else — Английский словарь

Прилагательное

1. Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.

   Употребление

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

   Примеры

   The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?

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

   Другие примеры (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.

Наречие

1. Otherwise, if not.

   Употребление

   • not-comparable

   Синонимы

   otherwise

   Примеры

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

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

   Другие примеры (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.

Союз

1. For otherwise; or else.

   Связанные слова

   andifnotorthen

   Примеры

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

   Другие примеры (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.