different between juxtapose vs next

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French juxtaposer, corresponding to juxta- + pose, derived from Latin iuxt? (“near, next to”) + p?n? (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???kst?p??z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???kst?po?z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

juxtapose (third-person singular simple present juxtaposes, present participle juxtaposing, simple past and past participle juxtaposed)

1. (transitive) To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
   • 2006, Scarnati, Chris, "We should follow New Jersey's lead on this one", YourCranberry:

     "In juxtaposing the youth athletes of our grandparents' generation with those of the modern era, we're essentially comparing Volkswagen Beetles to Hummers."

Related terms

• juxtaposition

Translations

French

Verb

juxtapose

1. first-person singular present indicative of juxtaposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of juxtaposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of juxtaposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of juxtaposer
5. second-person singular imperative of juxtaposer

English

Alternative forms

• neest (dialectal)
• neist (Scotland)
• nex (archaic)
• nex' (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English n?ehsta, n?ehste, etc., inflected forms of n?ehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of n?ah (“nigh, near”), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *n?hwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh +? -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian ???? (nazd, “near, with”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?kst, IPA^(key): /n?kst/
• Rhymes: -?kst

Adjective

next (not comparable)

1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.

   The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.

   She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.

   1. (obsolete) Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
      • 1623, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well:

        A prophet I, Madam; and I speak the truth the next way: [...]

      • 1777, Francis Quarles, Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, page 152, epigram 2:

        The road to resolution, lies by doubt:

        "The next way home's the farthest way about."

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

   Please turn to the next page.

   On Wednesday next, I'm going to Spain.

   • 1676, Pietro Soave Polano, The History of the Council of Trent ..., page 689:

     The next day, which was the next before the Session, a General Congregation was held, [...]
3. (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.

   The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates.

4. (chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)

   next friend

   • 1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250:

     And if a man purchase land in fee simple and die without issue, he which is his next cousin collaterall of the whole blood, how farre so ever he be from him in degree, (de quel pluis long degree qu'il soit), may inherite and have the land ...

   • 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735], De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:

     Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...

   • 1874, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, page 23:

     If it be a property, it is a new species, unknown to the civil law, the common law, and the statute law; there is no medium, it must be, if it goes to her next kin, because it is absolute property in her. There can be no distribution of personal property ...

Synonyms

• (nearest in order): See also Thesaurus:former or Thesaurus:subsequent

Antonyms

• previous

Derived terms

• next-day

Translations

Determiner

next

1. Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.

   Next week would be a good time to meet.

   I'll know better next time.

2. (of days of the week or months of the year) 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 seven days (one week) in the future.

   The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now.

   When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?

See also

• last
• this
• this coming
• week (as in Saturday week)

Adverb

next (not comparable)

1. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.

   They live in the next closest house.

   It's the next best thing to ice cream.

   1. (conjunctive) So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.

      First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.

2. On the first subsequent occasion.

   Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?

   When we next meet, you'll be married.

Antonyms

• previously

Translations

Preposition

next

1. (obsolete or poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
   • 1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:

     The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians […] .

Translations

Noun

next (uncountable)

1. The one that follows after this one.

   Next, please, don't hold up the queue!

   One moment she was there, the next she wasn't.

   The week after next

   • 2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin, ?ISBN):

     There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.

Translations

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?xt/

Noun

next m

1. A bride price (among Kurds, customarily given to the family of the bride by the family of the groom)

Synonyms

• qelen