word-vault/dist/data/cards/or/or.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "or",
    "partOfSpeech": "conjunction",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used to introduce another possibility",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Is your sister older or younger than you?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you coming or not?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is it a boy or a girl?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used in negative sentences when mentioning two or more things",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He can't read or write."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are people without homes, jobs or family."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used to warn or advise somebody that something bad could happen; otherwise",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Turn the heat down or it'll burn."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "used between two numbers to show approximately how many",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There were six or seven of us there."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used to introduce a word or phrase that explains or means the same as another",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "geology, or the science of the earth’s crust"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It weighs a kilo, or just over two pounds."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "used to say why something must be true",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He must like her, or he wouldn't keep calling her."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "used to introduce a different or opposite idea",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was lying—or was he?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "about; approximately",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It'll cost €100 or so."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used when you are not exactly sure about a person, thing or place",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's a factory supervisor or something."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Who said so?’ ‘Oh, somebody or other. I can't remember who it was.’"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɔː(r)/",
                "audio": "or/or/or__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɔːr/",
                "audio": "or/or/or__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: a reduced form of the obsolete conjunction other (which superseded Old English oththe ‘or’), of uncertain ultimate origin."
}