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“and” – English explanatory dictionary

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Example of using - I have a cup of coffee and about half of some cake.
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
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And I'm positive that if Uncle Conrad and Aunt...
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and it'll mirror the max display as one of the 4K windows
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conj;
used to join two words or phrases 
○ All my uncles and aunts live in the country. 
○ The children were running about and singing. 
○ Come and sit down next to me.
(NOTE: and is used to say numbers after 100: seven hundred and two (702).)
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conj. [AS. and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda, OHG. anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if, Ante-.]
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. (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, Schmidt’s Shak. Lex.
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.] Chaucer. “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.
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Simba and Nala embarked on a journey together.

The scentence about “The Lion King”.

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