English Dictionary

and

/ænd/

conj

Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. / Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. / Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.

I have a cat and a dog.

意味（1）

Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]

意味（2）

Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.

When she saw several boys carrying a huge wooden case full of porcelain, she mumbled to Jinming that she was going to have a look, and left the room.

意味（3）

Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.

‘But if you think you can get it, Christian, you're a fool. Set one foot upcountry and I'll kill you.’

意味（4）

(obsolete) Yet; but.

Hee said, I goe sir, and went not.

意味（5）

Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

意味（6）

(now colloquial or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.

And these does she apply, for warnings and portents, / And euils imminent; and on her knee / Hath begg'd, that I will stay at home to day.

意味（7）

Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.

I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

意味（8）

Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.

The word capable occurs in Mr. Fisher's Bill, and rightly, because our mental and physical capacities are infinitely varied.

意味（9）

Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.

And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps[…].

意味（10）

(now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try.

Beyond paying her a few charming compliments and amusing her with gay conversation, had he done anything at all to try and gain her affection?

意味（11）

Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".

Undoubtedly every party makes mistakes. But there are mistakes and mistakes.

意味（12）

Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).

‘Nobody attempts to dispute that two and two make four: but with contests concerning moral truth, human passions are generally mixed […].’

意味（13）

(now US dialect) If; provided that.

Where ys Sir Launcelot? seyde King Arthure. And he were here, he wolde nat grucche to do batayle for you.

意味（14）

(obsolete) As if, as though.

I will roare you, and 'twere any Nightingale.

意味（15）

(mathematics, logic) connecting two well-formed formulas to create a well formed formula that requires the new formula to only be true when each of the two are true.