different between away vs now

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English awe?, onwe? (“away”), originally on we? (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) +? way. Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?w?', IPA^(key): /??we?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: aweigh
• Hyphenation: a?way

Adverb

away (comparative further away, superlative furthest away)

1. From a place, hence.
2. Aside; off; in another direction.

   I tried to approach him, but he turned away.

3. Aside, so as to discard something.

   throw away, chuck away, toss away

4. At a stated distance in time or space.
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,

     While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
5. In or to something's usual or proper storage place.

   I'll dry the dishes and you put them away.

   Please file away these documents.

6. In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.

   The jewels were locked away in the safe.

   He was shut away in the castle tower for six months.

7. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.

   fade away, die away

8. So as to remove or use up something.

9. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.

   Away! Be gone! And don't let me see you round here again!

   • 1933+, Fran Striker, The Lone Ranger, WXYZ-AM

     Hi-yo Silver, away!

10. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.

    She's been in her room all day, working away at her computer.

11. Without restraint.

Synonyms

• (away from a place): at bay, off

Translations

Interjection

away

1. (Northern England) come on!; go on!

Adjective

away (comparative further away, superlative furthest away)

1. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.

   The master is away from home.

   Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.

2. At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.

   He's miles away by now.

   Spring is still a month away.

3. (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.

   This is the entrance for away supporters.

   Next, they are playing away in Dallas.

4. (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.

   Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.

Translations

Verb

away (third-person singular simple present aways, present participle awaying, simple past and past participle awayed)

1. (intransitive, poetic) To depart; to go to another place.

   At 9 o'clock sharp he awayed to bed.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

away (comparative more away, superlative most away)

1. Misspelling of aweigh.

References

• away at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Yawa

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?way

Verb

away

1. to fight; to contend in physical conflict
2. to quarrel; to squabble
3. to go to war

Noun

away

1. a fight; a physical confrontation
2. a quarrel; a heated argument
3. (sports) a boxing or martial arts match
4. a war

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:away.

Anagrams

• ayaw, yawa

Middle English

Alternative forms

• awey, oway, awei, ewai, awe, awi, owy

Etymology

From Old English onwe?, awe?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?w?i?/
• Rhymes: -?i?

Adverb

away

1. Out, away (from), off.
2. Sideways, to a side.

Descendants

• English: away
• Scots: awa
• Yola: awye

References

• “awei, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Quechua

Verb

away

1. (transitive) To weave.

Conjugation

See also

• sinp'ay

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a.waj/

Noun

away

1. fight; quarrel; dispute

Derived terms

Waray-Waray

Noun

away

1. fight; quarrel; altercation; trouble

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English n?, from Proto-West Germanic *n?, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *n? (“now”).

Adjective

now (not comparable)

1. Present; current.
2. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. (archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.

See also

• happening

Adverb

now (not comparable)

1. At the present time.

2. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
4. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
5. At the time reached within a narration.

6. In the context of urgency.

7. (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
   • c. 1656, Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and Fight for Sea

     They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

Derived terms

Translations

Conjunction

now

1. Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

Translations

Interjection

now!

1. Indicates a signal to begin.

Translations

Noun

now (usually uncountable, plural nows)

1. (uncountable) The present time.

2. (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.

   Synonyms: here and now; see also Thesaurus:the present

3. (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

Derived terms

• eternal now

Translations

References

• now at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

See know.

Verb

now

1. Misspelling of know.

Anagrams

• NWO, own, won