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  • conjunction and You use and to link two or more words, groups, or clauses. 4
  • conjunction and 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. 3
  • conjunction and You use and to link two statements about events when one of the events follows the other. 3
  • conjunction and You use and to link two statements when the second statement continues the point that has been made in the first statement. 3
  • conjunction and You use and to link two clauses when the second clause is a result of the first clause. 3
  • conjunction and You use and to interrupt yourself in order to make a comment on what you are saying. 3
  • conjunction and 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. 3
  • conjunction and You use and to introduce a question which follows logically from what someone has just said. 3
  • conjunction and And is used by broadcasters and people making announcements to change a topic or to start talking about a topic they have just mentioned. 3
  • conjunction and You use and to indicate that two numbers are to be added together. 3
  • conjunction and And is used before a fraction that comes after a whole number. 3
  • conjunction and You use and in numbers larger than one hundred, after the words 'hundred' or 'thousand' and before other numbers. 3
  • conjunction and along with; in addition to 3
  • conjunction and as a consequence 3
  • abbreviation AND afterwards 3
  • conjunction and (intensifier) 3
  • conjunction and plus 3
  • conjunction and used to join identical words or phrases to give emphasis or indicate repetition or continuity 3
  • conjunction and used to join two identical words or phrases to express a contrast between instances of what is named 3
  • conjunction and used in place of to in infinitives after verbs such as try, go, and come 3
  • noun and an additional matter or problem 3
  • abbreviation AND Andorra (international car registration) 3
  • conjunction and in addition; also; as well as 3
  • conjunction and plus; added to 3
  • conjunction and but; yet; in contrast 3
  • conjunction and then again; then in addition 3
  • conjunction and as a consequence or result 3
  • conjunction and then; following this 3
  • conjunction and to 3
  • conjunction and as well as other kinds of 3
  • conjunction and if 3
  • noun Definition of and in Technology (logic)   (Or "conjunction") The Boolean function which is true only if all its arguments are true. The truth table for the two argument AND function is: A | B | A AND B --+---+--------- F | F | F F | T | F T | F | F T | T | T AND is often written as an inverted "V" in texts on logic. In the C programming language it is represented by the && (logical and) operator. 1
  • noun and Both and and but, and to a lesser extent or and so, are common as transitional words at the beginnings of sentences in all types of speech and writing:  General Jackson thought the attack would come after darkness. And he was right.  Any objection to this practice probably stems from the overuse of such sentences by inexperienced writers. When one of these words begins a sentence or an independent clause within a sentence, it is not followed by a comma unless the comma is one of a pair setting off a parenthetical element that follows:  John is popular, and he seems to be well adjusted. But, appearances to the contrary, he is often depressed.  See also and/or, et cetera, try.   1
  • noun and as well as 1
  • noun and with 1
  • noun and as a result 1
  • noun and then 1
  • noun and mathematics: plus 1
  • noun and giving alternatives 1
  • noun and at the same time 1
  • noun and repeating for emphasis 1
  • noun and as opposed to 1
  • noun and another thing 1
  • noun and Used to connect words of the same part of speech, clauses, or sentences that are to be taken jointly. 1
  • noun and a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when both operands are positive. 1
  • idioms and and so forth, and the like; and others; et cetera: We discussed traveling, sightseeing, and so forth. 1
  • idioms and and so on, and more things or others of a similar kind; and the like: It was a summer filled with parties, picnics, and so on. 1
  • noun and (Britain dialectal) Breath. 0
  • noun and (Britain dialectal) Sea-mist; water-smoke. 0
  • verb and (Intransitive Verb) (Britain dialectal) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. 0
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