and
/ˈænd/ conjunction, noun, verb
Forms ands anding anded an' 'n' n aynd eynd eind ein
- conjunction Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
- conjunction Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
- conjunction Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
- conjunction (obsolete) Yet; but.
- conjunction Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
- conjunction (now colloquial or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
- conjunction Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
- conjunction Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
- noun (music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
- noun (UK dialectal) Breath.
- noun (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
- verb (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
- noun (logic) The binary operator and, only true if both of two inputs is true. In infix notation.
- verb (logic, transitive) To combine (a value) with another value by means of this operator.
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Etymology
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").
Inherited from Middle English ande, from Old English anda (“grudge, enmity, malice, envy, hatred, anger, zeal, annoyance, vexation; zeal; injury, mischief; fear, horror”) and Old Norse andi (“breath, wind, spirit”); both from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, anger, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”).
Cognate with German Ahnd, And (“woe, grief”), Danish ånde (“breath”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath, wind, ingenuity, intellect”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Albanian ëndë (“pleasure, delight”), Latin animus (“spirit, soul”). Related to onde.
Inherited from Middle English anden, from Old English andian (“to be envious or jealous, envy”) and Old Norse anda (“to breathe”); both from Proto-Germanic *anadōną (“to breathe, sputter”). Cognate with German ahnden (“to avenge, punish”), Danish ånde (“to breathe”), Swedish andas (“to breathe”), Icelandic anda (“to breathe”). See above.
Initialism.
Webster’s 1913
- conjunction A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition.
- conjunction In order to; --used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.
Etymology [AS. and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda, OHG. anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if, Ante-.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “and”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details