📖 E — The English dictionary · page 34

excerpt — Everyday, meaning 1: An excerpt is a short part taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal verb) To excerpt is to take out such a part to show or use it.↗ Example: Read the excerpt from «The Secret Garden».↗ · The test had an excerpt about whales.↗ · We watched an excerpt from the film.↗ · The choir sang an excerpt from the musical.↗ · This excerpt shows how the character feels.↗ · The newspaper printed an excerpt of the speech.↗

excess — Everyday, meaning 1: An amount that is more than is needed, allowed or usual.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: in excess of: more than.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Extra; more than needed.↗ e.g. "excess baggage".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK, Australia) The amount you pay yourself in an insurance claim before the insurer pays.↗ Example: Pour off the excess water.↗ · The lorry was in excess of its weight limit.↗ · We had to pay for excess baggage at the airport.↗ · If the limit is 30 and there are 34, the excess is 4.↗ · Eating sweets to excess is bad for your teeth.↗ · Wipe off the excess paint.↗ · The first-born of these was beautiful beyond compare, whereat the Queen was so very glad, that those present were afraid that her excess of joy would do her harm.↗

excessive — Everyday, meaning 1: Excessive means too much, more than is needed or sensible.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Excessive can mean going beyond what is fair or allowed.↗ Example: Excessive sugar is bad for your teeth.↗ · The driver was stopped for excessive speed.↗ · Don't use an excessive amount of glue.↗ · (formal) Excessive noise is not permitted after 10 pm.↗ · Excessive heat can damage plants.↗ · The punishment seemed excessive for such a small mistake.↗ · A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.↗

excessively — Everyday, meaning 1: Excessively means too much, more than is normal, needed or healthy.↗ Example: Eating sweets excessively is bad for your teeth.↗ · The room was excessively hot, so we opened the windows.↗ · He worried excessively about the test.↗ · The speech was excessively long, and people fell asleep.↗ · Playing video games excessively can make you tired.↗ · The dog barked excessively at the postman.↗ · Do not use the hand cream excessively.↗ · King Pluto had taken a road which now began to grow excessively gloomy.↗

exchange — Everyday, meaning 1: To exchange means to give one thing and get another thing back.↗ An exchange is that swap.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To exchange something in a shop is to take it back and get a different one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To exchange money is to change it into the money of another country.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An exchange is also a short talk between people, or a school exchange where pupils visit another country.↗ Example: She exchanged 10 stickers for 2 cards.↗ · You can exchange 1 dollar for 4 quarters.↗ · How many cards can he get for 20 stickers?↗ · They exchanged gifts.↗ · I exchanged the shoes for a bigger size.↗ · The friends exchanged phone numbers.↗ · In exchange for helping, she got a free ticket.↗ · A French girl came to our school on an exchange.↗ · Shall we exchange?" he asked the toll-keeper.↗ · And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.↗ (Torah GEN.47.17, JPS 1917)↗ · He carved them, hewed them, exchanged them, and formed with them the stars in the World and days in the Year and gates in the Person.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Thus they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.↗ (Writings PSA.106.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold.↗ (Writings JOB.28.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And they shall not sell of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first portion of the land; for it is holy unto the LORD.↗ (Prophets EZK.48.14, JPS 1917)↗

exchangeable — Everyday, meaning 1: Something exchangeable can be swapped or traded for something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In shops, goods that are exchangeable can be taken back and changed for a different item, size or colour.↗ Example: The shoes are exchangeable if they don't fit.↗ · Sale items are not exchangeable.↗ · Tokens are exchangeable for prizes at the arcade.↗ · Pounds are exchangeable for euros at the bank.↗ · In addition, the two numbers are exchangeable: 2 + 5 = 5 + 2.↗ · These parts are exchangeable between the two toy cars.↗

exchanger — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who swaps one kind of money for another, a money-changer.↗

excise — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) Excise, or excise duty, is a tax that the government puts on certain goods made or sold in the country, such as petrol, alcohol and tobacco.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, formal) To excise something is to cut it out or remove it, such as a part of a text or a lump in an operation.↗ Example: The government raised the excise on petrol.↗ · Excise duty makes cigarettes more expensive.↗ · The surgeon excised the lump from her arm.↗ · The editor excised two scenes from the film.↗ · Customs and excise officers check goods at the port.↗ · If the excise is 2 dollars a bottle, 10 bottles carry 20 dollars of excise.↗

excitable — Everyday, meaning 1: Excitable describes a person or animal that gets excited, nervous or upset very easily.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An excitable puppy or child gets wound up quickly and finds it hard to calm down.↗ Example: Our excitable puppy jumps on everyone.↗ · My little cousin gets excitable before birthdays.↗ · The excitable crowd cheered loudly.↗ · Sugar does not really make children excitable, but parties do.↗ · The excitable parrot squawked at every noise.↗ · Take a deep breath if you feel too excitable.↗

excite — Everyday, meaning 1: To excite someone is to make them feel very happy, eager and full of energy about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To excite can mean to make someone nervous, upset or stirred up.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In science, to excite something is to give it energy so it moves or reacts more.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To excite a feeling, such as pity, is to make people feel it.↗ Example: The news of the school trip excited everyone.↗ · Don't excite the dog just before bedtime.↗ · The idea of snow excites my little sister.↗ · The magic show excited the crowd.↗ · Heat excites the tiny particles so they move faster.↗ · Nothing seems to excite him these days.↗ · My broken limb should excite your pity.↗

excited — Everyday, meaning 1: Excited means feeling very happy and full of energy because something good is happening or will happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Excited can mean nervously worked up.↗ e.g. The dog got excited and barked.↗ Example: I am so excited about my birthday!↗ · The children were excited to see the snow.↗ · The dog gets excited when we come home.↗ · She was too excited to sleep before the trip.↗ · We are excited about the school play.↗ · He was excited but a little nervous.↗ · Don't get too excited, it might rain.↗ · The excited crowd cheered.↗ · For suddenly he had become excited and his heart leaped in violent expectation.↗

excitedly — Everyday, meaning 1: In an excited way; full of eager, happy energy or strong feeling.↗ Example: «We're going to the seaside!» she shouted excitedly.↗ · The children chattered excitedly about the school trip.↗ · The puppy wagged its tail excitedly.↗ · Toad danced excitedly around the yellow cart.↗ · Alice ran excitedly after the White Rabbit.↗ · The fans waved their flags excitedly.↗ · He opened his birthday present excitedly.↗ · “Peter,” said Wendy excitedly, “that was Cinderella, and he found her, and they lived happily ever after.”↗

excitement — Everyday, meaning 1: Excitement is the strong happy feeling you have when you are looking forward to something or when something fun or surprising is happening.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Excitement also means activity that makes people feel like this, like the excitement of a fair.↗ Example: The children were full of excitement before the school trip.↗ · I couldn't sleep from excitement the night before my birthday.↗ · The puppy wagged its tail with excitement.↗ · In all the excitement, I forgot my bag.↗ · There was a lot of excitement when it started to snow.↗ · She squealed with excitement when she opened the present.↗ · The excitement of the match made everyone cheer.↗ · Excitement and nerves can feel almost the same.↗ · Full of excitement, Barbaik started on her journey.↗ · == Chapter 5 == [5:1] Twelve Simple Letters, Heh-Waw Zayin-Chet Tet-Yod Lamed-Nun ʽAyin-Samekh Tzadi-Qof—Their foundation is Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Talking, Eating, Sex, Work, Movement, Excitement, Play, Contemplation, Sleep.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelligence, and it is so called bemuse by it is created the Intellect of all created beings under the highest heaven, and the excitement or motion of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

exciting — Everyday, meaning 1: Exciting means making you feel very happy and eager, wanting to know what happens next.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something exciting is new, fun or full of action.↗ Example: Going to the beach tomorrow is so exciting!↗ · The football match was really exciting.↗ · We have some exciting news: a new puppy!↗ · The book has an exciting ending.↗ · It was exciting to see a real rocket launch.↗ · What an exciting day at the science museum!↗ · The last minute of the race was the most exciting.↗ · Write an exciting opening for your story.↗ · "Now comes the exciting part, little Anna.↗ · The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelligence, and it is so called bemuse by it is created the Intellect of all created beings under the highest heaven, and the excitement or motion of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelli- gence, and it is so called because through it is consum- mated and perfected the nature of every existent being under the orb of the Sun, in perfection.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

exclaim — Everyday, meaning 1: To say or shout something suddenly and loudly because you feel surprise, joy, anger or pain.↗ Example: "I won!"↗ Sam exclaimed.↗ · "Ouch!" he exclaimed as he stubbed his toe.↗ · "What a beautiful view!"↗ Gran exclaimed.↗ · The children exclaimed in delight when it snowed.↗ · "That's not fair!" she exclaimed.↗ · He exclaimed that he had found the treasure.↗ · "It's huge!" exclaimed Leo.↗ · "He doesn't smell right!" he exclaimed.↗ · As the prophet Isaiah exclaimed: "Behold!↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

exclamation — Everyday, meaning 1: An exclamation is a short, sudden word or phrase said loudly to show surprise, anger, pain, joy or another strong feeling, like «Wow!» or «Ouch!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An exclamation mark (UK) or exclamation point (US) is the punctuation mark «!».↗ Example: «Ouch!» is an exclamation of pain.↗ · Put an exclamation mark at the end of «What a lovely day!»↗ · She gave an exclamation of delight when she opened the present.↗ · Don't use too many exclamation marks in your story.↗ · «How tall you have grown!» is an exclamation sentence.↗ · There were exclamations of surprise when the magician vanished.↗ · In America it's called an exclamation point.↗ · With an exclamation of sudden understanding the father smote his two hands together.↗

exclude — Everyday, meaning 1: To keep someone or something out; not to let them join or take part.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To leave something out on purpose; not to count it or include it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK school) To send a pupil away from school as a punishment, for a time or for ever.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To decide that something is not possible (exclude a possibility).↗ Example: Don't exclude anyone from the game.↗ · The price is 20 pounds, excluding delivery.↗ · Count the numbers from 1 to 10, excluding 3 and 7.↗ · He was excluded from school for a week.↗ · She felt excluded when they didn't invite her.↗ · The police have excluded the possibility of a fire.↗ · The dumb creature might demand a future life also, and declare the law unjust that excludes it from the advantages of the higher creation."↗

exclusion — Everyday, meaning 1: Keeping someone or something out, or leaving them out: the exclusion of girls from the team.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK schools) Being sent away from school as a punishment (suspension or expulsion).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Something not covered or included, for example in an insurance policy.↗ Example: The pupil got a two-day exclusion for fighting.↗ · Leaving one child out of every game is exclusion, and it hurts.↗ · Nobody may enter the exclusion zone around the volcano.↗ · She practised piano to the exclusion of everything else.↗ · The insurance has some exclusions, like floods.↗ · Our class worked against the exclusion of new children.↗ · How the goddess of discord resented her exclusion from the marriage festivities has already been shown.↗

exclusive — Everyday, meaning 1: Exclusive means only for one person or group, not shared with others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An exclusive shop, club or hotel is expensive and lets in only certain people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) An exclusive is a news story that only one newspaper or channel has.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Exclusive of means not including: the price is exclusive of tax.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (maths) Mutually exclusive events cannot both happen at the same time.↗ Example: This toy is exclusive to our shop.↗ · The price of 50 pounds is exclusive of delivery.↗ · Rolling a 2 and rolling a 5 with one dice are mutually exclusive.↗ · They stayed at an exclusive hotel by the beach.↗ · The newspaper got an exclusive interview with the singer.↗ · The club is exclusive — you need an invitation.↗ · The game has an exclusive level for members.↗ · The Mysteries were celebrated by the Athenians every five years, and were, for a long time, their exclusive privilege.↗