if
see also: IF
Pronunciation Conjunction
IF
Noun
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see also: IF
Pronunciation Conjunction
- Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice.
- If it rains, I shall get wet.
- (computing) In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).
- If A, then B, else C.
- Supposing that; used with past or past perfect subjunctive indicating that the condition is closed.
- I would prefer it if you took your shoes off.
- I would be unhappy if you had not talked with me yesterday.
- If I were you, I wouldn't go there alone.
- Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that.
- If that's true, we had better get moving!
- Although; used to introduce a concession.
- He was a great friend, if a little stingy at the bar.
- (sometimes proscribed) Whether; used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs.
- I don't know if I want to go or not.
- 1715–1717, Matthew Prior, Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto III:
- Quoth Matthew, “ […] / She doubts if two and two make four, / […] ”
- (usually hyperbolic) Even if; even in the circumstances that.
- 2004, David Lee Murphy and Kim Tribble (writers), Montgomery Gentry (singers), “If It’s The Last Thing I Do” (song), in You Do Your Thing (album):
- If it’s the last thing I do / If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu / If it’s the last thing I do / I’m gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop / To get my hands on you / If it’s the last thing I do.
- 2004, David Lee Murphy and Kim Tribble (writers), Montgomery Gentry (singers), “If It’s The Last Thing I Do” (song), in You Do Your Thing (album):
- Introducing a relevance conditional.
- I have leftover cake if you want some.
- German: wenn auch
- Spanish: si bien
if (plural ifs)
- (informal) An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc.
- 1709, Susannah Centlivre, The Busy Body, Act III, in John Bell (ed.), British Theater, J. Bell (1791), [http://books.google.com/books?id=qYY0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=ifs page 59],
- Sir Fran. Nay, but Chargy, if——— ¶ Miran. Nay, Gardy, no Ifs.——Have I refus'd three northern lords, two British peers, and half a score knights, to have put in your Ifs?
- 1791 January, "Richardſon’s Chemical Principles of the Metallic Arts", in The Monthly Review, R. Griffiths, [http://books.google.com/books?id=F24xcadl9JMC&pg=PA176&dq=ifs page 176],
- Well might Bergman add, (in his Sciographia,), “if the compariſon that has been made, &c. be juſt.” The preſent writer makes no ifs about the matter, and has ſuperadded a little inaccuracy of his own, […]
- 1709, Susannah Centlivre, The Busy Body, Act III, in John Bell (ed.), British Theater, J. Bell (1791), [http://books.google.com/books?id=qYY0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=ifs page 59],
- German: Wenn
- Portuguese: hipótese, suposição
- Russian: усло́вие
- Spanish: hipótesis, suposición
IF
Noun
if
- Initialism of interactive fiction
- 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines (page 88)
- The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.
- 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines (page 88)
- Initialism of impact factor
- (protein) Initialism of intermediate filament
- (electronics) Initialism of intermediate frequency
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