The Collaborative International Dictionary
After \Aft"er\, prep.
Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. ``Shut doors after you.''
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Below in rank; next to in order.
--Shak.Codrus after Ph?bus sings the best.
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Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause.
After I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
--Matt. xxvi. 32. Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful.
Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.
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Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of.
Ye shall not go after other gods.
--Deut. vi. 14.After whom is the king of Israel come out?
--1 Sam. xxiv. 14. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.
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In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father.
To name or call after, to name like and reference to.
Our eldest son was named George after his uncle.
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According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind.
He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes.
--Isa. xi. 3.They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.
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According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. [Archaic]
He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value.
--Bacon.After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole.
After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively.
One after another, successively.
To be after, to be in pursuit of in order to reach or get; as, he is after money.
Usage examples of "to name".
When they found that the inhabitants of their second stopover planet had no name for the place - or rather, had long forgotten it - Jack wanted to name the world 'Kybernetes' in dubious honour of its many machines.
If I had to name the single most influential person in my life it would have to be Wonder Woman.
As the original owner of the Philadelphia Flyers, Wachovia Spectrum, and Wachovia Center, to name a few, Ed knows a thing or two about business.
What do you say, nephew, according to the usual custom of travelers, to name the stream after him?
He dared me to name an issue, an item in my life that had engaged all my thoughts.
As to the First, that is true enough, but why trouble to name her thus?
Thora had ordered him to name her the commander of this destroyer when they were passing near the moon base.
Developing new technology for the project has also resulted in the creation of many new tools, skills, and chemical compounds, to name but a few, that have found uses throughout the colony.
Pisander of Laranda was the author of that marvelous epic of world history, Heroic Marriages of the Gods, and it would have been reasonable enough for Caesar to name me for him, since I am an historian also.
Indeed, aspects of the many subdivisionsProject Cerberus, Operation Chronos, to name only twoshould have rendered the threat of atomic warheads as impotent as stone knives and clubs.