Next vs Vext - What's the difference?
next | vext |
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).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
(archaic) (vex)
* What happiness to reign a lonely king,
Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
'''Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
* And that same night, the night of the new year,
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
* [...] and thence
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"
English irregular simple past forms
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 noun next
is the one that follows after this one.As a verb vext is
(archaic) (vex).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!
vext
English
Verb
(head)Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
'''Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"