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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 AND /ˈænd/

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary


From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary


From: Network Terminology

 及 與

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 And conj.
 1. A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
 Note: (a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, “there are women and women,” that is, two very different sorts of women.
 (b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, “the tediousness and process of my travel,” that is, the tedious process, etc.; “thy fair and outward character,” that is, thy outwardly fair character,
 2. In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
    At least to try and teach the erring soul.   --Milton.
 3. It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
    When that I was and a little tiny boy.   --Shak.
 4. If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.]
    As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.   --Bacon.
 And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.