Caveat vs Except - What's the difference?
caveat | except |
a warning
* 1986 March 9, , "Able Were They Ere They Saw Cable", New York Times :
a qualification or exemption
* 2014 , Jamie Jackson, "
(legal) a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding
(legal) a formal notice of interest in land, under a
To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or
* {{quote-book, 1996, Raymond M. Saunders, Blood Tells: A Thriller, page=217
, passage=I want to caveat everything I say with the disclaimer that I was working from photos.}}
(legal) To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a
* {{quote-book, 2005, Geoff Moore, Essential Real Property, page=93, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=rKcywZ_1NrMC&pg=PA93, isbn=1876905174
, passage=It is unclear whether or not a purchaser upon exchange of contracts will be regarded as guilty of postponing conduct if failing to caveat .}}
(legal, dated) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended
* {{quote-book, 1840, T.P. Devereux & W.H. Battle, Reports of cases in equity, argued and determined before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, chapter=Gee v. Gee & Tunstall, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=hMYDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA108, page=108
, passage=The answer further alleged that the intestate, in right of his wife, caveated the probate in Virginia of the will of one William Hill, her relation
* {{quote-news, 1913, December 6, , Probate Court, Sydney Morning Herald, pageurl=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lKgTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eroDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4420,1740645&dq=caveated-against, page=5
, passage=The defendant, father of the testator, had caveated against granting of probate on the ground that the will not duly executed,
(obsolete) To warn or caution against some event
* {{quote-book, 1663, John Scott, date=December 14, chapter=Captain John Scott to Under Secr'y William., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, year_published=1853, volume=3, page=48
, passage=I beseach you to caveat any addresse being fully heard until some person commissioned from this Countrey be their to confront the sayd Dutch or their complices.}}
* {{quote-book, 1825, , Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, volume=1, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=9w8oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA210, page=210
, passage=This last expression minds me to caveat the Reader, not to be angry at Helebore because it's called Christmas flowre ;
To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
* 2007 , Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17:
To take exception, to object (to' or ' against ).
* Shakespeare
*, vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial , Penguin 2005, page 23:
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 96:
With the exception of; but.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (lb) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) IX:
*:And they sayde: We have no moo but five loves and two fisshes, except we shulde goo and bye meate for all this people.
*1621 , (Robert Burton), (The Anatomy of Melancholy) , New York 2001, p.106:
*:Offensive wars, except the cause be very just, I will not allow of.
As verbs the difference between caveat and except
is that caveat is to qualify a particular statement with a proviso or while except is to exclude; to specify as being an exception.As a noun caveat
is a warning.As a preposition except is
with the exception of; but.As a conjunction except is
with the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.caveat
English
Noun
(en noun)- Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections -- with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested.
- He gave his daughter some hyacinth bulbs with the caveat that she plant them in the shade.
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- If a midfielder and a defender are acquired by 1 September then Louis van Gaal will consider United’s summer in the market almost a success. The one caveat is that the Dutchman wished to have finished strengthening the squad before the start of the season.
Verb
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Derived terms
* caveatable * caveatee * caveator * caveatory * caveatrix * patent caveat * uncaveatedUsage notes
* The modern use of "caveat" as a verb meaning "to qualify with a proviso" is often considered awkward or improper. This usage is strongly associated with former US Secretary of State . ** {{quote-news, **, 1981, , Jim Quinn, Lingo, The Nationcitation, passage=Brzezinski never used caveat as a verb. Does that make him better than Haig? }} ** {{quote-book, **, 1993, edition=2002 ed., Robert McCrum et al., The Story of English
citation, passage= Some years ago, General Alexander Haig ** {{quote-book, **, 2003, William A. McIntosh, Guide to Effective Military Writing, page=59, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=RPM-6XjS5eoC&pg=PA59 , passage=Using words such as "caveat ," "resource," and "interface" as verbs is not only poor style, but also poor usage. They are nouns, not verbs, and they shouldn't be used as if they were.}}
See also
* caveatingReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----except
English
Alternative forms
* excepte (rare or archaic)Verb
(en verb)- But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
- to except to a witness or his testimony
- Except thou wilt except against my love.
- Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].
- The Athenians'' might fairly except against the practise of ''Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey
- he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.
Preposition
(English prepositions)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Synonyms
* apart from * bar * but * other than * saveDerived terms
* except for * except for opinionConjunction
(English Conjunctions)citation, passage=Mother