Dictionary Entry
but
but is a 3-letter English word with 25 senses as adjectivedverb & conjunction, preposition, adjectivedverb & conjunction, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Except with; unless with; without. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1adjectivedverb & conjunction
Except with; unless with; without.
- 2adjectivedverb & conjunction
Except; besides; save.
- 3adjectivedverb & conjunction
Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
- 4adjectivedverb & conjunction
Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
- 5adjectivedverb & conjunction
Only; solely; merely.
- 6adjectivedverb & conjunction
On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
- 7preposition, adjectivedverb & conjunction
The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
- 8noun
A limit; a boundary.
- 9noun
The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
- 10intransitive verb
See Butt., and Abut, v.
- 11transitive verb
A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- 12transitive verb
The thicker end of anything. See But.
- 13transitive verb
A mark to be shot at; a target.
- 14transitive verb
A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
- 15transitive verb
A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
- 16transitive verb
A thrust in fencing.
- 17transitive verb
A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- 18transitive verb
A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
- 19transitive verb
The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- 20transitive verb
The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- 21transitive verb
The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- 22transitive verb
A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- 23transitive verb
The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- 24transitive verb
The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- 25adverb
and nothing more
"I was merely asking"
"it is simply a matter of time"
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