Else

Definition: Else

Else

Adjective

1. Other than what is under consideration or implied; "ask somebody else"; "I don't know what else to do"; "where else can we look?".

2. More; "would you like anything else?"; "I have nothing else to say".

Adverb

1. Additional to or different from this one or place or time or manner; "nobody else is here"; "she ignored everything else"; "I don't know where else to look"; "when else can we have the party?"; "couldn't decide how else it could be done".

2. (usually used with `or') if not, then; "watch your step or else you may fall"; "leave or else I'll get angry".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Else" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God is my oath".

Date "else" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

ELSE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Else

Addition

Adverb: au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else, besides, to boot, et cetera and so on, and so forth; into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover.

Affections

Phrase: "affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire".

Difference

Different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair of shoes; horse of a different color; this that or the other.

Importance

Verb: be important; Adjective:, be somebody, be something; import, signify, matter, boot, be an object; carry weight; (influence); make a figure; (repute); be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way, take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of regard, be worthy of consideration.

Unity

One, unit, ace; individual; none else, no other.

Crosswords: Else

Why else would we have so many colors (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Well, enough rage and helplessness and your love turns to something else. (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

I'm a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else. (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson)

You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

Now when you say that I can be somebody else, whaddya mean exactly (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

And no one else can make it right (Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche); performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: A. Bagge, A. Birgisson, C. Ogalde)

So, get your act right or else we won't be speaking, Girl (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

'cause no one else could take your place (Can't Get Used To Losing You; performing artist: Andy Williams)

And I'm out in a space where nobody else can stay (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Somebody else round everyone else (Complicated; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you. (references; author: Mark Twain)

If all else fails, read the directions. (references; author: unknown)

Always remember you're unique just like everyone else. (references; author: unknown)

Uses Logic On Difficult Jobs: Gets someone else to do it. (references; author: unknown)

To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human. (references; author: unknown)

Fräulein Else (1970)

Believe It or Else (1939)

You Try Somebody Else (1932)

Fräulein Else (1929)

Nothing Else Matters (1920)

If You Can Do Anything Else (performing artist: George Strait)

Give It To Someone Else (performing artist: The Residents)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: Revised Edition (reference)

• If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You'll Probably End Up Somewhere Else (reference)

• Prosperity Pie: How To Relax About Money and Everything Else (reference)

• The Everything Wine Book; Plus everything else you'll ever need to know to impress your friends and intimidate the wine steward. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Nothing Else Matters - Dallas Stars 1999 NHL Stanley Cup Champions (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Somethin' Else [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hey Mike, let's try fishing somewhere else They don't seem to be biting here Fishermen followed bad advice about where the fish were biting Building crew off PEIRCE on Eleuthera Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Launch lunch on Inner Brass Island Launch lunch was a venerable institution on hydrographic ships Usually consisted of bread, bologna, and whatever else could be put in a cooler Always generated gripes but no one ever starved Tide gauge installation crew breaking for lunch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

At First He Was Sure He'd Never Become A Heroin Addict. : Now He's Not Sure He'll Ever Be Anything Else. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Home accidents are as frequent in Syria as anywhere else. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by G. Nemeh..

Are you one of the bhoys wot went to the weddin? / I ai'nt nothin else. Credit: Library of Congress.

Who else is running?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Readin' this war stuff sure keeps my mind off everything else!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mother Goose and Grimm. You're a sick, disgusting, vulgar little dog and I want you to sit somewhere else / Mike Peters. Credit: Library of Congress.

Else Marie. Credit: Library of Congress.

West Danville, Vermont. "What else will it be today, Mrs. Metcalf?" asks Mrs. Hastings, who has clerked in the general store owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hastings for twenty-nine years. Ronald Drown is looking on. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All fines made with us unjustly and against the law of the land, and all amercements, imposed unjustly and against the law of the land, shall be entirely remitted, or else it shall be done concerning them according to the decision of the five and twenty barons whom mention is made below in the clause for securing the pease, or according to the judgment of the majority of the same, along with the aforesaid Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and such others as he may wish to bring with him for this purpose, and if he cannot be present the business shall nevertheless proceed without him, provided always that if any one or more of the aforesaid five and twenty barons are in a similar suit, they shall be removed as far as concerns this particular judgment, others being substituted in their places after having been selected by the rest of the same five and twenty for this purpose only, and after having been sworn. (reference)

He was only to look, that he used them before they spoiled, else he took more than his share, and robbed others. (Second Treatise of Government)

Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life? What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. (reference)

If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are inter-mingled, and if they have "faith in each other's purpose, hope in each other's future and charity towards each other's shortcomings" - to quote some good words I read here the other day - why cannot they work together at the common task as friends and partners? Why cannot they share their tools and thus increase each other's working powers? Indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we shall all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war, incomparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I protest against having paid the smallest attention to any one else.

There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again

Something else to think of.

Henceforth, it ceases to be a reality of my life, I am a citizen of somewhere else.

He treated Javert as he did everybody else, at ease and with kindness

He burned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien

Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost

The bank is something else than men.

I was soon able to call for bread and drink, or whatever else I wanted

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Neither you nor anyone else need fear contact with the child. (references)

Menopause wasn’t so bad. I guess there’s nothing else to worry about. (references)

Ask your doctor to help you find out what else makes your asthma worse. (references)

Business

Book publishing is more open and competitive in Taiwan now than anywhere else in the Pacific region. (references)

Reagents (code 38.22) so far need nothing else but a formal import approval of the Ministry of Health. (references)

There are approximately 200,000 free phone numbers in operation in the UK. At one number per 300 people, this is a higher ratio than anywhere else in Europe, but it is still some way behind the U.S., which is currently running at one for every twenty-five people. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

It is as difficult and personal in Egypt as anywhere else. (references)

Australia

This is as true in Australia as it is anywhere else in the world. (references)

Czech Rep

It is a market where good personal relationships are crucial, and everyone seems to know everyone else. (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

If such children have nowhere else to go, the Government considers it more humane to support them in prison than to leave them homeless. (references)

Belarus

In all cases, computers were smashed, but not stolen; only hard drives or floppy disks were removed, and nothing else of value was taken. (references)

Guatemala

On October 2, the laptop of Matilde Gonzalez Izas, researcher for the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences (AVANSCO), was stolen from her home, while nothing else was touched. (references)

Trade

West Bank

Most local businesses use their own capital to finance operations or else work with one of the European credit agencies described below. (references)

Netherlands

The Dutch consider themselves to be good Europeans and, from a practical point of view, they see political advantages in buying European, especially when all else is relatively equal in a bid competition. (references)

Travel

Uzbekistan

For women, however, there are two dress codes, one for Tashkent and one everywhere else. (references)

Women

El Salvador

However, it prohibits any person from inducing, facilitating, promoting, or giving incentives to anyone else to work as a prostitute. (references)

Ecuador

In cases of statutory rape involving "amorous" sex with a minor, if the rapist marries the victim the charges against him, or anyone else who took part in the rape, cannot be pursued unless the marriage subsequently is annulled. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "else": all else ♦ anybody else ♦ anyone else ♦ anything else ♦ anything else will do ♦ anywhere else ♦ before all else ♦ before everything else ♦ everybody else ♦ everyone else ♦ everything else ♦ everywhere else ♦ hang somewhere else ♦ it's nothing else than a rumour ♦ mistake smb. for smb. else ♦ no one else ♦ nobody else ♦ none else ♦ nothing else ♦ nothing else matters ♦ nothing else than ♦ nowhere else ♦ or else ♦ somebody else ♦ someplace else ♦ something else ♦ somewhere else ♦ who else ♦ who else is coming? ♦ you want smth. else. Additional references.

Beginning with "else": else-but, else-more, else-of, else-where.

Ending with "else": anymole-else, don't-stand-in-my-way-or-else, God-knows-whatever-else, image-above-all-else, one-else, or-else, was-there-something-else.

Afrikaans

ander (another, other), meer (further, lake, loch, more, on), anders (differently). (various references)

Albanian

ende (as yet, still, yet), veç (apart, barring, besides, beyond, but, except, in addition, in addition to, moreover, over and above, save, saving, separately, unless), tjetër (another, besides, different, ensuing, further, new, next, other, second, variant), akoma (more, still, yet). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لديك شىء آخر تريد أن تقوله, ‏إيضا, ‏آخر (another, decline, different, last, latest, other, utmost), ‏ثان (another, one more, other, second), ‏بطريقة أخرى (do it another way, otherwise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

освен това (again, also, besides, further, furthermore, moreover, then, too, withal), още (further, more, some more, still, yet), друг (another, different, diverse, new, other, otherwise, wrong). (various references)

Chinese 

還 (also, in addition, more, pay back, return, still, yet), 其他 (other), 否則 (if not, or else, otherwise), 別的 (other). (various references)

Czech

jiný (another, different, other), druhý (another, other, second, the other, the second). (various references)

Danish

mere (further, more, on). (various references)

Dutch

anders (different, differently, in another way, otherwise), ander (another, another man, other). (various references)

Esperanto

plu (further, more, on), alie (differently), alia (another, other). (various references)

Faeroese

meira (further, more, on), longur (further, more, on), annars (differently), annar (additional, another, other, remaining, rest of, second), aðrastaðni (differently). (various references)

Farsi 

جزاین . (various references)

Finnish

edelleen (ahead, forward, further, furthermore, more, moreover, on, onward, still), toinen (another, other, second, the other), muuten (besides, incidentally, or, otherwise), muu (accidental, additional, another, other, remaining, rest of, the rest). (various references)

French

autre. (various references)

Frisian

oars (another, other), oar (another, other). (various references)

German

sonst (alternatively, another, differently, in other ways, or else, oterwise, other, otherwise, usually), andernfalls (alternatively, differently, or else, otherwise), anders (another, different, differently, fresh, other, otherwise), anderer (another, other). (various references)

Greek 

άλλος (another, other), αλλιώσ (otherwise), αλλιώς (otherwise), αλλού (elsewhere). (various references)

Hawaiian

tjetër (another, other). (various references)

Hebrew 

ולא (and if not, or else, otherwise), עוד (another, further, lute, more, still, yet), אחרת (in a different manner, otherwise), אחר (after, afterwards, another, different, gentile, other, variant). (various references)

Hungarian

más (additional, another, other, otherworldly, remaining, rest of, to be unlike sg, to be unlike to sg, to change sides, to discolour, to try another tack), egyéb (additional, another, other, remaining, rest of), vagy (either one or the other, or), különben (failing which, or else, otherwise), ellenkező esetben (failing which, in default whereof, otherwise). (various references)

Icelandic

annar (another, other). (various references)

Indonesian

lain (other). (various references)

Irish

eile (another, other). (various references)

Italian

altro (another, anything, anything else, different, each other, further, more, one another, other, rest), in modo diverso (differently), diversamente (differently, other, otherwise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

然も無いと (if not so, otherwise), 然もないと (if not so, otherwise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さもないと (if not so, otherwise). (various references)

Korean 

그밖에. (various references)

Lombard

alter (another, other). (various references)

Manx

elley (additional, alternative, another, other). (various references)

Norwegian

en anden (another, other), ellers, annen. (various references)

Papiamen

otro (another, other). (various references)

Pig Latin

elseay.(various references)

Polish

w dalszym ciągu (further, more, on), inny (another, different, other), inaczej (differently), gdzie indziej (differently), dalej (besides, further, furthermore, in addition, more, moreover, on). (various references)

Portuguese

outro (additional, another, further, other, remaining, some other), mais (encore, farther, further, furthermore, more, moreover, most, one more time, plus, preferably, rater, rather, some more, still, upstair, upward, upwards, yet), diverso (another, different, diverse, farraginous, medley, miscellaneous, other, otherwise, unlike, varied, variegated, various). (various references)

Romanian

altfel (different, differently, or, otherwise). (various references)

Russian 

еще (as long ago as, more, yet). (various references)

Scottish

eile (another, other), no (a man, if not : fear no bean, neither, nor, or, otherwise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osim (aside from, barring, bating, beside, but, except, except for, excepting, save), još (another, even, more, still, too, yet), drugo (secondly). (various references)

Spanish

otro (another, another one, new, other, remaining, second, separated, the day after, the next day), de otra manera (differently, in another way, on the other hand, otherwise). (various references)

Sranan

trawan (another, other), tra (another, other). (various references)

Swahili

-ingine (another, other), ingine (another, other). (various references)

Swedish

annan (another, other, otherguess, second). (various references)

Tagalog

ibá (another, different, other). (various references)

Thai

อื่นๆ (other), ที่แตกต่าง, อย่างแตกต่าง (differently). (various references)

Turkish

yoksa (except, nisi, or, or else, otherwise), ilaveten (additionally, extra, farther, in addition to), díğer bír (another, other), baxka (another, other), bír daha (afresh, again, all over again, anew, another, once more, other), başka zaman, başka türlü (other, otherwise), başka (another, apart from, barring, beside, but, different, distinct, except, excepting, forth, hetero-, other, other than, otherwise, save, saving), ayrıca (additionally, again, also, besides, beyond, extra, farther, further, furthermore, in addition to, into the bargain, item, likewise, on the side, otherwise, over and above, then again, thereto, to boot, withal, yea), aksi halde (failing this, if not, nisi, or else, otherwise). (various references)

Turkmen 

dagy (what else). (various references)

Ukrainian

інший (another, different, new, other, other than, otherguess, otherways, otherwise, the other, yonder), інакше (alias, anew, differently, newly, or else, other, othergates, otherways, otherwise), ще (any, more, next, yet), крім (bar, barring, beside, besides, beyond, but, except, excepting, outside, outwith, save, saving, than, without). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nữa nếu không, khác (different, differently, other, otherwise, unlike). (various references)

Welsh

arall (another, other). (various references)

Yucatec

u heel (another, different, other). (various references)

Zulu

-nye (another, one, other). (various references)

alioquin, alius, aut. (various references)

anya. (various references)

elles. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "else": elsewhere. (additional references)

Words containing "else": gelsemia, gelsemium, gelsemiums. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Else" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alse, Alsek, celse, Ebles, ebls, Ecsa, Efls, egles, Eglese, Ehle, eisi, elae, Elce, elde, eldex, ele, elef, eleo, eles, elese, elesy, elev, elex, elfe, Elfel, elie, elise, elle, elne, eloe, elpee, els, Elsag, elsan, Elsden, elsen, elses, elsi, Elsnet, Elso, Elsom, Elspet, Elst, Elsy, eltex, elys, Elyse, elza, Elzea, elzi, ense, eose, epls, epsee, erles, esce, esee, esel, esi, Esla, esle, eslet, esme, Esqe, esse, Eusa, Euseb, Eusi, eusse, Felsen, Gelsey, helse, Helsel, ilse, Kelsae, lefse, lesce, Lesel, lesex, lesme, lesoe, lesse, leze, lse, Nelsey, telsa, ules, Ulseb. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eels, lees, seel.

-1 letter: eel, els, lee, see, sel.

-2 letters: el, es.

+1 letter: deles, easel, elves, feels, flees, glees, heels, keels, lease, leeks, leers, leets, leges, lenes, lense, lexes, peels, peles, reels, seels, seely, selle, sleek, sleep, sleet, speel, steel, stele, teels, teles.

+2 letters: abeles, allees, aneles, asleep, bedels, belies, belles, betels, bevels, bezels, bleeds, bleeps, celebs, cleeks, clepes, creels, delves, devels, diesel, eagles, easels, ediles, elapse, elates, elders, eldest, elects, elemis, elides, elites, elopes, eludes, elutes, elvers, enisle, ensile, excels, exiles, expels, fleers, fleets, flense, flexes, gelees, glebes, gledes, gleeds, gleeks, gleets, helves, ilexes, jebels, jewels, keleps, kevels, kneels, larees, leased, leaser, leases, leaves, lebens, leches, ledges, legers, lensed, lenses, leones, lepers, lessee, lessen, lesser, lethes, leudes, levees, levels, levers, levies, lezzes, lieges, listee, lycees, measle, melees, merles, nestle, newels, pelves, pestle, please, plebes, reales, rebels, refels, relets, relies, repels, resale, reseal, resell, resile, resole, revels, sealed, sealer, sedile, seeled, seemly, seidel, select, selfed, seller, selles, selves, semple, senile, sequel, settle, shekel, shelve, sheqel, sleave, sleaze, sledge, sleeks, sleeky, sleeps, sleepy, sleets, sleety, sleeve, slewed, speels, spleen, steels, steely, stelae, steles, streel, svelte, teasel, vessel, weasel, wedels, wheels.