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E0096400 (ĕls)adj.1. Other; different: Ask somebody else.2. Additional; more: Would you like anything else?adv. In a different or additional time, place, or manner: I always do it this way and I don't know how else it could be done. Where else do you want to go besides Miami?Idiom: or else1. Used to indicate an alternative: We need to eat the leftovers or else buy more food.2. Used to indicate negative consequences that will result if an action is not followed: We need to pay the bill, or else the electricity will be shut off.3. Used after a command or demand to make a threat: Be there on time, or else!

[Middle English elles, from Old English; see al- in Indo-European roots.]Usage Note: Else is often used redundantly in combination with prepositions such as but, except, and besides. The sentence No one else but Sam saw the accident would thus be better without else. · When a pronoun is followed by else, the possessive form is generally written with the 's following else: That must be someone else's (not someone's else) book. Both who else's and whose else are in use, but not whose else's: Who else's book could it have been? Whose else could it have been? · Sometimes the or is dropped from or else so that else functions as a conjunction, as in George Eliot's "My brother is poor, and I want to look as much like him as I can, else he may feel distant from me." This usage is rare in Standard American English, however, and sounds informal or dialectal. See Usage Note at who.

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(ɛls) determiner (postpositive; used after an indefinite pronoun or an interrogative) 1. in addition; more: there is nobody else here. 2. other; different: where else could he be?. advor else a. if not, then: go away or else I won't finish my work today. b. or something terrible will result: used as a threat: sit down, or else!. [Old English elles, genitive of el- strange, foreign; related to Old High German eli- other, Gothic alja, Latin alius, Greek allos]

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adj. 1. other than those or that mentioned: What else could I do? 2. in addition to those mentioned: Who else was there? 3. other (used in the possessive following an indefinite pronoun): someone else's money. adv. 4. if not (usu. prec. by or): It's a macaw, or else I don't know birds. 5. otherwise: How else could I have acted? 6. at another place or time: Where else should I look? Idioms: or else, or suffer the consequences: Do what I say, or else. [before 1000; Middle English, Old English elles (c. Old High German elles) =ell- other (c. Gothic aljis, Latin alius, Old Irish aile, Greek állos other) + -es -s¹] usage: The possessive forms of somebody else, everybody else, etc., are somebody else's, everybody else's, etc., the forms somebody's else, everybody's else now being rare. One exception is the possessive for who else, occasionally formed as whose else (instead of who else's) when a noun does not immediately follow: Is this book yours? Whose else could it be?

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1. used with 'someone', 'somewhere', and 'anything'

You use else after words such as someone, somewhere, or anything to refer to another person, place, or thing, without saying which one.

She had borrowed someone else's hat.Let's go somewhere else.I had nothing else to do.2. used with wh-words

You can use else after most wh-words. For example, if you ask 'What else did they do?', you are asking what other things were done besides the things that have already been mentioned.

What else do I need to do?Who else was there?Why else would he be so angry?Where else could they live in such comfort?How else was I to explain what had happened?

Don't use 'else' after 'which'.

3. 'or else'

Or else is a conjunction with a similar meaning to or. You use it to introduce the second of two possibilities.

She is either very brave or else she must be very stupid.It's likely that someone gave her a lift, or else that she took a taxi.

You also use or else when you are saying that something bad will happen if someone does not do a particular thing.

We need to hurry or else we'll be late.

Translations

其他的别的另外另外的

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(els) adjective, adverb besides; other than that already mentioned. What else can I do? Can we go anywhere else?; He took someone else's pencil. 其他的，别的，另外的 ˌelseˈwhere adverb in, or to, another place; somewhere or anywhere else. You must look elsewhere if you want a less tiring job. 在别处，到别处 or else otherwise. He must have missed the train – or else he's ill.否则

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→ 另外zhCN

Do you have anything else? (US)
Have you anything else? (UK) → 还有其它的吗？

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something else (again)

something entirely different. Borrowing is one thing, but stealing is something else. Skindiving is easy and fun, but scuba diving is something else again.

See:

(one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
(something) is one thing, (something else) is (quite) another
(will there be) anything else?
above all (else)
all else being equal
all other things (else) being equal
alternate between
anything else?
as much as anything (else)
balance (something) against (something else)
balance (something) with (something else)
be not so much (something) as (something else)
between
compound (something) with (something else)
confuse with
draw a line between
draw a line between (two things)
draw the line between and else Go to draw a line between
else
envision (someone or something) as (someone or something else)
envision as else
equate
fashion (something) after (something else)
fashion (something) into (something else)
fashion (something) on (something else)
fashion (something) out of (something else)
hover between (something) and (something else)
if (something) catches a cold, (something else) gets pneumonia
if (something) sneezes, (something else) catches a cold
if all else fails
if nothing else
in else's shoes
in someone else's place
in someone else's shoes
in someone's shoes
insert between
intervene between (multiple people)
it's one thing to (do something), it's another to (do something else)
it's one thing to (do sth), it's another thing to (do sth else)
it's one thing to (do sth), it's quite another to (do sth else)
join with else Go to join with
lead (someone or something) against (someone or something else)
liken (someone or something) to (someone or something else)
long on (something) and short on (something else)
Lord High Everything Else
lump (someone or something) together
lump and else together
match (someone or something) against (someone or something else)
match (someone or something) with (someone or something else)
mean (something) as (something else)
measure (someone or sth) (up) against (someone or sth else)
migrate between (some place or sth) and (some place or sth else)
migrate between some place and some place else
migrate from (some place or sth) to (some place or sth else)
mistake for
mix (one) up with (someone)
mix up with else Go to mistake for
mixed up with
model (oneself or something) on (someone or something else)
model (something) after (something else)
model (something) on (something else)
mount (something) on (something else)
nail (something) onto (something else)
name (someone or something) for (someone or something)
name after
name for else Go to name after
no sooner (do something) than (do something else)
not only (something), but (also) (something else)
now (something), now (something else)
or else
other things being equal
palm (something) off (on one) (as something else)
parlay (something) into (something else)
pass (someone or something) off (as something else)
pattern (something) after (something else)
pattern (something) on (something else)
pawn (something) off (on one) (as something else)
pit (someone or something) against (someone or something else)
place (someone or something) next to (someone or something else)
plant (something) in (something else)
play (something) off as (something else)
pock (something) with (something else)
pollute (something or some place) with (something else)
power (something) with (something else)
predicate (something) on (something else)
predicate (something) upon (something else)
prefer (someone or something) to (someone or something else)
prefix (something) to (something else)
press (something) onto (something else)
press (something) out of (something else)
print (something) in (something else)
prize (someone or something) above (someone or something else)
promote (one) from (something) to (something else)
provide (something) under (something else)
prune (something) of (something else)
put (one's) pants on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
put (one's) trousers on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
put (oneself) in (someone's) place
put (oneself) in (someone's) shoes
put (someone or something) next to (someone or something else)
put (something) down to (something else)
put in place
puts (one's) trousers on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
rake (something) out of (something else)
rate below (someone or something)
rate below else Go to rate below
reclaim (someone or something) from (someone or something else)
reconstruct (something) from (something else)
rinse (something) out of (something else)
sacrifice (someone or something) for (someone or something else)
sacrifice (someone or something) to (someone or something else)
sail from (some place) to (some place else)
sail from some place to some place else
sandwich (someone or something) between (someone or something else)
scale (something) to (something else)
scoop (something) out of (something else)
scour (something) off of (something else)
scour (something) out of (something else)
scratch (something) and you'll find (something else)
scrub (something) out of (something else)
see (something) against (something else)
segregate from
segregate from (someone or something)
segregate from else Go to segregate from
segregate into (something or some place)
separate from
separate from (someone or something)
separate from else Go to separate from
set (someone or something) back from (someone or something else)
short on (something) (and long on something else)
shroud (something) in (something else)
sift (something) from (something else)
sift (something) out of (something else)
snatch (someone or something) from (someone or something else)
snip (something) off of (something else)
so (something) as (something)
soak (something) off of (something else)
soak (something) out of (something else)
something else
something else again
something else entirely
something else, he/she/it is
splice (something) to (something else)
stitch (something) onto (something else)
stock (something) with (something else)
strain (something) off of (something else)
sub for
sub for (someone or something)
substitute for
substitute for (someone or something)
suffix (something) onto (something else)
switch from (something) (to something else)
tack (something) onto (something else)
tell (someone or something) from (someone or something else)
tell from else
tell from else Go to tell from
there's nothing (else) for it (but to do something)
torn between
treat (someone or something) as (someone or something else)
treat (someone or something) like (someone or something else)
vary between
What else can I do for you?
what else is new
What else is new?
What more can I do?
when (something) catches a cold, (something else) gets pneumonia
when (something) sneezes, (something else) catches a cold
You and who else?
You are else!

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