any
/ɛni/ adverb A1- To even the slightest extent; at all.
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives, generally in interrogative, hypothetical, or negative contexts. · If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!· Is she any less enthused now that it's raining?
- Used to modify a verb, generally a finite verb or a non-finite verb in object position. · That doesn't bother me any.· Unfortunately, I don't expect the documentation to help any.
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However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
“For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her.
“Ah, ha,” said the shipowner, “I am not in the least surprised, for she has been to me three times, inquiring if there were any news of the Pharaon.
Do you want any money?”
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