Aboard and Close to

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Aboard adverb - On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.

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Close to and aboard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Close to" instead an adverb "Aboard".

Close to adverb - (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.

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Aboard and close to are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Aboard" instead an adverb phrase "Close to".

The plot centers around 15-year-old cabin boy Matt Cruse, who works aboard the airship Aurora in a Steam Punk Alternate History close to our world in The Edwardian Era.

Source: Literature / Airborn
Jason, his captor, and the local woman Jason gets close to (much to Meta's chagrin) leave aboard Meta's ship.

Source: Literature / Deathworld
In the novel Man of the Century, 15-year-old Woodrow Lowe stows away aboard the yacht belonging to the prominent Balfour family, to try and get close to his love, their daughter, Amy.

Source: Nautical Knockout

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