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Definitions of 'BUT' Wordnet 

1. (adverb) merely, simply, just, only, but
and nothing more
"I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"


Definitions of 'BUT' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (noun) BUT
a limit; a boundary

2. (noun) BUT
the end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt

3.  BUT
except with; unless with; without

4.  BUT
except; besides; save

5.  BUT
excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that

6.  BUT
otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that

7.  BUT
only; solely; merely

8.  BUT
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

9.  BUT
the outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room

10. (verb) BUT
see Butt, v., and Abut, v

11. (verb) BUT
a limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end

12. (verb) BUT
the thicker end of anything. See But

13. (verb) BUT
a mark to be shot at; a target

14. (verb) BUT
a person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company

15. (verb) BUT
a push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram

16. (verb) BUT
a thrust in fencing

17. (verb) BUT
a piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field

18. (verb) BUT
a joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint

19. (verb) BUT
the end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib

20. (verb) BUT
the portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose

21. (verb) BUT
the joint where two planks in a strake meet

22. (verb) BUT
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

23. (verb) BUT
the thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks

24. (verb) BUT
the hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice


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