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1. One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

   Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.

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   Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

   1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016

   Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

   2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist

2. Not the same; different.

   Do you know another way to do this job?

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   From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   But that is another story and will be told another time.

   1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53

   In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

   2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3

3. Any or some other, similar in likeness or in effect, instead.

   One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.

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   But that is another story and will be told another time.

   1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53

alternative Jamaica anoda · alternative anothah · alternative anothuh · alternative anotha · alternative anotha' · alternative pronunciation spelling anudda · alternative pronunciation spelling anuddah · alternative nother

1. An additional one of the same kind.

   There is one sterling and here is another

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   This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?

2. One that is different from the current one.

   I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.

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   I've thought about moving to another city at one time or another.

3. One of a group of things of the same kind.

   His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.