Definizione monolingua

except

except (third-person singular simple present excepts, present participle excepting, simple past and past participle excepted)

1. (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
   • 2007, Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 17:

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

2. (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. 1, New York Review Books 2001, p. 312:

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

   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 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

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 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.

except

1. With the exception of; but.

   There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.

except

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

   You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.

   I never made fun of her except teasingly.

2. (archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 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.

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 106:

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

Definizione dizionario except

	salvo
	with the exception of

eccetto

ad eccezione di

distribuire

eccettuare

eccettuato

escludere

fuorché

meno

se non

tranne

Altri significati:

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

With the exception of; but.

(archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

(intransitive) To take exception, to object ( to or against ).

to take exception, to object to

to exclude

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

with the exception that