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Conjunction
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Introducing a conditional clause,
  1. Introducing a conditional clause

  2. On the condition or supposition that; in the event that
    • - if you have a complaint, write to the director
    • - if you like, I'll put in a word for you
  3. (with past tense) Introducing a hypothetical situation
    • - if you had stayed, this would never have happened
  4. Whenever; every time
    • - if I go out, she gets nasty
  5. Despite the possibility that; no matter whether
    • - if it takes me seven years, I shall do it
  6. (often used in indirect questions) Whether
    • - he asked if we would like some coffee
    • - see if you can track it down
  7. Expressing a polite request
    • - if I could trouble you for your names?
    • - if you wouldn't mind giving him a message?
  8. Expressing an opinion
    • - that's an awfully long walk, if you don't mind my saying so
    • - if you ask me, he's in love
  9. Expressing surprise or regret
    • - well, if it isn't Frank!
    • - if I could just be left alone
  10. With implied reservation

  11. And perhaps not
    • - the new leaders have little if any control
  12. Used to admit something as being possible but regarded as relatively insignificant
    • - if there was any weakness, it was naiveté
    • - so what if he did?
  13. Despite being (used before an adjective or adverb to introduce a contrast)
    • - she was honest, if a little brutal
Noun
  1. A condition or supposition
    • - there are so many ifs and buts in the policy
  1. "If—" is a poem written in 1895 by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the "Brother Square Toes" chapter of Rewards and Fairies, Kipling's 1910 collection of short stories and poems. ...
  2. If? were an indie-dance band of the late 1980s and early 1990s signed to MCA Records. Comprising former JoBoxers members Sean McLusky and Robert Marche along with Paul Wells, they recorded such singles as "Everything And More" and "Saturday's Angels".
  3. if.... is a 1968 British feature film by director Lindsay Anderson satirising English public school life. ...
  4. Exotica is the eighth studio album released by the British female vocal duo Bananarama. This is Bananarama's third album as a duo, and was produced by Pascal Caubet and issued only in France in 2001 on the M6 Interactions label. ...
  5. If was a progressive rock band formed in Britain in 1969.
  6. "If" is a song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates in 1971. Originally popularized by his group Bread, the song charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single in 1971. The song also spent three weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart . ...
  7. interactive fiction
  8. An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc; Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice; Supposing that; used with past subjunctive indicating that the condition is not fulfilled; Although; used to introduce a concession; In the ...
  9. (IFS) International Financial Statistics
  10. (IFS) Institute of Fiscal Studies
  11. (IFS) Independent Front Suspension. This is where the suspension of one front wheel acts independently of the other. All modern cars should have this.
  12. (IFS) 1. In-Flight Services. 2. International Flagship Service, three-class international flights on American Airlines. 3. In-Flight Supervisor, a supervising flight attendant on some airlines.
  13. (IFS) An iterated functional system; it constructs a fractal by iterating a vector quantity through an affine equation that is randomly selected on each iteration.
  14. (IFS) Defines the internal field separators (normally the space, the tab, and the carriage return).
  15. (IFS) Inferior Frontal Sulcus.
  16. (IFS) Installable File System
  17. (IFS) Integral Field Spectrograph (SPHERE, E-ELT)
  18. (IFS) Refers to the Interface Specification File. The abbreviation reflects the filename of the Interface Specification File: ifspec.ifs.
  19. (ifs) Student Investor Challenge is supported by:
  20. Intermediate Frequency. Refers to the resulting signal in a superhet receiver after the incoming carrier is mixed with the oscillator signal.
  21. You may see this on some lenses. It describes a system where only the internal elements of the lens move during focusing. It means that the physical length of the lens body does not change.
  22. Intermediate Frequency
  23. immunofluorescent testing
  24. Both if and whether are commonly used with such verbs as doubt, see, ask, wonder, decide, and know to introduce a noun clause ("See if they have arrived," "He asked her whether she was feeling better"); both are acceptable even in formal contexts. ...
  25. (Internal Focusing System): Check Nikon's terms page for more.