 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exception
noun
1: a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the
children, everyone was told the news" [syn: {exclusion},
{elision}]
2: an instance that does not conform to a rule or
generalization; "all her children were brilliant; the only
exception was her last child"; "an exception tests the
rule"
3: grounds for adverse criticism; "his authority is beyond
exception"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exception \Ex*cep"tion\ ([e^]k*s[e^]p"sh[u^]n), noun [L. exceptio:
cf. F. exception.]
1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction
by taking out something which would otherwise be included,
as in a class, statement, rule.
2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person,
thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included;
as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark,
Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.
--Cowper.
Note: Often with to.
That proud exception to all nature's laws.
--Pope.
3. (Law) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course
of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the
decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his
charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal,
impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in
conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts
something before granted. --Burrill.
4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense;
cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
I will never answer what exceptions they can have
against our account [relation]. --Bentley.
He . . . took exception to the place of their
burial. --Bacon.
She takes exceptions at your person. --Shak.
{Bill of exceptions} (Law), a statement of exceptions to the
decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a
cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided
on record so as to bring them before a superior court or
the full bench for review.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
222 Moby Thesaurus words for "exception":
abjuration, abjurement, abnormality, adverse criticism, allowance,
amazement, animadversion, anomaly, answer, argument, aspersion,
astonishing thing, astonishment, bad notices, bad press, ban, bar,
barring, beef, bitch, blockade, blockage, boycott,
call into question, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling,
censoriousness, cession, challenge, charter, chucking,
chucking out, circumscription, complaint, compunction, concession,
condition, contempt, contradiction, conversation piece,
counterstatement, criticism, curio, curiosity, debarment,
debarring, declination, declining, defense, demarcation,
demonstration, demur, demurrer, denial, departure, despisal,
despising, diplomatic immunity, disagree with, disapproval,
discard, discharge, disclamation, discounting, dismissal,
disownment, disregard, embargo, exclusion, exemption,
expostulation, extenuating circumstances, faultfinding, flak,
franchise, freak, gazingstock, grain of salt, grant, grievance,
grievance committee, hairsplitting, hedge, hedging, hit,
home thrust, hostile criticism, howl, hypercriticalness,
hypercriticism, ignoring, immunity, improbability, imputation,
inadmissibility, indignation meeting, injunction, irregularity,
kick, knock, legislative immunity, liberty, license, limitation,
lockout, march, marvel, marvelment, mental reservation, miracle,
modification, museum piece, nagging, narrowing, niggle, niggling,
nit, nit-picking, nonacceptance, nonadmission, nonapproval,
nonconsideration, nonesuch, nonviolent protest, object to,
objection, obloquy, oddity, omission, oppose, overcriticalness,
passing by, patent, peculiarity, permission, pestering,
pettifogging, phenomenon, picketing, plea, pleading, preclusion,
priggishness, privilege, prodigiosity, prodigy, prohibition,
protest, protest demonstration, protestation, provision, proviso,
putting away, putting out, qualification, qualm, quibble,
quibbling, quirk, quite a thing, rally, rap, rarity, rebuff,
rebuttal, recantation, reflection, refusal, refutation, rejection,
release, relegation, remonstrance, remonstration, renouncement,
reply, reproachfulness, repudiation, repulse, reservation,
response, restriction, riposte, salvo, scouting, scruple,
sensation, sight, sit-in, slam, something else, special case,
special demurrer, special pleading, special treatment, specialness,
specification, spectacle, spurning, squawk, statement of defense,
stipulation, strange thing, stricture, strike, string, stunner,
swipe, taboo, take exception to, taking exception, teach-in, term,
throwing out, trichoschistism, turning out, waiver, wonder,
wonderful thing, wonderment
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
exception
An error condition that changes the normal {flow of control}
in a program. An exception may be generated ("raised") by
{hardware} or {software}. Hardware exceptions include
{reset}, {interrupt} or a signal from a {memory management
unit}. Exceptions may be generated by the {arithmetic logic
unit} or {floating-point unit} for numerical errors such as
divide by zero, {overflow} or {underflow} or {instruction
decoding} errors such as privileged, reserved, {trap} or
undefined instructions. Software exceptions are even more
varied and the term could be applied to any kind of error
checking which alters the normal behaviour of the program.
(1994-10-31)
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EXCEPTION, noun A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other
things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. "The
exception proves the rule" is an expression constantly upon the lips
of the ignorant, who parrot it from one another with never a thought
of its absurdity. In the Latin, "_Exceptio probat regulam_" means
that the exception _tests_ the rule, puts it to the proof, not
_confirms_ it. The malefactor who drew the meaning from this
excellent dictum and substituted a contrary one of his own exerted an
evil power which appears to be immortal.
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