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Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.: Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.

Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.

In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.: So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.

Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to…

A small cut in a surface.: A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

A small cut in a surface.: A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in…

Senses connoting something small.: A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.

To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.: To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.

To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.: To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make…

The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning…

A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

Not, not at all.: Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.