BUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does but mean? 

• BUT (adverb)
  The adverb BUT has 1 sense:

1. and nothing more

  Familiarity information: BUT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

And nothing more

Synonyms:

but; just; merely; only; simply

Context example:

hopes that last but a moment

 Context examples 

They are too small to fuse hydrogen in their cores, the way most stars do, but also too large to be classified as planets.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)

But other glaciers are being severely undercut out of sight beneath the surface, meaning they could collapse and melt much sooner.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so "far back" in the cosmos is rare.

(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)

I therefore tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I thanked her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Instead, Mars has umbrella-shaped magnetic fields that sprout out of the ground like mushrooms, here and there, but mainly in the southern hemisphere.

(Auroras on Mars, NASA)

The authors found that the sensors in smartphones and similar devices could be used to issue warnings for earthquakes of approximately magnitude 7 or larger, but not for smaller, yet potentially damaging earthquakes.

(Crowdsourced Smartphone Data Could Give Advance Notice for People in Quake Zones, JPL)

It's a perfect storm of extraordinary factors coming together: fire, ice and criminal negligence (...) The fire was known about, but it was played down.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

It was discovered in Scotland 50 years ago, but it wasn’t until more recently — using modern fossil extraction methods — that the bones could be pulled out of hard rock.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Astronomers have carried out other observational tests of dark matter theories before, but ours provides the strongest evidence yet for the presence of small clumps of cold dark matter.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)