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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
almost
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
about/almost equal
▪ They are about equal in height and weight.
almost certainly
▪ The girl was almost certainly murdered.
almost tangible
▪ The silence of the countryside was almost tangible.
almost/nearly impossible
▪ He thought that winning would be almost impossible.
almost/nearly/near perfect
▪ His collection included an almost perfect skeleton of an armadillo.
▪ Her performance was near perfect.
almost...not quite
▪ Dinner’s almost ready, but not quite.
almost/virtually certain
▪ It is almost certain that she will be given a prison sentence.
▪ Prices are virtually certain to increase.
almost/virtually unanimous
▪ The decision to appoint Matt was almost unanimous.
almost/virtually/practically etc nonexistent
▪ On a Sunday morning traffic was almost nonexistent.
totally/completely/almost/partially blind
▪ She’s almost blind in her right eye.
virtually/almost/practically useless
▪ These flaws could make the software virtually useless in a business environment.
virtually/practically/almost etc invisible
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ I said that this was almost certain but the process was rather slow.
▪ And it is almost certain that no reporter will go down into the mines to find out.
▪ Most important, the Federal Reserve and Greenspan are almost certain to keep interest rates stable.
▪ Maintaining an inventory is almost certain to assure a higher loss payment.
▪ It stunned Boro and their frustration turned to anger after being denied an almost certain penalty.
▪ You are almost certain to get hundreds of Web pages to examine.
▪ Male speaker Death and injury were almost certain.
▪ The almost certain one is a third party candidacy by Ross Perot or even Pat Buchanan.
identical
▪ But while axeheads from different societies may perform widely differing social functions, the axeheads themselves may be almost identical.
▪ It has a bone handle and three blades, almost identical to the one my daddy used to carry.
▪ Pollen was an almost identical diet and it still remains a most important prize.
▪ A search through their genes reveals a set almost identical to those that help make the wing of a fruit fly.
▪ Another almost identical box, with attached headphones, was moved over the ground and a continual tone was emitted.
▪ The poor growers A and B showed almost identical increase.
▪ An almost identical necklace appears in Poynter's watercolour Helen, painted in 1887.
▪ In almost identical terms, constituency parties in the province and Britain have stepped up the pressure for a decisive Government move.
impossible
▪ Apart from being almost impossible to cut, second hand shop windows are usually of inferior quality.
▪ But analysts noted that without knowing the impact of the big merger, it was almost impossible to make an accurate projection.
▪ She tried to look past him, but it was almost impossible to see what or who was in the room beyond.
▪ Voice over Indeed the task is becoming almost impossible.
▪ The Worlds Edge Mountains are extremely tall and almost impossible to cross where they border the Empire.
▪ It had to proceed through persuasion and encouragement - a difficult process with public-sector bodies, but almost impossible with major companies.
▪ It was almost impossible to imagine Luke defeated and flattened.
▪ That is all very well in theory but almost impossible to achieve in practice.
■ VERB
become
▪ But it is extraordinary how one of those pianos prominently placed on stage almost becomes part of the action.
▪ In the United States eugenics became almost completely discredited.
▪ Facing Multiple Grief Sometimes the losses that we experience come so quickly one after the other that they become almost indistinguishable.
▪ Demonstrating my attractiveness to a young intelligent woman in competition with young attractive males had become almost an obsession of mine.
▪ It will give that tight West Coast strum with the bass strings becoming almost percussive.
▪ He became almost quaintly obsolete, like the handle crank on the automobile.
▪ Taping your own sound effects is another interesting part of video movie making: it can become almost a hobby in itself.
▪ The lack of evidence of violence in the Neolithic period is so complete it becomes almost hard to believe.
fall
▪ The rain fell almost horizontally, its bite as sharp as darts.
▪ He stumbled on it, almost fell, then picked up the front of it and hustled after his friends.
▪ He would wear a pair of shoes until they almost fell apart.
▪ Carolyn rushed out, almost falling down a flight of stone steps.
▪ When she finally met Lisa, she almost fell over.
▪ Cardiff staggered and almost fell back against Barbara.
▪ Intuit Inc. shares posted the largest decline in the index, falling almost 17 percent this week.
feel
▪ He smiled at her, trying to look comforting; he was feeling almost as tearful himself.
▪ I can almost feel the blazing sun, the blinding white beaches, although they are not in the picture.
▪ I almost feel I've been sent here so they can teach me a lesson about life.
▪ Why, then, this dark hint of dread, the first I have felt almost since I remember skiing?
▪ Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention.
▪ One can almost feel the discomfort such syncretic attitudes created in Longobardi.
▪ In a strange way I felt almost embarrassed that such things were happening in my name.
▪ She can cook for hours and feel almost complacent, she says.
seem
▪ It seemed almost to speak to her.
▪ There is a final item in the cascade of causes and consequences, a retribution for pollution that seems almost biblically apt.
▪ Beside this, Britain's outbreaks of sleaze seem almost quaint.
▪ Even so, it seemed almost too easy.
▪ Everything, in fact, which it seemed almost impossible to find in one place in the City before.
▪ The villain is an investor who kills with such glee that he almost seems corny.
▪ It seemed almost impossible to many people that such tiny things as micro-organisms could have been fossilised at all.
▪ It seems almost eerie that something so stunning can be so silent.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I nearly/almost fainted
▪ She wrote: I almost fainted when I read your letter, confronted by that terrible mistake I had made.
▪ These were removed and - oh, sweet Lord, I nearly fainted!
sb nearly/almost fell off their chair
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Are we almost there?
▪ I'm almost finished.
▪ It's an almost impossible task.
▪ The wines are almost as expensive as champagne.
▪ We stayed at Grandma's for almost a week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Early in the evening it will be almost directly overhead.
▪ It almost seems like a mob.
▪ It is calculated in almost exactly the same way.
▪ The crowd of almost 2, 700 cheers loudly.
▪ The stars looked almost the same here as they did on the other side of the world.
▪ The treatment of engineering dynamics is almost invariably linear, although examples of simple non-linear formulations are provided.
▪ The Western Electric system was thoroughly thought out, with a performance exceeding acoustic cutters by two-and-a-half octaves and almost unlimited amplification.
▪ Then, almost magically, as she realised this, something stirred inside her and that something was excitement and courage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Almost

Almost \Al"most\ ([add]l"m[=o]st), adv. [AS. ealm[ae]st, [ae]lm[ae]st, quite the most, almost all; eal (OE. al) all + m?st most.] Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.

Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
--Acts xxvi. 28.

Almost never, hardly ever; scarcely ever.

Almost nothing, scarcely anything.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
almost

Old English eallmæst "nearly all, for the most part," literally "mostly all;" see all + most. Modern form from 15c.

Wiktionary
almost

adv. Very close to, but not quite. n. (context informal English) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.

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WordNet
almost

adv. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost'; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: about, just about, most, all but, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh]

Wikipedia
Almost

In set theory, when dealing with sets of infinite size, the term almost or nearly is used to mean all the elements except for finitely many.

In other words, an infinite set S that is a subset of another infinite set L, is almost L if the subtracted set L\S is of finite size.

Examples:

  • The set S = {n ∈ N∣n ≥ k} is almost N for any k in N, because only finitely many natural numbers are less than k.
  • The set of prime numbers is not almost N because there are infinitely many natural numbers that are not prime numbers.

This is conceptually similar to the almost everywhere concept of measure theory, but is not the same. For example, the Cantor set is uncountably infinite, but has Lebesgue measure zero. So a real number in (0, 1) is a member of the complement of the Cantor set almost everywhere, but it is not true that the complement of the Cantor set is almost the real numbers in (0, 1).

Almost (Bowling for Soup song)

"Almost" is a song by the band, Bowling for Soup. It was released on January 4, 2005 as the second single of the group's album A Hangover You Don't Deserve in 2004.

It tells the story of a young adult who goes through many 'almost' experiences during his life, from almost making out with the homecoming queen to almost getting addicted to drugs. He shows remorse for not 'making his move' earlier, and he 'almost' wishes she loved him too.

Almost (disambiguation)

Almost is a term in mathematics (especially in set theory) used to mean all the elements except for finitely many.

Almost may also refer to:

  • "Almost" (Bowling for Soup song)
  • "Almost" (Tamia song)
  • "Almost", a song by Tracy Chapman from Let It Rain
  • "Almost", a song by Sarah Harmer from All of Our Names
  • "Almost", a song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  • The Almost, a Christian rock band
  • Almost Skateboards, a skateboarding company
Almost (Tamia song)

"Almost" is a song by Canadian recording artist Tamia. It was written and produced by Shep Crawford for the singer's fourth album Between Friends and released as its third and final single in 2007, reaching number 59 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The music video for the song was directed by Margaret Malandruccolo, who also shot the video for Tamia's previous single " Me".

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Usage examples of "almost".

He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.

His telepathic ability is almost nil, but he feels the surges of energy.

This abnormalism has been known almost as long as there has been any real knowledge of obstetrics.

The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.

The snowflakes had become fine and dry, almost like bits of ice, and they seemed to be abrading the world, smoothing it the way that sandpaper smoothed wood, until eventually there would be no peaks and valleys, nothing but a featureless, highly polished plain as far as anyone could see.

With faith and trust almost divine, These same blue eyes, abrim with tears, Through depths of love look into mine.

Bushranging was revived on an unprecedented scale, so were crimes of violence, and men absconded almost at will.

So I told him all about it, about my purse being returned to me and about Sean Metcalfe absconding and how I was certain almost that it was him.

As such minute doses of the salts of ammonia affect the leaves, we may feel almost sure that Drosera absorbs and profits by the amount, though small, which is present in rainwater, in the same manner as other plants absorb these same salts by their roots.

The horrifying truth is that she was almost certainly kept captive in the cellar for several days, and regularly tortured and abused, until she was finally killed.

Miss A had almost certainly told Graham Letts that she had been abused by her father and her brother at the age of twelve, and she may well have told Rosemary West exactly the same thing during their conversations in Cromwell Street.

Tooe, its wasteful, almost pretentious insistence on nonexistent acceleration, with almost half her space sacrificed to a cramped up-down orientation.

Glancing at the accelerometer I noticed that the needle was nudging past five and was almost at the figure six.

His accent was neutral, the nearly universal English of non-Russian officers in the CoDominium Service, and it marked his profession almost as certainly as did his posture and the tone of command.

She had the careful almost accentless voice of the language student, and her phrases seemed to have been adopted whole from the speech of the grownups around her.