Article vs. Preposition
Articlenoun
A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
Articlenoun
A story, report, or opinion piece in a newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.
Articlenoun
A member of a group or class.
Articlenoun
An object.
Articlenoun
(grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
Articlenoun
A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc.
Articlenoun
(derogatory) A person.
Articlenoun
(archaic) A wench.
Articlenoun
(dated) Subject matter; concern.
Articlenoun
(dated) A distinct part.
Articlenoun
(obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment.
Articleverb
(transitive) To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
Articleverb
(obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
Articleverb
To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
Articlenoun
A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.
Articlenoun
A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.
Articlenoun
Subject; matter; concern; distinct.
Articlenoun
A distinct part.
Articlenoun
A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.
Articlenoun
Precise point of time; moment.
Articlenoun
One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.
Articlenoun
One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
Articleverb
To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
Articleverb
To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
Articleverb
To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.
Articleverb
To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
Articlenoun
nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
Articlenoun
one of a class of artifacts;
Articlenoun
a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
Articlenoun
(grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase
Articleverb
bind by a contract; especially for a training period
Articlenoun
a particular item or object
Articlenoun
a piece of writing included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication
Articlenoun
a separate clause or paragraph of a legal document or agreement, typically one outlining a single rule or regulation
Articlenoun
a period of training with a firm as a solicitor, architect, surveyor, or accountant
Articlenoun
the terms on which crew members take service on a ship.
Articlenoun
the definite or indefinite article.
Articleverb
bind (a trainee solicitor, architect, surveyor, or accountant) to undergo a period of training with a firm in order to become qualified
Prepositionnoun
Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
Prepositionnoun
(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Prepositionverb
To place in a location before some other event occurs.
Prepositionnoun
A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; - so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
Prepositionnoun
A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Prepositionnoun
a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
Prepositionnoun
(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)
Prepositionnoun
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in ‘the man on the platform’, ‘she arrived after dinner’, ‘what did you do it for?’.
