Or
27 definitions retrieved Or \Or\ ([^o]r), conj. [OE. or, outher, other, auther, either, or, AS. [=a]w[eth]er, contr. from [=a]hwae[eth]er; [=a] aye + hwae[eth]er whether. See Aye, and Whether, and cf. Either.] A particle that marks an alternative; as, you may read or may write, -- that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both. It corresponds to either. You may ride either to London or to Windsor. It often connects a series of words or propositions, presenting a choice of either; as, he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade. [1913 Webster] If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] Note: Or may be used to join as alternatives terms expressing unlike things or ideas (as, is the orange sour or sweet?), or different terms expressing the same thing or idea; as, this is a sphere, or globe. [1913 Webster] Note: Or sometimes begins a sentence. In this case it expresses an alternative or subjoins a clause differing from the foregoing. "Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone?" --Matt. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver.). [1913 Webster] Or for either is archaic or poetic. [1913 Webster] Maugre thine heed, thou must for indigence Or steal, or beg, or borrow thy dispence. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] -or \-or\ suff. [L. -or: cf. OF. -or, -ur, -our, F. -eur.] 1. A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er. [1913 Webster] Or \Or\, prep. & adv. [AS. ?r ere, before. [root]204. See Ere, prep. & adv.] Ere; before; sooner than. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] But natheless, while I have time and space, Or that I forther in this tale pace. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Or ever, Or ere. See under Ever, and Ere. [1913 Webster] Or \Or\, n. [F., fr. L. aurum gold. Cf. Aureate.] (Her.) Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots. [1913 Webster] OR n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: Oregon, Beaver State, OR] 2: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic" [syn: operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre, surgery] OR arguments are true. Its truth table is: A | B | A OR B --+---+--------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | T (1996-11-04) OR Observation Report (CC) OR Originator / Recipient (X.400, MOTIS), "O/R" or [ər] oder or [ər] ou; ou bien ‐or ‐iste or arany elôtt mielôtt vagy or [ər] nó or [ər] aut or [ər] of or [ər] ou ‐or ‐ista or [ər] o or [ɔr] Gold or [ɔr] gold or [ɔr] goud OR. This syllable in the termination of words has an active signification, and usually denotes the doer of an act; as, the grantor, he who makes a grant; the vendor, he who makes a sale; the feoffor, he who makes a feoffment. Litt. s. 57; 1 Bl. Com. 140, n. or oder conj or : - oder : o. or : - oder : od. O.R. : owner's risk Eigners Gefahr 152 Moby Thesaurus words for "or": achievement, alerion, and/or, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aureate, aureateness, auric, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, beige, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, buff, buff-yellow, cadency mark, canary, canary-yellow, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, citron, citron-yellow, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, cream, creamy, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ecru, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fallow, fallowness, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, flaxen, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lemon, lemon-yellow, lion, lozenge, luteolous, lutescent, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, octofoil, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, saltire, sand-colored, sandy, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, straw, straw-colored, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, xanthic, xanthous, yale, yellow, yellowish, yellowishness, yellowness Or related |
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