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WITHIN
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On the inside
Example:
inside, the car is a mess
Synonyms:
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Context examples:
Human MET wild-type allele is located within 7q31 and is approximately 126 kb in length.
(MET wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
We have arranged that one of us is to stay within call of the unhappy pair till we can meet together and arrange about taking action.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I was within an ace of calling for help.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They had not remained in this manner long, before Elinor perceived Willoughby, standing within a few yards of them, in earnest conversation with a very fashionable looking young woman.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
What had been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“Do you tell me that during these long ten weeks of agony the stolen papers were within the very room with me all the time?”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I glanced around to see that no one was within hearing distance.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Human ACP5 wild-type allele is located within 19p13.3-p13.2 and is approximately 4 kb in length.
(ACP5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Will not your heart sink within you?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But it happened there was no danger, for the cat took not the least notice of me when my master placed me within three yards of her.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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