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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exception
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
notable exception
▪ Every country in the world signed the treaty, with one notable exception – the United States.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ The personal community charge is paid by all resident adults over 18 years of age with certain exceptions.
▪ Thus, with certain limited exceptions, rape remains essentially a crime involving violence or the threat of it.
▪ There are certain exceptions to this such as pregnant women.
▪ With certain limited exceptions all care provisions require a permit by the youth department in order to be allowed to function.
▪ For example, although in the last chapter I advocated a policy of not hoarding, there are certain exceptions.
▪ It also provides certain exceptions to the general prohibition.
▪ There are certain exceptions, for example on industrial property where no empty rate is payable at all.
▪ The cover is subject to certain exceptions, detailed in the policy.
important
▪ But there has been an important exception.
▪ This exception to the general rule that perks are taxable is the most important exception.
▪ There is one important exception to this which is related to the approval process.
▪ I have often observed to you, Watson, how important the exception which disproves the rule can be.
▪ There are two important exceptions to this general rule.
▪ An important exception to this principle exists in the case of buildings.
major
▪ The recommendations of the Redcliffe-Maud Commission were the major exception to this generalisation.
▪ However, we are making one major exception.
▪ Initial reports on cross-references by major exception conditions were provided on delivery of the system.
▪ The major exceptions were the Decembrists.
▪ The major exceptions have been counties in the mining areas where there has been a basis for Labour support.
▪ There was one major exception which worked well - the Civil Contingencies Unit created after the 1972 miners' strike.
▪ Very few projects are definitely approved, with the Space Telescope the major exception.
▪ The major exception to this, the palace shops, have had great success.
minor
▪ Third, Tempo 30 would be introduced throughout the experimental area, with only minor exceptions.
▪ With minor exceptions, the Soviet Union fell apart in peace.
notable
▪ The divisions which accompanied Mrs Thatcher's election to the leadership in 1975 have, with one notable exception, faded.
▪ With notable exceptions, adobe slowly is giving way to cinder block and other inexpensive modern materials.
▪ With a few notable exceptions, the policy should be similar to that advocated for younger subjects.
▪ Yes, there have been notable but few exceptions.
▪ However, there are some notable exceptions.
▪ The tremor is generally diminished or abolished on purposeful movements, but there are notable exceptions to this.
▪ Apart from a few notable exceptions, all they care about is feet through the door and selling beer.
▪ But while most of Merseyside is invited along, there is one notable exception.
only
▪ The only exception are the birds.
▪ Third, Tempo 30 would be introduced throughout the experimental area, with only minor exceptions.
▪ The only exceptions are the Exhibition Hall and the Library Shop, which will operate as normal.
▪ The only exception to this rule is where the value has been fraudulently inflated by the Policyholder.
▪ The only exception was his Challenge Rating for Stranraer.
▪ The only exception to this procedure was on those days that we went to a service in the church.
▪ The only exception was the C.O. He leaned his backside against a table, arms folded.
▪ The only exception is that some mosquitoes prefer drinking blood from group A for some reason.
possible
▪ No other recipe causes so much grief, with the possible exception of chicken soup - but that's another saga!
▪ All, with the possible exception of employer conflicts, apply with equal force to dropout rates from public schools.
▪ Gap junctions are distributed in a wide variety of tissues, with the possible exceptions of adult skeletal muscles and most neurones.
▪ And it is hardly surprising that she did not think of tongue speaking as a possible exception.
▪ Each story was separate and passed on in isolation with the possible exception of the story of the Passion.
▪ The possible exception is Pietro Tenerani, a contemporary of Canova.
rare
▪ With rare exceptions, very few patients either understand or utilize the data on physician credentials that are available to them.
▪ With rare exceptions, it was also inordinately expensive.
▪ So the explosions have been rare, the exceptions which proved the rule.
▪ Order and group conformity through bureaucratic systematization became the rule of the day; disobedience and open rebellion the rare exception.
▪ In nature the green form lives in green places and the yellow form in yellow and brown places, with rare exceptions.
▪ With one rare exception, all such cell membranes permit translocation in only one direction.
▪ Human rights activists say that case is a rare exception.
▪ With rare exceptions, world champions are bullied and beaten into fighting shape on the streets.
significant
▪ Usually this will be a scalar polynomial curvature singularity, but a large class of significant exceptions occurs.
▪ But with the significant exception of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, few prominent Republicans have addressed those issues in recent months.
▪ There is one significant exception to this and that is the use of budgetary accounting.
▪ The sequence of observations was broadly the same with one significant exception.
single
▪ Mindless gentry - with a single decent exception.
▪ There has not been a single exception.
▪ Every single thing without exception has gone wrong today.
■ VERB
make
▪ They had made an exception, but she still had to come in and read it.
▪ However, we are making one major exception.
▪ All the same, they do apply with sufficient frequency to make the exceptions notable.
▪ The only way to control consumption is to issue food in small quantities, and not make exceptions.
▪ In the examples they mentioned most often, they had made an exception for a subordinate: My biggest mistake so far.
▪ Yet when Henry abolished the right of wreck throughout his dominions he made an exception of Brittany.
▪ Well, Mr Nice made one exception to a rule and discovered he had created a monster.
prove
▪ Alexander Proudfoot, chaired by Lord Stevens, however, has so far proved a glowing exception to that rule.
▪ But Wisley may prove the exception.
▪ Conversation between strange women at the beginning of a party is often strained and this occasion proved to be no exception.
take
▪ They had not taken exception to it before, so why start now?
▪ What I take exception to is the manner in which we are presently carrying out our naval preparations.
▪ Owen thought for a moment that he was taking exception to the casual obscenity, but it was not that.
▪ Paul took exception to her advice and resigned.
▪ No one could possibly take exception to this Mathis infant.
▪ Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied.
▪ But Richard Gere took exception to the questions even being asked.
▪ The man appeared to take violent exception to a Liverpool football t-shirt Terry was wearing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most couples who break up seem to find it hard to remain friends. Kim and Gerry are exceptions to that rule.
▪ Most of the students did well, though there were one or two exceptions.
▪ With a few minor exceptions, the legal system in the two countries is very similar.
▪ Women do not usually get to the top in politics, but there have been a few notable exceptions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A curious fact which might seem at first to constitute an exception to this explanation turns out to provide further confirmation of it.
▪ After discussion it was agreed that the Committee be re-elected as it was, with two exceptions.
▪ I had no choice but to cut back to a hands-off style-getting involved in exceptions only.
▪ The big exception is the most vital crop of all: sugar.
▪ There are exceptions, of course.
▪ There are many exceptions, though: In some but not most traditional human societies, men move to women.
▪ There is, however, an exception.
▪ With rare exceptions, world champions are bullied and beaten into fighting shape on the streets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exception

Exception \Ex*cep"tion\ ([e^]k*s[e^]p"sh[u^]n), n. [L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.]

  1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

  2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.

    Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.
    --Cowper.

    Note: Often with to.

    That proud exception to all nature's laws.
    --Pope.

  3. (Law) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
    --Burrill.

  4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

    I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation].
    --Bentley.

    He . . . took exception to the place of their burial.
    --Bacon.

    She takes exceptions at your person.
    --Shak.

    Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exception

late 14c., from Anglo-French excepcioun, Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptionem (nominative exceptio) "an exception, restriction, limitation; an objection," noun of action from past participle stem of excipere "to take out" (see except).\n

\nThe exception that proves the rule is from law: exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis, "the exception proves the rule in cases not excepted;" exception here being "action of excepting" someone or something from the rule in question, not the person or thing that is excepted. The figure of speech in to take exception is from excipere being used in Roman law as a modern attorney would say objection.

Wiktionary
exception

n. 1 The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. 2 That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions. 3 (context legal English) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred. 4 (senseid en objection)An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against. 5 (context computing English) An interruption in normal processing, especially as caused by an error condition.

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WordNet
exception

  1. n. a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exclusion, elision]

  2. an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization; "all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child"; "an exception tests the rule"

  3. grounds for adverse criticism; "his authority is beyond exception"

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Wikipedia
Exception

Exception, exceptions or expectional may refer to:

  • An action that is not part of ordinary operations or standards
  • Exception (song), the second single from Ana Johnsson's second album Little Angel
  • Exceptional Records
  • The Exceptions, a German demo (computer art) group
  • Exception handling, in programming languages
    • or a programming interrupt itself, meant to be dealt with by exception handling
  • Exceptional objects in mathematics
    • Exceptional isomorphisms
  • State of exception, concept in the legal theory of Carl Schmitt
Exception (programming)
Exception (song)

"Exception" is a pop rock song recorded by the Swedish pop/rock music singer Ana Johnsson. The song was released as second single from her second studio album Little Angel on October 11, 2006. Her official Swedish website also posted that the song it to be the theme song to the Swedish thriller movie Exit, which premiered October 6, 2006 in Sweden.

The single debuted at number ten in the Swedish Singles Charts. In Japan, the song debuted at number 69 in the chart and moved up to number 65 in its next week.

Swedish singer Dilba co-wrote the song with Johnsson and provides some of the backing vocals on the track. Kasper Lindgren from Prime STH plays the drums on the track.

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Usage examples of "exception".

With the exception of Harry Keeler, who posed a direct threat to the Abiders, he had yet to see or hear of an Interloper killing a human being.

The author is prepared, after careful consideration, to accept and professionally indorse, with few exceptions, the conclusions as to the probable character of the decimating diseases of the passengers and crew of the MAY-FLOWER, so ably and interestingly presented by Dr.

The reds, as a rule, are affected by acids, and, therefore, it is not possible to use an acid bath with Benzopurpurine, Congo red, with the possible exception of the Titan reds and scarlets, Diamine scarlet, Benzo fast scarlet, Purpuramine, which are faster to acetic acid than the other reds of this class of dye-stuffs.

Infornercial marketing is, perhaps, the most exciting form of direct response advertising, with the possible exception of the Internet.

The day was away back in the alcheringa and it had been very still and very hot, and the whole tribe, with the exception of one man, lay amongst the bracken in the shade of big eucalypti and lesser myrtles and other scrub.

Amongst the Central Australian natives there is never any idea of appealing for assistance to any one of these Alcheringa ancestors in any way, nor is there any attempt made in the direction of propitiation, with one single exception in the case of the mythic creature called Wollunqua, amongst the Warramunga tribe, who, it may be remarked, is most distinctly regarded as a snake and not as a human being.

If an offense cannot be accurately and clearly described without an allegation that the accused is not within an exception contained in the statutes, an indictment which does not contain such allegation is defective.

President is hereby authorized, at any time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have participated in the existing rebellion in any State or part thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such exceptions, at such times and on such conditions as he may deem expedient for the public welfare.

The disposition of the Republicans was to grant without hesitation an amnesty almost universal, the exceptions, with a majority of the party probably, being limited to three persons,--Jefferson Davis, Robert Toombs, and Jacob Thompson.

In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

Although the provisions of article III seem, superficially at least, to imply that its appellate jurisdiction would flow directly from the Constitution until Congress should by positive enactment make exceptions to it, rulings of the Court since 1796 establish the contrary rule.

Consequently, before the Supreme Court can exercise appellate jurisdiction, an act of Congress must have bestowed it, and affirmative bestowals of jurisdiction are interpreted as exclusive in nature so as to constitute an exception to all other cases.

Fourteen years later Chief Justice Marshall observed for the Court that its appellate jurisdiction is derived from the Constitution, but proceeded nevertheless to hold that an affirmative bestowal of appellate jurisdiction by Congress, which made no express exceptions to it, implied a denial of all others.

Justice Wilson dissented from this holding and contended that the appellate jurisdiction, as being derived from the Constitution, could be exercised without an act of Congress or until Congress made exceptions to it.