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Definition: WITHOUT |
WITHOUTAdverb1. Outside of the house; out of doors. 2. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Conjunction1. Unless; except; -- introducing a clause. Preposition1. Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. 3. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. |
Date "WITHOUT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Without \With*out"\, preposition [Old English withoute, withouten, Anglo-Saxon wi[eth]?tan; wi[eth] with, against, toward + outside, from out. See With, prep., Out.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Without, Unless. "He cannot miss the way without he forgets my instructions." "I will not dig the potatoes without Tom comes to help." Use unless instead of without. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumjacence | Adverb: around, about; without; on every side; on all sides; right and left, all round, round about. |
Circumstance | Conditionally, provided, if, in case; if so, if so be, if it be so; depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions; if it so happen, if it so turn out; in the event of; in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event; provisionally, unless, without. |
Exemption | Adjective: exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from. |
Nonaddition Subtraction | Adverb: in deduction; Noun: less; short of; minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation; not counting, if one doesn't count. |
Unconformity | Adverb: unconformably; Adjective: except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WITHOUT |
| English words defined with "WITHOUT": To be without rebuke, To handle without gloves, To handle without mittens ♦ without a stitch, without becoming upset, without bias, without bloodshed, Without book, without concern, Without day, without fear, without formality, without graciousness, without worrying, World without end. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WITHOUT": Cold Without ♦ Flying without Wings, forming without stock removal ♦ Leaves without Figs ♦ Make Bricks without Straw, Mathematical Analysis without Programming, Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages ♦ obtaining a service without payment, obtaining personal data without authorisation ♦ shaping without stock removal, share without par value ♦ Transit Without Visa ♦ Without Correction for ICM, working without stock removal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "WITHOUT": Withoutforth. (references) |
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Screenplays | They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) No. We're discussing an object from which I receive in the classic formula a glancing blow which will raise a lump without actually cracking the cranium (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) He's so cheesy, I can't watch him without crackers (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) You could call me a man of the cloth, without the cloth (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) I'm not leaving without my cats (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) | |
Lyrics | Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) Life without you isn't worth the trouble of (Lost Without Your Love; performing artist: BREAD) If I have to live without you. (I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love; performing artist: Chicago) Lying here without you by my side (Without You; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) Without love no life left on earth (Without Love; performing artist: Donna Lewis) | |
Clever | A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval. (references; author: Mark Twain) Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best. (references; author: Woody Allen) Nothing is to be gotten without pains. (references; author: English Proverb) A life without love, a year without summer. (references; author: Swedish Proverb) The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Without a Trace (1983) A Place Without Parents (1974) The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) A Man Without Friends (1972) Kill Without Compensation (1970) | |
Song Titles | I Don't Want To Live Without You (performing artist: Foreigner) Town Without Pity (performing artist: Gene Pitney) Love Without End Amen (performing artist: George Strait) Without You (performing artist: Harry Nilsson) Love Will Never Do (Without You) (performing artist: Janet Jackson) | |
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Shown is a PET scan (positron emission tomography) of a 17 year old girl with a longstanding history of epilepsy, who has a brain tumor classified as a grade 1 astrocytoma. The PET scan indicates that the tumor is not metabolizing excess glucose and is therefore benign. PET scans allow doctors to tell if a tumor is malignant without resorting to a surgical biopsy. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | This illustration with and without text, explains how a normal cell becomes a cancer cell. An oncogene in a normal cell appears to regulate and influence cell growth and division. When a cancer causing agent affects a cell's DNA and the oncogene is activated, a cancer cell develops. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist). | ||
A jet injector is a device that uses gaseous pressure to propel drugs or vaccines through the outer layers of the skin, and into the underlying subcutaneous tissues. This is accomplished without the use of needles. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Illustration of hyphae without (upper) and with (lower) crosswalls. Credit: CDC. | |
![]() | Image of Voyager without the magnetometer boom deployed. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Chronograph drum without paper Used to record time ticks during longitude observations Astro party of Charles Whitten. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Contract wiredrag launch TWILIGHT First view without wiredrag gear - second with wiredrag gear installed Semaphore signalling device installed on second picture. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Using candles for lighting while exploring ice cave. Without candles, it was pitch-black in this cave. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | The Clean Air Facility on a day without a horizon. Flags mark path. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | This image shows the big stumps of the Brazilian Peppers that have been cut to make way for mangroves. Brazilian Pepper bushes can reach twenty feet in height. During the restoration, bushes as big as 9" in diameter were cleared to provide habitat for mangroves to recolonize. Without restoration efforts to clear Brazilian Pepper, the bush could take over mangrove habitat in two years time. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Button Without a Cause" by Paige Foster Commentary: "This button is on a wall at the mall next door, and I'll be darned if I can figure out what it's for!." | "Red flower" by Matt Hudson Commentary: "Using a very short depth of field this photo was taken without a tripod." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| A composition beginning in a minor mode which moves to a major mode without resolution. | Door closing shut in a room without carpet. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Apelles | Not a day without a line. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Duty cannot exist without faith. |
Blaise Pascal | Law, without force, is impotent. |
Dante Alighieri | Without hope we live in desire. |
Desiderius Erasmus | Fools are without number. |
Euripides | Authority is never without hate. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Stupidity is without anxiety. |
Mary Baker Eddy | Reject hatred without hating. |
Oscar Wilde | Life would be dull without them. |
Thomas Jefferson | I cannot live without books. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Heirs shall be married without disparagement, yet so that before the marriage takes place the nearest in blood to that heir shall have notice. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | The nature whereof is, that without a man's own consent it cannot be taken from him. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment III. No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2008 | No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | That a case arising under the constitution should be decided without examining the instrument under which it arises? (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Damage caused to civilians by being forced by Germany or her allies to labour without just remuneration. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Again one cannot imagine a regenerated Europe without a strong France. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | In Islington you can hardly hurl a brick without hitting three antique shops, an estate agent and a bookshop |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then, without saying a word, he fell on his knees, and even before the crowd had time to utter a cry, he was under the cart |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They crossed the quadrangle together without speaking |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | If without peril it be possible, Sweet Blunt, make some good means to speak with him And give him from me this most needful note |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | We got trouble enough without they chase the hell out of us. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And I still appeal to my servants round, whether they at any time saw a coach at my door without knowing what persons were in it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You cannot live without a functioning liver. (references) | |
It has never been without controversy, however. (references) | ||
Without correction, symptoms generally continue. (references) | ||
Business | They are without government guarantees. (references) | |
They cannot be replaced without their agreement. (references) | ||
It means a 22% rate for energy without exemption. (references) | ||
Children | Suriname | Otherwise, one must be 31 years old to marry without parental permission. (references) |
Austria | Comprehensive, government-financed medical care is available for all children without regard to gender. (references) | |
Morocco | If a father does not register his child, the child is without civil status and the benefits of citizenship. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Brazil | Those detained were released without charge. (references) |
Antigua and Barbuda | A religious station broadcasts without impediment. (references) | |
Gambia | He was released after several hours without charge. (references) | |
Discrimination | Czech Republic | Health care, education, retirement, and other social services generally are provided without regard to race, sex, religion, disability, or social status. (references) |
Burundi | The Transitional Constitutional Act provides equal status and protection for all citizens, without distinction based on sex, origin, ethnicity, religion, or opinion; however, the Government failed to implement effectively the act's provisions, and discrimination persists. (references) | |
Economic History | Seychelles | Capital goods can be imported without restriction. (references) |
Human Rights | Philippines | The woman was released without charge. (references) |
Vanuatu | Judges cannot be removed without cause. (references) | |
Singapore | The MDA permits detention without trial. (references) | |
Indigenous People | India | No outsiders are allowed to own land in the tribal areas without approval from tribal authorities. (references) |
Cameroon | Pygmies reportedly continued to complain that the forests they inhabit were being logged without fair compensation. (references) | |
India | No rubber, wax, ivory, or other forest products may be removed from the protected areas without prior authorization. (references) | |
Minorities | Italy | Roma are another traditional minority, but without a specific geographic base. (references) |
Slovak Republic | The skinheads were taken into custody, and later released without being charged. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Without national identity cards, they also are vulnerable to arrest by the security forces. (references) | |
Political Economy | Saudi Arabia | Prolonged detention without charge is a problem. (references) |
AUSTRALIA | Divestment cannot be forced without due process of law. (references) | |
Libya | Many political detainees are held for years without charge. (references) | |
Political Rights | Djibouti | The elections took place without international observers amid opposition claims of fraud. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Modifying or amending the Constitution is nearly impossible without the consent of the president. (references) | |
Egypt | The law empowers the Government to bring felony charges against those who form a party without a license. (references) | |
Trade | Singapore | Most goods can be imported freely without licenses. (references) |
Egypt | All Egyptian products can be exported without obtaining export approvals. (references) | |
Uae | Agents and distributors cannot be easily replaced without their agreement. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | It is best to drink bottled beverages without ice. (references) |
Guatemala | Calls can be placed to the U.S. without any problem. (references) | |
Nigeria | Most U.S. citizens who travel to Nigeria do so without incident. (references) | |
Women | Yemen | Husbands may divorce wives without justifying their action in court. (references) |
Kuwait | The Kuwaiti woman was being held in prison without bail at year's end. (references) | |
Philippines | Most lower income couples simply separate informally without severing their marital ties. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Namibia | Unions exercise this right without interference. (references) |
Fiji | FTUC officials operated without interference during the year. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Palestinians without valid work permits are subject to arrest. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest. The Greeks before Troy were so harried by Apollo that they jumped out of the frying-pan of the wrath of Cryses into the fire of the wrath of Achilles, though Agamemnon, the sole offender, was neither fried nor roasted. A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom paid the penalty with their lives. God is now Love, and a director of the census performs his work without apprehension of disaster. X X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name -- Xristos. If it represented a cross it would stand for St. Andrew, who "testified" upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary. Y |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | As a matter of fact, I want a meal that can be eaten without arms or even teeth. |
James Dobson | Well, I believe that, again, rather literal interpretation of scripture, I don't have any basis for what I believe, other than the inspired scriptures. And I believe that, not just by what you do, but by dying without forgiveness. |
John McCain | My spiel is, if you're fair-skinned, watch for discolorations. Don't let your kids out into the sun without sunscreen on. |
Laura Schlessinger | When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going. |
Linda Thompson | Just that I have known the pain of too much tenderness. That he would always remain the love of my life, but I never wanted to love that fully and completely without reservation again. |
Lisa French | Right. We have second-degree murder without a weapon, and then we have a not guilty charge, so nobody killed Terry. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Yeah, well, I like to encourage young performers who wouldn't maybe have a venue without our show, yeah. |
Rush Limbaugh | If we don't do anything about Social Security, the Baby Boomers are going to be up the creek without a paddle. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | When received, the subject will without delay be placed before Congress. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Were armies to be raised whenever a speck of war is visible in our horizon, we never should have been without them. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Neither this House nor the Nation is the same without him. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | A cease-fire was achieved without a major power confrontation. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Worse, we are wasting badly needed resources without reaching many of the truly needy. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Millions of our neighbors are without work. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | There are certain things that a president can do without Congress, and I am going to do them. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | More and more Americans are working hard without a raise. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Americans know economic security can vanish in an instant without health security. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "WITHOUT" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 99.32% of the time. "WITHOUT" is used about 46,131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 99.32% | 45,818 | 182 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.68% | 313 | 16,314 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46,131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "WITHOUT". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Baladan | N/A | Biblical | One without judgment |
| Leummim | N/A | Biblical | Without water |
| Merodach-baladan | N/A | Biblical | Without judgment |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "WITHOUT": a distinction without a difference ♦ a prophet is without honor in his own country ♦ absence without leave ♦ absent without leave ♦ agree without reservation ♦ all without exception ♦ anticipated transient without scram ♦ available without prescription ♦ be absent without excuse ♦ be without ♦ being without ♦ being without money ♦ Biofeedback Without Machines ♦ bond issue without fixed maturity ♦ come through without a scratch ♦ complain without cause ♦ completely without ♦ cut without stock removal ♦ cutting without stock removal ♦ die without benefit of clergy ♦ die without issue ♦ do a thing without difficulty ♦ do it yourself or go without ♦ do smth. without notice ♦ do without ♦ drive without a license ♦ drive without attention ♦ driver without a license ♦ eat without paying ♦ escape without a scratch ♦ for 20 years without break ♦ forming without stock removal ♦ from without ♦ get on without smb. ♦ get on without smb. or smth. ♦ go without ♦ go without food ♦ go without saying ♦ gone without saying ♦ handle without mittens ♦ indorsement without recourse ♦ it goes without saying ♦ it goes without saying! ♦ jailed without bail ♦ key without taper ♦ learning without a teacher ♦ leaving hotel without paying ♦ leaving restaurant without paying ♦ lost without trace ♦ make bricks without straw ♦ manage without ♦ mathematical Analysis without Programming ♦ microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages ♦ minister without portfolio ♦ no smoke without fire ♦ not without effort ♦ not without purpose ♦ not without reason ♦ obtaining a service without payment ♦ obtaining personal data without authorisation ♦ pleasure without alloy ♦ reading without preparation ♦ reckon without ♦ reckon without one's host ♦ run without stopping ♦ screw used without nut ♦ shaping without stock removal ♦ share without par value ♦ Sinutab Sinus Maximum Strength Without Drowsiness [OTC] ♦ sit without doing smth. ♦ sleep without a break ♦ speak without beating about the business ♦ speak without reserve ♦ stay at a hotel without paying ♦ subject to change without notice ♦ talk without thinking ♦ that goes without saying ♦ there is no rule without an exception ♦ there is no smoke without fire ♦ there's no smoke without fire ♦ thing without precedent ♦ times without numbers ♦ To be without rebuke ♦ to do without ♦ To go without ♦ To handle without gloves ♦ To handle without mittens ♦ To reckon without one's host ♦ travel without paying ♦ within and without ♦ without a break ♦ without a care in the world ♦ without a division ♦ without a doubt ♦ without a dowry ♦ without a fault ♦ without a fight ♦ without a funeral ♦ without a government ♦ without a grain of malice ♦ without a groat in his pocket. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WITHOUT": Without-door. | |
Ending with "WITHOUT": cold-without, stardom-without, with-and-without. | |
Containing "WITHOUT": minister-without-portfolio. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "WITHOUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sonder. (various references) | |
Albanian | pa (less, minus, sans, wanting). (various references) | |
Arabic | من غير (wanting), خارجيا (outwardly), خارج كذا, بلا, بدون (even, minus). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | външно (outwardly), вън (away, hence, out, outside, outward, outwards), отвън (from outside, from without, outdoors, outside), навън (al fresco, out, out of doors, outdoors, outside, outward, outwards), без да, по външност. (various references) | |
Chinese | 没有 (NO, None), 毫無 . (various references) | |
Czech | vnì (outside), venku (in the open air, out, outdoors, outside), mimo (besides, beyond, except, extra, out of, outside, past, wide), bez (elder, minus, past, sans). (various references) | |
Danish | udder. (various references) | |
Dutch | ontbloot van, gespeend van. (various references) | |
Esperanto | senprokraste (at once, immediately, instantly, without delay), sennoma (anonymous, nameless, without a name), senmanke (without fail), nepre (absolutely, definitely, without fail), kun rezervo pri (bar, barring, except for, subject to, without prejudice). (various references) | |
Estonian | vahemaandumisteta (without stopovers). (various references) | |
Faeroese | uttan. (various references) | |
Farsi | فاقد (Toom), انطرف (Ulterior, Yonder), ازبیرون , بیرون از (Away, Forth, Out), بیرون (Abroad, Away, External, Out, Outdoor, Outdoors, Outside, Surface), بطرف خارج , برون (Outside), بدون (But). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilman. (various references) | |
Flemish | zonder. (various references) | |
French | sans. (various references) | |
Frisian | sûnder. (various references) | |
German | ohne (devoid, excluding, un, voidly, wihtout, with no). (various references) | |
Greek | άνευ (devoid of, sans). (various references) | |
Guarani | repia'ÿre (without straying). (various references) | |