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or

conj
/ə(ɹ)//oɹ/US/ɔː(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).

  1. inherited from *efþau✻
  2. inherited from oþþe
  3. inherited from oththe
  4. inherited from āþor
  5. inherited from or

Definitions

  1. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which…

    Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.

    • You may stay or go.
    • He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.

  2. An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two…

    An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.

  3. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.

  4. ›+ 23 more definitions

    1. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).

      • It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
      • 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.

    2. Connects two equivalent names.

      • The country Myanmar, or Burma

    3. Alternative form of OR.

    4. The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

      • The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".
      • In engraving, "Or" is expressed by dots.

    5. Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

    6. Early (on).

    7. Earlier, previously.

    8. Before

      Before; ere. Generally followed by "ever" or "e'er".

      • I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust.
      • And Time went forth into the worlds to obey the commands of the gods, yet he cast furtive glances at his masters, and the gods distrusted Time because he had known the worlds or ever the gods became.

    9. Inclusive or

      Inclusive or; either one proposition or the other is true or both.

    10. A lexical symbol to implement inclusive or in a computer language.

    11. A logic gate to implement inclusive or.

    12. The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In…

      The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one 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.

    13. Initialism of operating room.

      • Max Fischer: I like your nurse's uniform, guy. -- Dr. Peter Flynn: These are O.R. scrubs. -- Max Fischer: Oh, are they?

    14. Initialism of official receipt.

    15. Initialism of operations research.

    16. Initialism of Olympic Record.

    17. Initialism of odorant receptor.

    18. Initialism of olfactory receptor.

    19. Initialism of original research.

    20. Initialism of other ranks.

    21. Abbreviation of Oregon

      Abbreviation of Oregon: a state of the United States.

    22. Abbreviation of Orissa, former name of Odisha

      Abbreviation of Orissa, former name of Odisha: a state of India.

    23. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

heorshe

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for or. 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