Another vs. Other

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  • Another (determiner)

    One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

    “Yes, I’d like another slice of cake, thanks.”

  • Another (determiner)

    Not the same; different.

    “Do you know another way to do this job?”

  • Another (determiner)

    Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.

    “He has never known another like her.”

  • Another (pronoun)

    An additional one of the same kind.

    “This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?”

  • Another (pronoun)

    One that is different from the current one.

    “I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.”

  • Another (pronoun)

    One of a group of things of the same kind.

    “His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.”

  • Other (adjective)

    See other (determiner) below

  • Other (adjective)

    second.

    “I get paid every other week.”

  • Other (adjective)

    Alien.

  • Other (adjective)

    Different.

  • Other (adjective)

    Left, as opposed to right.

  • Other (noun)

    An other one, more often rendered as another.

    “I’m afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.”

  • Other (noun)

    The other one; the second of two.

    “One boat is not better than the other.”

  • Other (determiner)

    Not the one or ones previously referred to.

    “Other people would do it differently.”

  • Other (adverb)

    Apart from; in the phrase “other than”.

    “Other than that, I’m fine.”

  • Other (adverb)

    Otherwise.

    “It shall none other be. — Chaucer.”

    “If you think other. — Shakespeare.”

  • Other (verb)

    To regard, label{{,}} or treat as an “other”, as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.

  • Other (verb)

    To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.

Wiktionary
  • Other (adjective)

    used to refer to a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about

    “other people found her difficult”

    “stick the camera on a tripod or some other means of support”

    “a language unrelated to any other”

  • Other (adjective)

    alternative of two

    “my other brother”

    “she flung up first one arm and then the other”

    “the other side of the street”

    “one or other of his parents”

  • Other (adjective)

    those remaining in a group; those not already mentioned

    “they took the other three away in an ambulance”

    “Freddie set off and the others followed”

  • Other (adjective)

    further; additional

    “Labour would have 49 MPs plus ten others”

    “one other word of advice”

  • Other (adjective)

    used euphemistically to refer to sexual intercourse

    “a bit of the other”

  • Other (adjective)

    that which is distinct from, different from, or opposite to something or oneself

    “she needs to escape the tyranny of the Other”

  • Other (pronoun)

    used to refer to a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about

    “other people found her difficult”

    “a language unrelated to any other”

    “stick the camera on a tripod or some other means of support”

  • Other (pronoun)

    further; additional

    “one other word of advice”

    “Labour would have 49 MPs plus ten others”

  • Other (pronoun)

    used euphemistically to refer to sexual intercourse

    “a bit of the other”

  • Other (pronoun)

    that which is distinct from, different from, or opposite to something or oneself

    “she needs to escape the tyranny of the Other”

  • Other (pronoun)

  • Other (pronoun)

    alternative of two

    “one or other of his parents”

    “she flung up first one arm and then the other”

    “the other side of the street”

    “my other brother”

  • Other (pronoun)

    those remaining in a group; those not already mentioned

    “they took the other three away in an ambulance”

    “Freddie set off and the others followed”

  • Other (verb)

    view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself

    “a critique of the ways in which the elderly are othered by society”

Oxford Dictionary

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