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and

conj
/ænd/

Etymology

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").

  1. inherited from *h₂énti✻
  2. inherited from *andi✻
  3. inherited from *andi✻
  4. inherited from and
  5. inherited from and

Definitions

  1. As a coordinating conjunction

    As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.

    • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
    • Sweet lady, you have given me life and living; […]
    • In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

  2. Expressing a condition.

    • "Where ys Sir Launcelot?" seyde King Arthure. "And he were here, he wolde nat grucche to do batayle for you."
    • Peter answered, and sayde: master, and thou be he, bidde me come unto the on the water.
    • "And he went slower," Mike said softly, "he go better."

  3. Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it…

    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.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. Breath.

    3. Sea smoke

      Sea smoke; steam fog.

    4. To breathe

      To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.

    5. Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator.

    6. 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.

    7. 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...

    8. Initialism of airplane nose down.

The neighborhood

Derived

and all, AND gate, and of course, and then everyone clapped, Antigua and Barbuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, fish and chips, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, piece and crisps, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, rock and roll, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Wallis and Futuna, XAND

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for and. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA