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  • 51Not — Not, adv. [OE. not, noht, nought, naught, the same word as E. naught. See {Naught}.] A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal. [1913 Webster] Not one word spake he more than was need. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt not …

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  • 52Not but — Not Not, adv. [OE. not, noht, nought, naught, the same word as E. naught. See {Naught}.] A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal. [1913 Webster] Not one word spake he more than was need. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt …

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  • 53Not but — Not Not, adv. [OE. not, noht, nought, naught, the same word as E. naught. See {Naught}.] A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal. [1913 Webster] Not one word spake he more than was need. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt …

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  • 54zero — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nothing; naught, nought; cipher, none, zip (inf.), goose egg (sl.), zilch (sl.); (in games) love, blank; nobody, not a soul. See insubstantiality. zero hour II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A cipher] Syn.… …

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  • 55not — adverb Etymology: Middle English, alteration of nought, from nought, pronoun more at naught Date: 13th century 1. used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word 2. used as a function word to stand for the negative of a… …

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  • 56Ough (combination) — Ough is a combination in the English language. In Middle English where the spelling arose it was probably pronounced with a back rounded vowel and a velar fricative, e.g. IPA| [oʊx] or IPA| [uːx] . It is by far the group of letters with the most… …

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  • 57dreadnought — dread•nought or dread•naught [[t]ˈdrɛdˌnɔt[/t]] n. mil a type of battleship with primary armament consisting entirely of heavy caliber guns • Etymology: dread+nought; so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first… …

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  • 58nothing comes of nothing — Cf. ALCAEUS Fragment cccxx. (Lobel Page) οὐδὲν ἐκ δενὸς γένοιτο, nothing comes of nothing; L. ex nihilo nihil fit. c 1380 CHAUCER Boethius v. pr. i. For this sentence is verray and soth, that ‘no thing hath his beynge of naught’. 1551 CRANMER… …

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  • 592000–2009 — 2000–2009, the current decade (sometimes known as the 2000s or by other names) runs from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009. The decade has been dominated by several wide ranging topics, including international trade and a growing concern over… …

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  • 60Bordwell thermodynamic cycle — A Bordwell thermodynamic cycle use experimentally determined and reasonable estimates of Gibbs free energy (ΔG˚) values to determine unknown and experimentally inaccessible values. [ Bordwell, F.G. Acc. Chem. Res. 1988, 21, 456, 463.] [Gardner, K …

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