all but meaning
EN- AdverbPREall-
- Very nearly.
- The food is all but finished.
- Very nearly.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- With lessons in good behavior all but forgotten in many homes, must teachers now be supernannies?
- But the visitors' win was all but sealed when Diouf was hauled down by Tamas as he raced towards goal late on and the Romanian was duly sent off.
- A single consensus transfrag covers the entire TRα1 coding sequence (exons 2–9), and two non-overlapping transfrags cover all but 25 nt of the Rev-erbα coding sequence (exons 1–8).
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of all but in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
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