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by a nose

by a nose prepositional phrase: synonym of by a whisker.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Synonym of by a whisker
    Synonyms:
    by a whisker

by a nose meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

by a nose in Urdu

تھوڑے فرق سے, تھوڑی کسر سے

by a nose in Malayalam

barely, (only) just, narrowly
കഷ്ടിച്ച്, ഒരുവിധം, ഞെങ്ങിഞെരുങ്ങി, ഏതാണ്ട്, പറ്റപ്പറ്റ, പറ്റപ്പറ്റെ

Synonyms of by a nose

Questions about by a nose

What does by a nose mean?
By a nose means synonym of by a whisker.
What is by a nose in Urdu?
By a nose in Urdu is تھوڑے فرق سے, تھوڑی کسر سے. See By a nose meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is by a nose?
By a nose is a prepositional phrase.

Words near by a nose in the dictionary

  1. by a hair's breadth
  2. by a landslide
  3. by a long chalk
  4. by a long shot
  5. by a long way
  6. by a nose
  7. by a nose length
  8. by a time
  9. by a whisker
  10. by a whisper
  11. by a wide margin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: by a nose (page history and authors); by a nose (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); by a nose (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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