| Noot | See 1st Not. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Not | a. Shorn; shaven. [ Obs. ] See Nott. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Not | [ Contr. from ne wot. See 2d Note. ] Wot not; know not; knows not. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] | | 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 steal. Ex. xx. 15. [ 1913 Webster ] Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. Job vii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ] The question is, may I do it, or may I not do it? Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not . . . but, or
Not but, only. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Notabilia | ‖n. pl. [ Neut. pl. of L. notabilis notable. ] Things worthy of notice. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Notability | n.; pl. Notabilities [ Cf. F. notabilité . ] 1. Quality of being notable. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A notable, or remarkable, person or thing; a person of note. “Parisian notabilities” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A notable saying. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Notable | n. 1. A person, or thing, of distinction. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (French Hist.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Notable | a. [ F. notable, L. notabilis, fr. notare to mark, nota mark, note. See 5th Note. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good orthoepists, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Well-known; notorious. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Notableness | n. The quality of being notable. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Notably | adv. In a notable manner. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Notaeum | ‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; pertaining to the notum or back. ] (Zool.) The back or upper surface, as of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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| not | (adv) negation of a word or group of words, Syn. non, Example: he does not speak French; she is not going; they are not friends; not many; not much; not at all | | nota bene | (n) a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something, Syn. NB, N.B., Example: the margins of his book were generously supplied with pencilled NBs | | notably | (adv) especially; in particular, Example: notably in the social sciences, the professors teach too much | | notarize | (v) authenticate as a notary, Syn. notarise, Example: We had to have the signature notarized | | notary | (n) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions, Syn. notary public | | notate | (v) put into notation, as of music or choreography, Example: Nowadays, you can notate an entire ballet; in the old days, the steps had to be memorized | | notation | (n) a technical system of symbols used to represent special things, Syn. notational system | | notation | (n) the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters | | notch | (n) a V-shaped indentation, Example: mandibular notch | | notch | (n) a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface, Example: there were four notches in the handle of his revolver |
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