Next week would be a good time to meet.
    I'll know better next time.
  • Closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
  • The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
  • They live in the next closest house.
    It's the next best thing to ice cream.
    Next , we stripped off the old paint.
  • On the first subsequent occasion,
  • Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next ?
    When we next meet, you'll be married.

    Antonyms

    * previously

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • 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 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

    (-)
  • The one that follows after this one.
  • ''Next , please, don't hold up the queue!

    sext

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon.
  • Etymology 2

    , which is more common.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sexual text message.
  • Any electronic message with sexual context.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send a sext message.
  • To send (someone) a (sext message).
  • * {{quote-news
  • , date = 2010-04-16 , title = Sex suspended, celibacy supreme , first = Victoria , last = Gehman , work = Albany Student Press , url = http://www.albanystudentpress.org/sex-suspended-celibacy-supreme-1.1346703 , passage = The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package. When I opened the file the image was unlike anything I'd ever seen. "No wonder he's a sex addict!" I thought. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 2011-11-14 , title = The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass , first = Bill , last = Maher , authorlink = Bill Maher , publisher = Penguin , isbn = 9781101552155 , passage = This week, we found out Vikings quarterback Brett Favre allegedly tried to get with a young woman by sending her Myspace messages, voicemails, and notes through a friend, and when none of that worked, it was third and long—though not as long as most of us would have imagined—he decided to sext her pictures of Little Brett to close the deal. }}
    Synonyms
    * sex-text

    Derived terms

    * (l)
    Usage notes
    * Particularly used as (sexting). ----