conj 1. linking alternatives or showing other things that can be done ○ You can come with us in the car or just take the bus. ○ Do you prefer tea or coffee? ○ Was he killed in an accident or was he murdered? ○ The film starts at 6.30 or 6.45, I can’t remember which. 2. approximately ○ Five or six people came into the shop. ○ It costs three or four dollars. § or else 1. or if not ○ Don’t miss the bus, or else you’ll have a long wait for the next one. ○ Put a coat on to go out, or else you’ll catch cold. ○ We’d better get up early or else we’ll miss the train. ○ You must have a ticket, or else you will be thrown off the train by the inspector. 2. otherwise ○ You’d better pay, or else.
or
conj. [OE. or, outher, other, auther, either, or, AS. awer, contr. from ahwaeer; a aye + hwaeer whether. See Aye, and Whether, and cf. Either.] A particle that marks an alternative; as you may read or may write, — that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both. It corresponds to either. You may ride either to London or to Windsor. It often connects a series of words or propositions, presenting a choice of either; as he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade. “If man’s convenience, health,
Or safety interfere, his rights and claims
Are paramount.” Cowper. Or may be used to join as alternatives terms expressing unlike things or ideas (as is the orange sour or sweet?), or different terms expressing the same thing or idea; as this is a sphere, or globe. Or sometimes begins a sentence. In this case it expresses an alternative or subjoins a clause differing from the foregoing. ´Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone?´ Matt. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ). Or for either is archaic or poetic. “Maugre thine heed, thou must for indigence
Or steal, or beg, or borrow thy dispence.” Chaucer.
Or safety interfere, his rights and claims
Are paramount.” Cowper. Or may be used to join as alternatives terms expressing unlike things or ideas (as is the orange sour or sweet?), or different terms expressing the same thing or idea; as this is a sphere, or globe. Or sometimes begins a sentence. In this case it expresses an alternative or subjoins a clause differing from the foregoing. ´Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone?´ Matt. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ). Or for either is archaic or poetic. “Maugre thine heed, thou must for indigence
Or steal, or beg, or borrow thy dispence.” Chaucer.
or
prep. & adv. [AS. r ere, before. rad.204. See Ere, prep. & adv.] Ere; before; sooner than. [Obs.] “But natheless, while I have time and space,
Or that I forther in this tale pace.” Chaucer. Or ever, Or ere. See under Ever, and Ere.
Or that I forther in this tale pace.” Chaucer. Or ever, Or ere. See under Ever, and Ere.
or
n. [F., fr. L. aurum gold. Cf. Aureate.] (Her.) Yellow or gold color, — represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.
Simba had to choose: stay in exile or reclaim his throne.
The scentence about “The Lion King”.
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