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No

//niː// adj, adv, det, name, noun, particle, prep, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Initialism of normally open. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Adjective

1
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of wordnet

Adverb

1
Alternative form of No.. alt-of, alternative, archaic, not-comparable
2
Not, not at all.; Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives. not-comparable
"It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome."
3
Alternative form of No.. alt-of, alternative, archaic, not-comparable
4
Not, not at all.; Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives. informal, not-comparable
"This thing is no good."
5
Not. Scotland, informal, not-comparable
"I just want to find out whether she's coming or no."

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6
Not, does not, do not, etc. colloquial, humorous, not-comparable, usually
"Ug no like veggie."

Adverb

1
used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc. or especially to emphasize a negative statement wordnet
2
not in any degree or manner; not at all wordnet
3
referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present wordnet

Determiner

1
Not any.
"no one"
2
Hardly any.
"We'll be finished in no time at all."
3
Not any possibility or allowance of (something).
"No smoking. No parking."
4
Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
"My mother's no fool."

Proper Noun

1
Initialism of Novus Ordo. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2
A lake in South Sudan.
3
A county of South Sudan.

Noun

1
Alternative form of No.. alt-of, alternative
2
Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
3
A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.
"Q: I'll answer any ten questions that call for a yes or a no."
4
Alternative form of No.. alt-of, alternative
5
a negative wordnet

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6
A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
"The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty yeses and two nos."
7
a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known wordnet

Particle

1
Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
"No, you are mistaken."
2
Used to express sadness or disappointment.
"We lost. / No!"
3
Used to express disbelief.
"I got the job! / No! Really? That's fantastic!"
4
Used to show agreement with a negative question.
""Don’t you like milk?" "No." (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")"
5
Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement. colloquial
"No, totally."

Preposition

1
Without.
"Look Ma, no hands!"
2
Like.

Verb

1
To say “no”. colloquial, intransitive
"She felt disquiet at these tales of Musa’s illicit activities. ‘Does your father know?’ / ‘My father always noes. He never yeses. Specially when he’s sick, then he noes all the time. I gotta get out. Can’t stick around the house with him yelling.[…]’"
2
To answer with “no”; to decline, reject. colloquial, transitive
"Never accustom yourself to say ‘Yes,’—practise an emphatic and decisive enunciation of the far more dignified and important monosyllable, ‘No.’ […] Believe me, it is of the utmost importance (the advice is not of recent date) that you should No the world."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin numero (“in number, to the number of”).

Etymology 2

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin numero (“in number, to the number of”).

Etymology 3

A macronless variant of Nō, the romanization of Japanese 能 (Nō, “[performing] skill, talent”).

Etymology 4

Inherited from Middle English no, noo, na, a reduced form of none, noon, nan (“none, not any”) used before consonants (compare a to an), from Old English nān (“none, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“not any”, literally “not one”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + a. Piecewise doublet of none Cognate with Scots nae (“no, not any, none”), Old Frisian nān, nēn ("no, not any, none"), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), North Frisian nian (“no, not any, none”), Old Dutch nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Dutch neen (“no”)), Old Norse neinn (“no, not any, none”). Compare also Old Saxon nigēn ("not any"; > Low German nen), Old Dutch nehēn (Middle Dutch negheen/negeen, Dutch geen), West Frisian gjin, Old High German nihein (> German kein). More at no, one.

Etymology 5

Inherited from Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-West Germanic *naiwō, from Proto-Germanic *naiwô (“never”), *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *né, *nē, *nēy (negative particle), equivalent to Old English ne (“not”) + ā, ō (“ever, always”). Cognate with Scots na (“no”), Saterland Frisian noa (“no”), West Frisian né (“no”), nea (“never”), Dutch nee (“no”), Low German nee (“no”), German nie (“never”), dialectal German nö (“no”), Danish nej (“no”), Swedish nej (“no”), Icelandic nei (“no”). More at nay.

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Etymology 10

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin (in) numerō (“in number, to the number of”).

Etymology 11

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin (in) numerō (“in number, to the number of”).

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