# ElasticSearch Proximity Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-proximity-query/8738>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 14, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-proximity-query/8738 "2012-08-14T08:57:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sumit\_Guptaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Sumit\_Guptaa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sumit_Guptaa)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-proximity-query/8738/1 "2012-08-14T08:57:56Z")

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hi all,

i have two two document in my index like

{"doc":"trying out Elastic and Search"}  
{"doc":"trying out Search and Elastic"}

when i apply this query it works fine

curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/sumitproximity/proximityindex/\_search](http://localhost:9200/sumitproximity/proximityindex/_search)' -d '{  
"query" : {

```
"query_string" : {
    "default_field" : "message",
    "query" : "\"Elastic Search\"~1"
}

},
"highlight" : {
    "fields" : {
        "message" : {}
    }
}

```

}  
'

but i want to implement proximity between terms. is it possible with ElasticSearch ?

Regards,  
Sumit Gupta

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**Author:** ![Sumit\_Guptaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Sumit\_Guptaa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sumit_Guptaa)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-proximity-query/8738/2 "2012-08-14T10:09:05Z")

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hi,

i am confused about "message": ""Elastic Search"~2" this line i mean to say that in which way the 2 is working...

Regards,  
Sumit Gupta

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-proximity-query/8738/3 "2017-07-06T03:16:27Z")

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