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Definitions for not
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Princeton's WordNet
not, nonadverb
negation of a word or group of words
"he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all"
Wiktionary
notnoun
Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
notadverb
Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
notadverb
To no degree
That is not red; it's orange.
notconjunction
And not.
notinterjection
Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
NOTnoun
A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true.
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Notadverb
Etymology: ne auht , Saxon; niet, Dutch.
If thou be the world’s great parent,
How falls it then that with thy furious fervour
Thou dost afflict as well the not deserver,
As him that doth thy lovely hests despise? Edmund Spenser.His countenance likes me not. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.
The man held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not. Gen. xxiv. 21.
Let each man do as to his fancy seems;
I wait, not I, ’till you have better dreams. Dryden.This objection hinders not but that the heroic action enterprised for the Christian cause, and executed happily, may be as well executed now as it was of old. Dryden.
Grammar being to teach men not to speak, but to speak correctly: where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. John Locke, on Education.
This day, be bread and peace my lot;
All else beneath the sun
Thou know’st if best bestow’d or not,
And let thy will be done. Alexander Pope, Universal Prayer.Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. Job vii. 8.
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not
Not is a term used to indicate the opposite or negation of something. It is a word used to express the absence, rejection, or denial of a particular concept, action, or state. It is often used to negate statements or indicate a contradiction.
Webster Dictionary
Not
wot not; know not; knows not
Notadjective
shorn; shaven
Notadverb
a word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal
Etymology: [OE. not, noht, nought, naught, the same word as E. naught. See Naught.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Not
not, adv. a word expressing denial, negation, or refusal.—Not in it (coll.), having no part in some confidence or advantage. [Same as Naught, from A.S. ná, wiht, a whit.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'not' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #25
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'not' in Written Corpus Frequency: #37
Anagrams for not »
Ont
Ont.
TNO
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of not in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of not in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of not in a Sentence
We chose Costco as a comparison because it is an example of a system where the incentives are set up to deliver value on total cost, much like paper towels, patient cost-sharing for generics in Medicare Advantage Part D tends to be low, but this masks a system that is not currently set up to deliver value to the program overall.
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
Growth President David McIntosh:
He's not a conservative and barely a Republican.
We need to have unified standard that should be verifiable. It should not be based on politics.
I'm amazed there were not more serious (injuries), the damage is pretty bad.
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