either
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
either /ˈʌɪðə, ˈiː-/
▶conjunction & adverb
- 1 used before the first of two (or occasionally more) alternatives specified (the other being introduced by ‘or’).
- 2 [adv., with neg.] used to indicate a similarity or link with a statement just made.
■ moreover.
■ each of two.
usage: In good English, it is important that either and or are correctly placed so that the structures following each word balance and mirror each other. Thus, sentences such as either I accompany you or I wait here and I'm going to buy either a new camera or a new video are correct, whereas sentences such as either I accompany you or John and I'm either going to buy a new camera or a video are not well balanced.
'either' also found in these Oxford entries:
aedile
- alley
- alphanumeric
- amidships
- ancon
- angle bracket
- antennule
- apostrophe
- apsis
- arcana
- assassin
- assurance
- autogenous
- bail
- Bairam
- baroness
- Bartholin's gland
- baseman
- because
- bi-
- bilateral symmetry
- bioremediation
- bipolar
- bit
- blue line
- bouldering
- brace
- bracket
- breast
- breve
- bridge
- buck
- buttock
- button
- byline
- camel
- camisole
- can
- canvas
- celestial pole
- cercus
- cheek
- cheekpiece
- cheese
- chelicera
- chiffonier
- churchwarden
- cincture
- Circassian
- circular polarization
