barring
preposition (from the verb bar, barred, barring)
Everyday
Barring means except for, leaving out one thing or person from what is said. tree →
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.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «barring» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «barring» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/barring/