another

[An*oth·er]

Another is a word used to describe an alternative. If your first bowling ball lands in the gutter, give it another try before you give up completely.

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One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.


pron. & a.
One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

pron. & a.
Not the same; different.

pron. & a.
Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.


Another

An*oth"er , pron. & a. [An a, one + other.] 1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more.
Would serve to scale another Hero's tower.
2. Not the same; different.
He winks, and turns his lips another way.
3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.
While I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
&hand; As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others. "These two imparadised in one another's arms." Milton.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

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Usage Examples

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

A good education is another name for happiness.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

"I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, ""Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect."

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

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