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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{suffix|near|ly|lang=en}}
From {{suffix|near|ly|lang=en}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
*{{a|UK}} {{IPA|/ˈnɪəli/|lang=en}}
* {{audio|en-us-nearly.ogg|Audio (US)|lang=en}}
* {{audio|en-us-nearly.ogg|Audio (US)|lang=en}}


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# {{cx|now|_|rare}} With great scrutiny; [[carefully]]. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
# [[almost|Almost]], but not [[quite]]; slightly [[short]] of.
#*'''1603''', {{w|John Florio}}, translating Michel de Montaigne, ''Essays'', III.1:
#*:And whosoever hath traced mee and '''nearely''' {{transterm||de pres|lang=frm}} looked into my humours, Ile loose a good wager if hee confesse not that there is no rule in their schoole, could, a midde such crooked pathes and divers windings, square and report this naturall motion, and maintaine an apparance of liberty and licence so equall and inflexible […].
# With close [[relation]]; [[intimately]]. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
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#* {{w|John Locke}} (1632-1705)
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#*: Let that which he learns next be '''nearly''' conjoined with what he knows already.
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#* '''1837''', ''The Dublin University Magazine''
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#*: She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too '''nearly''' concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
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#* '''1847''', {{w|Herman Melville}}, ''{{w|Omoo}}''
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#*: [H]e was also accounted a man of wealth, and was '''nearly''' related to a high chief.
# [[closely|Closely]], in close proximity. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
#*'''c. 1606''', {{w|William Shakespeare}}, ''Macbeth'', First Folio 1623, IV.2:
#*:I doubt some danger do's approach you '''neerely'''.
# In close approximation; [[almost]], [[virtually]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
#: {{usex|He left a '''nearly''' full beer on the bar.|lang=en}}
#: {{usex|He left a '''nearly''' full beer on the bar.|lang=en}}
#: {{usex|lang=en|I '''nearly''' didn't put this example in.}}
#: {{usex|lang=en|I '''nearly''' didn't put this example in.}}
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|url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/3/why-does-nature-form-exoplanets-easily
|url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/3/why-does-nature-form-exoplanets-easily
|passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located '''nearly''' 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}
|passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located '''nearly''' 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}
# [[intimately|Intimately]]; [[closely]].
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#* {{w|John Locke}} (1632-1705)
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#*: Let that which he learns next be '''nearly''' conjoined with what he knows already.
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#* '''1837''', ''The Dublin University Magazine''
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#*: She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too '''nearly''' concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
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#* '''1847''', {{w|Herman Melville}}, ''{{w|Omoo}}''
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#*: [H]e was also accounted a man of wealth, and was '''nearly''' related to a high chief.


====Synonyms====
====Synonyms====

Revision as of 08:43, 6 February 2015

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Adverb

nearly (comparative nearlier or more nearly, superlative nearliest or most nearly)

  1. (deprecated template usage) ( rare) With great scrutiny; carefully. [from 16th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.1:
      And whosoever hath traced mee and nearely [translating Lua error in Module:links/templates at line 56: Parameter 1 is required.] looked into my humours, Ile loose a good wager if hee confesse not that there is no rule in their schoole, could, a midde such crooked pathes and divers windings, square and report this naturall motion, and maintaine an apparance of liberty and licence so equall and inflexible […].
  2. With close relation; intimately. [from 16th c.]
    • John Locke (1632-1705)
      Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
    • 1837, The Dublin University Magazine
      She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
    • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo
      [H]e was also accounted a man of wealth, and was nearly related to a high chief.
  3. Closely, in close proximity. [from 16th c.]
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, IV.2:
      I doubt some danger do's approach you neerely.
  4. In close approximation; almost, virtually. [from 17th c.]
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