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and¹

  • /ˈænd/ UK
  • [ˈænd] ~ [and] UK
  • /ˈand/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [and] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈand/ Northern England, Scotland, Wales
  • [and] ~ [änd] Northern England, Scotland, Wales
  • /ˈænd/ Canada, US
  • [ˈænd]
  • [ˈeə̯nd] ~ [ˈɛə̯nd]
  • /ˈæːnd/ Australia
  • [ˈæːnd]
  • [ˈeːnd] ~ [ˈɛːnd]
  • /ˈɛnd/ New Zealand
  • [ɛnd] New Zealand
  • /ˈənd/ unstressed
  • [ˈənd] unstressed
  • [n̩d] unstressed
  • [n̩ʔ] unstressed

Sounds like an (unstressed), ant (in some accents), end (in some accents), in (unstressed) · Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti

Proto-Germanic *andi

Old English and

Middle English and

English and

Inherited from Middle English and, an, from Old English and, ond, end, from Proto-West Germanic *andi, from Proto-Germanic *andi, *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“facing opposite, near, in front of, before”). Cognate with Scots an (“and”), North Frisian än (“and”), Saterland Frisian un (“and”), West Frisian en (“and”), Dutch en, ende (“and”), German und (“and”), German Low German on, un (“and”), Luxembourgish an (“and”), Vilamovian an, ana (“and”), Yiddish און (un), אונ (un), אונד (und), אונ׳ (un', “and”), Danish end (“still; ever; even”), Faroese enn (“still, yet”), Icelandic en (“and”), enn (“still, yet”), Norwegian Bokmål enn (“and”), Norwegian Nynorsk en, enn (“and”), Swedish än (“still, yet”), Albanian edhe (“and”) (dialectal ênde, ênne), ende (“still, yet, therefore”), Latin ante (“opposite, in front of”), Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”). Doublet of an ("if").

conjunction an' · 'n' · n

  1. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
  2. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. When she saw several boys carrying a huge wooden case full of porcelain, she mumbled to Jinming that she was going to have a look, and left the room.
  3. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. I'd been walking since sunrise, and I was hungry.
  4. obsolete Yet; but. Hee said, I goe sir, and went not.
  5. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
  6. colloquial, literary Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. And these does she apply, for warnings and portents, / And euils imminent; and on her knee / Hath begg'd, that I will stay at home to day.
  7. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
  8. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. The word "capable" occurs in Mr. Fisher's Bill, and rightly, because our mental and physical capacities are infinitely varied.
  9. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps[…].
  10. colloquial, dialectal Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try. Beyond paying her a few charming compliments and amusing her with gay conversation, had he done anything at all to try and gain her affection?
  11. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; “as well as other”. Undoubtedly every party makes mistakes. But there are mistakes and mistakes.
  12. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). Two and two is/are four.
  13. US, dialectal If; provided that. "Where ys Sir Launcelot?" seyde King Arthure. "And he were here, he wolde nat grucche to do batayle for you."
  14. obsolete As if, as though. I will roare you, and 'twere any Nightingale.
  15. Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.

Similar: as well as, together with, in addition to, &, 'n', +, x

noun ands · an' · 'n' · n

  1. informal, often In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. The same goes for measure 42, when you begin the phrase on the and of 1, because that kind of lick can easily bog down the time.

and²

  • /ˈænd/ UK
  • [ˈænd] ~ [and] UK
  • /ˈand/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [and] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈand/ Northern England, Scotland, Wales
  • [and] ~ [änd] Northern England, Scotland, Wales
  • /ˈænd/ Canada, US
  • [ˈænd]
  • [ˈeə̯nd] ~ [ˈɛə̯nd]
  • /ˈæːnd/ Australia
  • [ˈæːnd]
  • [ˈeːnd] ~ [ˈɛːnd]
  • /ˈɛnd/ New Zealand
  • [ɛnd] New Zealand
  • /ˈənd/ unstressed
  • [ˈənd] unstressed
  • [n̩d] unstressed
  • [n̩ʔ] unstressed

Sounds like an (unstressed), ant (in some accents), end (in some accents), in (unstressed) · Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English ande, from Old English anda (“grudge, enmity, malice, envy, hatred, anger, zeal, annoyance, vexation; zeal; injury, mischief; fear, horror”) and Old Norse andi (“breath, wind, spirit”); both from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, anger, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”).

Cognate with German Ahnd, And (“woe, grief”), Danish ånde (“breath”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath, wind, ingenuity, intellect”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Albanian ëndë (“pleasure, delight”), Latin animus (“spirit, soul”). Related to onde.

noun ands · aynd · eynd

  1. UK, dialectal Breath.
  2. UK, dialectal Sea smoke; steam fog.

and³

  • /ˈænd/ UK
  • [ˈænd] ~ [and] UK
  • /ˈand/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [and] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈand/ Northern England, Scotland, Wales
  • [and] ~ [änd] Northern England, Scotland, Wales
  • /ˈænd/ Canada, US
  • [ˈænd]
  • [ˈeə̯nd] ~ [ˈɛə̯nd]
  • /ˈæːnd/ Australia
  • [ˈæːnd]
  • [ˈeːnd] ~ [ˈɛːnd]
  • /ˈɛnd/ New Zealand
  • [ɛnd] New Zealand
  • /ˈənd/ unstressed
  • [ˈənd] unstressed
  • [n̩d] unstressed
  • [n̩ʔ] unstressed

Sounds like an (unstressed), ant (in some accents), end (in some accents), in (unstressed) · Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English anden, from Old English andian (“to be envious or jealous, envy”) and Old Norse anda (“to breathe”); both from Proto-Germanic *anadōną (“to breathe, sputter”). Cognate with German ahnden (“to avenge, punish”), Danish ånde (“to breathe”), Swedish andas (“to breathe”), Icelandic anda (“to breathe”). See above.

verb ands · anding · anded · eind · eynd

  1. UK, dialectal, intransitive To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.

AND⁴

Rhymes with -ænd

noun ANDs

  1. alternative Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator.∧
  2. The binary operator and, only true if both of two inputs is true. In infix notation. The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.

verb ANDs · ANDing · ANDed

  1. transitive To combine (a value) with another value by means of this operator. If an internal node is encountered that contains a mask, the search key is logically ANDed with the mask and another search is made of the subtree...

AND⁵

Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

Initialism.

adjective more AND · most AND

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of airplane nose down.airplane nose down

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