Argument

1. v. i. To make an argument; to argue.
2. n. Proof; evidence.
3. n. A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
4. n. A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
5. n. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
6. n. Matter for question; business in hand.
7. n. The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
8. n. The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.