Definitions for exclude
ɪkˈskludex·clude

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take outverb

   prevent from being included or considered or accepted

   "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"

2. exclude, keep out, shut out, shutverb

   prevent from entering; shut out

   "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"

3. excludeverb

   lack or fail to include

   "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages"

4. bar, debar, excludeverb

   prevent from entering; keep out

   "He was barred from membership in the club"

5. eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn outverb

   put out or expel from a place

   "The unruly student was excluded from the game"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. excludeverb

   To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.

2. excludeverb

   To expel; to put out.

3. excludeverb

   To refuse to accept as valid.

4. excludeverb

   To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

5. Etymology: From excludere, from prefix ex-, + variant form of verb claudere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To EXCLUDEverb

   Etymology: excludo, Latin.

   1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission.

   Fenc’d with hedges and deep ditches round,
   Exclude th’ incroaching cattle from thy ground. John Dryden, Virg.

   Sure I am, unless I win in arms,
   To stand excluded from Emilia’s charms. John Dryden, Knight’s Tale.

   Bodies do each singly possess its proper portion, according to the extent of its solid parts, and thereby exclude all other bodies from that space. John Locke.

   Though these three sorts of substances do not exclude one another out of the same place, yet we cannot conceive but that they must necessarily each of them exclude any of the same kind out of the same place. John Locke.

   If the church be so unhappily contrived as to exclude from its communion such persons likeliest to have great abilities, it should be altered. Jonathan Swift.

   2. To debar; to hinder from participation; to prohibit.

   Justice, that sits and frowns where publick laws
   Exclude soft mercy from a private cause,
   In your tribunal most herself does please;
   There only smiles, because she lives at ease. Dryden.

   This is Dutch partnership, to share in all our beneficial bargains, and exclude us wholly from theirs. Jonathan Swift.

   3. To except in any position.4. Not to comprehend in any grant or privilege.

   They separate from all apparent hope of life and salvation, thousands whom the goodness of Almighty God doth not exclude. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 22.

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1. exclude

   To exclude means to deliberately leave out or not include someone or something from a group, process, or activity. It can also refer to the act of preventing someone from participating, or barring them from entering or using a certain thing. More generally, it can mean to reject or disregard.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Excludeverb

   to shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting

2. Excludeverb

   to thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

3. Etymology: [L. excludere, exclusum; ex out + claudere to shut. See Close.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Exclude

   eks-klōōd′, v.t. to close or shut out: to thrust out: to hinder from entrance: to hinder from participation: to except.—ns. Exclu′sion, a shutting or putting out: ejection: exception; Exclu′sionism; Exclu′sionist, one who excludes, or would exclude, another from a privilege.—adj. Exclu′sive, able or tending to exclude: debarring from participation: sole: not taking into account.—n. one of a number who exclude others from their society.—adv. Exclu′sively.—ns. Exclu′siveness; Exclu′sivism.—adj. Exclu′sory, exclusive.—Exclusive dealing, the act of abstaining deliberately from any business or other transactions with persons of opposite political or other convictions to one's own—a euphemism for boycotting (q.v.). [L. excludĕre—ex, out, claudĕre, to shut.]

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1. • Forbid
   • Lack

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'exclude' in Verbs Frequency: #422

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of exclude in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of exclude in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of exclude in a Sentence

1. Saddam Hussein:

   The spirit of listening and understanding was not there – I don’t exclude Saddam Hussein from this blame.

2. Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades:

   Our aim is not to exclude anyone, our cooperation is not against anyone. Our energy sources can suffice for the needs of many Europeans and other neighbors.

3. United States:

   We shall not narrow-mindedly exclude United States chips. We shall grow together. But when there is a supply shortage, we have a backup.

4. Angela Merkel:

   To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.

5. Pope Francis:

   I also offer encouragement to all those who are convinced that a just and necessary punishment must never exclude the dimension of hope and the goal of rehabilitation.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=exclude
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Exclude
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=exclude
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exclude
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=exclude