Accept vs. Except

By Jaxson

  • Accept (verb)

    To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

  • Accept (verb)

    To admit to a place or a group.

    “The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.”

  • Accept (verb)

    To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

    “I accept the notion that Christ lived.”

  • Accept (verb)

    To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

  • Accept (verb)

    To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

    “I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.”

  • Accept (verb)

    To endure patiently.

    “I accept my punishment.”

  • Accept (verb)

    To agree to pay.

  • Accept (verb)

    To receive officially.

    “to accept the report of a committee”

  • Accept (verb)

    To receive something willingly.

    “I accept.”

  • Accept (adjective)

    Accepted.

  • Except (verb)

    To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

  • Except (verb)

    To take exception, to object (to or against).

    “to except to a witness or his testimony”

  • Except (preposition)

    With the exception of; but.

    “There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.”

  • Except (conjunction)

    With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.

    “You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.”

    “I never made fun of her except teasingly.”

  • Except (conjunction)

    Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

Wiktionary
  • Except (preposition)

    not including; other than

    “they work every day except Sunday”

    “I was naked except for my socks”

  • Except (conjunction)

    used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made

    “I didn’t tell him anything, except that I needed the money”

    “our berets were the same except mine was blue”

  • Except (conjunction)

    unless

    “she never offered advice, except it were asked of her”

  • Except (verb)

    specify as excluded from a category or group

    “five classes of advertisement are excepted from control”

Oxford Dictionary

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