或 — meaning in English
huò
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English meaning
- nary adj Not any; not a single one — an old-fashioned or dialect way of saying "no."
- neither det Not one and not the other, of two things.
- nor conjunction Used to link a second negative statement to a first, meaning "and not."
- or conjunction Used to link two or more alternatives, showing that any one of them could be true or chosen.
Senses
或 is used for these senses in English:
- neither Not either (used with nor).
- nor (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
- or (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
- xor The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.
neither — full definition
- det Not one and not the other, of two things.
- conj Used with "nor" to link two negative alternatives.
- adv Also not; used to agree with a preceding negative statement.