| 1. | one, a, an, or some; one or more without specification or identification: If you have any witnesses, produce them. Pick out any six you like. |
| 2. | whatever or whichever it may be: cheap at any price. |
| 3. | in whatever quantity or number, great or small; some: Do you have any butter? |
| 4. | every; all: Any schoolboy would know that. Read any books you find on the subject. |
| 5. | (following a negative) at all: She can't endure any criticism. |
| 6. | an unspecified person or persons; anybody; anyone: He does better than any before him. |
| 7. | a single one or ones; an unspecified thing or things; a quantity or number: We don't have any left. |
| 8. | in whatever degree; to some extent; at all: Do you feel any better? |
| 9. | any which way, in any manner whatever; indifferently or carelessly: Doing your work any which way is just not good enough. |