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anything else
1. pron. Any other thing. (translation only)
Would you like anything else?
Analysis
anything		©
1. pron. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
I would not do it for anything or any ring.
2. pron. (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison.
3. n. Someone or something of importance.
4. adv. In any way, any extent or any degree.
else		©
1. adj. (postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
2. adv. (follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.
How else (=in what other way) can it be done?
I'm busy Friday; when else (=what other time) works for you?

Example Sentences

It's more verbal than anything else, but there might have been a few people trying to blood each other.  Forgive me my lords, or my bishops, or anything else that's sitting around.  Is there anything else you haven't told me about that last expedition?  Let me know if the autopsy turns up anything else.  It was too hammered for anything else to work.

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