(v. t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
(v. t.) To object to; to protest against.
(v. i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
(prep.) With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
(conj.) Unless; if it be not so that.
Example Sentences:
(1) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(2) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(3) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(4) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(5) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(6) When the concentration of thrombin or fibrinogen was altered systematically, mu T and mup were found to mirror each other except when the fibrinogen concentration was increased at low thrombin concentrations.
(7) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(8) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(9) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(10) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
(11) Except for IAP in hypopharyngeal carcinoma, these values were significantly higher than those of controls (IS, P less than 0.01; IAP, P less than 0.05).
(12) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
(13) In all cases, endocrine cells immunoreactive to only one of the paired antisera were detected except for anti-glucagon and anti-glucagon-like peptide 1, which always immunostained the same cells.
(14) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
(15) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(16) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
(17) There was no difference in triglyceride content or phospholipid species between WKY rats and untreated SHR, except for a higher cholesterol content in SHR.
(18) All of the above factors except female sex were related to one year mortality.
(19) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
(20) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
Outtake
Definition:
(prep.) Except.
Example Sentences:
(1) These recordings will include an approximation of the original Smile album, plus outtakes and studio banter.
(2) Poliomyelitisviruses were found regularly in the intake but never in the outtake.
(3) A degree of consternation has been caused by the notion of Pink Floyd making a new album out of what are essentially 20-year-old outtakes, but, equally, there’s the sense that Gilmour and Mason – hardly the most prolific artists – wouldn’t bother if they didn’t think they had something worth putting out.
(4) If he had, it would have affected how he would have been received, so he guarded the outtakes with his life.” Had he not, his photographs might have been a great deal more intriguing – and revealing.
(5) A new outtakes special, fronted by Patrick Stewart, brought 495,000 and a 2.5% multichannel share to Dave between 9.35pm and 10.15pm on Saturday.
(6) In a small wastewater treatment plant corresponding samples from the intake and outtake of the chemical flocculation were chemically, microbiologically and virologically investigated and compared.
(7) That includes me and anyone who works there.” The presenter was forced to apologise and given a final warning by the BBC earlier this year after an online video emerged of him saying the N-word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe in a non-broadcast outtake from Top Gear.
(8) Only a couple of minutes, but I never thought I'd see a David Lynch outtakes reel."
(9) Terrific outtakes from her long-awaited fifth album, due for release in August, show her at her magisterial, funky best.
(10) According to a former Apprentice producer, “there are far worse” outtakes from the show than the damning 2005 Access Hollywood clip that surfaced last week, in which Trump brags to host Billy Bush about kissing women and grabbing them “by the pussy” sans consent.
(11) The quote was included in an "outtakes" post on GQ's website, rather than in the cover story itself.
(12) Jeremy Clarkson's fate at the BBC is still undecided, with the corporation monitoring public reaction after the Top Gear host was forced to apologise for using the N-word during an outtake.
(13) Photograph: BBC The report, which has only been seen by Cohen and a small number of others, was ordered after Clarkson nearly lost his job in May after an outtake came to light which showed him using the N-word .
(14) What surprised Gross were the inclusion of a few bloopers: "There are a couple of really funny outtakes.
(15) David recognised immediately that [the footage] was explosive,” says the Post’s executive editor Martin Baron, “and the first task was to make sure it was authenticated, which he was able to do pretty quickly.” The Post sent a transcript of the video – outtakes from a 2005 edition of the NBC show Access Hollywood, in which Trump is heard bragging that “when you’re a star … you can do anything [to women] … grab them by the pussy” – to the Trump campaign for comment.
(16) Clarkson said he has been given a final warning by the BBC following the most recent controversy to surround the show after he used the N-word in an outtake .
(17) We saw not so much of the Piazza del Duomo, quite a lot of the Talbot dealer Will Woodward I remember the next bit, which was about 100m away: the wheels of the Nurofen-coloured Talbot spinning round in the mud, countryside flying everywhere like an outtake from Carry on Camping.
(18) It was only last year that the British National party, then led by MEP Nick Griffin, called Polish immigrants “ monkeys ” and earlier this summer Ofcom found that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson had deliberately used racially offensive language in the programme’s Burma special and used the N-word in an outtake.
(19) This early outtake starts out as a description of this creative process, before turning into a strangely beguiling sci-fi song, suggesting that he chose the right career route.
(20) Manson did not direct this, shoot it, nor was it for a Marilyn Manson video or outtake footage made by him or to be used by him with his music,” said his spokeswoman, Kathryn Frazier.