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both / bō[unvoicedth]/ • adj. & pron. used to refer to two people or things, regarded and identified together: [as adj.] both his parents indulged him [as pron.] a picture of both of us together. • adv. used before the first of two alternatives to emphasize that the statement being made applies to each (the other alternative being introduced by “and”): they all loved to play, both the boys and the girls.PHRASES: have it both ways benefit from two incompatible ways of thinking or behaving: countries cannot have it both ways: the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, great German composer whose unsurpassed genius, expressed with supreme mastery in his syms., chamber mus… Bough , bough †shoulder; †(Sc.) limb; limb of a tree. OE. bōg, bōh = MLG. bōch, būch (LG. boog), MDu. boech (Du. boeg), shoulders, bows of a ship, OHG. buog…
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