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afterword

a concluding section, commentary, etc. as of a book: The author’s widow wrote the afterword.
Not to be confused with:
afterward – at a later or subsequent time: We attended the meeting and afterward we went to dinner.
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af·ter·word

 (ăf′tər-wûrd′)
n.
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afterword

(ˈɑːftəˌwɜːd)
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an epilogue or postscript in a book, etc
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af•ter•word

(ˈæf tərˌwɜrd, ˈɑf-)

n.
a concluding section, commentary, etc., as of a book or treatise; closing statement.
[1885–90]
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Translations

afterword

[ˈɑftəˈwɜːd] Nepílogo m
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afterword

[ˈɑːftərwɜːrd] npostface f
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afterword

nNachwort nt
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Ten chapters with afterword are: the problems we need to solve; tracking just about anything in the client; moving data between your web pages; wrestling same origin policy; using FIFIOs to extract data without an API; using sideways development to improve web interfaces; pulling data from multiple sources for a single interface; making a mobile-friendly image map; using server-side scripting to reshape troublesome data; a few last rules to follow; afterword.
A brief afterword by Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon, as well as a lunar space travel timeline and additional pages with fascinating facts and color photographs.
Situating the novel in its eighteenth-century historical and geographical context, the afterword to this new edition foregrounds the author's skilful adaptation of historical-fiction conventions popularized by Sir Walter Scott and additionally highlights his social concern for the fate of Indigenous cultures in nineteenth-century Maritime Canada.
There is a strange afterword in which Lembeck, based on rather flimsy evidence from Roosevelt's valet, wonders whether the accused soldiers might have been guilty of the crime after all.
An afterword provides helpful information for teachers and parents.
In his afterword Devine says 2015 could well represent the high water mark of nationalist popularity but he doesn't rule out another referendum before 2020.
Today Mutanu and all the children at the orphanage will celebrate a unique birthday; children who don't know their birth dates will all be given the gift of a birth date (and, as explained in the afterword, a birth certificate and citizenship rights).
New York, NY, December 28, 2015 --(PR.com)-- "An Afterword: In Pursuit of One's Character: The Moral Imagination" - part memoir, part philosophical discussion, part literary analysis - explores the nature and process of gaining insight.
THE performance of George Lewis' opera, Afterword, was quite a coup for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, following only a month after the Chicago world premiere and using the same singers, director, conductor and orchestra, though Sean Griffin's production seems to have been simpli-fied from the Chicago version.
That applies not just to physical and metaphysical situations but to language, for in "Amber" the poet is "Like a dragonfly trapped in an amber cell--/ This luminous crypt of words." This and other poems support the generalizations in Blandiana's manifesto in the afterword, where she says that striving for perfection is inevitable but inevitably doomed.
After a season full of mayhem and bloodbath, "Sons of Anarchy" is set to roll down the curtains after seven years with the show's last instalment, "Sons of Anarchy" Season 7, Episode 13's "Papa's Goods." Series creator Kurt Sutter and actor Charlie Hunnam are scheduled to discuss the series finale of the FX biker drama series aftershow in "Anarchy Afterword" for the very last time.
In the afterword to her story collection Astray, Emma Donoghue writes that she's fascinated by emigrants "because they loiter on the margins, stripped of the markers of family and nation; they're out of place, out of their depth."