Exclude
[ɪk'skluːd;ek-] or [ɪk'sklʊd]
Definition
(verb.) prevent from being included or considered or accepted; 'The bad results were excluded from the report'; 'Leave off the top piece'.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) lack or fail to include; 'The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages'.
Typist: Ruth--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
Editor: Percival
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bar, debar, preclude, reject, shut out.[2]. Prohibit, restrain, hinder, withhold.[3]. Expel, eject, thrust out.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ADMIT]
Edited by Juanita
Definition
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.).
Typist: Nora
Examples
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You will not exclude me from your confidence if you admit me to your heart? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Two non-entities cannot exclude each other from their places; because they never possess any place, nor can be endowed with any quality. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- At any rate, the contrary issue must exclude you from further reception at my house. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It operates to exclude recognition of everything except what squares up with the fixed end in view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As in the one case they exclude many people from his employment, so in the other they exclude him from many employments. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We have done our best to exclude from it every passionate interest that is capable of lighting up activity with eagerness and joy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At that moment the parting was easy to bear: the first sense of loving and being loved excluded sorrow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- When the hour came for locking up, he supposed all strangers to be excluded for the night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She was excluded from the room, while Dixon was admitted. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That of an individual is totally excluded from making any part of his neat revenue, which must consist altogether in his profits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By the use of l inen smeared with gum they excluded all putrefactive agencies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Colour is excluded from any real existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The column moving detached from the army still in the trenches was, excluding the cavalry, very small. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When I oppose it to reason, I mean the same faculty, excluding only our demonstrative and probable reasonings. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- At first it gave Home Rule to all Ireland; but an Amending Act, excluding Ulster on certain conditions, was promised. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Visitors they both of them agreed in excluding sedulously from the sickroom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The only way to preserve it for any length of time is to surround it with a heat-excluding jacket. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You have done your duty in excluding, now let me do mine in admitting her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The most familiar forms of the telephone are those seen in Figs. 61 and 62, but the ideal form is rigged in a cabinet or little room, which excludes all extraneous interfering sounds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This excludes those that did not get up, all of McClernand's command except Hovey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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