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    Definition of all but in English Dictionary

  • AdverbPREall-
    1. Very nearly.
      1. The food is all but finished.
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    1. 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).
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adverbs
      • Uncomparable adverbs
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    Source: Wiktionary

    Meaning of all but for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this idiom "all but" is an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb.
    Definiteness: Level 1
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