Not

Etymology
From not:, nat:, variant of noght:, naht:, from  *undefined:, naht:, short for nowiht:, nawiht:, corresponding to na: + wiht:. Cognate with nat:, naucht:,  net:,  niet:,  nicht:. Compare and. More at,.

Adverb

 * 1) Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
 * 2) * 1973, Richard Nixon.
 * Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
 * Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
 * Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
 * 1) To no degree
 * That is not red, it's orange.

Derived terms
Category:English words derived from: not

Related terms

 * ain't
 * aren't
 * can't
 * cannot
 * daren't
 * doesn't
 * don't
 * didn't
 * forget-me-not


 * hadn't
 * hasn't
 * have-not
 * haven't
 * isn't
 * mightn't
 * needn't
 * neither
 * no
 * nor


 * not bad
 * not guilty
 * not quite
 * not think
 * notwithstanding
 * shan't
 * shouldn't
 * wasn't
 * won't
 * wouldn't

Translations

 * Afrikaans: nie
 * Albanian:
 * Amuzgo: chi
 * Arabic:, ,  ,  ,
 * Egyptian: (miš) or (muš)
 * Armenian: +
 * Basque: ez
 * Bosnian:
 * Burmese: + verb +
 * Catalan: no
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: (ur) + verb,  (urd) + noun/pronoun
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ne-
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ne ... pas
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: לא (lo)
 * Hindi: नहीं (nahī.n), न (na), मत (mat)
 * Hittite:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ekki, ei, eigi
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua: non
 * Irish:, níor ; , , ;


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: (min … teː)
 * Korean: 아니다 (anida: adverb and verb)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lao: (böö)
 * Latin:, nil, haud, hau, haut, nunquam, ne, nec, neque
 * Lojban:
 * Maltese: ,
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: ,
 * Novial: non
 * Old Irish: ,
 * Persian: (næ)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ama
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: не (ne)
 * Scottish Gaelic: chan eil, chan, cha
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: не
 * Roman: ne
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: hindi
 * Thai: ไม่, ไม่ใช่
 * Turkish:, , -me
 * Tz'utujil: ma
 * Ukrainian: не (ne)
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ: ǁʻàa (not be)
 * Yiddish: ניט (nit), נישט (nisht)

Conjunction

 * 1) And not.
 * I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
 * He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ne...pas, non
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian: nem pedig
 * Icelandic: ekki, ei, eigi
 * Italian: mica
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: nie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: а не,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish:

Interjection
not!


 * 1)  Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
 * I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
 * Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!

Synonyms

 * I don't think

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Faroese:
 * Icelandic:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Høgnorsk: ikkja
 * Norwegian Nynorsk:
 * Old Norse:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
 * You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.

Related terms

 * NOR

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Swedish: icke

Anagrams

 * Ont, Ont., TNO, ton

Noun
not


 * 1) a swim

Derived terms

 * notoj or bën not to swim

Noun
not


 * 1) use

Derived terms

 * koma að notum (to be of use, to be useful)

Etymology
From nox: <.

Noun

 * 1)  night

Noun

 * 1) pound money
 * 2) note written

Noun
not


 * 1)  note.
 * 2) a short message; note.
 * 3)  a formal message from a country to another country’s embassy.

NOT
 * 1)  the logical function NOT.

Noun

 * 1) a short message; note
 * Not: Seni seviyorum.
 * PS: I love you.

Declension
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