From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
other
adj 1: not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied;
"today isn't any other day"- the White Queen; "the
construction of highways and other public works"; "he
asked for other employment"; "any other person would
tell the truth"; "his other books are still in
storage"; "then we looked at the other house";
"hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex";
"she lived on the other side of the street from me";
"went in the other direction" [ant: same]
2: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need
extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"; "I have no other
shoes"; "there are other possibilities" [syn: extra,
{other(a)}, additional]
3: recently past; "the other evening" [syn: {other(a)}]
4: of the distant past; "the early inhabitants of Europe";
"former generations"; "in other times" [syn: {early(a)},
{former(a)}, {other(a)}]
5: very unusual; different in character or quality from the
normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where
his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Other \Oth"er\ ([u^][th]"[~e]r), conj. [See Or.]
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as
either . . . or are now used). [Obs.]
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Other of chalk, other of glass. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Other \Oth"er\, pron. & a. [AS. [=o][eth]er; akin to OS.
[=a][eth]ar, [=o][eth]ar, D. & G. ander, OHG. andar, Icel.
annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an[thorn]ar, Skr.
antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya
other. [root]180. Cf. Alter.]
Usage: [Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.]
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1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been
specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
of two.
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Each of them made other for to win. --Chaucer.
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Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn
to him the other also. --Matt. v. 39.
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2. Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side
of a river.
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3. Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every;
as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every
second day.
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4. Left, as opposed to right. [Obs.]
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A distaff in her other hand she had. --Spenser.
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Note: Other is a correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun,
often in contrast with one, some, that, this,
etc.
The one shall be taken, and the other left.
--Matt. xxiv.
41.
And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell
into good ground. --Matt. xiii.
7, 8.
It is also used, by ellipsis, with a noun, expressed or
understood.
To write this, or to design the other. --Dryden.
It is written with the indefinite article as one word,
another; is used with each, indicating a reciprocal
action or relation; and is employed absolutely, or
eliptically for other thing, or other person, in which
case it may have a plural.
The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave
their wealth to others. --Ps. xlix.
10.
If he is trimming, others are true. --Thackeray.
Other is sometimes followed by but, beside, or besides;
but oftener by than.
No other but such a one as he. --Coleridge.
Other lords beside thee have had dominion over
us. --Is. xxvi.
13.
For other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid. --1 Cor. iii.
11.
The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been
little other than a preparation for this very
hour. --Hawthorne.
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Other some, some others. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
The other day, at a certain time past, not distant, but
indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day
past.
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Bind my hair up: as 't was yesterday?
No, nor t' other day. --B. Jonson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Other \Oth"er\ ([u^][th]"[~e]r), adv.
Otherwise. "It shall none other be." --Chaucer. "If you think
other." --Shak.
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