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is

“is” is a Latin word. Its 10 meanings in English:

  1. this or that man, woman or thing; he, she, it, they (previously introduced)
  2. Picks up the subject or object after an intervening clause, to avoid repeating the relative pronoun quī, or substitutes syntactically fronted expressions
  3. that...which; he, she...who, it...that
  4. of such a nature, degree, kind (previously mentioned or implied)
  5. the following; of the following nature, degree, kind
  6. this or that [man, woman or thing] (as a noun phrase modifier)
  7. such a, that sort of
  8. Substituting a clause.
  9. As an internal accusative: for that reason, on that account
  10. Used in various prepositional phrases.
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