Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 9
Negative (a.) 否定的；否認的；反面的；消極的；【數】負的 [Z] Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
If thou wilt confess, Or else be impudently negative. -- Shak.
Denying me any power of a negative voice. -- Eikon Basilike.
Something between an affirmative bow and a negative shake. -- Dickens.
Compare: Affirmative
Affirmative (a.) 肯定的；表示贊成的 Agreeing with or consenting to a statement or request.
‘An affirmative answer.’
Affirmative (a.) (Of a vote) Expressing approval or agreement.
Affirmative (a.) [North American] Active and explicit or unequivocal.
‘They have an affirmative duty to stop crime in their buildings.’
Affirmative (a.) Supportive, hopeful, or encouraging.
‘The family is usually a source of encouragement from which affirmative influences come.’
Affirmative (a.) (Grammar Logic) Stating that a fact is so; making an assertion.
‘Affirmative sentences.’
Contrasted with negative and interrogative
Affirmative (n.) 肯定詞；肯定語 [C]；贊成的一方 [the S] A statement of agreement with or consent to an assertion or request.
‘He accepted her reply as an affirmative.’
Affirmative (n.) (The affirmative) A position of agreement or confirmation.
‘His answer veeredtoward the affirmative.’
Affirmative (n.) (Grammar) A word or particle used in making assertions.
Affirmative (n.) (Logic) A statement asserting that something is true of the subject of a proposition.
Exclamation
North American
Expressing agreement with a statement or request; yes.
‘Affirmative, sir, responded the ships tactical officer.’
Phrases
In the affirmative
So as to accept or agree to a statement or request.
‘He answered the question in the affirmative.’
Negative (a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
There in another way of denying Christ, . . . which is negative, when we do not acknowledge and confess him. -- South.
Negative (a.) (Logic) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
Negative (a.) (Photog.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
Negative (a.) (Chem.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
Note: This word, derived from electro-negative, is now commonly used in a more general sense, when acidiferous is the intended signification.
Negative crystal. A cavity in a mineral mass, having the form of a crystal.
Negative crystal. A crystal which has the power of negative double refraction. See refraction.
Negative electricity (Elec.) The kind of electricity which is developed upon resin or ebonite when rubbed, or which appears at that pole of a voltaic battery which is connected with the plate most attacked by the exciting liquid; -- formerly called resinous electricity. Opposed to positive electricity. Formerly, according to Franklin's theory of a single electric fluid, negative electricity was supposed to be electricity in a degree below saturation, or the natural amount for a given body. See Electricity.
Negative eyepiece. (Opt.) See under Eyepiece.
Negative quantity (Alg.), A quantity preceded by the negative sign, or which stands in the relation indicated by this sign to some other quantity. See Negative sign (below).
Negative rotation, Right-handed rotation. See Right-handed, 3.
Negative sign, The sign -, or minus (opposed in signification to +, or plus), indicating that the quantity to which it is prefixed is to be subtracted from the preceding quantity, or is to be reckoned from zero or cipher in the opposite direction to that of quanties having the sign plus either expressed or understood; thus, in a - b, b is to be substracted from a, or regarded as opposite to it in value; and -10[deg] on a thermometer means 10[deg] below the zero of the scale.
Negative (n.) [C] 否定，拒絕；否定的回答（或觀點等）；【文】否定語；【數】負數 A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty. -- South.
Negative (n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
Note: In Old England two or more negatives were often joined together for the sake of emphasis, whereas now such expressions are considered ungrammatical, being chiefly heard in iliterate speech. A double negative is now sometimes used as nearly or quite equivalent to an affirmative.
No wine ne drank she, neither white nor red. -- Chaucer.
These eyes that never did nor never shall So much as frown on you. -- Shak.
Negative (n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
If a kind without his kingdom be, in a civil sense, nothing, then . . . his negative is as good as nothing. -- Milton.
Negative (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
Negative (n.) (Photog.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.
Note: A negative is chiefly used for producing photographs by means of passing light through it and acting upon sensitized paper, thus producing on the paper a positive picture.
Negative (n.) (Elect.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
Negative pregnant (Law), A negation which implies an affirmation.
Negatived (imp. & p. p.) of Negative.
Negativing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Negative.
Negative (v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.
The omission or infrequency of such recitals does not negative the existence of miracles. -- Paley.
Negative (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
Negative (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
Compare: Eyepiece
Eyepiece (n.) (Opt.) 【物】接目鏡 The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a microscope, telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.
Syn: Ocular.
Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate.
Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, An eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called Campani's eyepiece.
Positive eyepiece, An eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the
image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, Ramsden's eyepiece.
Terrestrial, or Erecting eyepiece, An eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position.
Negative (a.) Characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; "a negative outlook on life"; "a colorless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign" [ant: neutral, positive].
Negative (a.) Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial [ant: affirmative, affirmatory].
Negative (a.) Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life".
Negative (a.) Not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; "the HIV test was negative" [syn: negative, disconfirming] [ant: confirming, positive].
Negative (a.) Reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive; "negative interest rates" [ant: positive].
Negative (a.) Less than zero; "a negative number".
Negative (a.) Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism" [syn: damaging, negative].
Negative (a.) Having a negative charge; "electrons are negative" [syn: negative, electronegative, negatively charged].
Negative (a.) Involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors" [syn: minus, negative].
Negative (n.) A reply of denial; "he answered in the negative" [ant: affirmative].
Negative (n.) A piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed.
Negative (v.) Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill" [syn: veto, blackball, negative].
Negative. () This word has several significations. 1. It is used in contradistinction to giving assent; thus we say the president has put his negative upon such a bill. Vide Veto. 2. It is also used in contradistinction to affirmative; as, a negative does not always admit of the simple and direct proof of which an affirmative is capable. When a party affirms a negative in his pleadings, and without the establishment of which, by evidence, he cannot recover or defend himself, the burden of the proof lies upon him, and he must prove the negative. 8 Toull. n. 18. Vide 2 Gall. Rep. 485; 1 McCord, R. 573; 11 John. R. 513; 19 John. R. 345; 1 Pick. R. 375; Gilb. Ev. 145; 1 Stark. Ev. 376; Bull. N. P. 298; 15 Vin. Ab. 540; Bac. Ab. Pleas, &c. I.
202. Although as a general rule the affirmative of every issue must be proved, yet this rule ceases to operate the moment the presumption of law is thrown into the other scale. When the issue is on the legitimacy of a child, therefore, it is incumbent on the party asserting the illegitimacy to prove it. 2 Selw. N. P. 709. Vide Affirmative Innocence.
Negatively (adv.) 否定地；消極地；取消地 In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." -- Boyle.
Negatively (adv.) In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.
I shall show what this image of God in man is, negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by showing wherein it does consist. -- South.
Negatively charged or Negatively electrified (Elec.), Having a charge of the kind of electricity called negative, as does the electron. Negativeness
Negatively (adv.) In a harmful manner; "he was negatively affected".
Negatively (adv.) In a negative way; "he was negatively inclined".
Negativeness (n.) Alt. of Negativity.
Negativeness (n.) The character of the negative electric pole [syn: negativity, negativeness] [ant: positiveness, positivity].
Negativeness (n.) Characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands [syn: negativity, negativeness, negativism] [ant: positiveness, positivism, positivity].
Negativeness (n.) An amount less than zero [syn: negativity, negativeness] [ant: positiveness, positivity].
Negativeness (n.) (Chemistry) The tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond [syn: electronegativity, negativity].
Negativity (n.) 否定性；消極性 The quality or state of being negative.
Negativity (n.) The character of the negative electric pole [syn: negativity, negativeness] [ant: positiveness, positivity].
Negativity (n.) Characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands [syn: negativity, negativeness, negativism] [ant: positiveness, positivism, positivity].
Negativity (n.) An amount less than zero [syn: negativity, negativeness] [ant: positiveness, positivity].
Negativity (n.) (Chemistry) The tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond [syn: electronegativity, negativity].
Negatory (a.) 否定性的；消極性的 Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative. -- Carlyle.
Neginoth (n. pl.) (Script.) Stringed instruments. -- Dr. W. Smith.
To the chief musician on Neginoth. -- Ps. iv. 9heading).
Neginoth () i.e., songs with instrumental accompaniment, found in the titles of Ps. 4; 6; 54; 55; 67; 76; rendered "stringed instruments," Hab. 3:19, A.V. It denotes all kinds of stringed instruments, as the "harp," "psaltery," "viol," etc. The "chief musician on Neginoth" is the leader of that part of the temple choir which played on stringed instruments.
Neginoth, Stringed instruments.
Neglected (imp. & p. p.) of Neglect.
Neglecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neglect.
Neglect (v. t.) 忽視，忽略；疏忽，玩忽；漏做，忘了做 [Y] [+to-v] [+v-ing] Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs. -- Shak.
This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. -- Milton.
Neglect (v. t.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
Syn: To slight; overlook; disregard; disesteem; contemn. See Slight.
Neglect (n.) 忽略；疏忽；疏漏 [U] [（+of）] Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame, Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. -- Milton.
Neglect (n.) Omission of attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
Neglect (n.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.
Age breeds neglect in all. -- Denham.
Neglect (n.) The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect. -- Prior.
Syn: Negligence; inattention; disregard; disesteem; remissness; indifference. See Negligence.
Benign neglect A deliberate policy of minimizing public discussion of a controversial issue [e.g. by the president] on the theory that excessive discussion in itself is harmful or counterproductive.
Neglect (n.) Lack of attention and due care [syn: disregard, neglect].
Neglect (n.) The state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" [syn: neglect, disuse].
Neglect (n.) Willful lack of care and attention [syn: disregard, neglect].
Neglect (n.) The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern [syn: negligence, neglect, neglectfulness].
Neglect (n.) Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances [syn: negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance].
Neglect (v.) Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss,
leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart].
Neglect (v.) Fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" [syn: fail, neglect].
Neglect (v.) Fail to attend to; "he neglects his children".
Neglect (v.) Give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors" [syn: neglect, ignore, disregard].
Neglectedness (n.) The state of being neglected.
Neglecter (n.) One who neglects. -- South.
Neglecter (n.) A person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities; "he tried vainly to impress his neglecters".
Neglectful (a.) 疏忽的，不注意的 [（+of）] Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. -- Pope.
A cold and neglectful countenance. -- Locke.
Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. -- Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly, adv. -- Neg*lect"ful*ness, n.
Neglectful (a.) Not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents" [syn: inattentive, neglectful].
Neglectful (a.) Failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills" [syn: derelict, delinquent, neglectful, remiss].
Neglectingly (adv.) Carelessly; heedlessly. -- Shak.
Neglection (n.) The state of being negligent; negligence. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Neglective (a.) Neglectful. [R.] "Neglective of their own children." -- Fuller.
Neglige (n.) 【法】= negligee；家常服，化妝服，睡衣，便服 An easy, unceremonious attire; undress.
Neglige (n.) A kind of loose, flowing dressing gown worn by women, usually made of sheer fabric.
Syn: negligee, peignoir.
Neglige (n.) A loose dressing gown for women [syn: negligee, neglige, peignoir, wrapper, housecoat].
Negligee (n.) [C] 婦女長晨衣；寬大的女便服；居家服，不整齊的穿戴 ；(a.) 穿著隨便的，衣著不整的 A loose dressing gown for women [syn: {negligee}, {neglige}, {peignoir}, {wrapper}, {housecoat}].
Negligee (n.) An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.
Negligence (n.) [U] 疏忽，粗心；玩忽行為；隨便，不修邊幅 The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
Negligence (n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
remarking his beauties, . . . I must also point out his negligences and defects. -- Blair.
Negligence (n.) (Law) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
Contributory negligence. See under Contributory.
Syn: Neglect; inattention; heedlessness; disregard; slight.
Usage: Negligence, Neglect. These two words are freely interchanged in our older writers; but a distinction has gradually sprung up between them. As now generally used, negligence is the habit, and neglect the act, of leaving things undone or unattended to. We are negligent as a general trait of character; we are guilty of neglect in particular cases, or in reference to individuals who had a right to our attentions.
Negligence (n.) Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances [syn: negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance]
Negligence (n.) The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern [syn: negligence, neglect, neglectfulness]
Negligence () Contracts, torts. When considered in relation, to contracts, negligence may be divided into various degrees, namely, ordinary, less than ordinary, more than ordinary. 1 Miles' Rep. 40.
Negligence () Ordinary negligence is the want of ordinary diligence; slight or less than ordinary negligence, is, the want of great diligence; and gross or more than ordinary negligence, is the want of slight diligence.
Negligence () Three great principles of responsibility, seem naturally to follow
this division.
Negligence () In those contracts which are made for the sole benefit of the creditor, the debtor is responsible only for gross negligence, good faith alone being required of him; as in tile case of a depositary, who is a bailee without reward; Story, Bailm. 62; Dane's Ab. c. 17, a, 2; 14 Serg. & Rawle, 275; but to this general rule, Pothier makes two exceptions. The first, in relation to the contract of a mandate, and the second, to the quasi contract negotiorum gestorum; in these cases, he says, the party undertaking to perform these engagements, is bound to use necessary care. Observation Generale, printed at the end of the Traite des Obligations.
Negligence () In those contracts which are for the reciprocal benefit of both parties, such as those of sale, of hiring, of pledge, and the like, the party is bound to take, for the object of the contract, that care which a prudent man ordinarily takes of his affairs, and he will therefore be held responsible for ordinary neglect. Jones' Bailment, 10, 119; 2 Lord Raym. 909; Story, Bailm. Sec. 23; Pothier, Obs. Gener. ubi supra.
Negligence () In those contracts made for the sole interest of the party who has received, and is to return the thing which is the object of the contract, such, for example, as loan for use, or commodatum, the slightest negligence will make him responsible. Jones' Bailm. 64, 65; Story's Bailm. Sec. 237; Pothier, Obs. Gen. ubi supra.
Negligence () In general, a party who has caused an injury or loss to another in consequence of his negligence, is responsible for all the consequence. Hob. 134; 3 Wils. 126; 1 Chit. TI. 129, 130; 2 Hen. & Munf. 423; 1 Str. 596; 3 East, R. 596. An example of this kind may be found in the case of a person who drives his carriage during a dark night on the wrong side of the road, by which he commits an injury to another. 3 East, R. 593; 1 Campb. R. 497; 2 Cam b. 466; 2 New Rep. 119. Vide Gale and Whatley on Easements, Index, h.t.; 6 T. R. 659; 1 East, R. 106; 4 B. & A; 590; S. C. 6 E. C. L. R. 628; 1 Taunt. 568; 2 Stark. R. 272; 2 Bing. R. 170; 5 Esp. R. 35, 263; 5 B. & C. 550. Whether the incautious conduct of the plaintiff will excuse the negligence of the defendant, see 1 Q. B. 29; 4 P. & D. 642; 3 M. Lyr. & Sc. 9; Fault.
Negligence () When the law imposes a duty on an officer, whether it be by common law or statute, and he neglects to perform it, he may be indicted for such neglect; 1 Salk. R. 380; 6 Mod, R. 96; and in some cases such neglect will amount to a forfeiture of the office. 4 Bl. Com. 140. See Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Negligent (a.) 疏忽的；粗心的 [（+of/ in）]；隨便的，不在意的 [（+of/ in）] Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." -- Swift.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. -- Rambler.
Syn: Careles; heedless; neglectful; regardless; thoughtless; indifferent; inattentive; remiss.
Negligent (a.) Characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence" [ant: diligent].
Negligently (adv.) 疏忽地；粗心大意地 In a negligent manner.
Negligently (adv.) In a negligent manner; "he did his work negligently".
Negligible (a.) 可以忽略的；無關緊要的；微不足道的 [Z] That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration.
Negoce (n.) Business; occupation.
Negotiability (n.) 可協商；可轉售 The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.
Negotiable (a.) 可協商的；可轉讓的 Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
Negotiant (n.) 磋商者，談判者 A negotiator.
Negotiate (v. i.) 談判，協商，洽談 [（+with/ for）] To transact business; to carry on trade.
Negotiate (v. i.) To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
Negotiate (v. i.) To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.
He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador. -- Cowper.
Negotiate (v. i.) To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Negotiated (imp. & p. p.) of Negotiate.
Negotiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Negotiate.
Negotiate (v. t.) 透過談判達成，談成 [（+with）]；【口】順利通過，成功地越過；【經】議價出賣；轉讓；議付；洽兌 To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies. -- Gibbon.
Negotiate (v. t.) To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.
The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade -- Kent.
Negotiate (v.) Discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the sale of the house" [syn: {negociate}, {negotiate}, {talk terms}].
Negotiate (v.) Succeed in passing through, around, or over; "The hiker negociated the high mountain pass" [syn: {negotiate}, {negociate}].
Negotiation (n.) 談判，協商 [P1] [（+with）]；（票據的）轉讓，流通 [U]；【口】順利的通過，成功的越過 [U] The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
Negotiation (n.) Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.]
Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. -- Evelyn.
Negotiation (n.) The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent.
An important negotiation with foreign powers. -- Macaulay.
Negotiation (n.) A discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" [syn: {negotiation}, {dialogue}, {talks}].
Negotiation (n.) The activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms.
Negotiation (n.), Merc. law. The act by which a bill of exchange or promissory note is put into circulation by being passed by one of the original parties to another person.
Negotiation (n.) Until an accommodation bill or note has been negotiated, there is no contract which can be enforced on the note: the contract, either express or implied, that the party accommodated will indemnify the other, is, till then, conditional. 2 Man. & Gr. 911.
Negotiation (n.) [ C or U ] (C1) 談判，磋商，洽談 The process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them, or the discussions themselves.
// The agreement was reached after a series of difficult negotiations.
// The exact details of the agreement are still under negotiation.
// Negotiation for the pay increase is likely to take several weeks.
Negotiator (n.) 磋商者；交涉者；出售者；交易者；轉讓者 One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts.
Negotiator (n.) Someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) [syn: {negotiator}, {negotiant}, {treater}].
Negotiatory (a.) 【罕】商議的；談判的 Of or pertaining to negotiation.
Negotiatrix (n.) A woman who negotiates. -- Miss Edgeworth.
Negotiatrix (n.) A woman negotiator [syn: negotiatress, negotiatrix].
Negotiosity (n.) The state of being busy; multitude of business.
Negotious (a.) Very busy; attentive to business; active.
Negotiousness (n.) The state of being busily occupied; activity.
Negresses (n. pl. ) of Negress.
Negress (n.) 女黑人（帶輕視意味） A black woman; a female negro.
Negrita (n.) A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.
Negritic (a.) （像）黑人的；（像）矮小黑人的 Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes.
Negritos (n. pl.) A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.
Negroes (n. pl. ) of Negro.
Negro (n.) [C] 黑人；具有黑人血統的人 A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.
Negro (a.) 黑人的；黑色的 Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
Negroid (a.) 黑人的；黑人特有的；類似黑人的 Characteristic of the negro.
Negroid (a.) Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
Negroid (n.) 黑種人；黑人 A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.
Negroid (a.) Characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race; "negroid features."
Negroid (n.) A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid].
Negroloid (a.) See Negroid.
Negus (n.) 尼加斯酒（由葡萄酒加熱水、肉豆蔻、檸檬汁等而成） A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
Negus (n.) Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg.
Nehiloth (n. pl.) A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.
Nehushtan (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.
Neif (n.) Alt. of Neife.
Neife (n.) A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf.
Neif (n.) Alt. of Neaf.
Neaf (n.) The fist.
Neighed (imp. & p. p.) of Neigh.
Neighing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neigh.
Neigh (v. i.) （馬）嘶 To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.
Neigh (v. i.) To scoff or sneer; to jeer.
Neigh (n.) 馬嘶聲 [C] The cry of a horse; a whinny.
Neighbor (n.) [C] 鄰居；鄰近的人（或物）；鄰國；同胞，夥伴 A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. -- Chaucer.
Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. -- Shak.
Neighbor (n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. -- Shak.
Neighbor (n.) One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? -- Luke x. 36.
The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. -- South.
Neighbor (a.) 鄰近的；鄰接的 Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. "The neighbor cities." -- Jer. l. 40. "The neighbor room." -- Shak.
Neighbored (imp. & p. p.) of neighbor.
Neighboring (p. pr. & vb. n) of neighbor.
Neighbor (v. t.) 與……為鄰 To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to.
Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. -- Sandys.
Neighbor (v. t.) To associate intimately with. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Neighbor (v. i.) 住在附近；（與……）鄰接 [on/ upon] To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. [Obs.]
A copse that neighbors by. -- Shak.
Neighbor (n.) A person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: neighbor, neighbour].
Neighbor (n.) A nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?" [syn: neighbor, neighbour].
Neighbor (v.) Live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house" [syn: neighbor, neighbour].
Neighbor (v.) Be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India" [syn: neighbor, neighbour].
Neighbor (n.) One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
Neighborhood (n.) 鄰近地區 [C]；近鄰，整個街坊 [the S] [G]；鄰近，接近 [U]；鄰里情誼 [U] The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. -- Ld. Lytton.
Neighborhood (n.) A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
Neighborhood (n.) The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
Neighborhood (n.) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Syn: Vicinity; vicinage; proximity.
Usage: Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood.
A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square.
Neighborhood (n.) A surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods].
Neighborhood (n.) People living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: neighborhood, neighbourhood].
Neighborhood (n.) The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100" [syn: region, neighborhood].
Neighborhood (n.) An area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); "an ethnic neighborhood".
[previous page] [Index] [next page]