Crossword clues for almost
almost
- Not totally relaxed, compere going completely topless
- Nearly trapped in Malmo street
- Nearly running from Malmö to Stavanger?
- Nearly lost a match, only header worked
- Very nearly
- Short of
- "Close, but no cigar!"
- So close to being
- "So close!"
- Florida band that "nearly" made it?
- Close, but no cigar
- A bit under
- "You're so close!"
- "So close"
- "Missed by that much!"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. Very close to, but not quite. n. (context informal English) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
WordNet
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
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" 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 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" 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".
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.