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but

উইকিঅভিধান, মুক্ত অভিধান থেকে

ইংরেজি

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উইকিপিডিয়ায় এই বিষয় সম্পর্কে একটি নিবন্ধ আছে; সেজন্য দেখুন:

ব্যুৎপত্তি

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মধ্যযুগীয় ইংরেজি but থেকে, buten, boute, bouten, Old English būtan থেকে, Proto-West Germanic *biūtan থেকে, *biūtini থেকে।

উচ্চারণ

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Preposition

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  1. ছাড়া, ছাড়া (এর জন্য), বাদ।
    1. আরো দেখুন:apart from, except (for), excluding.
  2. (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

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but (not comparable)

  1. (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)
  2. (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

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but

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. (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)
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X:
      In reality, I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido, but that happily very few of our play-house critics understand enough of লাতিন to read Virgil.
      (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
    • ২০১৩ জুলাই ১৯, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
      Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.
      Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
      (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
    • ২০১৩ জুন ২৯, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
      Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
      (please add an English translation of this উক্তি)
  4. 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)
  5. (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)
  6. (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)
  7. (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)
  8. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
  9. (obsolete) Until.
  10. (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

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  • 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

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Translations

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বিশেষ্য

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but (plural buts)

  1. 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)
  2. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
  3. A limit; a boundary.
  4. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.

উদ্ভূত শব্দ

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ক্রিয়া

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but (third-person singular simple present buts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

  1. (archaic) Use the word "but".
    But me no buts.
    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

উদ্ভূত শব্দ

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Terms derived from the preposition, adverb, conjunction, or noun but

তথ্যসূত্র

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“but”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

“but”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587.

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