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Not unless; used to introduce a necessary condition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The company will succeed only if it has sufficient backing.
- 1965 June 4, John W. Tukey, Data Analysis and the Frontiers of Geophysics, in Science New Series, 148(3675), page 1288, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-8075%2819650604%293%3A148%3A3675%3C1283%3ADAATFO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N This is a somewhat paradoxical conclusion, and we can be happy to learn that it follows only if we can trust, precisely and in detail, the assumed way in which the probability of occurrence of a deviation decreases as the size of that deviation increases.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
never except when
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- call me only if your cold gets worse
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: only, only when
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
只有...才
(zhǐyǒu...cái)
— not unless
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Finnish:
vain, jos
— not unless
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French:
ne que si
— not unless
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German:
nur wenn
— not unless
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Hungarian:
csak akkor
— not unless
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Hungarian:
csakis akkor
— not unless
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Lithuanian:
tik jei
— not unless
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
berre viss
— not unless
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Polish:
tylko jeżeli
— not unless
