except
preposition
[ ɪkˈsɛpt ]
• not including; other than.
• "they work every day except Sunday"
Similar:
excluding,
not including,
excepting,
omitting,
leaving out,
not counting,
but,
besides,
barring,
bar,
other than,
exclusive of,
saving,
save,
apart from,
aside from,
with the exception of,
with the omission of,
with the exclusion of,
outside of,
forbye,
except
conjunction
• used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made.
• "I didn't tell him anything, except that I needed the money"
except
verb
• specify as excluded from a category or group.
• "five classes of advertisement are excepted from control"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin except- ‘taken out’, from the verb excipere, from ex- ‘out of’ + capere ‘take’.
