Both

Definition: Both

Both

Adjective

1. (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two; "both girls are pretty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "both" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Both \Both\, adjective. or pronoun [Old English bothe, from Icelandic; akin to Danish baade, Swedish b[*a]da, Gothic, Old High German, German & Dutch beide, also Anglo-Saxon begen, b[=a], Gothic bai, and Greek, Latin ambo, Lithuanian ab[`a], Old Slavic oba, Sanskrit ubha. Compare to Am. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Both

Accompaniment

Both, both the one and the other.

Amusement

Shake one's sides, split one's sides, hold both one's sides; roar with laughter, die with laughter.

Economy

Verb: be economical; Adjective: practice economy; economize, save; retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way, pay as you go; husband; (lay by).

Evidence

Verb: countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut; (refute); subvert; (destroy); cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict; (deny); tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.

Exertion

Work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel; (resolution); work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to; (persevere) a; work one's way, fight one's way; lay about one, hammer at.

Food

Phrase: "across the walnuts and the wine"; "blessed hour of our dinners!";Phrase: "across the walnuts and the wine"; "blessed hour of our dinners!"; "now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"; "who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?"

Nonpayment

Adjective: not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt; behindhand, in arrear, behind in payments, in arrears; beggared; (poor); unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing; worthless.

Poverty

In want; Noun: needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet; embarrassed, under hatches; involved; (in debt); insolvent; (not paying).

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

Redundancy

Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste).

Rejoicing

Phrase: the heart leaping with joy; ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire; "Laughter holding both his sides"; " le roi est mort, vive le roi "; "with his eyes in flood with laughter".

Waste

Cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander.

Wealth

Afford, well afford; command money, command a sum; make both ends meet, hold one's head above water.

Crosswords: Both

Scottish (perturbation), Welsh (boss, nave of wheel).

I have a chip on both shoulders (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser and they're right, I have lost something (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Perhaps lucky for the both of us. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Don't you think one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for both parties (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

Wouldn't it be a little too much if we both grinned at her like idiots (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

We always need to hear both sides of the story (Both Sides Of The Story; performing artist: Phil Collins)

I wish nothing but the best for you both (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Then you both realize (How Much I Feel; performing artist: Ambrosia)

We'd both be here still making love (And Our Feelings; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Daryl Simmons)

I would give you both night and day (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company)

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

He who finds pleasure in vice and pain in virtue, is still a novice in both. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

Tracers work both ways. (references; author: unknown)

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. (references; author: unknown)

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. (references; author: unknown)

They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw. (references; author: unknown)

They have left the thriftshop, and lost both their theatre tickets and the volume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills. (references; author: unknown)

Both Ends Meet (1972)

Best of Both Worlds: Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1970)

Both Sides (1953)

A Good Girl Covers for Both Sides (1948)

Both Barrels Blazing (1945)

Both Sides Now (performing artist: Judy Collins)

Both Sides Of The Story (performing artist: Phil Collins)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Household or Laundry-Type Washing Machines, Including Machines Which Both Wash and Dry, with a Dry Linen Capacity of Up to 10 kg: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire--And Both Lost (reference)

• The 2R Manager: When to Relate, When to Require, and How to Do Both Effectively (reference)

• The Best Parent Is Both Parents: A Guide to Shared Parenting in the 21st Century (reference)

• The Woodlot Management Handbook: Making the Most of Your Wooded Property for Conservation, Income or Both (reference)

• Touchpoints: Both Volumes of the Nation's Most Trusted Guide to the First Six Years of Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Both Sides Now (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 74: The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• This Time We Are Both (reference)

• Black on Both Sides (reference)

• Both Sides Now (reference)

• That's Life - Founding Member of Both Mott Hoople (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 100MB TELCO 120 BOTH ENDS (reference)

• Int SCSI Terminator Hd68f Supports Both U2 & U160 (reference)

• Kingston 18IN EXT SCSI Vhdci68/Vhdci68 On Both Ends (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Shown here are a patient (young girl) and nurse, both seated on the floor. The nurse is teaching the girl about procedures and techniques associated with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Shown is a woman radiology technician preparing a 42 year old white woman for a mammogram. Both the technician and the woman are shown from the waist up. The technician is positioning the paddle used to compress the breast. The patient's face is turned towards the technician, away from the camera. Her right shoulder is raised obscuring the breast. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Chest radiograph showing miliary densities in both lung fields plus thin-walled cavity with fluid level. Histoplasmosis. Credit: CDC.

The cyllindrical structures are seen in both cross and longitudinal section. Lymph node biopsy from patient with lymphadenopathy due to infection with HIV-1. Credit: CDC.

Aerial View of Shuttles on Both Pads. Credit: NASA.

This image was taken by Voyager as it left the Earth-Moon system and looked back. It was the first picture taken by a spacecraft which included both the Earth and Moon. Credit: NASA.

On the border between Chile and the Catamarca province of Argentina lies a vast field of currently dormant volcanoes. Over time, these volcanoes have laid down a crust of magma roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) thick. It is tinged with a patina of various colors that can indicate both the age and mineral content of the original lava flows. Credit: NASA.

Both sides of observer scaffolding in place at Station Foss Photo #3 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

239-foot tower built on Bugsuk Island in southwest Philippines This tower was built completely from native timber cut on location It took 19 men off the PATHFINDER three weeks to build this signal This was the largest wooden tower ever built by the C&GS Used for both observing and as a signal. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Five Cow-nosed Rays - Rhinoptera bonasus - gliding toward the photographer with both wing tips up. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Moreover, all trespasses occasioned by the said quarrel, from Easter in the sixteenth year of our reign till the restoration of peace, we have fully remitted to all, both clergy and laymen, and completely forgiven, as far as pertains to us. (reference)

And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle. (Second Treatise of Government)

In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. (reference)

If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. (reference)

If, then, the courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply. (reference)

Let us examine both sides of this antagonism. (reference)

THE PRESENT TREATY, of which the French and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified. (reference)

Opportunity is here now, clear and shining for both our countries. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Their opponents, just as certainly, were antagonistic to both the letter and the spirit of the Amendments and wished them to have the most limited effect. (reference)

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They were both in ecstasies

Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first

Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names

The change may be for good or ill, and is partly, perhaps, for both.

Both were black

Uncle Charles and Mr Dedalus pulled Mr Casey back into his chair again, talking to him from both sides reasonably

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed

BOTH MURDERERS

Baptized both of you in the irrigation ditch at once

He added, that he had heard too much upon the subject of war, both in this and some former discourses

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

RLS occurs in both sexes. (references)

It affects both men and women. (references)

Both approaches have been effective. (references)

Business

Both offer good technology. (references)

Both phenomena are explained below. (references)

Litigation is both costly and lengthy. (references)

Children

Brazil

Youth are both victims and perpetrators of violence. (references)

Kazakhstan

Primary and secondary education is both free and universal. (references)

Morocco

The clientele consists of both foreign tourists and citizens. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ghana

Both towns were opposition strongholds. (references)

India

The wire services both are semi-autonomous. (references)

Lithuania

Living conditions in both centers were good. (references)

Discrimination

Korea

Ethnic minorities are very small in number and face both legal and societal discrimination. (references)

Cyprus

Laws in both communities provide for protection against discrimination based on sex, religion, or national, racial, or ethnic origin. (references)

Brazil

The offices in police headquarters where both hot lines are located also offered professional counseling to victims of such offenses. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Rehabilitation of both ports is planned. (references)

Luxembourg

Its economy is both stable and prosperous. (references)

Sierra Leone

The leaders of both were tried and executed. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Both hear civil and criminal cases. (references)

Bolivia

General officers head both tribunals. (references)

Cuba

Both trials were closed to the public. (references)

Indigenous People

Denmark

Education in Greenland is provided to the native population in both the Inuit and Danish languages. (references)

Venezuela

The Yanomami, among the most isolated of the indigenous people, have been subjected to persistent incursions into their territory by illegal gold miners, who have introduced both diseases and social ills. (references)

Colombia

The UNHCHR strongly criticized both paramilitary and FARC threats against indigenous communities and characterized government investigations of human rights violations against indigenous groups as insufficient. (references)

Minorities

Romania

Police in both cases failed to conduct onsite investigations. (references)

Ethiopia

Both groups accused each other of destroying religious property. (references)

India

Both missionaries were attempting to convert local tribal people. (references)

Political Economy

Sierra Leone

Both agreements have been respected. (references)

Barbados

Both favor private sector-led growth. (references)

Poland

Both bodies are elected simultaneously. (references)

Political Rights

Ireland

Several political parties have seats in both bodies. (references)

Mozambique

Leaders of both parties called for an end to the violence. (references)

Djibouti

Large numbers of persons of all communities supported both candidates. (references)

Trade

China

Periodically both the State Dept. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Both are granted on a case-by-case basis. (references)

Honduras

SBA offers both loans and loan guarantees. (references)

Travel

Finland

Both languages are compulsory at school. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Dress is conservative for both men and women. (references)

New Zealand

Rental services are available on both for visitors. (references)

Women

Jordan

A sole male heir inherits both of his parents' property. (references)

Micronesia

Such assaults are perpetrated against both citizens and foreigners. (references)

Kenya

Women continue to face both legal and actual discrimination in other areas. (references)

Worker Rights

Uruguay

Both complaints remained pending at year's end. (references)

Lithuania

Both laws comply with European Union directives. (references)

Kazakhstan

Safety consciousness in both employees and employers is low. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "both": both ... and ♦ both alike ♦ both blame collision clause ♦ both expensive and ugly ♦ both of them ♦ both of us ♦ both of you ♦ Both sheets in the wind ♦ both the one and the other ♦ both to blame clause ♦ both way ♦ burn the candle at both ends ♦ Communion in both kinds ♦ cut both ways ♦ cuts both ways ♦ in both cases ♦ in both ears ♦ it cuts both ways ♦ kick with both hind feet ♦ lacking both principles and ideas ♦ make both ends meet ♦ on both sides ♦ on both sides of ♦ open on both sides ♦ take one's courage in both hands ♦ the clause reads both ways ♦ to both ears ♦ to cut both ways ♦ To make both ends meet ♦ to talk out of both sides of one's mouth ♦ with both hands. Additional references.

Beginning with "both": both-and, Both-hands, both-way, both-ways.

Ending with "both": factors--both, geography-both, materials-both, NOT-both, present-both, rat-both.

Containing "both": best-of-both-worlds, Jack-on-both-sides, painted-on-both-sides, work-from-both-sides.

Afrikaans

altwee, albei. (various references)

Albanian

bashkë (by clubbing together, jointly, teamwise, together), të dy, si njeri dhe tjetri, që të dy, po ashtu (as well, ditto, so, too), njëlloj (alike, equally, likewise, same kind, the same), gjithashtu (also, as well, eke, furthermore, likewise, moreover, so, too). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلتا, ‏كلاهما, ‏كلا (never, no), ‏مع بعض, ‏سويا (jointly, together), ‏على حد سواء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

и двете, и двамата. (various references)

Catalan

ambdós. (various references)

Chinese 

都 (all, already, capital city, entirelyeach, even, metropolis), 雙 (double, pair, two), 倆 (craft, cunning, two), 兩 (a few, ounce, some, tael, two), 两个. (various references)

Czech

obì, oba (either). (various references)

Danish

både. (various references)

Dutch

beide, allebei, alle twee de. (various references)

Esperanto

ambaŭ. (various references)

Faeroese

báðir. (various references)

Farsi 

هم (Even, Likewise, Too), هردوی , هردو, نیز (Again, Also, Likewise, Too), این یکی وان یکی . (various references)

Finnish

molemmat. (various references)

French

toutes, tous, l'un et l'autre. (various references)

Frisian

beide, allebeide. (various references)

German

beide (either, mutually). (various references)

Greek 

και οι δύο, και οι δυο, αμφοτέροι. (various references)

Hebrew 

שתיהן, שניהם, גם זה וגם זה. (various references)

Hungarian

mindketten, mindkettő (either), mindkét (either), egyaránt (alike, equally, in the same way). (various references)

Icelandic

bæði, báðir. (various references)

Indonesian

berdua (the two), keduanya, kedua (second, two). (various references)

Irish

araon. (various references)

Italian

entrambi (either). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

双方 (both parties, mutual, two way), 共 (all, and, as well as, including, neither neg). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ながら (all, although, during, notwithstanding, though, while, while doing), そうほう (both parties, mutual, playing, playing method, regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order, running style, touch, two way), きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, sutra, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), ふたつながら, ふたつとも, ふたりとも, どちらも, りょうほうとも (the two), りょうりょう (lonely, rare, two each), ともに (alike, along with, including, participate in, sharing with, together, with), とも (accompanying, all, and, as well as, attendant, companion, follower, friend, including, neither, pal, plural ending, retinue, stern, together with, with). (various references)

Korean 

양쪽. (