Pronunciations (2)
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/ɛls/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
- US
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/ɛlts/
Pronunciation notes
- colloquial
Adjective
Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
Usage- not-comparable
- postpositional
- used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns
- Examples
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The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.
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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.
Adverb
Otherwise, if not.
Usage- not-comparable
- Synonyms
- Examples
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How else (= in what other way) can it be done?
I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?
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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.
Conjunction
For otherwise; or else.
- Examples
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Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.
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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.