or

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 介词 prep. 连词 conj.
中文释义
英 /ɔː(ɹ)/    美 /oɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of OR. alt-of,alternative
  2. The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. countable,uncountable
    — The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".
形容词 adj.
  1. Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. not-comparable
副词 adv.
  1. Early (on). obsolete
  2. Earlier, previously. obsolete
介词 prep.
  1. Before; ere. Generally followed by "ever" or "e'er". archaic,dialectal
    — Or euer the siluer corde be loosed, or the golden bowle be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountaine, or the wheele broken at the cisterne. Then shall the dust returne to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall returne vnto God who gaue it.
连词 conj.
  1. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
    — You may stay or go.
  2. An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
  3. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
  4. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
    — It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
  5. Connects two equivalent names.
    — The country Myanmar, or Burma

词形变化

ors plural ors plural

词汇关系

衍生词
heorshe
相关词
either neither i.e. nor

词源

词源 1
From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).
词源 2
From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above).
词源 3
From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.
词源 4
From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.
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