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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
already
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
already exist
▪ Legislation to protect us from terrorists already exists.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
begin
▪ However, I had already begun the process, long before coming over, of minimizing and dismissing my cultural identity.
▪ Similar changes have already begun in the admissions process for undergraduate students entering in 1998.
▪ Perhaps the picture had already begun to look better.
▪ Californians have already begun seeing overtures from retailers as the competition stirs.
▪ The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons.
▪ The 46-year-old has already begun his job.
▪ The work had already begun when, late in the year, Pons first learned about Jones.
▪ Workers were scared and had already begun fighting.
exist
▪ The Product must already exist and must have been registered.
▪ This book is in-tended largely to call attention to this opportunity and to point to the consensus for action that already exists.
▪ Substantial reductions are possible, as the technology already exists.
▪ Some will go to programs that exist already.
▪ Rather let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
▪ Instead, he would pretend the books already existed, and write fictions around them.
▪ One is that a land resettlement programme already exists and that it is has been successful and well-administered in many respects.
know
▪ Alice thought perhaps she'd known already she was ill.
▪ It is not likely to require behavior change because most existing employees already know it well.
▪ Go over the topic in your mind, identifying what you already know and don't know about the topic. 3.
▪ Once they get there they need facilities, all the kinds of things the travel industry already knows how to provide.
▪ The character's width, its height is already known by the point size, is stored in a width table.
▪ Much of this seems to be at least a preliminary documentation of what has happened that is already known.
▪ Dreaming is about using the information that you already know.
▪ That was it: He already knew.
make
▪ We have already made clear that we are determined to encourage management-employee buy-outs.
▪ The pollution is already making a strong economic impact, both in the ponds and on the open water.
▪ It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.
▪ Appearing to move especially swiftly because of that media focus, moreover, police have already made arrests in her case.
▪ Our discussion has already made apparent a great paucity of large-scale bronzes compared to what survives in marble.
▪ Price Waterhouse has already made about 320 redundant since the start of the recession.
▪ Whatever happens, any tax relief obtained on donations you have already made will not be lost.
▪ Imro is already making organisational changes and is to strengthen its monitoring resources.
mention
▪ My mother would not take it well, I knew this as surely as if I'd already mentioned it.
▪ I have already mentioned the stipulation that before l could qualify for married status I should have passed two language exams.
▪ I have already mentioned that right-handed pilots seem to have a natural tendency to turn left.
▪ The numbers of the bilingual service providers which are already mentioned are growing slowly.
▪ I have already mentioned the failure of the paramilitaries to create and sustain a political initiative.
▪ We have already mentioned the marshes of Sussex and Kent as examples of areas drying out.
▪ I have already mentioned the debate in Presbytery in 1974 about ministers going forward in elections.
▪ Here is another difficult area which has been mentioned already: housing farm animals.
see
▪ That the court is entitled to establish its own classification system has been seen already.
▪ They already seen U-boats off Nova Scotia.
▪ We have already seen that amorphous materials such as polymers have chain structures.
▪ I could already see that look in his eyes, something slithery and pink that hints of alcoholic tendencies.
▪ As we've already seen, the very high tax rates under the Labour Government helped to kill enterprise.
▪ I can already see how my daughters, Katie, 9, and Perrie, 6, model my behavior.
▪ We have already seen that there are cells in the visual cortex that recognize edges.
▪ At Guinness, these principles constitute our Strategic Intent. you have already seen the first part of that intent.
start
▪ Mr Wilson said Nerco had already started disposing of the gold and silver operations.
▪ The electronic republic, therefore, has already started to redefine the traditional roles of citizenship and political leadership.
▪ From here you can already start to see the rim of the mountains that enclose the cirque.
▪ If you already started the document and saved it on the disk, recall it for editing or addition.
▪ Two people living near the pit had written to the council expressing concern the changes had already started.
▪ But the trend that I see for the next decade has already started.
▪ In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June.
▪ He has already started looking for workers and jobs in and around south Lake County.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Do you want a cup of coffee?" "No thanks, I already have some."
▪ "Should I tell Kay?" "She already knows."
▪ "When are you going to do your homework?" "I already did it before dinner!"
▪ Are you leaving already?
▪ As I have already mentioned, we need to raise more political support.
▪ Don't buy any more toys for the kids -- they've got plenty already.
▪ He's only three and he's already reading.
▪ I can't believe I already forgot his phone number!
▪ Is it already 5 o'clock?
▪ The building's already costing us way too much money as it is.
▪ The show has already started.
▪ Was the apartment empty when you moved in or was it already furnished?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As many teams already know, it is one of the kinder road stops in the league.
▪ By the early 1950s the claim that agriculture saved valuable foreign exchange was already paper-thin.
▪ I knew already how everything would end up.
▪ She wondered if during that last frenetic occasion when she had seen Sylvie there had already been a premonition of the end.
▪ This is a challenge which I and my colleague John Davis have already taken up.
▪ This is a crucial proposition which we have already noted and which will be discussed again later in this book.
▪ This is especially true if you introduce your spouse into an already established business partnership.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Already

Already \Al*read"y\, adv. [All (OE. al) + ready.] Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. ``Joseph was in Egypt already.''
--Exod. i. 5.

I say unto you, that Elias is come already.
--Matt. xvii. 12.

Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used for a future past; as, when you shall arrive, the business will be already completed, or will have been already completed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
already

c.1300, compound of all + ready (adj.); literally "fully ready." Compare Norwegian, Danish allerede "already." Colloquial use in U.S. as a terminal emphatic (as in enough, already!) is attested from 1903, translating Yiddish shoyn, which is used in same sense. The pattern also is attested in Pennsylvania German and in South African.

Wiktionary
already

adv. prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

WordNet
already

adv. prior to a specified or implied time; "she has already graduated" [ant: not yet]

Wikipedia
Already (album)

Already is the fourth album by the British rock band Jesus Jones in 1997. The album followed a working hiatus by the band following the relative failure of 1993's Perverse compared to their international breakthrough album Doubt (1991). Although the band had come up with ideas that they requested to Food Records, the label rejected them before finally accepting the released Already. It was their last album for EMI, and two singles were released from the album, "The Next Big Thing" and "Chemical #1". Already only reached No. 161 in the UK Albums Chart, although lead single "The Next Big Thing" had some radio play reaching No. 49 in the UK Singles Chart. EMI re-issued on the album on 1 March 2003.

Usage examples of "already".

The monstrosities abiding within the smaller man could not molest him or they would certainly already have done so.

That is the fidelity of a woman speaking, for Sier Valence has already said that he has abjured his oaths for the sake of this woman, and she does not deny it.

The terrace next to the side porch was already abloom with freshly planted flowers.

His carriage, with his wife and two daughters already aboard and Cram scowling on the box beside the driver, stood by the front door.

Martemus had already resolved to kick the abomination to the groundafterward .

It is absolutely not an experience not an experience of momentary states, not an experience of self, not an experience of no-self, not an experience of relaxing, not an experience of surrendering: it is the Empty opening or clearing in which all of those experiences come and go, an opening or clearing that, were it not always already perfectly Present, no experiences could arise in the first place.

The general evidence of this serious trouble is already and simply and absolutely overwhelming.

That Abies had taken a knife or whatever was handiest and had already massacred the entire family.

I tasted blood as though I were already drinking it, and I felt the abysmal and desperate emptiness that I always feel before I feast.

Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

Already a bit bewildered by their flurry of Classical references and Latin maxims, he was lost when Acer and George exchanged a few lines in French, watching out of the corner of their eyes to see if he had understood.

As he studied her sleeping face, he ached inside to stop the car and take hold of her, to whisper her name against her mouth, to tell her how much he loved her, how much he wanted her, so much that already his body-He cursed under his breath, reminding himself that he was closer now to forty than to twenty and that the turbulent, uncontrollable reaction of his body to the merest thought of touching her was the reaction of an immature boy, not an adult man.

Nest stood ran almost due south, it would be quicker to continue along it and cross the Acis lower down than to retrace the steps Dorcas and I had already taken and go back to the foot of the postern wall of Acies Castle.

She now first felt a sensation to which she had been before a stranger, and which, when she had leisure to reflect on it, began to acquaint her with some secrets, which the reader, if he doth not already guess them, will know in due time.

Here, reader, it may be necessary to acquaint thee with some matters, which, if thou dost know already, thou art wiser than I take thee to be.