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exclude

verb
/ɪksˈkluːd/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).

  1. borrowed from exclūdō

Definitions

  1. To bar (someone or something) from entering

    To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

    • One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
    • [T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.

  2. To expel

    To expel; to put out.

    • to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs

  3. To omit from consideration.

    • Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.

    2. To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

The neighborhood

Derived

excludable, excludee, excluder, excludingly, unexcluding

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exclude. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exclude. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at exclude

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA