neighbor
noun, verb
US spelling of
neighbour
Meaning of neighbor in English
(Definition of neighbor from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
neighbor | American Dictionary
Examples of neighbor
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At the inter-state level, the environmental degradation of one country could easily affect the environments of neighboring states.
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People also gave their garden produce to their relatives and neighbors, thus improving social linkages among families.
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There is the ecologically minded self, the economically minded self, and the socially minded self that likes to keep up with the neighbors.
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The first, "fast" homogenization stage lasts up to the moment of the collision of plasmas flowing from neighboring filaments.
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Most were focused on ethical issues of concern to community, family, clan, spouse, parents, children, neighbors, orphans, and cobelievers.
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Eighteen self-harvesters reported having learned something through talks and observations from these visits, mostly from their neighbors.
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Unlike their highland neighbors, they never centralized political authority.
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Retroviral infection of whole embryos is more efficient than of cultured neural tubes presumably because the viral particles can easily infect neighboring cells.
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How do farmers who adopt multiple conservation practices differ from their neighbors?
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Another technique for escaping local minima, plateaus and cycles is to change the ranking of neighbors during search.
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These figures do not paint the picture of an anarchical region where states live in perpetual fear of their neighbors.
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This observation might also be explained by a difference in the developmental stage of neighboring astrocytes.
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If their requirements are also not met, facts continue to be shared with their trusted neighbors.
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Second, and more prominent, we observed that neighboring dendrites were pulled apar t from each other.
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Specifically, they suggested that the auditory presentation of a nonword activates its word neighbors and their spellings.
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