Dictionary Definition
except
Verb
1 take exception to; "he demurred at my
suggestion to work on Saturday" [syn: demur]
2 prevent from being included or considered or
accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave
off the top piece" [syn: exclude, leave out,
leave
off, omit, take out] [ant:
include]
User Contributed Dictionary
Verb
- To exclude; to
specify as being an exception.
- 2007: But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews. — Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 17
- In the context of "intransitive|rare|construed with to or
against": To take
exception, to object
to.
- 1658: The Athenians might fairly except against the practise of Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 23)
Translations
to exclude
to take exception, to object to
- Dutch: bezwaar hebben, protesteren
- Finnish: vastustaa
- Hungarian: visszautasít, óvást emel
- With the exception of; but.
- There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
Translations
with the exception of
Conjunction
except- With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase
or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something
previously stated.
- You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.
- I never made fun of her except teasingly.
- You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.
- Unless; used to
introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays,
Folio Society 2006, p. 34:
- they seeme to have so much the lesser feare to mistake or forget themselves, which also notwithstanding being an airie bodie, and without hold-fast, may easily escape the memorie, except it be well assured.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays,
Folio Society 2006, p. 34:
Translations
with the exception that
- Finnish: paitsi
Anagrams
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abjure,
abscind, absolve, amputate, annihilate, apart from, aside
from, ban, bar, barring, bate, beside, besides, bob, brush aside, but, chuck, chuck out, clip, contemn, contradict, count out,
crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out,
debar, decline, deny, despise, disapprove, discard, discharge, disclaim, discount, discounting, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispense from, dispense
with, disregard,
dock, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, ex, except for, except that, excepting, exception taken of,
excise, exclude, excluding, exclusive of,
excuse, exempt, expostulate, extinguish, extirpate, forswear, free, from, give dispensation from, grant
immunity, however, if
not, ignore, inveigh
against, isolate,
kick, knock off, leave out,
leaving out, less, let
alone, let go, let off, lop,
minus, mutilate, nip, not counting, object, off, omit, omitting, other than, outside
of, pare, pass by, pass
over, pass up, peel, pick
out, precluding,
protest, prune, push aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider,
reject, release, remise, remit, remonstrate, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, root out, rule out,
save, save and except, save
the necessity, saving,
scout, set apart, set
aside, shave, shear, shove away, spare, spurn, stamp out, strike off,
strip, strip off, suspend, take off, take out,
than, throw away, throw
out, truncate, turn
away, turn out, unless,
unless that, waive, were
it not, wipe out, without, yet