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What (who) is except - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Exceptions; Exceptional; Except for; Exception (disambiguation); Exceptionally; Except
except
I. v. a.
Exclude, reject, omit, leave out, do not include.
II. v. n.
Object, make objection, take exception.
III. prep.
Excepting, excluding, save, leaving out, with the exception of.
IV. conj.
Unless, unless it be that, if it be not that.
except
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You use except to introduce the only thing or person that a statement does not apply to, or a fact that prevents a statement from being completely true.
I wouldn't have accepted anything except a job in Europe...
I don't take any drugs whatsoever, except aspirin for colds...
PREP
•
Except is also a conjunction.
Freddie would tell me nothing about what he was writing, except that it was to be a Christmas play...
CONJ: oft CONJ that/when/where/if
2.
You use except for to introduce the only thing or person that prevents a statement from being completely true.
He hadn't eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad...
Everyone was late, except for Richard.
PREP-PHRASE
Except
·conj Unless; if it be not so that.
II. Except ·vt To object to; to protest against.
III. Except ·prep With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
IV. Except ·vi To take exception; to Object;
- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
Wikipedia
Exception
Exception, exceptions or expectional may refer to:
- Exception (computer science), an anomalous condition during computation
- State of exception, a concept of extension of sovereign power
- Exceptional objects, in mathematics
- Exceptional isomorphisms
Examples of use of except
1. Except . . . Except everything‘s different this time.
2. Westbound flights will operate every day except Monday, while eastbound flights will depart every day except Sunday. «
3. But he‘s always very grateful." Alexander doesn‘t like greens, except for broccoli, or fish, except for fishfingers.
4. A little of anything –– except surveillance cameras.
5. He doesn‘t communicate, except, perhaps, by courier.