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noun
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
- One of the four round pedestals (the nails) in Bristol.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches).
verb
- To employ a nail as a fastener to join objects together.
- (slang) catch.
- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 261a.
- : we'll the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
- (slang) expose as a sham.
- (slang) accomplish something completely and successfully.
- I really nailed that test.
- (slang) hit a target effectively with some weapon.
- (slang) engage in sexual intercourse.
| | | name |
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noun
- Any word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- 1904, w:L. Frank Baum, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
- : So good a man as this must surely have a .
- Reputation.
- 1604, w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, w:Othello, Othello, III-iii ,
- : Good in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.34.42.html
- 1952, w:Old Testament, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13,
- : And David won a for himself.http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1
- (computing): A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
verb (nam, ing)
- (transitive) To give a name to.
- 1904: w:L. Frank Baum, L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz " I will the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- He named his demands.
- You it!
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- naming the problem
- (transitive) To publicly implicate.
- The painter was named as an accomplice.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
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noun
- The essential characteristics
- Albert Camus' book Le Mythe de Sisyphe is of philosophical nature.
- A wild primitive state of being
- The summary of everything that has to do with biological and geographical states and events on earth
- The environment, the outdoors
| | naught |
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noun
- zero
- Yet another on the scoreboard for the home team.
- nothing; nothingness
- Naught can come of this, you mark my words. ''
pronoun
- nothing
| | necessity |
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noun (necessities)
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
- The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
- That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. - q:Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
- That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
| | need |
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noun
- Something needed.
- I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter.
verb
- (transitive): To have an absolute requirement for.
- Living things water to survive.
- (transitive): To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
- (modal verb) To be obliged or required to.
- You not go if you don't want to.
| | needle |
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noun
- A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections etc.
- The seamstress threaded the to sew on a button.
- A long, thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
- The on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.
- A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
- Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.
- The long, pointed leaves of some conifers.
- I boiled some of the needles from the Christmas tree to add a pleasing scent to the air.
- A weapon used in ancient China, and today by Shaolin monks.
verb (needl, ing)
- (transitive) To tease; to poke fun at.
- Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.
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noun
- (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse
- (grammar) a word that indicates negation
- (mathematics) a negative quantity
- (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
adjective
- not positive or neutral
- inherently damaging; undesirable
- electrical charge of an electron and related particles
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noun
- The nearby area, particularly when referring to home.
- We have just moved to a pleasant
- and by extension, it's inhabitants.
- The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- (uncountable) The quality of proximity.
- "Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood." — w:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Lord Lytton.
- (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
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noun
- A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels, and lymphatics.
- (context, nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
- courage, Courage.
- patience, Patience.
- stamina, Stamina.
- audacity, Audacity.
- He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
- (in plural) agitation, Agitation caused by fear, stress, or other negative emotion.
verb (nerv, es)
- To give courage, sometimes with "up".
- May their example us to face the enemy.
- The liquor nerved up several of the men.
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adverb
- at, At no time.
- I finally finished, and I want to do that again.
- (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).
- The police say I stole the car, but I did it.
- You said you were going to mow the lawn today. — I !
| | next |
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noun
- The one that follows after this one
adjective
- Following in a sequence.
- Being closer to the present location than all other items.
- Nearest date, time, space, or order.
adverb
- What comes after this one
- What is near to this one
| | nibble |
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noun (plural: nibbles)
- A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
- (in plural, nibbles): Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
verb (nibbl, ing)
- (transitive) To eat with small, quick bites.
- The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.
| | night |
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noun
- (countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
- (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- a on the town
- (countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
- We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
- (countable) The quality of sleep obtained during a night.
- I had a bad last night.
- (uncountable) nightfall, Nightfall.
- from noon till
- (uncountable) darkness, Darkness.
- The cat disappeared into the .
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noun
- The digit or figure 9.
- (playing cards) Card with 9 pips.
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noun
- The organ of the face used to smell things.
- A snout, the nose of an animal
- The tip of an object (e.g. the nose of a fighter plane).
- (Horse racing) The length of a horse, horse"s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- Red Rum only won by a .
- Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- The skill in recognising bouquet
- It is essential that a winetaster develops a good .
| | notch |
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noun
- a V-shaped cut
- such a cut, used for keeping a record
- an indentation
- a mountain pass
- (informal) a level or degree
- ''This car is a better than the other.
verb (notch, es)
- (transitive) to cut a notch in something
- (transitive) to record a score etc by making notches on something
- (transitive) to achieve something
- The team notched up many wins.
| | note |
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noun
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
- A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- A short informal letter; a billet.
- A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- (music) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
- (music) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
- (music) A key of the piano or organ.
- Observation; notice; heed.
- Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
verb (notes, noting, noted)
- (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed
- (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
- (transitive) To denote; to designate
- (transitive) To annotate
- (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
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pronoun
- Not any thing; no thing.
- an absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
- (slang) Anything (in double negatives such as I didn't see nothing = I didn't see anything).
- Something trifling, something of no consequence.
- What happened to your face? — It's nothing.
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noun
- A nonexistant or empty value or set of values.
- Zero; nothing
- (computing) the ASCII character hex"00"
- (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value
adjective
- Having no legal validity, "null and void"
- insignificant
- 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:
- : In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
- absent or nonexistant
- (mathematics) of the null set
- (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
- (context, genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
| | number |
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noun
- (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- (countable) A symbol for a non-negative integer; a numeral.
- (countable) (mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers,integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.
- The equation <math>e^{i\pi}+1=0</math> includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, <math>\pi</math>, <math>i</math>, and <math>e</math>.
- (Followed by a numeral; used attributive) show, Showing the rank of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or &
- x2116;). The symbol "
- " is also used in this manner.
- Horse 5 won the race.
- quantity, Quantity.
- Any of people can be reading from a given repository at a time
- (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
- For his second , he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
verb
- (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
- Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
- (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
- I don"t know how many books are in the library, but they must in the thousands.
adjective
- (comparative of, numb)
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noun
- The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
- A short book summarizing an area of law.
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