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/ɚ/ conjunction A1- Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
- An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms: the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
- Used to present two or more options from which a choice is to be made. · Do you want tea or coffee?· You may stay or go.
- Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). · It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
- Connects two equivalent names. · The country Myanmar, or Burma
- Used in between two numbers to denote a range between them. · A man of 18 or 20 years
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There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will give him a good name.
The picture gallery, and two or three of the principal bed-rooms, were all that remained to be shown.
He was a man of twenty-five or six, and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was about to make into a coat-lining.
Reynolds, either from pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister.
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