Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N

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Nostril (n.) (Anat.) 鼻孔 [C] One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

Note: In sperm whales, porpoises, and allied animals, there is only one nostril, which is situated on the top of the head and called a spiracle.

Nostril (n.) Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.]

Methinks a man Of your sagacity and clear nostril should Have made another choice. -- B. Jonson.

Nostril (n.) Either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose [syn: {nostril}, {anterior naris}].

Nostrums (n. pl. ) of Nostrum.

Nostrum (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.

Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.

The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks. -- Brougham.

Nostrum (n.) Any scheme asserted to solve a problem, but with no objective basis for belief in its effectiveness; esp., in politics, a scheme or proposal likely to prove popular with voters.

Nostrum (n.) Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all].

Nostrum (n.) Patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable.

Not () Wot not; know not; knows not. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Not (a.) Shorn; shaven. [Obs.] See Nott.

Not (adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.

Not one word spake he more than was need. -- Chaucer.

Thou shalt not steal. -- Ex. xx. 15.

Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. -- Job vii. 8.

The question is, may I do it, or may I not do it? -- Bp. Sanderson.

Not . . . but, or Not but, only. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Chaucer.

Not (adv.) 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" [syn: not, non].

NOT

The Boolean function which is true only if its input is false. Its truth table is:

A | NOT A

--+------

F | T

T | F

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Notabilia (n. pl.) 值得注意的事物 Things worthy of notice.

Notabilities (n. pl. ) of Notability.

Notability (n.) Quality of being notable.

Notability (n.) A notable, or remarkable, person or thing; a person of note. "Parisian notabilities" -- Carlyle.

Notability (n.) A notable saying. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Notability (n.) A celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: luminary, leading light, guiding light, notable, notability].

Notable (a.) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.

Notable (a.) Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.

Note: Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good orthoepists, n[o^]t"[.a]*b'l, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable.

Notable (a.) Well-known; notorious. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Notable (n.) A person, or thing, of distinction.

Notable (n.) (French Hist.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.

Notable (a.) Worthy of notice; "a noteworthy advance in cancer research" [syn: noteworthy, notable].

Notable (a.) Widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned].

Notable (n.) A celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: luminary, leading light, guiding light, notable, notability].

Notable (a.) (C1) 顯要的；顯著的；值得注意的 Important and deserving attention, because of being very good or interesting.

// A notable collection of rare plants.

// Getting both sides to agree was a notable achievement.

// This attractive building is particularly notable for its woodland setting.

Notable (n.) [ C ] (Literary) 顯要人物；名流 An important or famous person.

// Other notables among his pupils were the kings of Saudi Arabia and Thailand.

Notableness (n.) The quality of being notable.

Notably (adv.) In a notable manner.

Notably (adv.) Especially; in particular; "notably in the social sciences, the professors teach too much".

Notaeum (n.) (Zool.) The back or upper surface, as of a bird.

Notal (a.) Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.

Notanda (n. pl. ) of Notandum.

Notandum (n.) A thing to be noted or observed; a notable fact; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Notarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a notary; done or taken by a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.

Notarially (adv.) In a notarial manner.

Notaries (n. pl. ) of Notary.

Notary (n.) One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

Notary (n.) (Eng. & Am. Law) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

Notary (n.) Someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions [syn: notary, notary public].

Notate (a.) (Bot.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored. -- Henslow.

Notate (v.) Put into notation, as of music or choreography; "Nowadays, you can notate an entire ballet; in the old days, the steps had to be memorized".

Notation (n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

Notation (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

Notation (n.) Literal or etymological signification. [Obs.] "Conscience" is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge. -- South.

Notation (n.) A technical system of symbols used to represent special things [syn: notation, notational system].

Notation (n.) A comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" [syn: note, annotation, notation].

Notation (n.) The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters "Conscience" is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge. -- South.

Notation (n.) A technical system of symbols used to represent special things [syn: notation, notational system].

Notation (n.) The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters.

Notch (n.) A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

And on the stick ten equal notches makes. -- Swift.

Notch (n.) A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

Notched (imp. & p. p.) of Notch.

Notching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Notch.

Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.

Notch (v. t.) To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.

God is all sufferance; here he doth show.

No arrow notched, only a stringless bow. -- Herrick.

Notch (n.) A V-shaped indentation; "mandibular notch".

Notch (n.) The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow" [syn: pass, mountain pass, notch].

Notch (n.) A V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface; "there were four notches in the handle of his revolver".

Notch (n.) A small cut [syn: notch, nick, snick].

Notch (v.) Cut or make a notch into; "notch the rope".

Notch (v.) Notch a surface to record something.

Notchboard (n.) (Carp.) The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.

Notching (n.) The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

Notching (n.) The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.

Notching (n.) (Carp.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

Notching (n.) (Engin.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.

Notchweed (n.) (Bot.) A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot ({Chenopodium Vulvaria).

Note (v. t.) To butt; to push with the horns.

Note () Know not; knows not.

Note (n.) Nut.

Note (n.) Need; needful business. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Note (n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.

Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. -- Hooker.

She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. -- J. H. Newman.

What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! -- Mrs. Humphry Ward.

Note (n.) 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.

Note (n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.

The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. -- Felton.

Note (n.) A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

Note (n.) pl. Hence, A writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.

Note (n.) A short informal letter; a billet.

Note (n.) A diplomatic missive or written communication.

Note (n.) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.

Note (n.) A list of items or of charges; an account. [Obs.]

Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. -- Shak.

Note (n.) (Mus.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:

Note (n.) (Mus.) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.

Note (n.) (Mus.) A key of the piano or organ.

The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. -- Milton.

That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. -- W. Pater.

Note (n.) Observation; notice; heed.

Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence. -- Shak.

Note (n.) Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.]

The king . . . shall have note of this. -- Shak.

Note (n.) State of being under observation. [Obs.]

Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. -- Bacon.

Note (n.) Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.

There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. -- Prescott.

Note (n.) Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Note of hand, A promissory note.

Noted (imp. & p. p.) of Note.

Noting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Note.

Note (v. t.) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. -- Pope.

No more of that; I have noted it well. -- Shak.

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. – Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address, 1863).
Note (v. t.) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. -- Maccaulay.

Note (v. t.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.]

They were both noted of incontinency. -- Dryden.

Note (v. t.) To denote; to designate. -- Johnson.

Note (v. t.) To annotate. [R.] -- W. H. Dixon.

Note (v. t.) To set down in musical characters.

To note a bill or To note a draft, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

Note (n.) A brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment".

Note (n.) A short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" [syn: note, short letter, line, billet].

Note (n.) A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: note, musical note, tone].

Note (n.) A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice".

Note (n.) A characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm".

Note (n.) A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback].

Note (n.) A comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" [syn: note, annotation, notation].

Note (n.) High status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence" [syn: eminence, distinction, preeminence, note].

Note (n.) A promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time; "I had to co-sign his note at the bank" [syn: note, promissory note, note of hand].

Note (v.) Make mention of; "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing" [syn: note, observe, mention, remark].

Note (v.) Notice or perceive; "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words" [syn: notice, mark, note] [ant: ignore].

Note (v.) Observe with care or pay close attention to; "Take note of this chemical reaction" [syn: note, take note, observe].

Note (v.) Make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning" [syn: note, take down].

NOTE, () estates, conv., practice. The fourth part of a fine of lands: it is an abstract of the writ of covenant and concord, and is only a, doequet taken by the chirographer, from which he draws up the indenture. It is sometimes taken in the old books for the concord. Cruise, Dig. tit. 35, c. 2, 51.

Notebook (n.) A book in which notes or memorandums are written.

Notebook (n.) A book in which notes of hand are registered.

Noted (a.) Well known by reputation or report; eminent; celebrated; as, a noted author, or traveler.

Noteful (a.) Useful.

Noteless (a.) Not attracting notice; not conspicuous.

Notelessness (n.) A state of being noteless.

Notelet (n.) A little or short note; a billet.

Note paper () Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.

Noter (n.) One who takes notice.

Noter (n.) An annotator.

Noteworthy (a.) Worthy of observation or notice; remarkable.

Nother (conj.) Neither; nor.

Nothing (n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

Nothing (n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

Nothing (n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

Nothing (n.) A cipher; naught.

Nothing (adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

Nothingarian (n.) One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.

Nothingism (n.) Nihility; nothingness.

Nothingness (n.) Nihility; nonexistence.

Nothingness (n.) The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.

Notice (n.) 公告，通知，貼示 [C]；警告；預先通知 [U] The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons! -- I. Watts.

Notice (n.) Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; means of knowledge; express notification; announcement; warning.

I . . . have given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here. -- Shak.

Notice (n.) An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks; as, book notices; theatrical notices.

Notice (n.) A writing communicating information or warning.

Notice (n.) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

To take notice of, To perceive especially; to observe or treat with particular attention.

Syn: Attention; regard; remark; note; heed; consideration; respect; civility; intelligence; advice; news.

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