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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
else
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
above all (else) (=used to say that something is more important than anything else)
▪ Max is hard-working, cheerful, and above all honest.
Anyone else
▪ Anyone else who is interested in going on the trip should see me at the end of this lesson.
anyone else
▪ Do you know anyone else who wants a ticket?
anything else
▪ You can write about swimming, skiing, or anything else you enjoy doing.
anything else
▪ Would you like anything else to eat?
anywhere else
▪ I don’t want to live in London, but I’d be happy living anywhere else.
anywhere else
▪ Have you been anywhere else in Spain?
everyone else
▪ Of course everyone else thought it was hilarious!
everything else
▪ Apart from the bus arriving late, everything else seemed to be going according to plan.
everywhere else
▪ The south should remain dry, but everywhere else will have heavy rain.
If all else fails
▪ If all else fails, you may be advised to have an operation.
nothing else mattered
▪ At last she was with the man she loved and nothing else mattered.
nothing else
▪ There was nothing else the doctors could do.
or else
▪ You must do the job yourself or else employ someone else to do it.
or else
▪ I had to defend myself or else he’d have killed me.
or else (=used to threaten someone)
▪ You’d better hand over the money, or else.
or else
▪ It’s obviously not urgent or else they would have called us straight away.
somebody else (=a different person)
▪ If you can’t make it Friday, we can invite somebody else.
someone else (=a different person)
▪ Can you ask someone else to help you? I’m really busy.
something else (=a different one)
▪ The house was too small, so they decided to look for something else.
somewhere else (=in a different place)
▪ Go and play somewhere else – I’m trying to work.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
fail
▪ When all else fails they will eat reptiles, including monitor lizards and sometimes even fish.
▪ If all else fails, call your cable company.
▪ When all else fails, disciplinary procedures instigated properly and fairly are one of the few protections the public has.
▪ If all else fails, you may be advised to have an operation to relieve the pressure on the nerve.
▪ If all else fails, consult a vet.
▪ The strength of the court used to be that, when all else failed, trust continued to repose there at least.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
... or/and whatever (else)
▪ And the same thing applies to people who have collections of quite valueless things: baskets, keys, hats or whatever.
▪ And then they go and tell their friends that it's either good or bad or whatever.
▪ I was feeling like I had to wrap things up and get dinner for the kids, or whatever.
▪ It favors close-up pictures and whatever can be seen in the immediate foreground.
▪ Learning about landscape design, you know - using natural features, hills or rivers or whatever - and improving on it.
▪ Politics, sexuality or whatever, must be a framework to build on, not a rigid cage which restricts change.
▪ There was a swift flow of air through the room, and whatever it was moved and sat down on the chair.
be something else
▪ You're really something else, Jeff.
▪ But to see them as marginal or peripheral is something else again.
▪ However, there is something else to consider.
▪ Red, though, is something else.
▪ Sorting through his things was something else entirely.
▪ There is something else, though.
▪ There was something else in them.
▪ Those two clubs are something else.
▪ Um, there was something else I want to ask you too.
if nothing else
▪ If nothing else, the report points out the need for better math education.
▪ It's boring, but if nothing else, I can get my homework done.
▪ And a strike, if nothing else, creates lots of opportunities.
▪ At the very least, if nothing else is available, works should be rinsed with lots of cold water.
▪ Everybody knew each other, and had grown up in proximity, if nothing else.
▪ Good manners, if nothing else, decreed that she stayed.
▪ On this, if nothing else, both left and right can certainly agree.
▪ The formulation of classifications provides, if nothing else, mental exercise for geomorphologists.
▪ There must be a Rafferty son who could at least do some digging, if nothing else.
▪ Used to be that Republicans were if nothing else, civil human beings.
more ... than the rest/the others/everything else put together
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Andrea's obsessed with money -- she never thinks about anything else.
▪ Clayton needs someone else to help him.
▪ Everyone else gets to go - why can't I?
▪ Go and play somewhere else. I'm trying to work.
▪ Is there anything else to eat?
▪ Jamie's special. There's really no one else like him.
▪ She's wearing someone else's coat.
▪ There's nothing else to do.
▪ What else can I get you?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anything else would have been inappropriate.
▪ By belonging to Sophie, I began to feel as though I belonged to everyone else as well.
▪ Failing all else, its feet will provide some indication of its ultimate adult size.
▪ Henry complains of her talking to some one else while dancing with him and compares a country dance to a marriage.
▪ It did not restrict corporate officials or anyone else, as individuals, from giving as much money as they liked.
▪ What about everyone else - ever been a mate, colleague, love-child of anyone who's ever played for us?
▪ Who else used to do it?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Else

Else \Else\, a. & pron. [OE. & AS. elles otherwise, gen. sing. of an adj. signifying other; akin to OHG. elles otherwise, OSw. ["a]ljes, Sw. eljest, Goth. aljis, adj., other, L. alius, Gr. ?. Cf. Alias, Alien.] Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect anything else? ``Bastards and else.''
--Shak.

Note: This word always follows its noun. It is usual to give the possessive form to else rather than to the substantive; as, somebody else's; no one else's. ``A boy who is fond of somebody else's pencil case.''
--G. Eliot. ``A suit of clothes like everybody else's.''
--Thackeray.

Else

Else \Else\, adv. & conj.

  1. Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.

  2. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.

    For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it.
    --Ps. li. 16.

    Note: After `or', else is sometimes used expletively, as simply noting an alternative. ``Will you give thanks, . . . or else shall I?''
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
else

Old English elles "in another manner, other, otherwise, besides, different," from Proto-Germanic *aljaz (cognates: Gothic aljis "other," Old High German eli-lenti, Old English el-lende, both meaning "in a foreign land;" see also Alsace), an adverbial genitive of the neuter of PIE root *al- (1) "beyond" (cognates: Greek allos "other," Latin alius; see alias (adv.)). As a quasi-adjective, synonymous with other, from 1660s; the nuances of usage are often arbitrary.\n

\nProductive of a number of handy compounds that somehow never got traction or have been suffered to fall from use: elsehow (1660s) "somehow or other;" elsewards (adv.), 1882, "somewhere else;" Old English elsewhat (pron.) " something else, anything else;" elsewhen (adv.), early 15c., "at another time; elsewhence (c.1600); elsewho (1540s). Among the survivors are elsewhere, elsewise. Menacing or else, with omitted but implied threat, is from 1833.

Wiktionary
else

a. other; in addition to previously mentioned items. adv. otherwise, if not. conj. 1 for otherwise; or else. 2 (context computing in many programming languages and pseudocode English) but if the condition of the previous (term: if) clause is false, do the following.

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WordNet
else

  1. adj. other than what is under consideration or implied; "ask somebody else"; "I don't know what else to do"; "where else can we look?"

  2. more; "would you like anything else?"; "I have nothing else to say" [syn: else(ip), additional]

  3. adv. additional to or different from this one or place or time or manner; "nobody else is here"; "she ignored everything else"; "I don't know where else to look"; "when else can we have the party?"; "couldn't decide how else it could be done"

  4. (usually used with `or') if not, then; "watch your step or else you may fall"; "leave or else I'll get angry"

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Wikipedia
Else

Else may refer to:

  • Else (given name)
  • Else (surname)
  • Else (programming), a concept in computer programming
  • "Else" (song), a 1999 rock song
  • The Else, a 2007 alternative rock album
  • Else (Werre), a river in Germany, tributary to the Werre

  • , a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker

Else (Werre)

The Else is a left tributary of the river Werre in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia and in southern Lower Saxony. The Else is a distributary of the river Hase and begins at a river bifurcation near Melle.

Else (Lenne)

'''Else (Lenne) ''' is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Else (given name)

Else is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Else Alfelt (1910–1974), Danish painter
  • Else Berg (1877–1942), Dutch painter
  • Else Bugge Fougner (born 1944), Norwegian lawyer and politician
  • Else Christensen (1913–2005), Danish neopagan
  • Else Feldmann (1884–1942), Austrian writer
  • Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1908–1958), Polish-Austrian psychologist
  • Else Hench (20th century), Austrian luger
  • Else Hirsch (1889–1942/3), German-Jewish teacher
  • Else Holmelund Minarik (1920–2012), Danish American author
  • Else Jacobsen (1911–1965), Danish swimmer
  • Else Krüger (born 1915), German secretary
  • Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), Jewish German poet and playwright
  • Else Mayer (1891–1962), German nun
  • Else Meidner (1901–1987), Jewish German painter
  • Else Repål (1930–2015), Norwegian politician
  • Else Reppen (1933–2006), Norwegian philanthropist
  • Else Sehrig-Vehling (1897–1994), German expressionist
  • Else Seifert (1879–1968), German photographer
  • Else Ury (1877–1943), German writer
  • Else von Richthofen (1874–1973), German social scientist
Else (surname)

Else is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Chris Else (born 1942), New Zealand author
  • Craig Else (born 1964), Canadian guitarist, composer, vocalist, and record producer
  • Dirk Else (born 1977), retired German ski jumper
  • Gerald Else (1908–1982), American classicist
  • Jean Else (born 1951), British educator
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Usage examples of "else".

Yet I know that thou wilt abide here till some one else come, whether that be early or late.

Either come down to us into the meadow yonder, that we may slay you with less labour, or else, which will be the better for you, give up to us the Upmeads thralls who be with you, and then turn your faces and go back to your houses, and abide there till we come and pull you out of them, which may be some while yet.

Idea to hearth and home, it would become a new thing, for it would cease to be the thing apart, the ground of all else, the receptacle of absolutely any and every form.

This illustration is not intended to apply to the older bridges with widely distended masses, which render each pier sufficient to abut the arches springing from it, but tend, in providing for a way over the river, to choke up the way by the river itself, or to compel the river either to throw down the structure or else to destroy its own banks.

Three and a half days later the enemy raced past Zanshaa without firing a missile at Sula or anyone else, and accelerated on a path for the Vandrith gas giant.

Epicurus, atoms be the cause of all things and that life be nothing else but an accidentary confusion of things, and death nothing else, but a mere dispersion and so of all other things: what doest thou trouble thyself for?

If it achieved nothing else, humanism brought about the emancipation of the artist, a development that is still very much with us.

How else can there be any acknowledgment which in its essence is faith?

His real mission, of course, is to convince some other band, somewhere else, that he is a genius acoustician who has developed the ultimate amplifier and that Doggone amps are the only amps that any hip band can possibly consider.

To be sure, if we will all stop, and allow Judge Douglas and his friends to march on in their present career until they plant the institution all over the nation, here and wherever else our flag waves, and we acquiesce in it, there will be peace.

She knows that she must acquiesce in the ambitious acquisitions of the present Napoleon, or else encounter his hostility.

But it seems likely that such a plan of private ownership would not be tolerated under a Socialist government, for, first of all, a very large number of Socialists are opposed to such a plan, and, secondly, the political actionists who have favored it either have sacrificed thereby the principles of their party, or else by advocating the private ownership of small farms, have done so with the intention of deceiving farmers and small land owners in order to win their votes.

Pope Gregory the Great, in the sixth century, either borrowing some of the more objectionable features of the purgatory doctrine previously held by the heathen, or else devising the same things himself from a perception of the striking adaptedness of such notions to secure an enviable power to the Church, constructed, established, and gave working efficiency to the dogmatic scheme of purgatory ever since firmly defended by the papal adherents as an integral part of the Roman Catholic system.

To consider simplicity and complexity, chaos and emergent order, self-similarity in complex adaptive systems, Kauffrnan models and much else.

The answer is that while Matter can not be any of the things which are founded upon it, it may quite well be something else, admitting that all existences are not rooted in Matter.