disjunctive |
1. adj. French: moi, toi | |
2. adj. Irish: (m, ga, é), m, ga, í | |
3. adj. Not connected; separated. | |
4. adj. (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject. | |
5. adj. Tending to disjoin; separating. | |
6. adj. (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords. | |
7. adj. (logic) Of or related to a disjunction. | |
8. n. (logic) A disjunction. | |
9. n. (grammar) A disjunct. | |
containing |
1. v. present participle of contain | |
2. n. (in the plural) contents | |
contain |
1. v. To hold inside. | |
2. v. To include as a part. | |
3. v. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. | |
I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself! | |
4. v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset. | |
A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements. | |
If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning. | |
5. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
disjunctive |
1. adj. French: moi, toi | |
2. adj. Irish: (m, ga, é), m, ga, í | |
3. adj. Not connected; separated. | |
4. adj. (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject. | |
5. adj. Tending to disjoin; separating. | |
6. adj. (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords. | |
7. adj. (logic) Of or related to a disjunction. | |
8. n. (logic) A disjunction. | |
9. n. (grammar) A disjunct. | |
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. | |
discretive |
1. adj. Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive. | |
clause |
1. n. (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them. | |
2. n. (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) depend | |
3. n. (legal) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document. | |
4. v. (transitive, shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document). | |