What's the difference between else and other?

Else


Definition:

  • (a. & pron.) Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect anything else?
  • (adv. & conj.) Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.
  • (adv. & conj.) Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
  • (3) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
  • (4) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
  • (5) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
  • (6) No one else had thought of it,” says one of those involved in the discussions.
  • (7) For somewhere else, perhaps, the show was just about to begin.
  • (8) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
  • (9) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
  • (10) Because of the high rates of employment of mothers, a large and increasing number of preschool children receive regular care from someone else.
  • (11) More than anything else, though, we need a clear and unambiguous commitment to end the housing crisis within a generation.
  • (12) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
  • (13) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
  • (14) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
  • (15) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.
  • (16) As a proportion of our workforce we have got more PhDs per head of population in Copeland than anywhere else in the UK.
  • (17) Everything else about it is just like being a comedian.
  • (18) Here's something else you've worked out: Anthony's name is made up, in order to stop my interviewee from getting in trouble with his employer, and I can't be too specific about his living arrangements.
  • (19) The budget red book contained a chart which suggested that the rich were indeed facing a bigger hit than anyone else, and Liberal Democrats were today pointing to this to justify the austerity package.
  • (20) The sense that someone else is running the show – bankers, Europe, multinationals – is no longer the province of the radical left.

Other


Definition:

  • (conj.) Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
  • (pron. & a.) Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
  • (pron. & a.) Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
  • (pron. & a.) Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
  • (pron. & a.) Left, as opposed to right.
  • (adv.) Otherwise.

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