'Excluding' definitions:
Definition of 'Excluding'
From: GCIDE
- Exclude \Ex*clude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Excluding.] [L. excludere, exclusum; ex out + claudere to shut. See Close.]
- 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. [1913 Webster]
- And none but such, from mercy I exclude. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. [1913 Webster]
- Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excluding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aside from,
- bar,
- barring,
- beside,
- besides,
- but,
- discounting,
- ethnocentric,
- ex,
- except,
- except for,
- excepting,
- exception taken of,
- exceptional,
- exclusive,
- exclusive of,
- exclusory,
- from,
- inadmissible,
- insular,
- leaving out,
- less,
- let alone,
- minus,
- narrow,
- not counting,
- off,
- omitting,
- outside of,
- parochial,
- precluding,
- preclusive,
- prescriptive,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- restrictive,
- save,
- save and except,
- saving,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- snobbish,
- than,
- unless,
- without,
- xenophobic