ALONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does along mean? 

• ALONG (adverb)
  The adverb ALONG has 5 senses:

1. with a forward motion

2. in accompaniment or as a companion

3. to a more advanced state

4. in addition (usually followed by 'with')

5. in line with a length or direction (often followed by 'by' or 'beside')

  Familiarity information: ALONG used as an adverb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALONG (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With a forward motion

Synonyms:

along; on

Context example:

march on

Sense 2

Meaning:

In accompaniment or as a companion

Context example:

working along with his father

Sense 3

Meaning:

To a more advanced state

Context example:

getting along in years

Sense 4

Meaning:

In addition (usually followed by 'with')

Context example:

consider the advantages along with the disadvantages

Sense 5

Meaning:

In line with a length or direction (often followed by 'by' or 'beside')

Context example:

cottages along by the river

 Context examples 

As he jogged along over the fields, singing and dancing, a little dwarf met him, and asked him what made him so merry.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We had been loafing along, till now, our sails shaking half the time and spilling the wind; and twice, for short periods, we had been hove to.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He picked his way from muskeg to muskeg, and followed the other man's footsteps along and across the rocky ledges which thrust like islets through the sea of moss.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This idea suggests that dark matter particles are fast moving, zipping along too quickly to merge and form smaller concentrations.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

For example, in the Negev Desert along the Egypt-Israel border, the Israeli side's dunes are stabilized by vegetation; on the Egyptian side, however, the dunes are moving because overgrazing has left them barren.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Samples were magnified by the built-in lens of the cell phone camera along with an external lens.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)

The Kuna make a drink with dried and ground cocoa beans (the seeds of the cocoa tree) along with a little added sweetener.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Let me see, said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing along the line, I should like just to remember the order of the houses here.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Further to this, it appears that although many species in this section produced vaterite along with calcite, there was at least one species, Saxifraga sempervivum, that was producing pure vaterite.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

There were pathways for animals and plants to move along.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)