Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Other; different.
- adjective Additional; more.
- adverb In a different or additional time, place, or manner.
- idiom (or else) Used to indicate an alternative.
- idiom (or else) Used to indicate negative consequences that will result if an action is not followed.
- idiom (or else) Used after a command or demand to make a threat:
from The Century Dictionary.
- In another or a different manner; in some other way; to a different purpose; otherwise.
- In another or a different case; if the fact were different; otherwise.
- Besides; other than the person, thing, place, etc., mentioned: after an interrogative or indefinite pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb (who, what, where, etc., anybody, anything, somebody, something, nobody, nothing, all, little, etc.), as a quasi-adjective, equivalent to other: as, who else is coming? what else shall give you? do you expect anything else?
- [The phrases anybody else, somebody else, nobody else, etc., have a unitary meaning, as if one word, and properly take a possessive case (with the suffix at the end of the phrase): as, this is somebody else's hat; nobody else's children act so.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Other; one or something beside
- adverb Besides; except that mentioned; in addition
- adverb Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Other ; inaddition to previously mentioned items. - adverb
Otherwise , ifnot . - conjunction
For otherwise ;or else . - conjunction computing but
if thecondition of the previousif clause is false, do the following.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We had to go pick up papers, fill out papers, sign papers, drop off papers, stand in lines, walk here, walk there, wait somewhere else, pay for something else
goldylockz22 Diary Entry goldylockz22 2003
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And Mr. Harvey, who thought something else, thought _something else_.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931
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Your brothers may have their own business to mind, Mr. Kenyon is at New York, we will suppose; here am I-- what else, _what else_ makes me count my cleverness to you, as I know I have done more than once, by word and letter, but the real wish to be set at work?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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And, therefore, in the _infancy of learning_, and in rude times, when those conceptions which are now trivial, were then new, _the world was full of parables and similitudes_, for else would men either have passed over _without mark, or else_ REJECTED FOR PARADOXES, that which was offered _before they had understood or judged_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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It is very easy to say _something else -- something else_.
Sophisms of the Protectionists Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825
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But fishing tackle! hell no! nothin else is as heavy as lead! we would have to carry huge steel weights in out bags!
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But fishing tackle! hell no! nothin else is as heavy as lead! we would have to carry huge steel weights in out bags!
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Although no word on an international release Majesco will most likely bring the title else where.
DS-x2 headlines 2008
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Except neither Obama nor anyone else is suggesting an annual near-trillion in stimulus, so your comparison is illogical.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government 2010
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As long as most people think they someone else is paying, they will demand more andmore.
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