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Article vs. Preposition

Article and Preposition Definitions

Article

An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item
An article of clothing.
Articles of food.

Preposition

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.

Article

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

Preposition

To position or place in position in advance
Artillery that was prepositioned at strategic points in the desert.

Article

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

Preposition

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.
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Article

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

Preposition

An adposition.

Article

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.

Preposition

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

Article

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

Preposition

To place in a location before some other event occurs.
It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
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Article

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

Preposition

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.

Article

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

Preposition

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
He made a long preposition and oration.

Article

An object, a member of a group or class.
An article of clothing
A sales article

Preposition

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
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Article

(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).

Preposition

(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)

Article

A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
The Articles of War are a set of regulations...to govern the conduct of...military...forces

Article

A genuine article.

Article

A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
Each of the chelicerae is composed of two articles, forming a powerful pincer.

Article

A person; an individual.
A shrewd article

Article

(archaic) A wench.
She's a prime article (whip slang), she's a devilish good piece, a hell of a goer.

Article

(dated) Subject matter; concern.

Article

(dated) A distinct part.

Article

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

Article

(transitive) To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
To article an apprentice to a mechanic

Article

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

Article

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

Article

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.

Article

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

Article

Subject; matter; concern; distinct.
A very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding.
This last article will hardly be believed.

Article

A distinct part.
The articles which compose the blood.

Article

A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.
They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food.

Article

Precise point of time; moment.
This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice.

Article

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.

Article

One of the segments of an articulated appendage.

Article

To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable.

Article

To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
He shall be articled against in the high court of admiralty.

Article

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

Article

To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased.

Article

Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication

Article

One of a class of artifacts;
An article of clothing

Article

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

Article

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

Article

Bind by a contract; especially for a training period

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