barring

«barring» in Mova's school dictionary: except for, leaving out one thing or person from what is… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

preposition (from the verb bar, barred, barring)

meaning for a pupil

Barring means except for, leaving out one thing or person from what is said. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the lessons, it leaves one thing out of a list or count, as in "all the sweets, barring the sour ones".

examples

• Everyone came, barring Sam, who was ill. tree →
• We can play any game, barring football. tree →
• All the bees were friendly, barring one. tree →

note

it takes one thing out of the group, so that group is one less; 'all of them barring one' means the total minus one.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «barring» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.