قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

القاموس الإنجليزي-الإنجليزي عبر الإنترنت من The Project Gutenberg

القاموس

Busy (a.)

Careful; anxious.

Busy (v. t.)

To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.

Busybodies (pl. )

of Busybody

Busybody (n.)

One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

Busying (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Busy

But (adv. & conj.)

Except with; unless with; without.

But (adv. & conj.)

Except; besides; save.

But (adv. & conj.)

Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.

But (adv. & conj.)

Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.

But (adv. & conj.)

Only; solely; merely.

But (adv. & conj.)

On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.

But (prep., adv. & conj.)

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.

But (n.)

A limit; a boundary.

But (n.)

The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.

But (v. i.)

See Butt, v., and Abut, v.

But (v. t.)

A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

But (v. t.)

The thicker end of anything. See But.

But (v. t.)

A mark to be shot at; a target.

But (v. t.)

A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.

But (v. t.)

A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.