(Homonym: butt).
1. A word expressing contrast or opposition between two phrases.
2. Except.

Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though.

But nevertheless; but

1. A short substitute or nickname for a table name.
2. An alternative label for some object, such as a file or data collection.
3. A name used to direct e-mail messages to a person or group of people on a network.
4. A false signal that results from the digitization of an analog audio sample.

ETYM Latin, elsewhere, at another place. Related to Alias.
(Law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
Plea that, at the time when act was committed, one was elsewhere than at the place where act was committed; proof of such a plea.
In law, a provable assertion that the accused was at some other place when a crime was committed.

Act or state of attaching or being attached; Arithmetic, archaic method of solving “mixture” problems; “rule of mixtures”.

ETYM Spanish el lagarto the lizard (el lagarto de Indias, the cayman or American crocodile), from Latin lacertus, lacerta, lizard. Related to Lizard.
1. Either of two amphibious reptiles with shorter broader snouts than crocodiles.
2. Leather made from alligator's hide.
Reptile of the genus Alligator, related to the crocodile. There are two species: A. mississipiensis, the Mississippi alligator of the southern states of the US, and A. sinensis from the swamps of the lower Chang Jiang River in China. The former grows to about 4 m/12 ft, but the latter only to 1.5 m/5 ft. Alligators lay their eggs in sand; they swim well with lashing movements of the tail; they feed on fish and mammals but seldom attack people.
The skin is of value for fancy leather, and alligator farms have been established in the US. Closely related are the caymans of South America; these belong to the genus Caiman.

ETYM Old Eng. aliaunce, Old Fren. aliance, French alliance, from Old Fren. alier, French allier. Related to Ally, Late Lat. alligantia.
1. The state of being allied or confederated; SYN. confederation.
2. A formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim.
3. An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty; SYN. coalition, alignment, alinement.
4. A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest; SYN. bond.

ETYM Latin, otherwise, at another time.
A.k.a.
A name that has been assumed temporarily; SYN. assumed name, false name.
Assumed name.

ETYM French aliénation, Latin alienatio, from alienare, from alienare. Related to Alienate.
Sense of isolation, powerlessness, and therefore frustration; a feeling of loss of control over one's life; a sense of estrangement from society or even from oneself. As a concept it was developed by German philosophers G W F Hegel and Karl Marx; the latter used it as a description and criticism of the condition that developed among workers in capitalist society.
The term has also been used by non-Marxist writers and sociologists (in particular Emile Durkheim in his work Suicide 1897) to explain unrest in factories and to describe the sense of powerlessness felt by groups such as young people, black people, and women in Western industrial society.
1. Separation resulting from hostility; SYN. estrangement.
2. The feeling of being alienated from other people; SYN. disaffection, estrangement.

1. The quality of being alien
2. Study of mental disease; expert in alienism; American, psychiatrist specialising in legal aspects of mental illness.