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    [Preposition]  | "ex*cept" | \ ik-ˈsept \


    1: with the exclusion or exception of

    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Preposition]  | "except for" 


    1: with the exception of

    2: were it not for

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Verb]  | "except" 


    1: to take or leave out from a number or a whole : exclude

    2: to take exception : object

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, from Anglo-French excepter, from Latin exceptare, frequentative of excipere to take out, except, from ex- + capere to take {mat|heave:1|};

    [Conjunction]  | "except" 


    1: on any other condition than that : unless

    2: with this exception, namely

    3: only —often followed by that

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Preposition]  | "except" 


    1: not including;


      * e.g., " ... the store is open daily except Sundays "



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    [Preposition]  | "except for" 


    1: not including;


      * e.g., " ... except for newscasts, I hardly watch any television at all "



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    [Verb]  | "except" 


    1: to present an opposing opinion or argument;


      * e.g., " ... I must except to your remark that there are no great novelists currently living "




    2: to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of;


      * e.g., " ... we'll have to except members who haven't paid their club dues from voting in the election "



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    [Conjunction]  | "except" 


    1: if it were not for the fact that;


      * e.g., " ... I'd go, except it's too far "



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