nearby

Speech parts

1. nearby - Noun

2. nearby - Adjective

3. nearby - Adverb

4. nearby - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

close at hand

not far away in relative terms

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Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points. Stephen Hawking

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind-but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. Vernor Vinge

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. Alison Gopnik

When a mouse makes fun of a cat, there is a hole nearby. Lebanese Proverb

When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby. Nigerian Proverb

Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby. African Zulu Proverb

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