But (IPA: /ˈbət/)
| But (adv. & conj.) |
Except with; unless with; without. |
| But (adv. & conj.) |
Except; besides; save. |
| But (adv. & conj.) |
Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that. |
| But (adv. & conj.) |
Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that. |
| But (adv. & conj.) |
Only; solely; merely. |
| But (adv. & conj.) |
On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind. |
| But (prep., adv. & conj.) |
The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. |
| But (n.) |
A limit; a boundary. |
| But (n.) |
The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt. |
| But (v. i.) |
See Butt, v., and Abut, v. |
| But (v. t.) |
A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. |
| But (v. t.) |
The thicker end of anything. See But. |
| But (v. t.) |
A mark to be shot at; a target. |
| But (v. t.) |
A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. |
| But (v. t.) |
A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram. |
| But (v. t.) |
A thrust in fencing. |
| But (v. t.) |
A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. |
| But (v. t.) |
A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint. |
| But (v. t.) |
The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. |
| But (v. t.) |
The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. |
| But (v. t.) |
The joint where two planks in a strake meet. |
| But (v. t.) |
A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge. |
| But (v. t.) |
The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. |
| But (v. t.) |
The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. |
| But |
Family name |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " the gravity of a substance depends not on the amount of its weight, but on its nature." - Vitruvius |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " " not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest." - John Dryden |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " " nothing can supply the place of strong, undeviating principle. There is but one wrong, and one right ;" - Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " " The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf." - Life |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " "a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse". Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher." - Anthony Burgess |
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