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11almost — al|most [ ɔlmoust ] adverb *** nearly but not completely: Are you ready? Almost! I m just putting my shoes on. It s almost a year since she died. The baby s almost walking now. almost all: Almost all of the students here are from South America.… …
12almost */*/*/ — UK [ˈɔːlməʊst] / US [ˈɔlmoʊst] adverb nearly but not completely Are you ready? Almost! I m just putting my shoes on. It s almost a year since she died. The baby s almost walking now. almost all: Almost all of the students here are from South… …
13almost — /awl mohst, awl mohst /, adv. very nearly; all but: almost every house; almost the entire symphony; to pay almost nothing for a car; almost twice as many books. [bef. 1000; ME; OE (e)al mast, var. of AEL MAEST nearly] Syn. ALMOST (MOST), NEARLY,… …
14Almost — In mathematics, especially in set theory, when dealing with sets of infinite size, the term almost or nearly is used to mean all the elements except for finitely many . In other words, an infinite set S that is a subset of another infinite set L …
15almost — al|most W1S1 [ˈo:lməust US ˈo:lmoust, o:lˈmoust] adv [: Old English; Origin: ealmAst, from eall all + mAst mostly ] nearly, but not completely or not quite ▪ Have you almost finished? ▪ Supper s almost ready. ▪ It was almost midnight. ▪ Almost… …
16almost — [[t]ɔ͟ːlmoʊst[/t]] ♦ ADV: ADV group, ADV before v You use almost to indicate that something is not completely the case but is nearly the case. The couple had been dating for almost three years... Storms have been hitting almost all of Britain… …
17almost*/*/*/ — [ˈɔːlməʊst] adv nearly but not completely ‘Are you ready? ‘Almost! I m just putting my shoes on. [/ex] It s almost a year since she died.[/ex] Almost all of the students here are from South America.[/ex] Sam s almost as tall as his mother.[/ex] …
18almost — Kokoke, ane ane; ānihaniha (rare). ♦ Almost dead, mai make. ♦ Almost seven fathoms, nā anana eono ā puka ehiku. ♦ Almost hit by a car, a ohe noho i he wā, ho oku i ia e ke ka a …
19almost — I. adverb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ealmǣst, from eall + mǣst most Date: before 12th century very nearly but not exactly or entirely < we re almost there > II. adjective Date: 1709 very near but not quite < an almost failure > …
20almost — See almost, most See nearly, almost …
