each

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Use the adjective each when every separate person or thing in a group is considered individually, one by one or piece by piece. If all the guests at your party will go home with a goody bag, you can say that each person will get one.

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Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.

Adverb
to or from every one of two or more (considered individually); "they received $10 each"


a. / a. pron.
Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.

a. / a. pron.
Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.


Each

Each , a. ∨ a. pron. [OE. eche, '91lc, elk, ilk, AS. '91lc; 'be always + gel'c6c like; akin to OD. ieglik, OHG. ogil'c6th, MHG. iegel'c6ch. . See 3d Aye, Like, and cf. Either, Every, Ilk.] 1. Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding. &hand; To each corresponds other. "Let each esteem other better than himself." Each other, used elliptically for each the other. It is our duty to assist each other; that is, it is our duty, each to assist the other, each being in the nominative and other in the objective case.
It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred.
Let each His adamantine coat gird well.
In each cheek appears a pretty dimple.
Then draw we nearer day by day, Each to his brethren, all to God.
The oak and the elm have each a distinct character.
2. Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every. Shak.
I know each lane and every alley green.
In short each man's happiness depends upon himself.
&hand; This use of each for every, though common in Scotland and in America, is now un-English. Fitzed. Hall. Syn. -- See Every.

Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.

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Usage Examples

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Misspelled Form

each, weach, 3each, 4each, reach, seach, deach, wach, 3ach, 4ach, rach, sach, dach, ewach, e3ach, e4ach, erach, esach, edach, eqach, ewach, esach, ezach, eqch, ewch, esch, ezch, eaqch, eawch, easch, eazch, eaxch, eadch, eafch, eavch, ea ch, eaxh, eadh, eafh, eavh, ea h, eacxh, eacdh, eacfh, eacvh, eac h, eacgh, eacyh, eacuh, eacjh, eacnh, eacg, eacy, eacu, eacj, eacn, eachg, eachy, eachu, eachj, eachn.

Other Usage Examples

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

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