EITHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does either mean? 

• EITHER (adverb)
  The adverb EITHER has 1 sense:

1. after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like 'likewise' or 'also'

  Familiarity information: EITHER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EITHER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like 'likewise' or 'also'

Context example:

if you don't order dessert I won't either

 Context examples 

On either side stretched lawns, their broad sweep broken here and there by great sturdy-limbed oaks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

An abnormal human cell type which can occur in either disease states or disease models.

(Abnormal Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

“Cookery would have been more to the purpose, if you had had any practical ideas of life, either of you.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before beginning, participants were randomly instructed to place their smartphones either on the desk face down, in their pocket or personal bag, or in another room.

(Presence of Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These Martian organics could either have formed on Mars or been delivered to Mars by meteorites.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

Each item is rated on either a 0 to 4 scale with 0 being none and 4 being severe, or as 'yes' or 'no.'

(Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, these lymphomas are either centroblastic or immunoblastic (ratio 2:1).

(Activated B-Cell-Like Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemotherapy regimen consisting of doxorubucin hydrochloride (Adriamycin) and cyclophosphamide, followed by paclitaxel (Taxol), administered on either a dose-dense or sequential schedule and used as an adjuvant treatment for breast cancer.

(AC-T regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Either possiblity for the interior of Mimas would be interesting, according to Tajeddine, as the moon's heavily cratered outward appearance does not suggest anything unusual lies beneath its surface.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

He was lying on his side, dead where he had dragged himself, an arrow protruding, head and feathers, from either side of his body.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)