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[ adverb ] additional to or different from this one or place or time or manner
Examples "nobody else is here" "she ignored everything else" "I don't know where else to look" "when else can we have the party?" "couldn't decide how else it could be done" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)But it strikes sparks on_occasion and their light causes all else to be forgotten . (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)They were better trained , better_looking , better built , better disciplined - and something else - they were better dancers . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Freud probably contributed more_than anyone else to the understanding of dreams , enabling us to recognize their equivalents in our wakeful thoughts . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Or_else the North really believes that all Southerners except a_few quaint old characters have come_around to realizing the errors of their past , and are now at_heart sharers of the American_Dream , like everybody else . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)In_addition , the polyphosphates are also used , probably acting more as peptizing agents than anything else . |
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[ adjective ] other than what is under consideration or implied
Examples "ask somebody else" "I don't know what else to do" "where else can we look?" Used in print (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)It only means that there will be new form , and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else . (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a_few honored newcomers , then the `` open_house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door . (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself , reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else . (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)`` History has this in_common with every other science : that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge , except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in_the_first_place , and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration , the grounds upon which it is based . (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)There would be all the nuisance of contacting someone else to take_over . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] more
Synonyms Examples "would you like anything else?" "I have nothing else to say" Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)He thought_about it briefly , then deliberately turned the talk to something else . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She stood_up , smoothing her hair down , straightening her clothes , feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside , and , above everything else , for the absence of the need to answer , to respond , to be aware even of Stowey coming_in or going_out , and yet , now that she was beginning to cook , she glimpsed a future without him , a future alone like this , and the pain made her head writhe , and in_a_moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)Is there anything else you want to know '' ? Related terms |
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[ adverb ] (usually used with `or') if not, then
Examples "watch your step or else you may fall" "leave or else I'll get angry" |
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 2369
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