different between such vs but

English

Alternative forms

• sich, sech (dialectal)
• soch, soche (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swel?, from Proto-Germanic *swal?kaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so +? like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), Low German sölk, sulk, sülk, suk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Determiner

such

1. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
2. (particularly used in formal documents) Any.

3. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of.
4. (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

   • In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived.

   • To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.

Translations

Pronoun

such

1. A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
   • 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:

     These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery.

Translations

Noun

such (plural suches)

1. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else.

Related terms

Anagrams

• CHUs, Cush, cush, hucs

German

Pronunciation

Verb

such

1. second-person singular imperative present of suchen

Middle English

Determiner

such

1. Alternative form of swich

English

Etymology

From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English b?tan (“without, outside of, except, only”), equivalent to be- +? out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.

Eclipsed non-native Middle English mes (“but”) borrowed from Old French mes, mais (> French mais (“but”)).

Pronunciation

• (stressed, UK) IPA^(key): /b?t/, [b?t], enPR: b?t
• (stressed, US) IPA^(key): /b?t/, enPR: b?t
• (stressed, Scotland, Ireland) IPA^(key): /b?t/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): [b???]
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /b?t/, enPR: b?t
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: butt

Preposition

but

1. Apart from, except (for), excluding.

   Synonyms: barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
2. (obsolete outside Scotland) Outside of.

Adverb

but (not comparable)

1. (chiefly literary or poetic) Merely, only, just.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:merely

   • 1791, Robert Burns, "Ae Fond Kiss":

     For to see her was to love her,
     Love but her, and love for ever.

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere.

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books, 2006, p.49:

     The stony outcrops are often covered but thinly with arable soil; winters are bitingly cold, and rainfall scanty and unpredictable.

   • 1990, Claude de Bèze, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, University Press, page 153:

     May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son.

2. (Australia, Tyneside, conjunctive) Though, however.

   Synonyms: even so, nevertheless, notwithstanding, yet; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

3. Used as an intensifier.
   • 2013 Nora Roberts, Irish Thoroughbred p. 25 (Little, Brown) ?ISBN

     "Jakers, but we worked." With a long breath she shut her eyes. "But it was too much for one woman and a half-grown girl […] "

Conjunction

but

1. On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).

2. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
3. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
4. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
5. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre

     So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors.

6. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
7. (obsolete) Until.
8. (obsolete, following a negated expression of improbability) That. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1784, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 131:

     It is not impossible but next year I may have the honour of waiting on your Lordship at St. Asaph, If I go to Ireland I certainly will go that way.

   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 132:

     “I am convinced, if you were to press this matter earnestly upon her, she would consent.”
     “It is not impossible but she might,” said Madame de Seidlits […] .

   • 1813, Journal of Natural Philosophy, July:

     It is not improbable but future observations will add Pliny's Well to the class of irregular reciprocators.

Usage notes

• Beginning a sentence with a coordinating conjunction such as but is considered incorrect by classical grammarians who claim that a coordinating conjunction at the start of a sentence has nothing to connect. The use of the word in this way is very common, however; and it may be argued that the connection is with the preceding context. Nevertheless, it is best to avoid beginning a sentence with but in formal writing. Combining sentences or using however, nevertheless, still, or though (which are adverbs rather than conjunctions) is more appropriate for the formal style.

Synonyms

• abbur (Chester)
• (except): bar, unless, excepting, excluding, with the exception of, without
• (however): yet, although, ac

Translations

Noun

but (plural buts)

1. An instance or example of using the word "but".

2. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
3. A limit; a boundary.
4. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.

Verb

but (third-person singular simple present buts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

1. (archaic) Use the word "but".

Derived terms

References

• but at OneLook Dictionary Search
• but in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• BTU, TBU, tub

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German butt.

Adjective

but

1. (rare) blunt

Inflection

Synonyms

• stump

Antonyms

• spids

French

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /byt/, /by/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /by/

Etymology 1

From Middle French but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd- (“to beat, push”). The semantic development from "mound" to "target" is likely from martial training practice (see target). Cognate with Old English butt (“tree stump”). More at butt.

Noun

but m (plural buts)

1. aim
2. goal (result one is attempting to achieve)
3. (sports) goal (in the place, act, or point sense)

Synonyms

• fin
• objectif
• dessein
• point

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From boire.

Verb

but

1. third-person singular past historic of boire

Further reading

• “but” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Noun

but (first-person possessive butku, second-person possessive butmu, third-person possessive butnya)

1. (computing) bootstrap (process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory)

References

• “but” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Maltese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?t/

Noun

but m (plural bwiet)

1. pocket

Middle English

Noun

but

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Polish

Etymology

From Old Czech bot, from Old French bot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /but/

Noun

but m inan (diminutive bucik or butek, augmentative bucior or bucisko)

1. shoe
2. boot

Declension

Derived terms

• bucior, bucisko

Further reading

• but in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• but in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (bahutva, “much, many, very”). Cognate with Hindi ???? (bahut).

Adjective

but (comparative majbut, superlative legmajbut)

1. many

2. much
3. very

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (but)

Noun

but n (plural buturi)

1. thigh of an animal

Declension

Scots

Noun

but (plural buts)

1. The outer room of a small two-room cottage.

Preposition

but

1. Outside of, without.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (but)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bût/

Noun

b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. thigh
2. ham

Declension

References

• “but” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (bud), ???? (but), from Proto-Turkic. Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (b?t).

Noun

but (definite accusative butu, plural butlar)

1. thigh

Synonyms

• uyluk

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /but/

Noun

but (nominative plural buts)

1. boot

Declension

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse bútr, likely in ablaut relation to Old Norse bauta, Old High German b?zan, Old English b?atan, English beat. Compare Jamtish búss, Norwegian butt, buss.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /b??t/

  Rhymes: -???t

Noun

but m (definite butn)

1. A thick stick.
2. A piece, clod, lump.
3. In general that which is bulky and shapeless.

4. A cumulus cloud.

Derived terms

• (cloud): butes
• butut
• butsko

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /²b??t/

  Rhymes: -???t

Verb

but

1. To earth up potatoes with a certain kind of plough.