What's the difference between but and nevertheless?

But


Definition:

  • (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.
  • (adv. & conj.) Except; besides; save.
  • (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
  • (adv. & conj.) Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
  • (adv. & conj.) Only; solely; merely.
  • (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
  • (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
  • (n.) A limit; a boundary.
  • (n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
  • (v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
  • (v. t.) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
  • (v. t.) The thicker end of anything. See But.
  • (v. t.) A mark to be shot at; a target.
  • (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
  • (v. t.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
  • (v. t.) A thrust in fencing.
  • (v. t.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
  • (v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
  • (v. t.) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
  • (v. t.) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
  • (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
  • (v. t.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
  • (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
  • (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.

Example Sentences:

Nevertheless


Definition:

  • (adv. / conj.) Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
  • (3) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
  • (4) Nevertheless, acquisition of thermotolerance can be induced at any stage of the life cycle.
  • (5) Nevertheless a small proportion of the largest molecules (excluded from Sepharose 2B) was present even in the first extract.
  • (6) Nevertheless, the patterns of chromosomal abnormalities, and consequently that of associated malformations, were related to the different types of renal defects.
  • (7) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
  • (8) Nevertheless, they are still being widely used, since in most cases only the epidemiology of the disease points to the etiologic role of A. cantonensis.
  • (9) Nevertheless the difference was too little to suggest abandoning one treatment in favour of the others.
  • (10) Nevertheless, the structure of the signal peptide and propeptide in the N-terminal region is different in these two chains.
  • (11) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
  • (12) Nevertheless, XA is transcribed into a stable 2.6-kb polyadenylated RNA that is expressed uniquely in the adrenal gland.
  • (13) Nevertheless between 18% and 20% appear to have done so – a stunning result for the far right.
  • (14) Nevertheless, a wide clinical spectrum was found varying from pictures correlating with the topography and extent of the MRI-detected anomaly to conditions indicating wider cerebral involvement.
  • (15) Nevertheless, with respect to public health approaches, there seems to be a shift in consciousness.
  • (16) Nevertheless, oxidation of the phenyldiazene-treated enzyme with ferricyanide provides the NA and NC regioisomers of N-phenylprotoporphyrin IX in a 40:60 ratio.
  • (17) Nevertheless some technical variations are required, to maintain the typical homogeneity of photon beams.
  • (18) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
  • (19) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
  • (20) These findings of enhanced breakage by FUdR exposure in vitro, nevertheless, may suggest that leukemic cells in general are more susceptible to breakage than normal cells, thereby predisposing the former to secondary chromosome rearrangements.

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