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# near

«near» in Mova's school dictionary: **close, not far away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

preposition (near); adjective (near, nearer, nearest); adverb (near); verb (near, nears, neared — to come closer)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Near means close, not far away. The shop is near my house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#m1)

2) Near can mean close in time: «Summer is near.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#m2)

3) To near something is to come closer to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#m3)

4) «Nearest» means the closest one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#m4)

5) «Near» can mean almost: «a near miss». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

a place word; «nearest» can mean rounding to the nearest ten or whole number; in everyday life «near» tells where things are; in safety stay near your group or a grown-up; phrases «near by» (nearby), «nearly» (almost), «near and far», «a near miss»

### examples

- The park is near the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x1)
- Round 47 to the nearest ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x2)
- Who lives nearer to the lake? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x3)
- There are 5 trees near the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x4)
- Stay near me in the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x5)
- The holidays are near. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x6)
- Round 3.6 to the nearest whole number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x7)
- As the ship neared the shore, we saw the lighthouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/#x8)

### note

As a place word it carries no operation. «To the nearest ten/whole» means round. «Nearer» compares distances. Trap: rounding is done at the end unless the problem says otherwise. «Nearly» means almost, not «close by»: «nearly 50» is a bit less than 50.

### In the corpora

- [Speed limits exist because faster cars cause worse accidents, especially near schools and homes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/16/)
- [It was reported that fake AI pictures of an explosion near a famous building spread online and briefly worried people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/9/)
- [On a real head the eyes sit about halfway down, not near the top.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/9/)
- [The blue tang has a sharp spine near its tail that it uses like a scalpel for defence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/7/)
- [There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «near» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/near/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.