单词 | and |
释义 | and I. 1. a. < he and his son were here > b. < a thousand and one nights > < I have a hundred and one things to do > < cream and sugar with your coffee > c. < he took aspirin and bicarbonate of soda > d. < the dog barked and barked > e. < they walked and talked > f. < they drove five miles and stopped to eat > g. < secretary and treasurer > h. < an entertaining and scholarly book > — symbol &; used as a function word to (1) express the general relation of connection or addition, especially accompaniment, participation, combination, contiguity, continuance, simultaneity, sequence or (2) conjoin word with word < bread and butter > or phrase with phrase < over the river and through the woods > or clause with clause < said that he would be nominated and that he would be elected > or combinations thereof (as adjectival or adverbial elements of different types, adjective and substantive complements, or various constructions involving ellipsis) < dissatisfied and with still unanswered questions > < he solved the problem carefully and without error > < allegations heretofore unuttered and which force us to take action > < he is a shrewd man and apt to take advantage of a bargain like this > < he stopped speaking and then the awful shock — he slapped me > or (3) fill in expletively (as in initial position in a sentence or between completely disparate elements) < and it came to pass in those days > < when that I was and a little tiny boy — Shakespeare > 2. — used as a function word to express (1) repetition < they rode two and two > < hundreds and hundreds > or (2) variation or difference < there are women and women > or (3) logical or semantic modification of one notion by another as when (a) two elements are joined so that the second logically qualifies the first < your fair and outward character > < in poverty and distress > or (b) two adjectives are joined so that the first becomes equivalent to an adverb modifying the second < nice and warm > < good and ready > or (c) one finite verb (as go, come, try, write) is joined with another so that it becomes logically equal to an infinitive of purpose < go and call him > < come and see me > < try and stop me > < write and tell me > or (d) two verbs are joined so that the first represents a position or state and the second represents an attendant action that may also be expressed by a participle < he sat and smoked > < to sit and wait > or (4) a consequence or sequel < I said go and he went > < one step further and he is a dead man > or (5) contrary action, incongruous outcome, or antithesis < he promised to come and didn't > < he sailed for Florida and landed in Cuba > or (6) reference to either or both of two alternatives < choose between him and me > especially in legal language when also plainly intended to mean or < bequeathed to a person and her bodily issue > < property taxable for state and county purposes > or (7) supplementary explanation or restriction often with climactic emphasis in an appended phrase < he and he alone could control it > < living in one room and that room a cellar > or (8) at the point of junction or intersection < Main Street and First Avenue > 3. obsolete < they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs — Francis Bacon > — see an II 4. — used in logic as a sentential or propositional connective that produces a compound proposition true only if both compounds are true < symbolically p.q is true if and only if neither p nor q is false > — see conjunction • - and how - and interest - and so forth - and so on II. obsolete III. < I want to hear no ifs or ands about it > IV. |
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