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sequent | next |

As adjectives the difference between sequent and next

is that sequent is that comes after in time or order; subsequent while next is following in a sequence.

As nouns the difference between sequent and next

is that sequent is something that follows in a given sequence while next is the one that follows after this one.

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.

sequent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
  • *1860 , , Two Sonnets :
  • *:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
  • *:As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
  • *:Each night since first the world was made hath had
  • *:A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
  • That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent (to), (on), (upon).
  • *c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure :
  • *:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
  • *1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
  • *:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
  • Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
  • *c. 1603 , (William Shakespeare), Othello , I.2:
  • *:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that follows in a given sequence.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
  • *:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
  • (logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
  • (obsolete) A follower.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Related terms

    * sequence * consequent * subsequent * consequence * non sequitur

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    English

    Alternative forms

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

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Following in a sequence.
  • Being closer to the present location than all other items.
  • * , chapter=8
    • , title= 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.}}
  • 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!

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