another — English Dictionary

Determiner

1. One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

   Examples

   Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.

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   Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

   Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

2. Not the same; different.

   Examples

   Do you know another way to do this job?

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   From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   But that is another story and will be told another time.

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   In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

3. Any or some other, similar in likeness or in effect, instead.

   Examples

   One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.

   But that is another story and will be told another time.

Pronoun

1. An additional one of the same kind.

   Examples

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

   There is one sterling and here is another

2. One that is different from the current one.

   Examples

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

   I've thought about moving to another city at one time or another.

3. One of a group of things of the same kind.

   Examples

   His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.

Adjective

1. any of various alternatives; some other; entity, singular, other pronoun; quantifier, singular, another

   Synonyms

   some other

   Examples

   put it off to another (or some other) day