Word Meanings - AFTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts

Additional info about word: AFTER

To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts and mizzenmasts. After body , the part of a ship abaft the dead flat, or middle part. (more info) aftra, backwards, Icel. aptr, Sw. and Dan. efter, OHG. aftar behind, Dutch and LG. achter, Gr. -ter is an old comparative suffix, in E. generally -ther , and after is a compar. of of, off. Of; 1. Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. Marshall. Note: In this sense the word is sometimes needlessly combined with the following noun, by means of a hyphen, as, after-ages, after-act, after-days, after-life. For the most part the words are properly kept separate when after has this meaning. 2. Hinder; nearer the rear.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFTER)

• Imitate
• Represent
• copy
• resemble
• follow
• portray
• depict
• repeat
• pattern after
• mock
• ape
• counterfeit
• mimic
• Subsequent
• Posterior
• later
• succeeding
• following
• after

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFTER)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to AFTER)

• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• MIMICRY
  Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies;
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• MIMICKER
  An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits. (more info) 1. One who mimics; a mimic.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.