[syn: Nebraska, Cornhusker State, NE]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
ne \ne\ (n[=e]), adv. [AS. ne. See No.]
Not; never. [Obs.]
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He never yet no villany ne said. --Chaucer.
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Note: Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of
negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never
(= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations,
now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad,
nam, nil. See Negative, 2.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
ne \ne\, conj. [See Ne, adv.]
Nor. [Obs.] --Shak.
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No niggard ne no fool. --Chaucer.
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Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Ne
n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow
in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in
the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number
10]
2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45
degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east, northeastward,
NE]
3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska,
Cornhusker State, NE]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
ne
The country code for Niger.
(1999-01-27)