Besides vs Other - What's the difference?
besides | other |
(obsolete) Beside.
In addition, in addition to.
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=18 April, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= Other than; except for; instead of.
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(conjunctive) also; in addition
(conjunctive) moreover; furthermore
(conjunctive) otherwise; else
(obsolete) On one side.
See
second.
Alien.
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Different.
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(obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
* Spenser
An other one, more often rendered as another .
The other one; the second of two.
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, title= Not the one or ones previously referred to.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
(obsolete) otherwise
To make into an other.
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To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
* 2007 , Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms :
(ethnicity, or, race) To label as "other".
* 2008 , John F. Borland, University of Connecticut, The under-representation of Black females :
(label) Or.
*, Book VII:
*:And if that I had nat had my prevy thoughtis to returne to youre love agayne as I do, I had sene as grete mysteryes as ever saw my sonne Sir Galahad other' Percivale, ' other Sir Bors.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between besides and other
is that besides is (obsolete) on one side while other is (obsolete) otherwise.As adverbs the difference between besides and other
is that besides is (conjunctive) also; in addition while other is apart from; in the phrase "other than".As a preposition besides
is (obsolete) beside.As an adjective other is
see.As a noun other is
an other one, more often rendered as another .As a determiner other is
not the one or ones previously referred to.As a verb other is
to make into an other.As a conjunction other is
(label) or.besides
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
August 3, 2008] - [[w:Schlock Mercenary, Schlock Mercenary]
- Captain Tagon': Wait. … Ebby, if Schlock goes out make sure he's carrying something '''besides''' those two plasma cannons.
'''Ebinoth''': When you say "' besides ," do you mean "in addition to," or "instead of"? Because one of those is a really hard sell.
Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona, passage=n the end, Chelsea's organisation and discipline was rewarded but Di Matteo knows they will have to produce the same - and more besides - in the Nou Camp to confirm a meeting with either Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in the final in Munich next month.}}
August 3, 2008] - [[w:Schlock Mercenary, Schlock Mercenary]
- Captain Tagon': Wait. … Ebby, if Schlock goes out make sure he's carrying something '''besides''' those two plasma cannons.
'''Ebinoth''': When you say "' besides ," do you mean "in addition to," or "instead of"? Because one of those is a really hard sell.
Adverb
(-)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (l)See also
* on top of thatother
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- I get paid every other week.
- A distaff in her other hand she had.
Synonyms
* (not the one previously referred to) * (contrary to) * different, disparate * dissimilar, distinctive * distinguishable, diverse * unalike, unlike * additional, another * else, farther * furtherAntonyms
* sameDerived terms
* otherish * other rank * other sideNoun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other' suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the ' other polishes it.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
Determiner
(en determiner)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* sameDerived terms
*Adverb
(-)- Other than that, I'm fine.
- It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
- If you think other . — Shakespeare.
Verb
(en verb)- In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
- [...] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered " her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.
