Or vs End - What's the difference?
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Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "eitheror".
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Logical union of two sets of values. There are two forms, an exclusive or and an inclusive or.
Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
Otherwise; a consequence of the condition that the previous is false
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
Connects two equivalent names.
(tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
(tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
(obsolete) Early (on).
(obsolete) Earlier, previously.
Before; ere.
*, Book VII:
*:"Sey ye never so," seyde Sir Bors, "for many tymys or this she hath bene wroth with you, and aftir that she was the firste that repented hit."
(rfc-sense) The final point of something in space or time.
* 1908: (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
* , chapter=4
, title= The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Death, especially miserable.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
Result.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
A purpose, goal, or aim.
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) Coleridge
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
* 1926 , , (The Great Gatsby) , Penguin 2000, p. 11:
(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
(ergative) To finish, terminate.
* Bible, (w) ii. 2
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XLV, lines 7-8:
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English
(wikipedia or)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or' disciform, as broad ' or broader than the calyptra stalk
Synonyms
*See also
* neither * norEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(-)- 1909', The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "'''or " and "argent". — Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, ''A Complete Guide to Heraldry
- 1889', In engraving, "'''Or " is expressed by dots. — Charles Norton Elvin, ''A Dictionary of Heraldry
Synonyms
* (gold or yellow tincture) , OrAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* goldEtymology 3
Late (etyl) ). Compare (ere).Adverb
Preposition
(English prepositions)Statistics
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English
Noun
(en noun)- they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
- Is there no end to this madness?
- He met a terrible end in the jungle.
- I hope the end comes quickly.
- Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end .
- unblamed through life, lamented in thy end
- O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
- Losing her, the end of living lose.
- When every man is his own end , all things will come to a bad end.
- There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
- Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].
- odds and ends
- I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.Synonyms
* (final point in space or time) conclusion, limit, terminus, termination * See alsoAntonyms
* (final point of something) beginning, startDerived terms
* at the end of the day * big end * bitter end * dead-end * East End * -ended * endless * endlike * endly * End of Days * end of the line * end of the road * endpaper * end piece, endpiece * end product * endsay * end times * end-to-end * endward * endways, endwise * high-end * know which end is up * living end * loose end * low-end * make ends meet * off the deep end * on end * rear end * short end of the stick * split end * The End * tight end * to this end * up-end * West End * week-end, weekend * without endVerb
(en verb)- On the seventh day God ended his work.
- I shall end this strife.
- But play the man, stand up and end you
- When your sickness is your soul.
How to stop the fighting, sometimes, passage=Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.}}