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ইংরেজি
সম্পাদনা
ব্যুৎপত্তি
সম্পাদনামধ্যযুগীয় ইংরেজি but থেকে, buten, boute, bouten, Old English būtan থেকে, প্রত্ন-পশ্চিম জার্মানি *biūtan থেকে, *biūtini থেকে।
উচ্চারণ
সম্পাদনা- (stressed, যুক্তরাজ্য) আধ্বব(চাবি): /bʌt/, [bɐt], ইংরেজি উচ্চারণ: bŭt
- (stressed, US) আধ্বব(চাবি): /bʌt/, ইংরেজি উচ্চারণ: bŭt
- (stressed, উত্তরern England) আধ্বব(চাবি): /bʊt/
অডিও (US): (file) অডিও (AU): (file) - (unstressed) আধ্বব(চাবি): /bət/, ইংরেজি উচ্চারণ: bət
- অন্ত্যমিল: -ʌt
- সমোচ্চারিত: butt
Preposition
সম্পাদনা- ছাড়া, ছাড়া (এর জন্য), বাদ।
- আরো দেখুন:apart from, except (for), excluding.
- (স্কটল্যান্ডের বাইরে অপ্রচলিত) এর বাইরে।
- Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
ক্রিয়াবিশেষণ
সম্পাদনাbut (not comparable)
- (chiefly literary or poetic) Merely, only, just, no more than
- লুয়া ত্রুটি মডিউল:parse_utilities এর 496 নং লাইনে: attempt to call method 'match' (a nil value)।
- Christmas comes but once a year.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 7:4:
- If they kill us, we shall but die.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1791, Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss:
- For to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- ১৮৫৪ আগস্ট ৯, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- ১৯০০ মে ১৭, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
- Now the Wicked Witch of the পশ্চিম had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
- Black Knight: "'Tis but a scratch." King Arthur: "A scratch? Your arm's off!"
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 49:
- The stony outcrops are often covered but thinly with arable soil; winters are bitingly cold, and rainfall scanty and unpredictable.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1990, Claude de Bèze, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, 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.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (Australia, Geordie, conjunctive) Though, however.
- লুয়া ত্রুটি মডিউল:parse_utilities এর 496 নং লাইনে: attempt to call method 'match' (a nil value)।
- I'll have to go home early but.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- 1906, "Steele Rudd", Back At Our Selection, page 161:
- "Supposin' the chap ain't dead, but?" Regan persisted.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
Conjunction
সম্পাদনাbut
- However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
- She is very old but still attractive.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- 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).
- I am not rich but [I am] poor. Not John but Peter went there.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- (colloquial) Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.
- But I never said you could do that!
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- লুয়া ত্রুটি মডিউল:quote এর 2972 নং লাইনে: Parameter "volume" is not used by this template.।
- লুয়া ত্রুটি মডিউল:quote এর 2972 নং লাইনে: Parameter "volume" is not used by this template.।
- লুয়া ত্রুটি মডিউল:quote এর 2972 নং লাইনে: Parameter "volume" is not used by this template.।
- 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".
- I cannot but feel offended.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- লুয়া ত্রুটি মডিউল:quote এর 2972 নং লাইনে: Parameter "volume_plain" is not used by this template.।
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- And but my noble Moor is true of mind
[…] it were enough to put him to ill thinking.- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part II, page 43:
- A deadly silence step by step increased,
Until it seem'd a horrid presence there,
And not a man but felt the terror in his hair.- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- ১৮৫৪ আগস্ট ৯, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (colloquial) Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.
- Wow! But that's amazing!
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- 2013, Nora Roberts, আইরিশ Thoroughbred[১], Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 25:
- "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 […] "
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (archaic) Without it also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
- It never rains but it pours.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Unseasonable Discords betwixt King Baldwine and His Mother; Her Strength in Yeelding to Her Sonne”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 84:
- This man unable to manage his own happineſſe, grew ſo inſolent that he could not go, but either ſpurning his equals, or trampling on his inferiours.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in ইংরেজি; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:
- Observe but how their own principles combat one another.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- a formidable man but to his friends
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (obsolete) Until.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- 'Tshall not be long but I'll be here again.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (obsolete, following a negated expression of improbability) That. [16th–19th c.]
- 1784, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 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.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 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 […] .- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- 1813 July, Journal of Natural Philosophy:
- It is not improbable but future observations will add Pliny's Well to the class of irregular reciprocators.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
Usage notes
সম্পাদনা- It is generally considered colloquial to use but at the beginning of a sentence, with other conjunctions such as however or although being preferred in formal writing.
- But this tool has its uses.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- However, this tool has its uses.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- Although this tool does have its uses.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
Synonyms
সম্পাদনা- abbur (Chester)
- (except): bar, unless, excepting, excluding, with the exception of, without
- (however): yet, although, ac
Translations
সম্পাদনাalthough
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rather
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except
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solely, only, merely (obsolete)
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বিশেষ্য
সম্পাদনাbut (plural buts)
- An instance of using the word "but"; an objection or caveat.
- It has to be done—no ifs, ands, or buts.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
- ২০১৬ ডিসেম্বর ২৮, Concepcion de Leon, “5 Things Well-Meaning People Say to Me That Are Actually Really Offensive”, in Glamour[২], Greenwich, C.T., […]: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-08:
- "I support you/understand where you're coming from, but..." ¶ No. No "buts" when it comes to other people's survival.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- ২০১৮ সেপ্টেম্বর ১৭, Catriona Harvey-Jenner, “8 foods you should never eat before a workout”, in Cosmopolitan[৩], New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-28:
- But - and this is a pretty important but - it's just as bad to eat the wrong thing before a workout as it is to eat nothing at all.
- (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
- (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
- A limit; a boundary.
- The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
উদ্ভূত শব্দ
সম্পাদনাক্রিয়া
সম্পাদনাbut (third-person singular simple present buts, বর্তমান কৃদন্ত পদ butting, simple past and past participle butted)
- (archaic) Use the word "but".
- But me no buts.
- (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)
উদ্ভূত শব্দ
সম্পাদনাTerms derived from the preposition, adverb, conjunction, or noun but
তথ্যসূত্র
সম্পাদনা- “but”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- লুয়া ত্রুটি মডিউল:quote এর 896 নং লাইনে: |date= should contain a full date (year, month, day of month); use |year= for year।