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both

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adjective

one and the other; two together: He met both sisters. Both performances were canceled.

pronoun

the one as well as the other: Both of us were going to the party.

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Both is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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conjunction

alike; equally: He is both ready and willing.

Origin:
1125–75; Middle English bothe, bathe, influenced by Scandinavian (compare Old Norse bāthir both; cognate with German, Dutch beide, Gothic ba tho skipa both (the) ships, Old High German bêde < *bai thai); replacing Middle English bo, ba, Old English bā; cognate with Gothic bai; akin to Latin ambō, Greek ámphō, Lithuanian abù, Sanskrit ubháu

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Sometimes voters even reject both parties on the same day.

We live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all.

The saving grace is that they both want integration as all these actions have shown so, sooner or later and the sooner the better.

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Sometimes voters even reject both parties on the same day.

We live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all.

The saving grace is that they both want integration as all these actions have shown so, sooner or later and the sooner the better.

It is the only country in the world with both lions and tigers.

Both resources are limiting the other-and both may be running short.

Among the more perplexing bits of climate change research are the predictions for both more droughts and more floods.

Both male and female forms are available add to my plant list.

Designers optimize today's jet engines for either fuel efficiency or speed, but not for both.

But lawmakers in both parties voiced anger over the steep cost and even skepticism about the plan's chances of success.

In both cases, the object of desire is clearly expressed as an adult male.

The old approach now seems more popular with both the prime minister and his deputy.

Encourage students to consider both short-term and long-term consequences.

Both provide the personal impairment of man and his place in nature.

Both the males and females have the horn or antler because they both use them, and for similar purposes.

Both ranges act as barriers that limit the influence of the cold beyond them.

Larsen notes that today many populations combine aspects of both and probably did in the prehistoric past.

They are both lower case when in the context of a sentence.

Both men and women were hunter-gatherers and both men and women have an interest in the success of their offspring.

Nevertheless, the diets of the two species are nearly identical, and both are committed arborealists.

Both me and my son have the more common even distribution.

Both captains ordered that women and children be given first priority on the boats.

Give your guests options by serving both these sides.

After reviewing this image, designers tweaked the terrain to give both armies an even chance.

Both the orbitofrontal region and the amygdala were smaller than normal.

As things stand, both these rules are going to be broken.

All parties generally agree that many forests need tidying up-by cutting, or carefully controlled burning, or both.

Genetically, children are a blend of code from both of their parents.

And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded-or both.

Both traits are virtues when you add dinner to the equation.

These little tweaks, both good and bad, are littered throughout the lengthy playtime.

Combine your errands, car pool to work, or take public transportation to reduce both your energy and water use.

Kelly proposed a treatment that sounded both logical and strangely unmedical.

Technology both caters to and fosters our acceleration.

Rosés have enough of both acidity and bold fruitiness to be extremely flexible with food.

Each contact in the battery compartment has both positive and negative terminals.

They can be areas joining people in common causes where they can become areas for conflict, both internal and external.

Both genders are essential to human survival and thus neither should ever discuss the idea of erasing the other.

Both species are noxious, and predators learn to avoid them.

Good friends and vacations don't always mix, but when they do, it can be the best of both worlds.

Both primary and secondary metastatic bone cancer are recognizable as malformations that can be spotted in skeletal remains.

For time to end seems both impossible and inevitable.

These were the remains of an ancient human ancestor, they said, one that shared features with both apes and men.

Blooms appear from late winter into spring, both before leaves emerge and as they open.

The new study suggests the reverse: that both mining and metallurgy might spur the rise of complex society.

Mexico is both a victim of greenhouse gas emissions and a major producer of them.

While the generals on both sides deliberated, troops in blue and gray fidgeted.

Magnolias include both evergreen and deciduous types.

Both common and scientific names refer to the leaf shape, which suggests that of a peach.

Both computer modelling and observation suggest that these crops are fully pollinated by wild bees.

Scientists have found that if two females are housed together, one or both will shut down ovulation, preventing any breeding.

When the palms come into view, they are both underwhelming and miraculous.

Both communities are aware and alarmed by the extreme endangered status of their mother tongues.

Readying today's cities for the future will require both high-tech and low-tech changes.

In both countries, it appears to have started for administrative reasons.

Both appliances toasted the bread well but required pressure to compact the sandwiches evenly.

They bring both death and the promise of renewed life, often on the same rushing tide.

Underlying disparities are real, both within and among countries.

The fish are served on a platter, and the broth in a tureen, and you eat both together in large soup plates.

For millennia, cooks worldwide have taken advantage of the seasoning's affinity for both sweet and savory foods.

To succeed, you must override both a normal impulse to attend to new information and curiosity about something forbidden.

In both instances, readers were kind enough to provide constructive criticism.

Both sweet and sour cherries are appealing choices for the home garden.

Today, both the fencing and structures are incomplete.

Hermaphroditic animals are unique because they have both male and female reproductive parts.

Some varieties bear both flowers and fruit more heavily in alternate years.

Macaws are shot for both their meat and their brilliant plumage.

At their extremes, both autism and schizophrenia are debilitating disorders.

Where there's a severe infestation of both aphids and ants, you must control both insects.

Sometimes it's the journey, sometimes it's the destination-and sometimes, it's both.

Yet both gardens combine cold-hardy plants to form a seamless brocade around the house.

The fried green onion cakes dipped in peanut sauce are somehow both fall-apart flaky and deliciously gooey.

Both adults and nymphs suck a plant's juices, debilitating it moderately or severely depending on the size of the pest population.

And mussels and clams both inhabit coasts-their remains would be good delineators of shorelines.

Both fix nitrogen and are easy to till into the ground in the spring.

His closeups and animal portraits are both abstractly beautiful and scientifically fascinating.

Now a third blue geranium is likely to replace both in our affections.

Flamingo males are both loving husbands and attentive fathers.

Common garden pesticides that are highly toxic to bees include both organic and conventional chemical controls.

Yellow arrows mark the same distinguishing features in both images.

Both bear powder-puff flowers with impressively long stamens from spring to fall.

The researchers sampled the volcanic ash on both sides of the river that lay above where the fossils were found.

Both dishes deliver the satisfying taste of enchiladas with much less effort.

Both pastries get crisp and golden when they're baked.

Leaders have signed a pact to resolve the enclave situation in both countries.

And yet both are open to collaboration when faced with the right opportunities.

Readers suggested sacrificing a few feet along the fence for a perimeter path to simultaneously satisfy both needs.

The service lost both its primary store of user data, as well as its backup.

In this two-person exhibition, light is both a literal.

The position involves teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and advising graduate students in their research.

Multispectral imaging tests were commissioned to photograph both papyruses and ink in several different wavelengths.

Denoting both direction and magnitude, vectors appear throughout the world of science and engineering.

The canes of both kinds begin growth in one year, then.

In both cases, each side needs to be clear-eyed about the other's.

The fact that people on the search committee already know you can cut both ways:.

Matrix management is a structure for running those companies that have both a diversity of products and a diversity of markets.

The lush white coat of the arctic fox provides both warmth and camouflage in winter.

Claims for the synthesis of both fleeting man-made elements have been around for more than a decade.

See many outstanding exhibits both indoors and out.

The result is highly intelligent and livable homes that appeal to both eco-conscious and tech savvy lifestyles.

The vast majority of both the paper and the lecture were dedicated to discussing how these errors were reduced.

Most law firms now insist on both degrees for law librarians, and there.

The size of their pensions obligations has funding implications both for companies and for government.

Carry both day hiker and photographer essentials with ease.

Recent observations of two unusual stars have produced unexpected results, suggesting the existence of both a new.

Only the males are known to sing, although both males and females sound certain social.

Both contain dazzling technological marvels, especially in the realm of electronic media.

Tellingly, his plan has faced criticism from both parties.

Both times he was arrested for disturbing the peace, among other offenses.

Slate tiles cover both the front of a new fireplace and the brick of the old living room fireplace.

Both suffer familiar urban quandaries of frustration and decay.

Both post-baccalaureate and post-masters' options are available.

Both leaders have been in trouble for some time, but the immediate cause of their downfall is plain:.

Both of these processes, known as fractionation, are temperature dependent.

He provided a kind of sanctuary that was both professional and personal.

Tenured professors may well be in the best position to champion academic freedom for both full-timers and part-timers.

They are also linked in both being the sort of events climate scientists predict more of in a warming world.

Both polar regions of the earth are cold, primarily because.

After waiting, they both entered the defendant's vehicle, where the defendant placed his mouth on the victim's exposed penis.

The year in international education was marked by turmoil, both economic and political.

Both will thus be sensitive to the delicacies and risks of the other's internal party management.

Children of centenarians-who usually inherit both longevity and personality traits from their parents.

If both write the same number, he will take that to be the true price, and he will pay each of them that amount.

Both groups are developing recommendations on energy, environment and national security goals.

Both single- and double- flowered forms are available.

In both of those cases, cyberattacks threatened civilian networks and the financial system.

If you can learn only one, learn traditional, but better to learn both traditional and simplified.

Both in their sixties, their positions on a host of issues are indistinguishable.

But observers both on and off the world's second largest continent say they will have to deal.

The book illuminates the lives of the two pioneers who were both determined to prove that methods of inoculation could work.

Users will see little, though, unless they use both together.

And they're both commonly cited for their influence on other cultures.

The risk remains that both parties may retreat to their trenches while the clock ticks down.

Here are four quick recipes that show off milks, both plain and flavored, in all their timeless glory.

Students with both personal and professional motivations have enrolled.

Both were monstrously self-centred, permanently grumpy and capable of astonishing rudeness.

Crittercam is used on animals both in the ocean and on land.

Study in rats suggests long-term, moderate consumption of alcohol improves recall of both visual and emotional stimuli.

Both areas are accessible by safe hiking trails that wind among the boulders.

As with all change there are both positives and negatives, for us and our children.

Both of their relatively short-lived premierships ended in humiliating.

Corrugations in the giant planets' rings seem to trace back to recent comet impacts, both seen and unseen, in decades past.

It was unprecedented both in the scale of human damage done and.

The tree resembles both plum and apricot but is slightly smaller and more compact than either.

They both sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

In both cases, for surprisingly similar reasons, it's a fair.

The darkest scenarios suggest that both countries would aim strikes at major cities.

When silicon and phosphorus are both scarce, diatoms and algae both prosper.

But the superficial differences mask the essential truth: both cricket and baseball operate on the same principles.

Town meets country here, and you can easily explore both in a day.

Both were pitted against younger men widely expected to obliterate them.

In this lesson, students will investigate both of these issues.

Two men who lost both hands in work injuries received transplants after three.

For a biographer, it helps to have a subject who is both a great artist and a great.

Both sides in principle favour the use of triggers, but are far apart on how they would work.

Scientists studying these diseases have sought a research animal with both human liver cells and a human immune system.

And at shipyards and factories on both coasts, he found the nation rallying to the war effort.

The deck bridging the two units creates an elegant outdoor dining room, accessible from both rooms.

Miniature carnations and spiky fir needles create a wreath that's both fragrant and strikingly elegant.

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World English Dictionary

both (bəʊθ)

—*determiner*
1.	a. the two; two considered together: both dogs were dirty
	b. (as pronoun): both are to blame

—*conj*
2.	(coordinating) used preceding words, phrases, or clauses joined by and, used to emphasize that not just one, but also the other of the joined elements is included: both Ellen and Keith enjoyed the play; both new and exciting

[C12: from Old Norse bāthir; related to Old High German bēde, Latin ambō, Greek amphō]

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Word Origin & History

both

there are several theories, all similar, and deriving the word from the tendency to say "both the." One is that it is O.E. begen (masc.) "both" (from P.Gmc. *ba, from PIE *bho "both") + -þ extended base. Another traces it to the P.Gmc. formula represented in O.E. by ba þa "both these," from

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ba (feminine nominative and accusative of begen) + þa, nominative and accusative plural of se "that." A third traces it to O.N. baðir "both," from *bai thaiz "both the," from P.Gmc. *thaiz, third person plural pronoun. Cf. O.Fris. bethe, Du. beide, O.H.G. beide, Ger. beide, Goth. bajoþs.

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Idioms & Phrases

both

In addition to the idioms beginning with both, also see best of both worlds; burn the candle at both ends; cut both ways; foot in both camps; have it both ways; play both ends against the middle; work both sides of the street.