What does exclude mean?

Definitions for exclude
ɪkˈskludex·clude

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. To EXCLUDEverb

    Etymology: excludo, Latin.

    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.

    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.

    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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  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. excludĕreex, out, claudĕre, to shut.]

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  1. Verbs Frequency

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

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  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. Stockholm Mayor Karin Wanngaard:

    Climate negotiators must dare to push boundaries and exclude fossil fuels as an option and reward solutions that are long-term sustainable and renewable.

  2. George Washington:

    I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

  3. David Cicilline:

    That's sort of the most dangerous consequence of this kind of concentration is the ability to exclude rivals, put them out of business, diminish innovation, diminish entrepreneurship, diminish choices for consumers.

  4. Ron DeSantis:

    Florida’s civics curriculum will incorporate foundational concepts with the best materials and it will expressly exclude unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory and other unsubstantiated theories.

  5. Qassem Soleimani:

    Signs show there has been no intention to exclude Mr Zarif from this meeting and I should emphasize that as the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he is the main person in charge of the country's foreign policy.

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