else — قاموس الإنجليزية

صفة

1. Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable
   • postpositional
   • used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns

   أمثلة

   The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?

   Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.

   أمثلة إضافية (3)

   When all else fails, read the instructions.

   Prospero: Thou hast done well, fine Ariel. Follow me; Hark what thou else shalt do me.

   As with most else in society, early Americans believed that health and healing were in God's hand.

ظرف

1. Otherwise, if not.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable

   مرادفات

   otherwise

   أمثلة

   How else (= in what other way) can it be done?

   I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   The crust of ice on the else rippling brook was so transparent, and so thin in texture, that the lively water might of its own free will have stopped—in Tom’s glad mind it had—to look upon the lovely morning.

حرف عطف

1. For otherwise; or else.

   كلمات ذات صلة

   andifnotorthen

   أمثلة

   Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.