To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
To take exception, to object (to or against).
to except to a witness or his testimony
With the exception of; but.
There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
I never made fun of her except teasingly.
Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.