exclude

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"We are tempted," said he, "to advocate a law which shall exclude from the National Assembly every man, who, as

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  1. transitive verb To prevent from entering; keep out; bar: a jar sealed to exclude outside air; an immigration policy that excludes undesirables.
  2. transitive verb To prevent from being included, considered, or accepted; reject: The court excluded the improperly obtained evidence.
  3. transitive verb To put out; expel.

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  • If I change the -- exclude to "cover. jpg" since all covers are in jpg on my laptop, then it's not complaining. —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • The forfeiture section was also modified to exclude, as grounds for seizure, the violation of the "anticircumvention" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The old language would have allowed for forfeiture of tools that could be used to circumvent digital rights management software. —  boycott-riaa.com news
  • And the second theory which we cannot exclude, although I personally don't favor it, is that the star indeed is a first star itself, meaning that it formed as one of the very, very first stars in the universe and presumably that happened then within the first billion years. —  Universe Today
  • To that end, I build a text file of corner cases to exclude, that is, search for email addresses that have a pattern of spamming, but exclude the following exceptions ... —  MSDN Blogs
  • I set TI to backup everything and only exclude *. bak, *. tmp and so on (the third check box in the exclusion window). —  Wilders Security Forums
 

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  1. Middle English excluden, from Latin exclūdere : ex-, ex- + claudere, to shut.

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  1. from Middle English excluden, from Latin excludere (later Italian eschiudere, escludere = Spanish Portuguese excluir = Provencal esclaure, esclure = Old French esclore, esclowre, esclure, French exclure), shut out, from ex, out, + claudere, in comp. cludere, shut: see close, close, etc., and clause. Cf. conclude, include, occlude, preclude, seclude.
 

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