Preposition vs. Conjunction
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?’.
Conjunctionnoun
The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
Conjunctionnoun
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
Conjunctionnoun
(grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
Conjunctionnoun
(astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
Conjunctionnoun
(astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
Conjunctionnoun
(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ (\and) operator.
Conjunctionnoun
The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
Conjunctionnoun
The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.
Conjunctionnoun
A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.
Conjunctionnoun
the temporal property of two things happening at the same time;
Conjunctionnoun
the state of being joined together
Conjunctionnoun
an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
Conjunctionnoun
the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
Conjunctionnoun
(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
Conjunctionnoun
something that joins or connects
