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After   /ˈæftər/   Listen
After

adverb
1.
Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time.  Synonyms: afterward, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently.  "He's going to the store but he'll be back here later" , "It didn't happen until afterward" , "Two hours after that"
2.
Behind or in the rear.
adjective
1.
Located farther aft.



Aft

adjective
1.
(nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail.



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"After" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the ins and outs of the way in which it was to be done; and Annie and Lizzie, and all the Snowes, and even Ruth Huckaback (who was there, after great persuasion), made such a sweeping of dresses that I scarcely knew where to place my feet, and longed for a staff, to put by their gowns. Then Lorna came out of a pew half-way, in a manner which quite astonished me, and took my left ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

... questioning and interrogating them, was in the habit of eliciting the opinions of those with whom he was arguing, and then, if he thought it necessary, of replying to the answers which they had given him. And as that custom had not been preserved by those who came after him, Arcesilaus re-introduced it, and established the custom, that those who wished to become his pupils were not to ask him questions, but themselves to state their opinions; and then, when they had stated them, he replied to what ...
— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

... landlady, had carried the child away to bed, he took, the papers up again, and, after some hesitation, slowly untied the ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore

... by dissolving the substance in nitric or hydrochloric acid and precipitating the diluted solution with sulphuretted hydrogen. The precipitated sulphides, after digesting with soda and washing, are dissolved in nitric acid and the solution boiled with ammonium carbonate. The precipitate is washed and then warmed with dilute sulphuric acid. The solution ...
— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... Ten minutes after my wife had brought the camera home she had me set up as a statue all over the lawn, and she was snapping at me like a ...
— Get Next! • Hugh McHugh


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