Article vs. Preposition

An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item

A word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and in regard to.

A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty.

To position or place in position in advance

A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication, as of a newspaper or magazine.

Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

The part of speech used to indicate nouns and to specify their application.

An adposition.

Any of the words belonging to this part of speech. In English, the indefinite articles are a and an and the definite article is the.

(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

A particular part or subject; a specific matter or point.

To place in a location before some other event occurs.

To bind by articles set forth in a contract, such as one of apprenticeship.

A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; - so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.

A piece of nonfictional writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

An object, a member of a group or class.

A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

(grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).

(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.

A genuine article.

A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.

A person; an individual.

(archaic) A wench.

(dated) Subject matter; concern.

(dated) A distinct part.

(obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment.

(transitive) To bind by articles of apprenticeship.

(obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.

To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.

A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.

Subject; matter; concern; distinct.

A distinct part.

A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.

Precise point of time; moment.

One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.

One of the segments of an articulated appendage.

To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.

To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.

Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication

One of a class of artifacts;

A separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

(grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase

Bind by a contract; especially for a training period