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Once vs Together - What's the difference?

once | together |

As adverbs the difference between once and together

is that once is before while together is at the same time, in the same place; in close association.

As a noun once

is before.

As an adjective together is

(colloquial) well organized, well developed.

once

English

(wikipedia once)

Adverb

(-)
  • (lb) One and only one time.
  • :
  • (lb) Formerly; during some period in the past.
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  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once ; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • (lb) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one.
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  • As soon as.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}

    Coordinate terms

    * (one time) twice, thrice, often, never, seldom * (formerly) yesterday, tomorrow

    See also

    * once again, once more * once and for all * once in a blue moon * once in a while * once removed * once upon a time

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • As soon as; when; after.
  • We'll get a move on once we find the damn car keys!
    Once you have obtained the elven bow, return to the troll bridge and trade it for the sleeping potion.
    Once he is married, he will be able to claim the inheritance.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
  • , date=September 27 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.}}

    Statistics

    *

    together

    Adverb

    (-)
  • At the same time, in the same place; in close association.
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
  • Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
  • * {{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894, author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
  • , by=(Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , isbn=1163911380, publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location= London , editor=Robert von Fleischhacker, page= 63 , passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere' þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge ' togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
  • In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}

    Synonyms

    * collectively * jointly

    Antonyms

    * apart

    Derived terms

    * add together * all together * altogether * band together * belong together * birds of a feather flock together * clap together * close together * come together * draw together * fudge together * get together/get-together * huddle together * knock together * live together * lump together * put together * scrape together * sleep together * stay together * stick together * tack together * throw together * together with * togetherdom * togetherful * togetherhood * togetherish * togetherless * togetherlike * togetherly * togetherness * togethership * togethersome * togetherwise * untogether

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial) well organized, well developed.
  • He’s really together .