other

[oth·er]

Use the adjective other to distinguish something as being different or distinct. You might ask your friend if she's coming to the movies with you, or if she has other plans.

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Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).

Adjective S.
very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow

Adjective
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; "today isn''t any other day"- the White Queen; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are sti


conj.
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).

pron. & a.
Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.

pron. & a.
Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.

pron. & a.
Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.

pron. & a.
Left, as opposed to right.

adv.
Otherwise.


Other

Oth"er conj. [See Or.] Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). [Obs.]
Other of chalk, other of glass.

Other

Oth"er, pron. & a. [AS. er; akin to OS. 'bear, ar, D. & G. ander, OHG. andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. anar, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. &root;180. Cf. Alter.] [Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.] 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
Each of them made other for to win.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
2. Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river. 3. Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day. 4. Left, as opposed to right. [Obs.]
A distaff in her other hand she had.
&hand; Other is a correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun, often in contrast with one, some, that, this, etc.
The one shall be taken, and the other left.
And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell into good ground.
To write this, or to design the other.
It is written with the indefinite article as one word, another; is used with each, indicating a reciprocal action or relation; and is employed absolutely, or eliptically for other thing, or other person, in which case it may have a plural.
The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
If he is trimming, others are true.
Other is sometimes followed by but, beside, or besides; but oftener by than.
No other but such a one as he.
Other lords beside thee have had dominion over us.
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid.
The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour.
Other some, some others. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- The other day, at a certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day past.
Bind my hair up: as't was yesterday? No, nor t' other day.

Other

Oth"er , adv. Otherwise. "It shall none other be." Chaucer. "If you think other." Shak.

Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).

Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.

Otherwise.

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Usage Examples

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

Misspelled Form

other, iother, 9other, 0other, pother, lother, ither, 9ther, 0ther, pther, lther, oither, o9ther, o0ther, opther, olther, orther, o5ther, o6ther, oyther, ogther, orher, o5her, o6her, oyher, ogher, otrher, ot5her, ot6her, otyher, otgher, otgher, otyher, otuher, otjher, otnher, otger, otyer, otuer, otjer, otner, othger, othyer, othuer, othjer, othner, othwer, oth3er, oth4er, othrer, othser, othder, othwr, oth3r, oth4r, othrr, othsr, othdr, othewr, othe3r, othe4r, otherr, othesr, othedr, otheer, othe4r, othe5r, othetr, othefr, othee, othe4, othe5, othet, othef, othere, other4, other5, othert, otherf.

Other Usage Examples

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

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