Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being one of two or more considered individually; every: Each person cast a vote. My technique improved with each lesson.
- pro. Every one of a group considered individually; each one.
- adv. For or to each one; apiece: ten cents each.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Being either or any unit of a numerical aggregate consisting of two or more, indefinitely: used in predicating the same thing of both or all the members of the pair, aggregate, or series mentioned or taken into account, considered individually or one by one: often followed by one, with of before a noun (partitive genitive): as, each sex; each side of the river; each stone in a building; each one of them has taken a different course from every other.
- Every one of any number or numerical aggregate, considered individually: equivalent to the adjectival phrase each one: as, each went his way; each had two; each of them was of a different size (that is, from all the others, or from every one else in the number).
- Both.
- Each the other; one another: now generally used when two persons or things are concerned, but also used more loosely like one another (which see, under another): as, they love each other (that is, each loves the other).
Wiktionary
- all; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every)
- every one; every thing
- For one; per
- n. operations, philosophy An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun.
- adj. Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with
every .
WordNet 3.0
- adv. to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
- adj. (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
Etymologies
- From Middle English eche, from Old English ǣlċ, contraction of ǣġhwilċ ("each, every, any, all"), from Proto-Germanic *aiwô (“ever, always”) + *galīkaz (“alike”), equivalent to ay + like. Compare Scots ilk, elk ("each, every"), West Frisian elk ("each"), Low German elk, ellik ("each"), Dutch elk ("each"), German jeglich ("any"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English ech, from Old English ǣlc; see līk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first seven structure to be placed around each for the wellness and betterment of everyone. ..each person, each community, each nation.”
“In whatever light we consider their invention, as parts of _one whole_, relative to each other, or independent _each of the rest_, and as single subjects, there can be scarcely named a beauty or a mystery, of which the Cartoons furnish not an instance or a clue; _they are poised between perspicuity and pregnancy of moment_.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
“On the first day he opened, he said to the assembled school that he wanted each scholar to consider him as _a friend_; that he desired nothing but their good; and that it was for the interest of _each one_ of them that _all_ should be careful to observe the few and simple rules which he should lay down for the government of the school.”
“It appears to me that, given a differentiation of a species into two forms, each of which was adapted to a special sphere of existence, every slight degree of sterility would be a positive advantage, not to the _individuals_ who were sterile, but to _each form_.”
“I find I can tell each one what they make, each fellow put their foot on the line, nobody can do what they like and she was one of these kind89 of people in Charters, and I am not the kind of man that is always thinking about their record, if he was to hit a man in the head they would think their nose tickled in Lardner.”
“Where the valley is a flat one, with rising ground at each side, there should be a sub-main, to receive the laterals from _each_ hill side.”
“_Every_ denotes each without exception, and can now only be used with reference to more than two objects; _each_ may refer to two or more.”
“The difference between each () and a manual JavaScript loop is that each () automatically maps the "this" object to the element in the collection being processed.”
“P £, D F I homologous to the fides B C» A B, A C9 each to each» becaufe the one & the other of thofe V are equal each to each to the V P* f.”
Internet Archive: Instructions given in the drawing school established by the Dublin society
“But in my Method the aim is _to repeat as much of the sentence as is possible informing the question and the whole of it in each reply_; and in _question and reply_ the _word_ that _constitutes the point of both_ is to be especially _emphasized_, and in this way _the mind is exercised on each word of the sentence twice_ (once in question and once in answer), and _each word of the sentence is emphasized in reference to the whole of the sentence_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘each’.
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Which see
A list of words with definitions containing the phrase "which see."
moteur, fancy, grass, frog, Art, illusion, battleship, duck, beaver, Seder, clam, zythiaceæ and 118 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
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yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Resident Pipsiculturalist Makes Huge ...
See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
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Prosie: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ad...
(Given Saturday, March 4, 1865, Washington, D.C.)
Fellow-Countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended a...with all nations, among ourselves, a just and lastin..., cherish, achieve, to do all, for his widow and..., to care for him w..., to bind up the na..., let us strive on ..., with firmness in ..., with charity for all and 169 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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b, e, d, g, p and t
decidedly, drench, defeat, delirium, deviant, distance, dimension, dust, dope, dissolve, dissipate, distortion and 63 more...
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Pseudorandom encore
A couple of years ago on Wordie, I made the list Pseudorandom words. Let's see how the Wordnik random words compare: no panvocalics, more adverbs, more hyphenated words (or maybe I excluded them th...
appeasable, remigrant, trijunction, strawberry-mark, usurpatory, mannery, episcopally, encrown, boutade, yux, unpunishable, fortifiable and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for each.
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