Besides
preposition
In addition to; apart from.
Besides being a talented musician, he is also a brilliant painter.
Often appears as...
- besides being
- besides having
adverb
Furthermore; also.
I don't want to go to a restaurant. Besides, we don't have enough money.
Often appears as...
- besides
- i
preposition
Except for; not considering as a factor.
Who is there besides me?
Often appears as...
- besides me
- who else
adverb
In a way to the side.
She sat down beside him
Often appears as...
- beside him
- beside her
preposition
In addition to; apart from.
Besides being a talented musician, he is also a brilliant painter.
Often appears as...
- besides being
- besides having
adverb
Furthermore; also.
I don't want to go to a restaurant. Besides, we don't have enough money.
Often appears as...
- besides
- i
preposition
Except for; not considering as a factor.
Who is there besides me?
Often appears as...
- besides me
- who else
adverb
In a way to the side.
She sat down beside him
Often appears as...
- beside him
- beside her
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Additional Qualities
Use 'besides' to highlight more than one skill or interest someone has.
She's a skilled photographer; besides, she writes beautiful poetry.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just One
'Besides' signals that what follows is an addition to what has already been mentioned.
Besides his teaching job, he volunteers at the hospital.
Pro Tip 1/2Additional Qualities
Use 'besides' to highlight more than one skill or interest someone has.
She's a skilled photographer; besides, she writes beautiful poetry.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just One
'Besides' signals that what follows is an addition to what has already been mentioned.
Besides his teaching job, he volunteers at the hospital.
Pro Tip 1/2Additional Qualities
Use 'besides' to highlight more than one skill or interest someone has.
She's a skilled photographer; besides, she writes beautiful poetry.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just One
'Besides' signals that what follows is an addition to what has already been mentioned.
Besides his teaching job, he volunteers at the hospital.
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How to use rhetoric to...
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense?
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How Mendel's pea plants...
showing the two possible phenotypes in a three-to-one proportion. But even peas have a lot of characteristics. For example, besides being yellow or green, peas may be round or wrinkled. So we could have all these possible round yellow peas, round green peas, wrinkled yellow peas, wrinkled green peas.
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How One Community Saved...
It is a way of preserving the reef and dedicating ourselves to something else, They began to prefer transporting tourists because they knew they got paid well and they consumed less fuel. Besides, they were home early and that's what encouraged them to give up the fishing.
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What causes cavities? -...
besides reducing our intake of sugar and starch. In most toothpastes and many water supplies, we use tiny amounts of fluoride. That strengthens teeth and encourages the growth of enamel crystals that build up a tooth's defenses against acid. When cavities do develop,
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Are you a body with a...
with the external world. Every sight, sound, and touch create new maps and representations in the brain that eventually become responsible for regulating our experience of self. And we have other senses, besides the typical five, such as the sense of balance
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Why city flags may be...
Sports teams can leave and break our hearts. And besides, some of us don't really care about sports. And tourism campaigns can just be cheesy. But a great city flag is something that represents a city to its people and its people to the world at large.
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Defying stereotypes: the...
kind of conflicted with his values and he said I was out paying for my own children's education thank you so that journey began but besides that teachers extraordinary move for my mother's generation working was normal a lot of women worked
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The benefits of a...
chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority. And besides having an easier time traveling or watching movies without subtitles, knowing two or more languages means that your brain
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Bear Caught Eating Junk...
often fight over fools and only the brownest wins the right to eat but in Mammoth the pickings are so rich that a peaceful solution can usually be found besides when your heads in a box the
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The nurdles' quest for...
and they come from other sources besides nurdles, too. You know those tiny beads you see in your face wash or your toothpaste? They're often made of plastic, and after you flush them down the drain, some also end up in this giant garbage patch, much to the delight of the nurdles, building up their plastic army there.
Video examples
How to use rhetoric to...
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense?
Video examples
How Mendel's pea plants...
showing the two possible phenotypes in a three-to-one proportion. But even peas have a lot of characteristics. For example, besides being yellow or green, peas may be round or wrinkled. So we could have all these possible round yellow peas, round green peas, wrinkled yellow peas, wrinkled green peas.
Video examples
How One Community Saved...
It is a way of preserving the reef and dedicating ourselves to something else, They began to prefer transporting tourists because they knew they got paid well and they consumed less fuel. Besides, they were home early and that's what encouraged them to give up the fishing.
Video examples
What causes cavities? -...
besides reducing our intake of sugar and starch. In most toothpastes and many water supplies, we use tiny amounts of fluoride. That strengthens teeth and encourages the growth of enamel crystals that build up a tooth's defenses against acid. When cavities do develop,
Video examples
Are you a body with a...
with the external world. Every sight, sound, and touch create new maps and representations in the brain that eventually become responsible for regulating our experience of self. And we have other senses, besides the typical five, such as the sense of balance
Video examples
Why city flags may be...
Sports teams can leave and break our hearts. And besides, some of us don't really care about sports. And tourism campaigns can just be cheesy. But a great city flag is something that represents a city to its people and its people to the world at large.
Video examples
Defying stereotypes: the...
kind of conflicted with his values and he said I was out paying for my own children's education thank you so that journey began but besides that teachers extraordinary move for my mother's generation working was normal a lot of women worked
Video examples
The benefits of a...
chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority. And besides having an easier time traveling or watching movies without subtitles, knowing two or more languages means that your brain
Video examples
Bear Caught Eating Junk...
often fight over fools and only the brownest wins the right to eat but in Mammoth the pickings are so rich that a peaceful solution can usually be found besides when your heads in a box the
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I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
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Besides acting, writing has been my passion for a long time.
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Besides makeup, my other passion is music.
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John Cusack
American Actor
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
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Jackie Chan
Chinese Actor
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Jane Levy
American Actress
All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.
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John Varvatos
American Designer
My passion in life, besides my family, was always music. From the time I was a kid, I was obsessed. I'm like the ultimate fan.
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Jake LaMotta
American Athlete
I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.
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Eric Bledsoe
American Athlete
People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.
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Hack Wilson
American Athlete
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
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Antara Mali
Indian Actress
Besides acting, writing has been my passion for a long time.
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Jeffree Star
American Celebrity
Besides makeup, my other passion is music.
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