| providing |
| 1. v. present participle of provide | |
| 2. n. Something provided; a provision. | |
| provide |
| 1. v. To make a living; earn money for necessities. | |
| It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage. | |
| 2. v. To act to prepare for something. | |
| 3. v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate. | |
| The contract provides that the work be well done. | |
| I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday. | |
| 4. v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs. | |
| Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it. | |
| We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces. | |
| 5. v. To furnish (with), cause to be present. | |
| 6. v. To make possible or attainable. | |
| He provides us with an alternative option. | |
| 7. v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee. | |
| 8. v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor. | |
| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| example |
| 1. n. Something that is representative of all such things in a group. | |
| 2. n. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. | |
| 3. n. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). | |
| 4. n. A person punished as a warning to others. | |
| 5. n. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model. | |
| 6. n. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule. | |
| 7. v. To be illustrated or exemplified (by). | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| illustration |
| 1. n. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. | |
| 2. n. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity. | |
| 3. n. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work. | |
| 4. n. A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration ... is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend | |
