or
Links two options
Decisions, decisions.
Or links alternatives: Would you like coffee or tea? Mom or Dad will have to pick you up.
Or can express related ideas or synonyms: She has rubella, or German measles.
It can be shorthand for consequences: Hurry up or we’ll be late.
When you’re short on specifics, or can express a degree of uncertainty: she’s been gone three or four days.
Settled course of action
- optionAvailable course of action
- alternativeAnother available choice
- selectionChosen item or items
- preferenceFavored choice among alternatives
By another choice
One of two
- neitherNot one or other
- norNegative conjunction
- mutually exclusiveCannot both be true
- alternativeAnother available choice
True-or-false valued
- gateHinged barrier in fence
- operatorOne who works machinery
- bitwiseOperating per binary digit
- truth tableChart of logical possibilities
binary · logical · disjunction · operand
State of perplexity
- predicamentDifficult, unpleasant situation
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- crossroadsMeeting of routes
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
ambivalence · hesitation · indecision · impasse · catch-22 · bind · fork in the road · toss-up
decision
Settled course of action
- optionAvailable course of action
- alternativeAnother available choice
- selectionChosen item or items
preference · either · pick
alternatively
By another choice
either
One of two
- neitherNot one or other
- norNegative conjunction
- mutually exclusiveCannot both be true
boolean
True-or-false valued
truth table · binary · logical · disjunction · operand
quandary
State of perplexity
- predicamentDifficult, unpleasant situation
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
- crossroadsMeeting of routes
uncertainty · ambivalence · hesitation · indecision · impasse · catch-22 · bind · fork in the road · toss-up
- yes or noBinary response options
- more or lessApproximately, not exactly
- or elseImplied negative consequence
- now or neverFinal opportunity phrase
- sooner or laterAt an unspecified future time
- trick or treatHalloween door-to-door phrase
organ, oral, orphan, ore, oracle, exhort, orator, orally, orate