(n.) A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
(n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
(n.) One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
(a.) Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.
(v. i.) To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
(2) By light microscopic examinations using the same section and neighboring sections, we suggest that light microscopic GM correspond to the crystalloid bodies (CB) detected on ultrastructural observation.
(3) They begin when authorities invite us to exclude neighbors from the community by associating them with a global threat.
(4) Background noise averaged 15 microV and no signal cross talk was observed between neighboring channels.
(5) Cell function was apparently modified indirectly by the destruction of neighboring B cells.
(6) In these tissues, the viral DNA replicated at the site of inoculation and was transported first to the roots, then to the shoot apex and to the neighboring leaves and the flowers.
(7) To test these competing hypotheses, a series of health, income, life satisfaction, and social participation variables (interaction with family, kin, neighbors, and friends) was examined with data from a large (N = 1269) sample of middle-aged and older blacks, Mexican Americans and whites in Los Angeles County.
(8) In NHL, the segmental bone destruction was in alignment with the bony wall with a massive tumor infiltration into the neighboring structures.
(9) Total resection was performed in eleven patients (61%), with inclusion of neighbor organs or structures in five of them (45%).
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Neighbor Olga Ennis: ‘I watched them drag his body out of the house.
(11) Neighboring but separate regions of striatum appeared to have overlapping nigral projection territories, especially in caudal nigra.
(12) Withdrawal of a micropipette from one cell was often found to induce marked cell damage and elicit oscillatory hyperpolarizations in a neighboring cell with a certain time lag.
(13) Simulated territorial intrusion promoted increased plasma levels of both T and 11KT while access to vacant territories without neighboring territorial males did not.
(14) It solves a particular problem of underdetermination, the motion correspondence problem, by simultaneously applying 3 constraints: the nearest neighbor principle, the relative velocity principle, and the element integrity principle.
(15) Nearest neighbor analyses of the reaction products indicated that the noncomplementary deoxynucleotides were incorporated as single base substitutions.
(16) When the mirror gave subjects visual access to neighboring animals, facial expressions, sexual, and agonistic behaviors increased, whereas affiliative behavior decreased compared with when no mirror was present.
(17) Typically they lie perpendicular to the cell membrane of the pinealocyte polar process and in close proximity to a polar process of a neighboring cell.
(18) A case-control study, using age-matched neighbors as controls, showed that patients were significantly more likely to have lived in poorly constructed, wood-stick houses.
(19) Of these, 18 patients suffered clinically from dengue fever, 21 patients had positive dengue fever history in their family members, 21 patients had positive history in their neighbors.
(20) Mechanical stimulation of the cultured ciliated cells, in the presence of extracellular calcium, resulted in an initial increase in intracellular calcium, which was communicated to neighboring cells.
Nigh
Definition:
(superl.) Not distant or remote in place or time; near.
(superl.) Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
(a.) In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near.
(a.) Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead.
(v. t. & i.) To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near.
(prep.) Near to; not remote or distant from.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here was the purveyor of nigh on a third of the nation’s food openly promising a cut that will be barely noticed over time by consumers but will have a positive health impact.
(2) He was like the man with staring eyes who stumbled up and down Oxford Street with a placard declaring the end of the world to be nigh.
(3) But the deeply idiosyncratic Octopuss font on the station sign is a reminder that ‘77 was also the year of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Saturday Night Fever: the end of the world may have been nigh, but one corner of Berlin was boogying the night away to uphold western civilisation.
(4) Managing six toddlers is more than a challenge – it's a nigh-on physical impossibility, as my colleague Polly Toynbee pointed out last week.
(5) She was one of the most mature users of Twitter and her Twitter feed was so Tayloresque as to be nigh-on parodic, mixing passionate defences of Jackson with shout-outs to reality TV android Kim Kardashian and the occasional – and necessary – denials that she had re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-remarried ("Jason is my dearest friend!"
(6) In the era of omnipresent smartphones and tablets, these sacharrine treats are nigh-on inescapable, and as breakthrough hits are guaranteed millions of dollars in revenue (Candy Crush Saga alone generated $1.5bn last year), it's no wonder developers are employing increasingly clever psychological tricks to give their creations a crucial edge.
(7) Sue MacGregor presented the Today programme for nigh on 20 years; Peter Allen and Rhod Sharp have been working at 5 live since day one – 28 March 1994.
(8) Merkel responded that this was nigh-on impossible since it would require changes to the German constitution and around 10 separate legal changes, the sources said.
(9) It is not uncommon for illiberal – in this case, deeply authoritarian – regimes to use a security threat (whether real, imagined, or self-created) as a pretext for singling out alleged ‘traitors’ and cracking down on civil society and individual critics.” Lawyer Khalid Bagirov, who is acting on behalf of all four activists, said the arrests are politically motivated, and added that their acquittal is nigh on “impossible”.
(10) And, once the software is made, it's nigh-on impossible to shut down.
(11) Is the end nigh for the Department for Communities and Local Government?
(12) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(13) Now, he thinks, Ireland is playing catchup, and the time is nigh to start imagining a post-religion society.
(14) These patients all complained difficulty falling asleep; all said they usually slept less than 5 hr a nigh and woke up too early in the morning.
(15) It’s embarrassing that Clinton, whose political competence is nigh unparalleled, holds only an uncertain majority over his farcical campaign.
(16) If finding an apartment was difficult – a single woman who could afford to pay her own rent was clearly a hooker in the eyes of most landlords – winning serious work proved to be well nigh impossible.
(17) The need to change one's eating habits in order to treat a certain disease or a metabolic disorder may seem to impose a well nigh impossible task.
(18) Such timings are critical to creditors, and unprecedented January sale discounts were a clear sign that the end was nigh.
(19) Bishop said last week’s attack in London reinforced how, although authorities could track terrorist gangs and keep people under surveillance, it was “nigh on impossible” to keep track of individuals who self-radicalised and acted alone.
(20) The end is nigh is the consensus, but not that nigh.