| 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. | |
| argument |
| 1. n. A fact or statement used to support a proposition;a reason. | |
| 2. n. A verbal dispute; a quarrel. | |
| 3. n. A process of reasoning. | |
| 4. n. (philosophy, logic) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises. | |
| 5. n. (mathematics) The independent variable of a function. | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) The phase of a complex number. | |
| 7. n. (programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function. | |
| Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks. | |
| 8. n. (programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter. | |
| 9. n. (linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause. | |
| 10. n. (astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends. | |
| The altitude is the argument of the refraction. | |
| 11. n. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. | |
| 12. n. Matter for question; business in hand. | |
| 13. v. To put forward as an argument; to argue. | |
| 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. | |
| controversy |
| 1. n. A debate, discussion of opposing opinions; strife. | |
