(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:
Otherwise
Definition:
(adv.) In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
(adv.) In other respects.
(adv.) In different circumstances; under other conditions; as, I am engaged, otherwise I would accept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(2) The reference cohort consisted of 1725845 men otherwise gainfully employed.
(3) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(4) Such factors can mask any interactions between biologic factors of the aging female reproductive system and other social factors that might otherwise detemine fertility during the later reproductive years.
(5) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(6) Thus, D1 receptor-mediated grooming and perioral movements seem to be exceptions to the otherwise general finding that co-stimulation of the two receptor subtypes needed for the expression of D1 or D2 agonist effects in normosensitive rats and mice.
(7) The benefit of routine preoperative CT in patients with otherwise resectable colonic or rectal cancer remains unclear.
(8) An otherwise progressive rise in blood ammonia concentration was halted in the treatment group.
(9) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(10) Otherwise sodium- and calcium-heparin are equal in effect and side effects provided they come from the same heparin source.
(11) One may speculate whether clinical conditions exist--apart from hereditary retinal dystrophies--in which the retina becomes more sensitive to light from strong artificial or natural sources, which are otherwise innoxious.
(12) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(13) The reaction was treated with T5 D15 exonuclease to selectively destroy partially polymerized single-stranded phage DNA that may otherwise contribute to an increased background of wild-type transformants.
(14) Otherwise, a positive relationship was found between antihypertensive effects of Ket and BPV.
(15) It is noteworthy that intracardiac evaluation is necessary when there is longstanding and inveterate tachyarrhythmia in otherwise healthy children.
(16) A pre-operative diagnosis of otosclerosis was made but at tympanotomy, the stapes crura in each ear was found to be disconnected from the footplate, the ossicular chain being otherwise normal.
(17) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
(18) Where the mass proves soft, radical excision may be possible, but not otherwise.
(19) The finding of lower levels of T-lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of individuals with mammary cancer is of particular significance since all the patients in this study were otherwise in apparently good general health and undergoing no treatment.
(20) Results obtained with the probe were instrumental in modifying the operation in two of the four "positive" patients with recurrences, allowing the removal of tumour masses that would otherwise have been overlooked.