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Else

ɛls
In the letter, the man is accused by his lover of having someone else.
In the letter, the man is accused by his lover of having someone else.
Illustrations
Imagination of the saying: it is good to cut belts from someone else's leather. A soldier is sitting at a table in the kitchen and eating a piece of meat. The cook is at the stove and drinks from a bottle. There are also three servants and a cat in the kitchen. Numbered, top center: 8.
Imagination of the saying: it is good to cut belts from someone else's leather. A soldier is sitting at a table in the kitchen and eating a piece of meat. The cook is at the stove and drinks from a bottle. There are also three servants and a cat in the kitchen. Numbered, top center: 8.
Sheet with 20 performances about Jantje who always exchanges his possessions for something else. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: No 49.
Sheet with 20 performances about Jantje who always exchanges his possessions for something else. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: No 49.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
People from the United States eat the most chicken per person than anywhere else in the world
  1. Else
    Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different. "For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide
  1. else
    In another or a different manner; in some other way; to a different purpose; otherwise.
  2. else
    In another or a different case; if the fact were different; otherwise.
  3. else
    Besides; other than the person, thing, place, etc., mentioned: after an interrogative or indefinite pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb (who, what, where, etc., anybody, anything, somebody, something, nobody, nothing, all, little, etc.), as a quasi-adjective, equivalent to other: as, who else is coming? what else shall give you? do you expect anything else?
  4. else
    [The phrases anybody else, somebody else, nobody else, etc., have a unitary meaning, as if one word, and properly take a possessive case (with the suffix at the end of the phrase): as, this is somebody else's hat; nobody else's children act so.]
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
Before 1917, goalies (in hockey) were not allowed to fall to the ice to make saves or else they were penalized.
  1. (pron) Else
    els other
  2. (adv) Else
    otherwise: besides: except that mentioned
Quotations
Ogden Nash
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Stewart Emery
Casey Stengel
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
Casey Stengel
Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. & AS. elles, otherwise, gen. sing. of an adj. signifying other,; akin to OHG. elles, otherwise, OSw. äljes, Sw. eljest, Goth. aljis, adj., other, L. alius, Gr. . Cf. Alias Alien

Usage in the news

Why else would Santa screw over those of Jewish descent every year. therockstation99x.com

With our continuing coverage of the debt ceiling debate, I'm struck by how convinced each side seems to be that its economic conclusions should be obvious to everyone else. scpr.org

Anyone else experience this on a savings account. blog.oregonlive.com

Did Anyone Else Cry During Kristen Wiig's SNL Farewell Last Night. villagevoice.com

Sometimes you want pizza and some days you just want cheese on that pizza and nothing else. mix941kmxj.com

When the first European settlers arrived in North America more than 500 years ago, they dreamed of living in a place where freedom would be cherished and revered more than anywhere else in the world. alaskastar.com

I saw it early this morning on one of my favorite cooking blogs, Smitten Kitchen I can't think about anything else. blog.oregonlive.com

Check your chimney or have someone else do it. newsminer.com

Both have been on board since the eighties and have probably clocked more man hours cooking for the event than anyone else. mensfitness.com

The reason it's still going is something else entirely. csmonitor.com

Paul Golla doesn't want to hear it, but it's indisputable: In Central Section Division I football — again — it's Bakersfield High in the penthouse and everyone else several floors below. clovisindependent.com

Along with everyone else affected by the merger, she went to the Emmet Street store, turned in her old phone, and got one that would work on Cingular 's network. readthehook.com

In Miami, execs introduce shows but say little else about launch of network. variety.com

THE LENGTHS SOME PEOPLE WILL GO TO to foist their beliefs on everyone else. riverinteractive.com

At one end of the fire hose were officers deployed by Bull Connor, the notoriously racist police commissioner fond of telling his men to use sticks, dogs and whatever else was necessary to scatter peaceful black protesters. nola.com

Usage in scientific papers

Here ˜δa,b = 1 if a = b and a is even, else ˜δa,b = 0.
Large characteristic subgroups of surface groups not containing any simple loops

Therefore the above sum is either zero or else the only possible value of j in it is j = ℓ(λ).
Combinatorial formula for Macdonald polynomials, Bethe Ansatz, and generic Macdonald polynomials

Basically, the first time we fold one of these two creases, the staircase must fit within the frame, or else the second of these two creases is blocked.
When Can You Fold a Map?

Else, choose a leaf (v , w) and remove it, leading to a graph G′ .
Core percolation in random graphs: a critical phenomena analysis

Else, choose a leaf (v ′ , w′ ) and remove it.
Core percolation in random graphs: a critical phenomena analysis

Usage in literature

There is nothing else to be asked about a matter; almost nothing else. "The End of a Coil" by Susan Warner

But then Desmond loves a risk better than anything else in life. "Captain Desmond, V.C." by Maud Diver

The lesson must be finished before anything else was done. "Daisy" by Elizabeth Wetherell

Or else keep your hands well outside of the circuit. "Somehow Good" by William de Morgan

Is there nobody else you could ask to get the things for you? "The Wide, Wide World" by Susan Warner

No; there was something else, he could not conjecture what. "The Cryptogram" by James De Mille

He was afraid of nothing else, as far as she could see. "The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea

She kept him in practice when nobody else was at hand. "Phoebe, Junior" by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

There was something else she wanted to hear, it was something else she asked for from the Church. "The Rainbow" by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Full of fear of what else he might see, Gray Cloud raised his eyes. "Shaman" by Robert Shea

Usage in poetry
It was the fair knight Aagen
To an isle he went his way,
And plighted troth to Else,
Who was so fair a may.
Or else kiss away one's soul on her?
Your love-fancies!
—-A sick man sees
Truer, when his hot eyes roll on her!
Moving immutable, bright and grave,
Fair beyond all things fair;
Though all else vanish, save
Imagination's dream.
Aw nivver rammel mich abaat,
Aw've summat else to do;
But yet aw think, withaat a daat,
Aw've seen a thing or two.
Aw can't tell why a lot o' things
Are as they seem to be;
But if its nowt to nubdy else,
Ov coorse its nowt to me.
She said they never wished them
To play–oh, indeed!
They learnt to sew and needlework
Or else to write and read.