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else

[els]

Example Sentences Origin

adjective

other than the persons or things mentioned or implied: What else could I have done?

in addition to the persons or things mentioned or implied: Who else was there?

other or in addition (used in the possessive following an indefinite pronoun): someone else's money.

adverb

if not (usually preceded by or): It's a macaw, or else I don't know birds.

in some other way; otherwise: How else could I have acted?

at some other place or time: Where else might I find this book?

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Else is always a great word to know.

So is quincunx. Does it mean:

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Idiom

or else, or suffer the consequences: Do what I say, or else.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English elles (cognate with Old High German elles), equivalent to ell- other (cognate with Gothic aljis, Latin alius, Old Irish aile Greek állos, Armenian ayl other; compare eldritch) + -es -s¹

Usage note
The possessive forms of somebody else, everybody else, etc., are somebody else's, everybody else's, the forms somebody's else, everybody's else being considered nonstandard in present-day English. One exception is the possessive for who else, which is occasionally formed as whose else when a noun does not immediately follow: Is this book yours? Whose else could it be? EXPANDNo, it's somebody else's.

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Example Sentences

Perry dropped any pretenses that their attacks were aimed at anyone else.

I'll report back on progress, it may help somebody else as well.

But being able to feel a bit better-off than someone else makes it a bit more bearable.

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Perry dropped any pretenses that their attacks were aimed at anyone else.

I'll report back on progress, it may help somebody else as well.

But being able to feel a bit better-off than someone else makes it a bit more bearable.

Ask students if they have ever lived somewhere else.

London have shown that the cerebellum can predict sensations when your own movement causes them but not when someone else does.

If one method fails, teachers consult with colleagues to try something else.

It's time travel?but what else would you expect from a park that's pure magic.

Remember, once you start your game, someone else will be looking for you as well.

If anyone else has been through this and has any suggestions of strategies that worked for them, please share.

There are more geysers in this park than anywhere else in the world.

They believe whole-heartedly only to be found incorrect by someone else.

One is descent with modification, that we're all related to everyone else.

Grilling gives the bird a really crisp, brown skin-plus it frees up your oven so you can cook everything else.

Show everyone that it's because you saw what nobody else could see and were willing to do what no one else could do.

The three cheesecakes she had cooked were fabulous, but someone else had to frost them.

Everyone else except those mentioned above has been getting poorer, for some time.

But little else is known about the two animals, because they live at such great ocean depths.

One cannot become a more ethical person solely by pointing out that someone else is unethical.

He left petri dishes, microbes and nearly everything else higgledy-piggledy on his lab benches, untended.

Or maybe no one else has ever heard of such a remedy.

Laptop compartment is padded, but storing your computer anywhere else in the bag necessitates an extra padded sleeve.

Google could have millions and millions of books that no one else could reach.

Someone in the group is getting more than everyone else.

Take the best pieces of wood and prepare them for use as new flooring or as something else.

Each of us has a rich inner mental life, one that seems inaccessible to everyone else.

Those who began studying the book soon noticed something else mysterious.

Dig controlled-release or organic fertilizer into the backfill of everything else you plant.

Concerns grow over pay gaps between professional-school professors and everyone else.

Many mammals roam these savannas, including the endangered giant eland that occurs nowhere else in the world.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but so is everything else.

Caporael's article and see what else she said about it.

But no one else makes plain old beans seem darn near magical.

The numbers weren't nearly as rosy for everyone else.

There are more natural arches here than anywhere else in the world.

They take the reader, adult and child, somewhere else.

He finds somewhere else to be, or he stays inside his house, with its many framed prints of trim little ships atop frisky seas.

Along the way, you'll encounter the intricacies of plant design, and how it all relates to everything else in the universe.

To dwell on the shortcomings of students smacks of professorial pride more than anything else.

The state wants the federal government to come dig it out and move it somewhere else.

Elton believed that robust ecosystems had too many native occupants to make room for anything else.

It turns out that dogs can be trained to detect the scat of a particular species and ignore everything else.

Spin in a salad spinner or dry carefully between towels, or else you'll have a bowl of sogginess.

These forests sustain a diversity of plants, land birds, and other species found here and nowhere else.

It's time to make them play nice with the rest of the world or else get out of the way.

And they have to pierce their owner's skin before they can pierce anything else.

That's probably something else she learned from her great-grandmother.

Within these islands' dense green montane forests lives a wide variety of birds and mammals--many found nowhere else in the world.

It turns out that it is fairly easy to trick us into thinking that someone is looking somewhere else.

The distinctively colored iguana has never been found anywhere else.

If unsure of eating etiquette, simply observe what everyone else does.

The patent is for the isolated gene and prevents anyone else from studying or otherwise using that particular gene.

The islands' remote location resulted in the evolution of thousands of species that live nowhere else in the world.

It is hard to find artists who put color above all else.

If anyone else seemed particularly helpful or nice then perhaps one to them as well.

Horror movies may bank on the same part of your brain getting excited while watching someone else in fear as when you.

Two words someone else would use to describe me are hectic and mildly amusing.

Before you drop in, look both ways to make sure no one else is on the wave.

Why else would they put a little metal fish badge on their.

What else explains the astounding fact that millions of seemingly.

The stuff that people used to watch or listen to largely because there was little else on is increasingly being ignored.

Three words someone else would use to describe me are intense, loyal and loud.

They would undoubtedly have killed your grandparents, had they not first died of something else.

It kills organs, tissues and cells or else damages them to the extent that they can no longer function.

How else to explain the fiery spectacles that occurred without warning and with such.

Namibia's endless arid expanses are home to a menagerie of creatures that live nowhere else.

Three words someone else would use to describe me are focused, sincere and quick-witted.

There is no guarantee of a job or anything else when the internship comes to an end.

There's something else they've all got in common: a taste for juvenile salmon.

Three words someone else would use to describe me are inspired, driven and motivating.

It doesn't really matter who else is around us, the show is so captivating.

Has anyone else had this experience or does anyone have advice on how to get a job in.

It must regroup and survive, or else fail and collapse.

Nowhere else can paddlers easily get so close to the world's great icebergs.

American households watch the box for over eight hours a day on average, twice as long as anyone else.

Several species of oak and pine trees are found nowhere else.

We do it often enough ourselves and witness someone else doing it nearly every day.

What caught my eye more than anything else was these crazy mushrooms sprouting out of the straw bale garden.

Also, it would be nice to see who else is on the podium.

Of course, the challenge was to do it in a different way from what everyone else does.

Each person believes and knows that everyone else believes the government's risk figures.

There is wildlife here found nowhere else in the world.

Someone else using stock tanks for their planting beds.

It is too early to say whether geo-engineering or anything else will be part of this mix.

How else to explain their ability to carry loads weighing more than.

But the decisive moment arose from his capacity to imagine physical reality from a perspective no one else had ever tried.

So the swag contains your sleeping bag, teddy bear, pajamas or whatever else you want to put in it.

He arguably did more than anyone else to abolish slavery in the sultanate.

Yet it is not merely that poor people tend to be unhealthy while everyone else is well.

The visible matter of a galaxy, in other words, must be embedded in a halo of something invisible or else it would fly apart.

If no one else has noticed the trend, any article which denounces one smart phone over another tends to get many, many views.

Everyone knows that it is virtually impossible to keep secrets, if it is important enough for someone else to want to know them.

Granted, you are contending with everyone else on the floor.

Small purple flowers in the late summer when not that much else is in bloom is also a nice plus.

So the arguments are likely to get more complicated, if nothing else.

Apparently you're unable to see the zillion articles about everything else scientific.

But it was having a space away from everyone else that was more appealing than the space itself.

Cranberry sauce can be a one-trick pony?all sweetness and not much else.

Lagers use a hybrid, half cerevisiae and half something else.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it.

Adams also lived to see something else approaching his dream.

Something else may soon be included in the list: brighter nights.

It had to have four wheels, but pretty much everything else was open for consideration.

We are an order of magnitude more powerful than anyone else.

Everywhere else about her person all human grace had vanished.

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World English Dictionary

else (ɛls)

—*determiner*
1.	in addition; more: there is nobody else here
2.	other; different: where else could he be?

—*adv*
3.	or else
	a. if not, then: go away or else I won't finish my work today
	b. or something terrible will result: used as a threat: sit down, or else!

[Old English elles, genitive of el- strange, foreign; related to Old High German eli- other, Gothic alja, Latin alius, Greek allos]

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Word Origin & History

else

O.E. elles "other, otherwise, different," from P.Gmc. *aljaz (cf. Goth. aljis "other," O.H.G. eli-lenti, O.E. el-lende, both meaning "in a foreign land;" see also Alsace), an adverbial genitive of the neut. of PIE base *al- "beyond" (cf. Gk. allos "other," L. alius; see

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alias). Synonym of other, the nuances of usage are often arbitrary.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

else

see in someone's (else's) shoes; or else; something else; something else again.