Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 7
Nebular (a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
Nebulated (a.) Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.
nebulation (n.) The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark.
Nebule (n.) A little cloud; a cloud.
Nebule (a.) Alt. of Nebuly
Nebuly (a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.
Nebulization (n.) The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.
Nebulize (v. t.) To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
Nebulizer (n.) An atomizer.
Nebulose (a.) Nebulous; cloudy.
Nebulosity (n.) The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness.
Nebulosity (n.) The stuff of which a nebula is formed.
Nebulosity (n.) A nebula.
Nebulous (a.) Cloudy; hazy; misty.
Nebulous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
Nebuly (n.) A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NEbulE
Necessarian (n.) An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.
Necessarian (a.) Of or pertaining to necessarianism.
Necessarianism (n.) The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism. -- Hixley.
Necessarily (adv.) 必定；必然地；必需地，必要地 In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.
Necessarily (adv.) In an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: necessarily, needfully] [ant: unnecessarily].
Necessarily (adv.) In such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs].
Necessarily (adv.) As a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe".
Necessariness (n.) 必要性 The quality of being necessary.
Necessary (a.) 必須的，需要的，必然的，不可缺少的必需品 Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. -- Shak.
Necessary (a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential. "'T is necessary he should die." -- Shak.
A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds. -- Tillotson.
Necessary (a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
Necessaries (n. pl. ) of Necessary
Necessary (n.) A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
Necessary (n.) A privy; a water-closet.
Necessary (n.) (pl.) (Law) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
Necessary (a.) Absolutely essential [ant: unnecessary, unneeded].
Necessary (a.) Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions".
Necessary (n.) Anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential, nonessential].
Necessitarian (a.) 必然論的 Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.
Necessitarian (n.) 必然論者 One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.
Necessitarian (n.) Someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will [ant: libertarian].
Necessitarianism (n.) 必然論；宿命論 The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. -- M. Arnold.
Necessitated (imp. & p. p.) of Necessitate
Necessitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Necessitate
Necessitate (v. t.) 迫使，使成為必需，需要 To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court. -- South.
This fact necessitates a second line. -- J. Peile.
Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York. -- Clarendon.
Necessitate (v.) Require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of].
Necessitate (v.) Cause to be a concomitant.
Necessitattion (n.) 強迫，強制 The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [R.] -- bp. Bramhall.
Necessitied (a.) In a state of want; necessitous. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Necessitous (a.) Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. -- Arbuthnot.
Necessitous (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances. -- Ne*ces"si*tous*ly, adv. -- Ne*ces"si*tous*ness, n.
Necessitous (a.) Poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken].
Necessitude (n.) Necessitousness; want. -- Sir M. Hale.
Necessitude (n.) Necessary connection or relation.
Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature. -- Jer. Taylor.
Necessities (n. pl. ) of Necessity
Necessity (n.) 需要，必要性 [U] [S1] [（+of/ for）]；必需品 [C] [（+of/ for）] The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
Necessity (n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
Urge the necessity and state of times. -- Shak.
The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. -- Clarendon.
Necessity (n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights. -- Shak.
What was once to me Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown The vast necessity of heart and life. -- Tennyson.
Necessity (n.) That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. -- Milton.
Necessity (n.) (Metaph.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
{Of necessity}, By necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce.
Syn: See {Need}.
Necessity (n.) The condition of being essential or indispensable.
Necessity (n.) Anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: {necessity}, {essential}, {requirement}, {requisite}, {necessary}] [ant: {inessential}, {nonessential}].
Necessity (n.) In general, whatever makes the contrary of a thing impossible, whatever may be the cause of such impossibilities,
Necessity (n.) Whatever is done through necessity, is done without any intention, and as the act is done without will, (q.v.) and is compulsory, the agent is not legally responsible. Bac. Max. Reg. 5. Hence the maxim, necessity has no law; indeed necessity is itself a law which cannot be avoided nor infringed. Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Dig 10, 3, 10, 1; Com. Dig. Pleader, 3 M 20, 3 M 30.
Necessity (n.) It follows, then, that the acts of a man in violation of law., or to the injury of another, may be justified by necessity, because the actor has no will to do or not to do the thing, he is a mere tool; but, it is conceived, this necessity must be absolute and irresistible, in fact, or so presumed in point of law.
Necessity (n.) The cases which are justified by necessity, may be classed as follows:
Necessity (n.) For the preservation of life; as if two persons are on the same plank, and one must perish, the survivor is justified in having thrown off the other, who was thereby drowned. Bac. Max, Reg. 5.
Necessity (n.) Obedience by a person subject to the power of another; for example, if a wife should commit a larceny with her husband, in this case the law presumes she acted by coercion of her husband, and, being compelled, by necessity, she is justifiable. 1 Russ. Cr. 16, 20; Bac. Max. Reg. 5.
Necessity (n.) Those cases which arise from the act of God, or inevitable accident, or from the act of man, as public enemies. Vide Act of God; Inevitable Accident and also 15 Vin. Ab. 534 Dane's Ab h.t.; 2 Stark. Ev. 713; Marsh. Ins. b. 1, c. 6, s. 3 Jacob's Intr. to. Com. Law. Reg. 74.
Necessity (n.) There is another species of necessity. The actor in these cases is not compelled to do the act whether he will or not, but he has no choice left but to do the act which may be injurious to another, or to lose the total use of his property. For example, when a man's lands are surrounded by those of others, so that he cannot enjoy them without trespassing on his neighbors. The way which is thus obtained, is called a way of necessity. Gale and Whatley on Easements, 71; 11 Co. 52; Hob. 234; 1 Saund. 323, note. See 3 Rawle, R. 495; 3 M'Cord, R. 131; Id. 170; 14 Mass. R. 56; 2 B. & C. 96; 2 Bing. R. 76; 8 T. R. 50; Cro. Jac. 170; 2 Roll. Ab. 60; 3 Kent, Com. 423; 3 Rawle's R. 492; 1 Taunt. R. 279; 8 Taunt. R. 24; ST. R. 50; Ham. N. P. 198; Cro. Jac. 170; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1637; and Way.
Necessity (n.) (C1) [ U ] 必要，需要 The need for something.
// You can come early if you want to, but there's no necessity for it.
// [ + to infinitive ] Is there any necessity to reply to her letter?
// The report stresses the necessity of eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
// With a personal fortune of sixty million dollars, she certainly doesn't work out of necessity (= because she needs to).
// We'll employ extra staff to help out as and when the necessity arises (= when we need to).
Necessity (n.) (C1) [ C ] 必需的東西；（尤指）生活必需品 Something that you need, especially in order to live.
// We brought only the bare necessities with us.
// He regarded music as one of life's necessities.
Idiom:
Necessity is the mother of invention (Saying) 需要乃發明之母 An expression that means that if you really need to do something, you will think of a way of doing it.
Neck (n.) The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.
Neck (n.) Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal; as:
Neck (n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.
Neck (n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
Neck (n.) (Mus.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.
Neck (n.) (Mech.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.
Neck (n.) (Bot.) The point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.
Neck and crop, Completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]
Neck and neck (Racing), So nearly equal that one cannot be said to be before the other; very close; even; side by side.
Neck of a capital. (Arch.) See Gorgerin.
Neck of a cascabel (Gun.), The part joining the knob to the base of the breech.
Neck of a gun, The small part of the piece between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
Neck of a tooth (Anat.), The constriction between the root and the crown.
Neck or nothing (Fig.), At all risks.
Neck verse (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc. -- Sir W. Scott.
Neck verse (a) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth.
These words, "bread and cheese," were their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all pronouncing "broad and cause," being presently put to death. --Fuller.
Neck yoke (a) A bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from the collars of the harnesses.
Neck yoke (a) A device with projecting arms for carrying things (as buckets of water or sap) suspended from one's shoulders.
On the neck of, Immediately after; following closely; on the heel of. "Committing one sin on the neck of another." -- W. Perkins.
Stiff neck, Obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible obstinacy; contumacy. "I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck." -- Deut. xxxi. 27.
To break the neck of, To destroy the main force of; to break the back of. "What they presume to borrow from her sage and virtuous rules . . . breaks the neck of their own cause." -- Milton.
To harden the neck, To grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious. -- Neh. ix. 17.
To tread on the neck of, To oppress; to tyrannize over.
Neck (v. i.) To kiss and caress amorously. [Colloq.] -- n. necking.
Necked (imp. & p. p.) of Neck
Necking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neck
Neck (v. t.) (Mech.) To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.
Neck (n.) The part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck"; "the horse won by a neck" [syn: neck, cervix].
Neck (n.) A narrow elongated projecting strip of land.
Neck (n.) A cut of meat from the neck of an animal.
Neck (n.) A narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form; "the banjo had a long neck"; "the bottle had a wide neck".
Neck (n.) An opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck [syn: neck, neck opening].
Neck (v.) Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car" [syn: neck, make out].
Neck () Used sometimes figuratively. To "lay down the neck" (Rom. 16:4) is to hazard one's life. Threatenings of coming judgments are represented by the prophets by their laying bands upon the people's necks (Deut. 28:48; Isa. 10:27; Jer. 27:2). Conquerors put their feet on the necks of their enemies as a sign of their subjection (Josh. 10:24; 2 Sam. 22:41).
Neckar nut () See Nicker nut.
Neckband (n.) A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.
Neckcloth (n.) A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
Necked (a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked.
Necked (a.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail.
Neckerchief (n.) A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
Necking (n.) Same as Neckmold.
Necklace (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.
Necklace (n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.
necklaced (a.) Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace.
neckland (n.) A neck of land.
necklet (n.) A necklace.
Neckmold (n.) Alt. of Neckmould
Neckmould (n.) A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital.
Neckplate (n.) See Gorget, 1 and 2.
Necktie (n.) A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.
Neckwear (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.
Neckweed (n.) An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.
Neckweed (n.) The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals.
Necrobiosis (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy.
Necrobiotic (a.) Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis.
Necrolatry (n.) The worship of the dead; manes worship.
Necrolite (n.) Same as Necronite.
Necrologic (a.) Alt. of Necrological
Necrological (a.) Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.
Necrologist (n.) One who gives an account of deaths.
Necrologies (n. pl. ) of Necrology
Necrology (n.) An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.
Necromancer (n.) One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art.
Necromantic (n.) Conjuration.
Necromantic (a.) Alt. of Necromantical
Necromantical (a.) Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy.
Necronite (n.) Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor.
Necrophagan (a.) Eating carrion.
Necrophagan (n.) Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle.
Necrophagous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.
Necrophobia (n.) An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.
Necrophore (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.
Necropolises (n. pl. ) of Necropolis
Necropolis (n.) 大墓地；史前時期的墳場 A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Necropsy (n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.