What does another mean?
Another means One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect..
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/əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/ · determiner
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.
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;[…].
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.
Do you know another way to do this job?
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.
But that is another story and will be told another time.
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.
One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.
Use another when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Another means One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect..
Common synonyms include different, additional, some other.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
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