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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
other
determiner
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
any other
▪ Are there any other questions?
any other
▪ This excuse was as good as any other.
at the other/opposite extreme
▪ At the other extreme is a country like Switzerland with almost no unemployment.
contradict each other
▪ The witness statements contradict each other and the facts remain unclear.
each other
▪ Susan and Robert kissed each other passionately.
for some reason (or other) (also for some unknown reason) (= for a reason that you do not know)
▪ For some reason she felt like crying.
▪ For some unknown reason, the curtains were always drawn.
go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite)
▪ Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other.
other sorts
▪ What other sorts of books do you like?
played off each other
▪ The two musicians played off each other in a piece of inspired improvisation.
significant other
some sth or other/another
▪ Just give him some excuse or other.
somehow or other
▪ Maybe we could glue it together somehow or other.
the opposite/other end (of sth)
▪ Jon and his girlfriend were sitting at the opposite end of the bar.
the other day (=a few days ago)
▪ Mark called the other day.
the other half
▪ Half the patients were given the drug and the other half were given a sugar pill.
the other/opposite side
▪ On the other side of the river are some low hills.
this/the other side of the border
▪ Her friend lives on the other side of the border.
vying with each other
▪ There are at least twenty restaurants vying with each other for custom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(in) one way or another/one way or the other
▪ One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
▪ As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
▪ But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
▪ In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
▪ In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
▪ In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
▪ Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
▪ My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
▪ Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
all (other) things being equal
▪ All other things being equal, schools where parents are highly involved are more likely to run effectively.
▪ Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
▪ But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
▪ But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
▪ It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
▪ Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
▪ The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
all (other) things being equal
▪ Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
▪ But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
▪ But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
▪ It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
▪ Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
▪ The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
among other things
▪ Among other things, Bradley talked about his days as a senator.
▪ At the meeting they discussed, among other things, recent events in Eastern Europe.
▪ Businesses were allowed to pay in equipment and acquired, among other things, a few computers.
▪ It results from, among other things, voluntary acts of charity, which government more and more supersedes.
▪ It was called oratory, and dealt with, among other things, logic and the art of persuasion....
▪ Many nurses were aware of this but feared, among other things, a possible ischaemic element.
▪ New scientific techniques introduced among other things reliable means of dating the prehistoric past.
▪ Or pressure groups like the Baby Milk Action Group which, among other things, campaigns against women being pressurised into bottle-feeding.
▪ Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign.
▪ They will have to enter between three huge cans to see, among other things, more than 150 different tins.
among other things/places/factors etc
▪ But that study was highly criticized for poor mammograms, among other things.
▪ I'd like him to look specifically at Personnel's computing problems among other things. 3.
▪ It was noticeable, among other things, that she was drinking faster than anybody else.
▪ Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign.
▪ That could mean, among other things, grouping inmates by race in counseling.
▪ That meant, among other things, keeping them from making any deal that gave real estate to the Vietminh.
▪ The industrial revolution, among other things, necessarily produced general literacy.
▪ You have to give Cronenberg credit for nerve, among other things.
another woman/the other woman
be at each other's throats
▪ Congress and the President have been at each other's throats for so long that it's a wonder they can agree on anything.
▪ Lisa and Nicole were at each other's throats the whole trip.
be made for each other
▪ Sam and Ellie are made for each other. I just can't think of either of them with anyone else.
▪ Television and the Muppets were made for each other.
▪ When they met in Paris last fall, they fell immediately in love and knew they were made for each other.
▪ A year ago, these same pundits were saying that private investors and the internet were made for each other.
▪ And everyone uses the E-word: Enya and ethereal were made for each other.
▪ People and snakes, it would seem, were made for each other.
▪ When they met in Paris last fall, they knew they were made for each other.
▪ You and Debbie were made for each other.
be neither one thing nor the other
be/live in each other's pockets
criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other
every other
▪ As in the case of every other issue that could have been used against him, Clinton co-opted it.
▪ At least every other day, even through the winter, something more must be done to keep the garden in good shape.
▪ Bait should be introduced as often as possible, at least every other day, but every day is much more effective.
▪ Buildings are casualties of this kind every other month.
▪ I looked after Jessica and visited him every other day.
▪ Not enough money to share among the special learners who have an equal right to education with every other child?
▪ Task analysis, in common with every other perceptual process, is a matter of setting up mechanisms for categorisation and filtering.
▪ Trash is collected every other day.
go in (at) one ear and out (at) the other
▪ It goes in one ear and out the other.
have other/bigger fish to fry
▪ I can't deal with this now - I've got other fish to fry.
how the other half lives
▪ High-ranking public officials should take the bus so they can see how the other half lives.
▪ Ye never knew how the other half lives!
it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
look the other way
▪ Politicians have looked the other way while children go hungry.
▪ He tactfully looked the other way and did not pause in his stride.
▪ Mud pools wait until you are looking the other way before plopping discreetly.
▪ Our safe places were attacked by hooligans, and the authorities looked the other way.
▪ Running out of time, minding its own business, looking the other way.
▪ The troops, acting on orders, looked the other way.
▪ Turn a deaf ear, look the other way.
▪ Up stepped Purse, who had only just taken over the penalty duties, as 32,000 Brummies looked the other way.
▪ With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way.
none other than sb
▪ Another of McGrath's novels, Asylum, is being adapted for the screen by none other than Stephen King.
▪ Faithless is the result of a close collaboration between Ullmann and her scriptwriter, who is none other than Ingmar Bergman.
▪ It includes an early set of variations by none other than Ludwig van Beethoven, the program's one big name.
▪ Its components are none other than the economic, political, military, royal, and bureaucratic branches of the social order.
▪ Out of this union Persephone bears none other than Dionysos.
▪ Sources say Gumbel was summoned there by none other than the potentate of Microsoft himself, Bill Gates.
▪ That haunted offspring turns out to be none other than large Lawrence, in this raucous spoof of trash television.
▪ Why, look, gentlemen, it is none other than our young Pascal.
on the other hand
▪ Nuclear power is relatively cheap. On the other hand, you could argue that it's not safe.
▪ The hamburger was tough and overcooked. The fries, on the other hand, were terrific, and well worth the money.
▪ You want to help your kids as much as you can, but on the other hand, you've got to be careful to help them learn on their own.
▪ Clinton on the other hand lacks the courage of his cynicism.
▪ Clinton, on the other hand, understands what Kathie Lee is going through.
▪ Lind, on the other hand, is a victim of the great urge to simplify.
▪ Ray, on the other hand, is more of a traditionalist.
▪ Rickenbacker's whole philosophy, on the other hand, is based upon never making guitars anywhere other than under their own roof.
▪ Salads on the other hand, are simple, satisfying and sizable.
▪ The Macintosh, on the other hand, uses the Motorola 68000 and was designed as a closed architecture.
▪ Your computer, on the other hand, is a digital device.
one after another/one after the other
one after another/one after the other
one on top of the other
▪ Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
▪ He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
▪ Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
▪ The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
▪ There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
other than
▪ For brain functions other than language, most of what we know comes from studies of the brains of other animals.
▪ He insists the designs have no grand meaning, other than that they appealed to his eye.
▪ It was the greatest honor, other than getting accepted in heaven.
▪ Its components are none other than the economic, political, military, royal, and bureaucratic branches of the social order.
▪ No known clockmaker, other than self-taught Harrison himself, lived or worked anywhere around north Lincolnshire in the early eighteenth century.
▪ That haunted offspring turns out to be none other than large Lawrence, in this raucous spoof of trash television.
▪ There was no reason for this other than a certain unwillingness to emerge from our bond trading shell.
▪ You can also create mailboxes other than the simple in and out trays and mark them in however you want.
pull the other one (it's got bells on)
sb will be laughing on the other side of their face
still more/further/another/other
▪ And I sowed seeds and grew plants and trees so that that place would be still more beautiful.
▪ But the consumer could benefit still further.
▪ Clio engineers sought to improve still further on these virtues.
▪ His adversaries include still more cossacks, a border guard or two, a rabbi, and a pugilist.
▪ I had eaten four or five slices of bread without satisfying my hunger, so I reached for still another slice.
▪ Rape is a staple in pagan myth, and killing still more commonplace.
▪ The incentive to borrow was raised still further by a reduction in the costs of bankruptcy and an increase in market liquidity.
▪ With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 the condition of labourers deteriorated still further.
the boot is on the other foot
the grass is greener (on the other side)
the other/opposite side of the coin
this, that and the other
turn the other cheek
▪ It's hard to turn the other cheek when someone insults you.
▪ Anyway, all I can remember is something about turning the other cheek which I don't believe in.
▪ Maintaining our resolve for peace does not mean, however, turning the other cheek.
▪ No bottling up for me; no turning the other cheek for Walt.
▪ Peregrine responded by turning the other cheek.
your better half/other half
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Other

Other \Oth"er\ ([u^][th]"[~e]r), adv. Otherwise. ``It shall none other be.''
--Chaucer. ``If you think other.''
--Shak.

Other

Other \Oth"er\ ([u^][th]"[~e]r), conj. [See Or.] Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). [Obs.]

Other of chalk, other of glass.
--Chaucer.

Other

Other \Oth"er\, pron. & a. [AS. [=o][eth]er; akin to OS. [=a][eth]ar, [=o][eth]ar, D. & G. ander, OHG. andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an[thorn]ar, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. [root]180. Cf. Alter.] Usage: [Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.]

  1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.

    Each of them made other for to win.
    --Chaucer.

    Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
    --Matt. v. 39.

  2. Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.

  3. Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.

  4. Left, as opposed to right. [Obs.]

    A distaff in her other hand she had.
    --Spenser.

    Note: Other is a correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun, often in contrast with one, some, that, this, etc.

    The one shall be taken, and the other left.
    --Matt. xxiv. 41.

    And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell into good ground.
    --Matt. xiii. 7, 8. It is also used, by ellipsis, with a noun, expressed or understood.

    To write this, or to design the other.
    --Dryden. It is written with the indefinite article as one word, another; is used with each, indicating a reciprocal action or relation; and is employed absolutely, or eliptically for other thing, or other person, in which case it may have a plural.

    The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
    --Ps. xlix. 10.

    If he is trimming, others are true.
    --Thackeray. Other is sometimes followed by but, beside, or besides; but oftener by than.

    No other but such a one as he.
    --Coleridge.

    Other lords beside thee have had dominion over us.
    --Is. xxvi. 13.

    For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid.
    --1 Cor. iii. 11.

    The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour.
    --Hawthorne.

    Other some, some others. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

    The other day, at a certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day past.

    Bind my hair up: as 't was yesterday? No, nor t' other day.
    --B. Jonson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
other

Old English oþer "the second" (adj.), also as a pronoun, "one of the two, other," from Proto-Germanic *antharaz (cognates: Old Saxon athar, Old Frisian other, Old Norse annarr, Middle Dutch and Dutch ander, Old High German andar, German ander, Gothic anþar "other").\n

\nThese are from PIE *an-tero-, variant of *al-tero- "the other of two" (source of Lithuanian antras, Sanskrit antarah "other, foreign," Latin alter), from root *al- (1) "beyond" (see alias (adv.)) + adjectival comparative suffix *-tero-. The Old English, Old Saxon, and Old Frisian forms show "a normal loss of n before fricatives" [Barnhart]. Meaning "different" is mid-13c.\n

\nSense of "second" was detached from this word in English (which uses second, from Latin) and German (zweiter, from zwei "two") to avoid ambiguity. In Scandinavian, however, the second floor is still the "other" floor (Swedish andra, Danish anden). Also compare Old English oþergeara "next year."\n

\nThe other woman "a woman with whom a man begins a love affair while he is already committed" is from 1855. The other day originally (mid-12c.) was "the next day;" later (c.1300) "yesterday;" and now, loosely, "a day or two ago" (early 15c.). Phrase other half in reference to either the poor or the rich, is recorded from c.1600. La moitié du monde ne sçayt comment l'aultre vit. [Rabelais, "Pantagruel," 1532]

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Wiktionary
other

Etymology 1

  1. 1 See #Determiner 2 second. 3 alien. 4 different. 5 (context obsolete English) Left, as opposed to right. adv. 1 apart from; in the phrase "'''other''' than". 2 (context obsolete English) otherwise det. Not the one or ones previously referred to. n. 1 An other one, more often rendered as ''another''. 2 The other one; the second of two. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To make into an other. 2 (context transitive English) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise. 3 (context transitive English) (context ethnicity or race English) To label as "other". Etymology 2

    conj. (label en obsolete) or.

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other

  1. adj. not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; "today isn't any other day"- the White Queen; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction" [ant: same]

  2. further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"; "I have no other shoes"; "there are other possibilities" [syn: extra, other(a), additional]

  3. recently past; "the other evening" [syn: other(a)]

  4. of the distant past; "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times" [syn: early(a), former(a), other(a)]

  5. very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow

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Other (disambiguation)

Other or The Other may refer to:

Other (Lustmord album)

[ O T H E R ] (also known as [O_T_H_E_R] and other variations) is a 2008 studio album by Brian " Lustmord" Williams, released on Hydra Head Records. [ O T H E R ] was also released as a two disc set on Japanese label Daymare Recordings with the second disc featuring the Lustmord release "Juggernaut" in its entirety.

Other

In phenomenology, the terms the Other and the Constitutive Other each identify a cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person—the acknowledgement of being real. As such, the Other is dissimilar to and the opposite of the Self, of Us, and of the Same. Otherness, the characteristics of the Other, is the state of being different from and alien to the social identity of a person and to the identity of the Self. Another way of describing "The Other" is to portray oneself at the centre of focus and "The Other" on the outside.

In Waldo Tobler's first law in geography, he stated that everything is related somehow to everything else but things in closer proximity are more related than other things that are further apart. This means that when two things are further apart they share less association than things that are closer in proximity. This law can be applied when discussing the process of "othering" in different ways.

A cultural example of othering is when individuals that identify closely with their own ethnic or religious beliefs begin to gain the mentality that those who are different from them are problematic. This can lead to extreme separation, alienation, and exclusion of the person or of people that is seen as different or unusual to the typical lens of one's societal views. Othering can be described as discrimination of people or a population that is different from the collective social norm; since they are different they are also seen as deviant or in need of being cultured by the group that is othering them.

In relation to the Self, the Constitutive Other is the relation between the essential nature (person) and the outward manifestation (personality) of a human being. In a binary perspective of the essential and of the superficial characteristics of personal identity, each personal characteristic is the inverse of an opposite characteristic. The difference is inner-difference, within the Self.

In the discourse of philosophy, the term "Otherness" refers to and identifies the characteristics of the Who and What of the Other. These characteristics are distinct and separate from the Symbolic order of things, from the Real (the authentic and unchangeable), from the æsthetic (art, beauty, taste), from political philosophy, from social norms and social identity, and from the Self.

Therefore, the condition of "Otherness" is a person's non conformity to and with the social norms of society and to the condition of disenfranchisement (political exclusion), either by the activities of the State or by the activities of the social institutions (e.g. the professions), which are respectively invested with political and social Power. Therefore, in the condition of "Otherness", the person is alienated from the center of society and is placed at the societal margin for being the Other.

The Other can also be used the verb othering. It is a usage that distinguishes and identifies (labels) someone as belonging to a category, defined as "Other". In practice, othering excludes those persons who do not fit the norm of the social group, which is a version of the self. Similarly, in the field of human geography, the verbal action term to other refers to and identifies the action of placing someone outside the center of the social group, at the margins, where the social norms do not apply to the Other person.

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Usage examples of "other".

He was killed in much the same manner as Lord Abet and the other nobles these past months.

Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.

The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.

The name of his partially duped accomplice and abettor in this last marvelous assault, is no other than PHILIP LYNCH, Editor and Proprietor of the Gold Hill News.

Then the witch with her abhominable science, began to conjure and to make her Ceremonies, to turne the heart of the Baker to his wife, but all was in vaine, wherefore considering on the one side that she could not bring her purpose to passe, and on the other side the losse of her gaine, she ran hastily to the Baker, threatning to send an evill spirit to kill him, by meane of her conjurations.

Dale of the Tower: there shall we abide a while to gather victual, a day or two, or three maybe: so my Lord will hold a tourney there: that is to say that I myself and some few others shall try thy manhood somewhat.

I have heard tell of thee: thou art abiding the turn of the days up at the castle yonder, as others have done before thee.

Will pegged as physically being able to visit those other realms, he had a hard time accepting their existence and his ability to travel to them.

The ability to sense pain and discomfort in others, Will realized, was something he had always had and assumed others did as well.

We are willing to absolve you from them provided that first, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, in our presence you abjure, curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church in the manner and form we will prescribe to you.

He was accounted a Master of Sorcere, the only Baenre so recognized other than old Gromph himself, and was reputed to be an abjurer of some skill.

The beautifully rolled lawns and freshly painted club stand were sprinkled with spring dresses and abloom with sunshades, and coaches and other vehicles without number enclosed the farther side of the field.

With a hasty glance toward the ablution facility, Abe raced after the others, to find them by the locked door.

Church of England or of Rome as the medium of those superior ablutions described above, only that I think the Unitarian Church, like the Lyceum, as yet an open and uncommitted organ, free to admit the ministrations of any inspired man that shall pass by: whilst the other churches are committed and will exclude him.

The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.