How to pronounce “but”

Meaning

• [Preposition]
• Apart from, except (for), excluding.
• (obsolete outside Scotland) Outside of.
• [Adverb]
• (chiefly literary or poetic) Merely, only, just, no more than
• (Australia, Geordie, Scotland, conjunctive) Though, however.
• [Conjunction]
• However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
• On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).
• (colloquial) Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.
• Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, (archaic) with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
• (colloquial) Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.
• (archaic) Without it also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
• (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
• (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
• (obsolete) Until.
• (obsolete, following a negated expression of improbability) That. [16th–19th c.]
• [Noun]
• An instance of using the word "but"; an objection or caveat.
• (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
• A limit; a boundary.
• The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
• [Verb]
• (archaic) Use the word "but".
• [Adjective]
• (rare) blunt

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