except

except

1. rinnkonj|k=en paitsi, ottamatta

Esimerkkejä:

I eat anything 'except' porridge.

:Syön mitä tahansa 'paitsi' puuroa.

I like your sister 'except' she is sometimes annoying.

:Tykkään siskostasi 'muuten, mutta' hän on välillä rasittava.

Liittyvät sanat: exception

Synonyymisanakirja

except

hävittää, poistaa, karsia, tehdä loppu jstk, jättää lausumatta, jättää pois, protestoida, vastustaa, esittää vastalause.

Englannin sanakirja

except (englanti > suomi)

1. tehdä poikkeus, antaa erivapaus, vapauttaa (jostakin)

2. vastustaa

3. muuta kuin, paitsi, lukuun ottamatta

4. paitsi

except englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

2. 2007, Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17:

But this ban on circumcision must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.

3. puhekieltä To take exception, to object (to or against).

to except to a witness or his testimony

4. Shakespeare

Except thou wilt except against my love.

5. (RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:

Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words ….

6. 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, page 23:

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

7. 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 96:

he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.

8. With the exception of; but.

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9. (quote-magazine)

10. With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.

11. (RQ:Mrxl SqrsDghtr)

"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.(nb..)."

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13. puhekieltä unless Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

14. 1526, (w), trans. Bible, (w) IX:

And they sayde: We have no moo but five loves and two fisshes, except we shulde goo and bye meate for all this people.

15. 1621, (w), (w), New York 2001, p.106:

Offensive wars, except the cause be very just, I will not allow of.

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