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Adjective
/nät/,
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Used with an auxiliary verb or “be” to form the negative,
  1. (of paper) Not hot-pressed, and having a slightly textured surface

Noun
  1. A Boolean operator with only one variable that has the value one when the variable is zero and vice versa

  2. A circuit that produces an output signal only when there is not a signal on its input

Adverb
  1. Used with an auxiliary verb or “be” to form the negative
    • - he would not say
    • - she isn't there
    • - didn't you tell me?
  2. Used in some constructions with other verbs
    • - he has been warned not to touch
    • - the pain of not knowing
    • - she not only wrote the text but also researched the photographs
  3. Used as a short substitute for a negative clause
    • - maybe I'll regret it, but I hope not
    • - “Don't you keep in touch?” “I'm afraid not.”
    • - they wouldn't know if I was telling the truth or not
  4. Used to express the negative of other words
    • - not a single attempt was made
    • - treating the symptoms and not the cause
    • - “How was it?” “Not so bad.”
  5. Used with a quantifier to exclude a person or part of a group
    • - not all the poems are serious
  6. Less than (used to indicate a surprisingly small quantity)
    • - the brakes went on not ten feet from him
  7. Used in understatements to suggest that the opposite of a following word or phrase is true
    • - the not too distant future
    • - not a million miles away
  8. Following and emphatically negating a statement
    • - that sounds like quality entertainment—not
  1. 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"
  2. Not! is a grammatical construction in the English language that became a sarcastic catchphrase in North America in the 1990s. A declarative statement is made, followed by a pause and then an emphatic "not!" is postfixed. The result is a negation of the original declarative statement. ...
  3. In logic and mathematics, negation, also called logical complement, is an operation on propositions, truth values, or semantic values more generally. Intuitively, the negation of a proposition is true when that proposition is false, and vice versa. ...
  4. (NOTS) The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is a United States Navy (USN) organization that controls most of the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. ...
  5. (NOTs) In Scientology, the state of Operating Thetan (OT) is a spiritual state above Clear. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, defined it as "knowing and willing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time (MEST)". According to religious scholar J. ...
  6. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function; Negates the meaning of the modified verb; To no degree; And not; Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically
  7. (notness) The state of not being; nonexistence
  8. (NOTs) an acronym for New Era Dianetics for OTs. See New Era Dianetics for OTs (NOTs) in this glossary.
  9. (NOTS) Nominal Operating Tensile Strength. The tension that can be applied for 48 hours to optical fibre cable in suspension with a greater than 95% fibre survival probability.
  10. The word lo means "no" or "not" but is most commonly used to negate a verb. For instance, the verb asah ^[str:6213] is translated as "he did" but lo asah would be translated as "he did not."
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  12. traditional paper finish, slightly rough and unglazed, produced by pressing wet paper against itself after the first wet press.
  13. (operator): Boolean operator, using this operator to combine terms determines that the term following the NOT operator is excluded.
  14. A Boolean operator that narrows a search by excluding terms. For example, swimming not beaches would retrieve information about swimming that does not include the word beaches. See also operators.
  15. Narrows the search. "North Carolina not Geography" will find books about North Carolina, but will weed out any books that are about geography.
  16. One of the streams flowing from Hvergelmer.
  17. If you use NOT between terms, you will retrieve articles containing the first term but not the second term. For example, the search
  18. Operator - eliminates a term from a search. For example insurance not automobile will eliminate books about automobile insurance. See also boolean searching, reject or require term or phrase. TOP
  19. NOT logic eliminates terms from a search. For example, to retrieve records about eclipses but not solar eclipses, enter eclipse? not solar. NOT can be used with a proximity operator, for example, economic(not w)recovery.
  20. Used in keyword spamming or scams, so be careful; example: "Western Digital 200GB New Box NOT Drive" refers to a new hard drive box being sold, not a new-in-box hard drive itself
  21. Electronics: A logic gate with only one output. It converts the input to the opposite: if the input is "True", it outputs "False" and vice versa. Also called an Inverter.
  22. The Boolean operator NOT is used to exclude words or phrases from a search. Python NOT Monty finds information on the snake but excludes information on the group Monty Python.
  23. (shortened version of Siñot) word uttered when one shows respect by kissing the hand of the male person being respected
  24. This parameter reverses the logical result of the search. If NOT is specified, then a successful search will result in the remainder of the button definition being discarded. If NOT is specified and the search fails, then the remainder of the button definition is executed normally.
  25. Succeeds if X can be unified with Y, but doesn't do the unification. See discussion and examples above.