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article — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • article noun A piece of writing on a particular topic, published in a newspaper, magazine, or online.
  • entry noun The act of entering, or a means of entering a place.
  • item noun A single thing, especially one on a list or among a group of things.
  • paper noun A thin material made from pressed plant fibres, used for writing, printing, wrapping, and countless other purposes.
  • section noun A distinct part of something larger, such as a document, area, or object.
  • subsection noun A smaller part within a larger section, especially in a document or legal text.

Senses

article is used for these senses in English:

  • entry An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
  • entry A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
  • item A distinct physical object.
  • paper (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
  • paper (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
  • section A part of a document, especially a major#Adjective part; often notated with §.
  • subsection (law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.

article — full definition

  1. noun A piece of writing on a particular topic, published in a newspaper, magazine, or online.
  2. noun An individual item or object, especially one of a particular kind or category.
  3. noun A word (such as "a," "an," or "the") that marks a noun as definite or indefinite.

entry — full definition

  1. noun The act of entering, or a means of entering a place.
  2. noun An individual item recorded in a list, log, diary, or database.

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