exclude
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
exclude/ɪkˈskluːd/
▶verb
- 1 deny access to; keep out.
■ expel (a pupil) from a school.
- 2 remove from consideration.
■ prevent the occurrence of.
– phrases
law (or principle) of the excluded middle Logic the principle that one (and one only) of two contradictory propositions must be true.
law (or principle) of the excluded middle Logic the principle that one (and one only) of two contradictory propositions must be true.
– derivatives
excludable adjective,
excluder noun.
excludable adjective,
excluder noun.
– origin ME: from L. exclus-, excludere, from ex- ‘out’ + claudere ‘to shut’.
'exclude' also found in these Oxford entries:
bar
- block
- clannish
- crowd
- cut
- debar
- disbar
- disfellowship
- double glazing
- drop
- eliminate
- ex-
- exclusionist
- exclusive
- excommunicate
- factor
- Faraday cage
- floodgate
- freeze
- include
- lock
- medicine
- net
- not
- omit
- ostracize
- oust
- political correctness
- rule
- shade
- shut
- sluice
- sunblind
