<span class="searchmatch">if</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> (plain literal sense) Indicates that a statement is true in the event that a condition is <span class="searchmatch">not</span> satisfied. The plant will die <span class="searchmatch">if</span> <span class="searchmatch">not</span> watered. Indicates...
ef, <span class="searchmatch">if</span>, af, of ("<span class="searchmatch">if</span>; whether"; > German Low German of), German ob (“<span class="searchmatch">if</span>, whether”), Icelandic ef (“<span class="searchmatch">if</span>”). enPR: <span class="searchmatch">ĭf</span>, IPA(key): /<span class="searchmatch">ɪf</span>/ Rhymes: -<span class="searchmatch">ɪf</span> <span class="searchmatch">if</span> Supposing...
[nɒt], [nɒʔ(t)] (Standard Southern British, General Australian) IPA(key): [<span class="searchmatch">nɔt</span>], [nɔʔ(t)] (General American) IPA(key): [nɑ̈ʔ(t̚)] (Ireland) IPA(key): [nɞʔt]...
<span class="searchmatch">if</span>”), German als ob (“as <span class="searchmatch">if</span>”). (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˌæz‿ˈɪf/ (unstressed form) IPA(key): /əz‿ˈɪf/ Rhymes: -<span class="searchmatch">ɪf</span> as <span class="searchmatch">if</span> As...
if one doesn't; one's damned <span class="searchmatch">if</span> one does, and one's damned <span class="searchmatch">if</span> one doesn't damned <span class="searchmatch">if</span> one does and damned <span class="searchmatch">if</span> one doesn't (<span class="searchmatch">not</span> comparable) (informal, idiomatic)...
/<span class="searchmatch">noːt</span>/ Rhymes: -oːt <span class="searchmatch">Not</span> f (genitive <span class="searchmatch">Not</span>, plural Nöte) need, imminence zur <span class="searchmatch">Not</span>. ― <span class="searchmatch">if</span> necessary. necessity, poverty emergency, crisis Declension of <span class="searchmatch">Not</span> [feminine]...
lunch. — Yeah, why <span class="searchmatch">not</span>? (rhetorical) Used to introduce a proposal. Why <span class="searchmatch">not</span> try turning the handle in the other direction to see <span class="searchmatch">if</span> that opens the window...
waste <span class="searchmatch">not</span>, want <span class="searchmatch">not</span> (idiomatic) <span class="searchmatch">If</span> one is <span class="searchmatch">not</span> wasteful then one will <span class="searchmatch">not</span> be in need. 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “VIII. They Dance More Wildly”, in Under the...
See also: what-<span class="searchmatch">if</span> Dates back at least to Old English hwæt ġif, of the same meaning. what <span class="searchmatch">if</span> (<span class="searchmatch">not</span> comparable) Used to introduce a suggestion or proposal...
bastardization of <span class="searchmatch">if</span> you'd please, which is an abbreviation of <span class="searchmatch">if</span> you would please be so kind, wherein please constitutes an adverb, <span class="searchmatch">not</span> a verb. <span class="searchmatch">if</span> you please...