Definition of and in English English dictionary
- 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.
- Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator
- Used to indicate addition
Five and six are eleven.
- Used to connect two homogeneous (similar) words or phrases
Boys and girls come out to play.
- Used at the end of a list to indicate the last item
bread, butter and cheese.
- To; used to connect two finite verbs
Call and see whether John is coming over.
- Used to ask for elaboration
A: I don't have a key. B: And... A: And I need one to get in.
- Used to join sentences or sentence fragments in chronological order
I mended the chair and it broke again.
- If
Peter answered, and sayde: master, and thou be he, bidde me come unto the on the water.
- Used to indicate causation
Ask me the definition of “and” again and I’ll scream.
- {c} joining sentences and words
- and Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator
- wa are you finished hul khalast?
- The Boolean AND operator, used by WAIS to indicate that found documents must contain both terms that appear in the question
- A logical operator joining two well defined logical expressions into one compound logical expression The compound expression formed will be TRUE only when both logical expressions on each side are TRUE Logical operator precedence: Not, And, Or
- The logical operator that combines two conditions that must both be ture to retrieve a record
- When used on a search engine the Boolean AND operator indicates that found documents must contain both terms that appear in the question
- (Boolean) see Boolean AND
- A connector/term used in searching databases which indicates that for two statements/rules/criteria only records satisfying both statements/rules/criteria should be selected (DB, Gr 5)
- A Boolean logic function which is also mod 2 multiplication
- met the $100 00 annual deductible, Medicare will pay 80 percent of the approved charges for blood, starting with the fourth pint
- Used when querying many search engines, a Boolean operation which is "true" if both inputs are true
- this Boolean operator is used to combine terms and search for both or all of them
- do not rely heavily on the loose connectives and, and so, and and then They produce flabby sentences which force readers to guess the relation between clauses
- A Boolean operator that narrows a search by requiring all search terms be present in the results retrieved because of the search For example, hot and cold would only retrieve information where both "hot" and "cold" appear See also operators
- A Boolean Operator AND is a word used to connect terms in a computer search It narrows the search to articles that contain only the selected terms For example: college students AND stress See also Boolean Logic, Or, Not
- Evaluates args (which must be integral values) until an arg is false and then returns false True is returned if all args are true
- A logical operation between two numbers
- Logical operation where the result is 1 if ANDed terms both have the value 1
- A logical operator that required that both of the relational operators it connects must be true for the whole statement to evaluate as true If either of the relational operators are false, or if both are false, the statement will evaluate as false
- also or plus -- "both in the information and part of the question " (192)
- between two terms indicates that both terms must be present in the article or citation entry to be included in the search set
- 1 Half of a Quick count (& 1 or 1 &) 2 A Call such as "ready and" 3 Indicates simultaneous action Note: In Don's step descriptions, the word "and" notes simultaneous actions, while the figure "&" indcates movement on a half beat of music
- Used when two movements are to be done simultaneously, i e 1 step foward on right foot and clap hands
- This may be used to define mutually recursive functions and datatypes datatype Expr = Sum of Term list and Term = Product of Factor list and Factor = Variable of string | Value of int | Bracket of Expr; (* Not a good example as it is easier to have just one type here datatype Expr = Sum of Expr list | Prod of Expr list | Var of string| Val of int; *) fun foo(h: : t) = h+bar t | foo nil = 0 and bar(h: : t) = (~h)+foo t | bar nil = 0
- a reserved word, a binary Boolean operator 3 1, 3 4, A 1
- You use and to introduce a question which follows logically from what someone has just said. `He used to be so handsome.' --- `And now?'
- You use and to interrupt yourself in order to make a comment on what you are saying. As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language
- and WEAK STRONG
- In order to; used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go
- emphasis You use and to link two words or phrases that are the same in order to emphasize the degree of something, or to suggest that something continues or increases over a period of time. Learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older We talked for hours and hours He lay down on the floor and cried and cried
- It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive
- You use and to link two statements when the second statement continues the point that has been made in the first statement. You could only really tell the effects of the disease in the long term, and five years wasn't long enough
- You use and to indicate that two numbers are to be added together. What does two and two make? = plus
- It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence
- You use and at the beginning of a sentence to introduce something else that you want to add to what you have just said. Some people think that starting a sentence with and is ungrammatical, but it is now quite common in both spoken and written English. Commuter airlines fly to out-of-the-way places. And business travelers are the ones who go to those locations
- And is used before a fraction that comes after a whole number. McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam. fourteen and a quarter per cent
- You use and in numbers larger than one hundred, after the words `hundred' or `thousand' and before other numbers. three thousand and twenty-six pounds. A logical operator that returns a true value only if both operands are true. andante
- And is used by broadcasters and people making announcements to change a topic or to start talking about a topic they have just mentioned. And now the drought in Sudan
- You use and to link two or more words, groups, or clauses. When he returned, she and Simon had already gone Between 1914 and 1920 large parts of Albania were occupied by the Italians I'm going to write good jokes and become a good comedian I'm 53 and I'm very happy
- A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition
- conj. with, together with; also, too
- See An, conj
- You use and to link two statements about events when one of the events follows the other. I waved goodbye and went down the stone harbour steps = then
- If; though
- You use and to link two clauses when the second clause is a result of the first clause. All through yesterday crowds have been arriving and by midnight thousands of people packed the square
- bail
- patent
- og
- et
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Indian union territory in the Bay of Bengal which has Port Blair as its capital
- and all
- Used to suggest certain unstated relevant implications or what has been stated
What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming.
- and all
- Including every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of items
He ate the whole fish, bones and all.
- and all that
- Used at the end of a statement to insinuate that there is more information that can be inferred from the preceding
She likes Punk Rock, Screamo, Death Metal and all that.
- and change
- and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number
This ain't your speed young man, run in your lane / So I can come through doin' a hundred and change.
- and counting
- used to show that the number previously mentioned is continuously changing, i.e. increasing or decreasing
Hurry up, the train leaves in three minutes. No, two minutes and counting!.
- and crap
- Alternative form of and shit
- and finally
- A light news story reserved for the end of a bulletin when there is a lack of more important items; typically involving animals or other features supposed to be amusing
The shots were included as part of BBC natural history producer Fergus Beeley nature diary from Beinn Eighe’s National Nature Reserve show water being blown back uphill on a windy day in Torridon. They have been picked up by the media as an ‘and finally’ and widely circulated.
- and how
- Used to strongly confirm preceding utterance
It created a disruption, and how.
- and if
- Alternative form of an if
- and shit
- Used after one or more listed objects, attributes or processes to indicate additional others
Oh no! All this seaweed and shit is getting all over me!.
- and so forth
- Indicates that a list continues in a similar manner
Don't forget to pack weather items appropriate for the climate: sunscreen, rain gear, and so forth.
- and so on
- Indicates that a list continues in a similar manner
Put things where you will use them: sponges next to the sink, knives next to the cutting board, and so on.
- and that
- And everything related to that; and so on; etc
We want to move to a new town, buy a house, start a family and that.
- and the horse you rode in on
- Euphemistic shortening of "fuck you and the horse you rode in on"
- and the horse you rode in on
- Intensifier
- and the like
- And other similar items
- and then some
- Used to confirm preceding utterance, while implying that what was said or asked is an understatement
It created a disruption, and then some.
- and whatnot
- And so on; et cetera
- and your little dog too
- A statement that not only will the person being addressed be punished but their conspirators will also
- and/or
- Joins two alternatives to mean either or both; indicates that inclusive or is meant where or alone might be taken to mean exclusive or
List three personal and/or business references.
- AND gate
- A logic gate that simulates the function of the logical operator AND. It emits a signal only if all input wires receive coincident signals
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Union territory (pop., 2001 prelim.: 356,265), India. It consists of two groups of islands in the Bay of Bengal about 400 mi (650 km) west of Myanmar; the total area is 3,185 sq mi (8,249 sq km). The chief islands are North Andaman, Middle Andaman, and South Andaman (known collectively as Great Andaman), and Little Andaman. The Nicobar group includes Car Nicobar, Camorta (Kamorta) and Nancowry, and Great Nicobar. Most of the population lives in the Andaman group. The first European settlement was at Port Blair, South Andaman, now the union territory capital. In the Nicobar group there are remnants of inhabitation dating to AD 1050
- Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli
- born 1510-20, Venice died late 1586, Venice born 1556, Venice died Aug. 12?, 1612, Venice Venetian composers. Andrea worked at the Bavarian court in Munich and in 1566 became an organist at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, where he remained the rest of his life. He wrote more than 200 madrigals and much other secular vocal music. His sacred vocal works, which number more than 150, include many splendid settings for church festivals; many were published posthumously in a collection called Concerti (1587). His nephew and student, Giovanni, joined him as organist at St. Mark's in 1584. Like Andrea, he wrote numerous festive works for choirs and instrumental groups. His best-known works are those for instruments, especially wind instruments (canzonas, ricercars, sonatas, toccatas, etc.), which employ dramatic dynamic and spatial effects. His student Heinrich Schutz conveyed the Venetian style to Germany
- Androcles and the Lion
- an ancient Roman story about a slave called Androcles who escapes from his owner and meets a lion with a thorn (=a sharp pointed part of a plant) in its foot. Androcles removes the thorn. Later he is caught and is made to fight with a lion in the arena as punishment for escaping, but the lion is the same one that he helped, and instead of attacking him, it greets him as a friend
- and Co.
- and company (and partners, and business associates, and colleagues)
- and I quote:
- his/her exact words were: , this is a direct quotation
- and Scaliger Joseph Justus Scaliger, Julius Caesar
- born April 23, 1484, Riva, Republic of Venice died Oct. 21, 1558, Agen, France born Aug. 5, 1540, Agen, France died Jan. 21, 1609, Leiden, Holland Classical scholars. Julius worked in botany, zoology, and grammar but was chiefly interested in developing an understanding and critical evaluation of the ancients. His most widely read book was his Poetics (1561), in which Greco-Roman rhetoric and poetics are used as a foundation for literary criticism. His son Joseph, a precocious student of language, studied in France, Germany, and Italy and taught in France before he was called to the University of Leiden, where he became known as the most erudite scholar of his time. His major works are the Study on the Improvement of Time (1583) and Thesaurus of Time (1609), which brought order to ancient chronology
- and Slovenes Kingdom of Serbs, Croats
- Balkan state formed in 1918 after World War I. It included the previously independent kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and the southern Slavic territories formerly subject to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, including Dalmatia, Croatia-Slavonia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The kingdom was ruled by the Serbian Karadjordjevi dynasty. In 1929 King Alexander I sought to combat local nationalisms by proclaiming a royal dictatorship and renaming the state Yugoslavia. See also Serbia and Montenegro
- and afterwards
- and then, after which
- and all
- and everything, and the whole thing
- and all the best
- I hope that all goes well for you, best wishes (said in farewell)
- and all the more so
- and even more, most certainly
- and as if that is not enough
- and on top of all that
- and circuit
- a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire
- and family
- and the other members of the family
- and here are the main points
- and here are today's top stories/headlines (said at the opening of the telecast before the actual news is broadcast)
- and how
- an expression of emphatic agreement
- and how!
- you bet!, for sure!
- and more
- and even more, and yet, and still
- and others
- used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neutral plural) when referring to a number of people
- and so
- subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right"; "first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the late movie and then went to bed"; "and so home and to bed"
- and so forth
- continuing in the same way
- and so forth
- et cetera, and so on
- and so on
- continuing in the same way
- and so on
- etcetera, and others, and so forth
- and so on and so forth
- etcetera, and others
- and spouse
- including his wife, including her husband
- and that's it
- and that's the end of it, and that's enough, and no more, and that's all
- and that's the way it was
- and that's what happened, and that's what it was like
- and the like
- and others of the same kind, and those of the same type
- and the wolf shall dwell with the lamb
- there will be peace even between the fiercest of enemies (Biblical prophecy)
- and then
- subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right"; "first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the late movie and then went to bed"; "and so home and to bed"
- and then some
- and much more in addition to (e.g.: "I understand your car cost about $25,000", "Yes that much and then some because I also added a CD player")
- and then some
- and considerably more in addition; "it cost me a week's salary and then some"
- and then some
- and considerably more in addition; "it cost me a week's salary and then some
- and what is more
- in addition to this, not only this, not this alone
- and whatnot
- and anything else, and what you please
- and who may you be?
- and who are you?
- and yet
- in any event, anyway, despite
- Adam and Eve
- To believe
Would you Adam and Eve it, I've only gone an' lost me wallet, ain't I?.
- Armalite and the ballot box
- Electoral strategy pursued by the Irish Republican movement in the 1980s and early 1990s, where elections in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were contested by Sinn Féin, while the IRA continued military operations against the British Army and RUC
- Black and Tan
- A member of the RIC British irregular army group, operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- A country on the Balkan Peninsula with the capital Sarajevo. Until 1992, it was part of Yugoslavia
- Buckley's and none
- A supposed two chances (probabilities), being Buckley's chance (meaning a very small chance) or no chance at all
- Daman and Diu
- Union territory in western India which has Daman as its capital
- I have to love you and leave you
- Used as an affectionate way of saying goodbye
- I'll see you and raise you
- More generally, used when someone produces or reveals something. One says this to announce they will answer by producing or revealing something of their own
I'll see your gigabyte and raise you a terabyte.
- Jammu and Kashmir
- State in Northern India which has Srinagar as its capital (Jammu is its winter capital)
- Marks and Sparks
- The retailer Marks & Spencer
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- A province in eastern Canada with capital St. John's
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- A country in the Caribbean. Official name: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- A British-owned territory of inhospitable islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
- Two distinct dependencies of Norway. Official name: Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Island nation off the western equatorial coast of Africa. Official name: Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Trinidad and Tobago
- A country in the Caribbean. Official name: Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Country in the Caribbean. Official name: Turks and Caicos Islands
- Urim and Thummim
- A set of seer stones bound by silver bows into a set of spectacles, that founder Joseph Smith, Jr. said he found on the hill Cumorah and used to interpret the golden plates
- X's and O's
- kisses and hugs
The college co-ed signed her letter to her mother with X's and O's.
- X's and O's
- The fundamental elements of a play
- a hundred and ten percent
- A level of effort exceeding one's sustained capacity, possibly risking injury
We busted our tails and won, we gave 110%.
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- the song of the yellowhammer
A little bit of bread and no cheese! cry the yellowhammers petulantly. But no one takes any notice of them.
- accident and emergency
- The department of a hospital that deals with injuries and medical emergencies
- aided and abetted
- Simple past tense and past participle of aid and abet
- aiding and abetting
- Present participle of aid and abet
- all fingers and thumbs
- clumsy or awkward
He tried to tie his shoelace but was all fingers and thumbs due to his nervousness.
- all mouth and no trousers
- Alternative form of all mouth and trousers
- all talk and no cider
- all talk and no results
- apples and oranges
- Said of a comparison of items that are not comparable
Comparing the grades of English students to Engineering students is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
- apples and pears
- stairs
- at sixes and sevens
- In a state of dispute or disagreement
All you will see is a girl you once knew, although she's dressed up to the nines, at sixes and sevens with you.
- bag and baggage
- With all one's possessions
- bait and switch
- An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product
Seereeram and other critics say it was a sort of bait and switch. Citibank met with Trintomar three times in the spring of 1992 to pitch its original $66 million refinancing proposal, and in a letter dated Sept. 9, Trintomar asked for a formal proposal. The next day, Citibank sent a letter outlining the extra $96.5 million loan in several pages of eye-glazing detail.
- be-all and end-all
- Something considered to be of the utmost importance; something essential or ultimate
Profit is the be-all and end-all of business.
- beauty and the beast
- Two individuals, usually but not necessarily romantically involved, where one is perceived to be considerably more attractive than the other
- bed and breakfast
- A type of guesthouse providing such a service. Abbreviations: B & B, B&B
- bed-and-breakfast
- Alternative spelling of bed and breakfast
- between a rock and a hard place
- Having the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary
If Washington Mutual needs to raise capital quickly, it will very likely find itself between a rock and a hard place, because credit markets have all but closed their doors to troubled banks.
- between the hammer and the anvil
- Having the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary
Yet for a time the nation was again placed between the democracy of the levellers and the despotism of the Stuarts, — between the hammer and the anvil.
- black and gold garden spiders
- plural form of black and gold garden spider
- black and white
- Easily divided into diametrically opposing camps or schools of thought
- black-and-white television
- A television set that displays only monochrome images
- block and tackle
- human male external genitalia
- blues and twos
- The flashing blue lights and (originally) two-tone siren of a police vehicle
- bow and arrow
- A weapon consisting of a bow and a supply of arrows, often kept in a quiver
- box and whiskers plot
- A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics — median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and upper extreme and lower extreme values — by depiction as a box with its edges at the quartile marks and an internal line at the median and with lines protruding from the box as far as the extremal values
- bread and circuses
- Food and entertainment provided by the state
- bread-and-butter
- Relating to basic sustenance or the requirements for everyday living for the masses
- bread-and-butter
- A general saying used to ward off bad luck
- bread-and-butter letter
- A short, hand-written communication to thank someone who has recently provided you with hospitality, usually dinner or an overnight visit
- bump and grind
- To perform such a dance or such movements
A dozen exercisers show up twice a week to bump and grind, do some belly rolls and loosen the hip joints..
- butter-and-egg man
- A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up
He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.
- cat and dog life
- Unhappy married life
- caught and bowled
- Describing the way of being out by being caught by the bowler
- caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
- Having a choice between two alternatives, both undesirable
- chief cook and bottle washer
- Chief executive; person in charge of all tasks
- clean and jerk
- The act of lifting the barbell to hang at arm's length, a pause, and thrusting the barbell over head to a stationary position in one movement
- cock-and-bull story
- A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity
- coming and going
- A general bustle of activity
- coming and going
- The activities of a specified person or group
- crook and nanny
- A very small place; mistaken form of nook and cranny
There was sand in every crook and nanny, from truck to keel. As the emerging seamen ran out of expletives so the Kalahari may have run out of sand.
- cut and dried
- decided, set, settled, not open to change
- cut and paste
- to delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or different one
- damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
- A dilemma where either choice results in a negative outcome
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
- divide and conquer
- Applied to various algorithms, such as quicksort, that solve a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial
- divide and conquer
- A strategy for achieving political or military control
- divide and rule
- To gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy
- dog and bone
- A telephone
Oi, keep the noise down! I'm talking to my old lady on the dog and bone.
- done and done
- Done thoroughly and satisfactorily
Bob, you've done good work setting up and maintaining your site, and if you> want to setupsic] a WinACE page as a service to the empire community, I have no> objection. Feel free to link [email protected] as the email address forDone and done! It will be up in a few days and it will have it'ssic] own separate section with screen shots, etc. If you don't like what you see just let me know privately via my email address and I'll fix it.
- done and dusted
- Completed thoroughly and satisfactorily
- dots the i's and cross the t's
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dot the i's and cross the t's
- drag and drop
- A feature of a graphical user interface whereby the user can drag a visual item across the screen and drop it in another location
Use drag and drop to move the unwanted files to the trash.
- draw and quarter
- To execute a person by tying each limb to an animal and driving them in different directions
- ducking and covering
- Present participle of duck and cover
- each and every
- Each without exception; used for emphasis
Do not leave without checking each and every door to make sure it is locked.
- ear, nose and throat
- A branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the ear, nose and throat (often used attributively). Abbreviated to ENT
- early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- platitude from Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Poor Richard
- ebbs and flows
- plural form of ebb and flow
- effing and blinding
- Present participle of eff and blind
- egg and spoon races
- plural form of egg and spoon race
- everyone and his brother
- A large number of people; most people
- everyone and their dog
- A large number of people; most people
- fire and brimstone
- The traditional punishments of Hell
- fire and forget
- missile guidance system which does not require further control after launch, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line of sight of the target
- fits and starts
- Activity which is intermittent, variable in intensity, and prolonged by interruptions
Paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fits and starts undermines US military planning and risks the gains made by US troops.
- five-and-dime
- Two pair, composed of fives and tens
- five-and-ten
- A five-and-dime
- flotsam and jetsam
- People considered to be of little worth
The flotsam and jetsam of society were at the night club.
- for all intents and purposes
- For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect; practically speaking
This treaty is for all intents and purposes no longer viable.
- forgive and forget
- Absolve completely for a past wrongdoing; pardon with neither resentment nor a view to retribution
'Not long before he died, the old man disowned him. Then a year and a half ago mom forgave and forgot.'.
- forgiving and forgetting
- Present participle of forgive and forget
- four-and-twenty
- Twenty-four
Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
- front and center
- At the center of attention
- give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed h
- It is more worthwhile to teach someone to do something, than to do something for them
- go in one ear and out the other
- Said of something that is heard but not attended to; (someone) failed to pay attention
He told me who he saw, but it went in one ear and out the other.
- goods and services taxes
- plural form of goods and services tax
- half and half
- A mixture of two alcoholic beverages, most frequently those brewed from malt, such as porter and ale or mild and bitter beers, in about equal parts; also used for equal parts of an alcoholic beverage and water
- half and half
- In equal parts; half
- half and half
- Half one thing and half another
- half-and-half
- Alternative spelling of half and half
