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except English

Meaning except meaning

What does except mean?
Definitions in simple English

except Preposition

— Not including. Except mercury, most metals are solids.

except Conjunction

— Not including; but.

except Verb

— To exclude.

except

— verb (= demur) take exception to he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday — verb (= exclude, leave off) prevent from being included or considered or accepted The bad results were excluded from the report Leave off the top piece

Synonyms except synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as except?

except English » English

besides but other than without exclude unless save apart from excluding omit leave out only with the exception of excepting leave off exempt except for take out remove outside of out minus leaving in addition to demur beyond beside barring bar aside from apart yet without prejudice with the exception whereas to the exclusion than take off take away take subject spare separated scratch that saving save that save for sans remonstrate refrain from

Except English » English

other than

Topics except topics

What do people use except to talk about?
Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations

But

  • What words indicate that although one person or thing is similar to another, there is a difference between them?
    but only except except for the fact that
  • What words indicate that something could happen, but something else prevented it from happening?
    but only except
Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations But

Except

Conjugation except conjugation

How do you conjugate except?

except · verb

Examples except examples

How do I use except in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Everyone except me was invited.
Tom likes all vegetables except cabbage.
Except for leap years, February has only 28 days.
Except for Tom, everybody seems to be having fun.
Everyone here except Tom and Mary have done that.
This village can not be reached except via the river.
Tom likes all music genres except for brass music.
He can eat all kinds of fish except for carp.
Nothing remained in the room except an old table and an old chair.
You could train a goat to do practically anything a dog does, except bark.
Everybody accepted the offer except for Tom.
Except that here, it's not so simple.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Mathematicians are poets, except that they have to prove what their fantasy creates.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Your composition is perfect except for a few mistakes.
Don't look to me for any help except in case of emergency.
I go to the office by bicycle except on rainy days.
The bus was empty except for one elderly woman.
Except for Tom, the family was all watching TV in silence.
I enjoyed the concert except that the hall was cold.
Please take off all your clothes except your underpants and bra.
I would buy it, except that it costs too much.
There is nothing for me to do except to obey the order.
The story is good except that it is a little too long.
All except one agreed to his plan.
No one ever knew the true story except the three of us.
Except for Bill, they were all in time.
Our house is quite satisfactory except that it is rather a long way to the bus stop.
All was quiet except that buses sometimes ran.

Movie subtitles

Except maybe those nice English clocksl I'm standing here in the heart of the Forbidden City entirely surrounded by clocks.
Except from here, she really has nowhere to go though..
Except for the mosquitoes. They were huge!
Except some of them, I can't really reach 'cause they're in the middle of my back.
Except for Caitlyn, who is a national hero.
I got a plan for every type of person except for mermaids.
Except maybe Josh's.
Except for an Irishman.
Except it says he wasn't to be embalmed.
Well, except she's in France.
No one's is. Except for Janelle's dog.
Plus, he has a break-in where nothing was stolen except for a cut-throat razor with the victim's blood on it.
Everyone except Evan Whitestone.
Except Pete London refused to participate, and Jed Charmers wouldn't co-operate.
Henk hacl finished his studies, except for the final exam, which he could not do, because the University was closed.
I think they'll agree with the Arab Kingdom model, except for Si Kadour, my father-in-law.
Except I forgot that I blocked her and then she blocked me.
Except this one picture.
Except she's seriously messed up.
Except not out here.
So nothing can survive down here, except maybe for some plankton and you, right?
I don't know if God loves or hates the English. but I do know that the English will all be chased from France. except those that die here!
Except the coat. That's Prince Albert.
Except for the trappers, never a white man has left his track there.
If you ain't out of town by tomorrow morning you won't ever leave it except in a pine box.
And nobody ever crashed the gate except Pete Montana.
They're all crazy, except you and me.
All of them, except you and me.
Except, they let Danny Steele play there, but that's only because he smells like one of those scented candles.
Mom, three calls on my first day is a little overdoing it. Everything except a pen.
EXCEPT. THIS MORNING, YOUR PHONE IS FLOODED WITH TEXT MESSAGES FROM CLARK.
Except for the mosquitoes.
Except for you.
Except, look at 1899.
Yes, everything except why a duck.
The missing parts have been added, except the one in the middle.
Put 'em anyplace you like, except in my face.
He is the only European here except you, my dear.

News and current affairs

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