According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
proximate
(adjective) very close in space or time; “proximate words”; “proximate houses”
proximate
(adjective) closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects; “news of his proximate arrival”; “interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
proximate (not comparable)
Close or closest; adjacent.
(legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
About to take place; impending.
• (close): near, nigh; see also near
• (about to take place): imminent, in the offing, pending; see also impending
• (close): distant, far; see also distant
• (w.r.t. causes): ultimate
proximate (plural proximates)
(linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person.
Source: Wiktionary
Prox"i*mate, a. Etym: [L. proximatus, p. p. of proximare to come near, to approach, fr. proximus the nearest, nest, superl. of propior nearer, and prope, adv., near.]
Definition: Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. "Proximate ancestors." J. S. Harford. The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. T. Burnet. Proximate analysis (Chem.), an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimate analysis.
– Proximate cause. (a) A cause which immediately precedes and produces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate, or predisposing cause. I. Watts. (b) That which in ordinary natural sequence produces a specific result, no independent disturbing agencies intervening.
– Proximate principle (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies existing ready formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.
Syn.
– Nearest; next; closest; immediate; direct.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.