What's the difference between else and otherwise?

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.

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.