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ne
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ne has 3 senses
- ne(n = noun.substance) atomic number 10, neon - 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; Array is a kind of chemical element, element, argonon, inert gas, noble gas
- ne(n = noun.linkdef) nor'-east, northeast, northeastward - the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees; Array is a kind of compass point, point
- ne(n = noun.location) cornhusker state, nebraska - a midwestern state on the Great Plains; Array has parts: bad lands, badlands, grand island, capital of nebraska, lincoln, north platte, omaha, north platte, north platte river, platte, platte river, republican, republican river, south platte, south platte river
is a part of middle west, midwest, midwestern united states, america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa
is a kind of american state
CIDE DICTIONARY
ne, adv. [AS. ne. See No.].
Not; never. [1913 Webster]
" 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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"He never yet no villany ne said."
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Nor. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"No niggard ne no fool."
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ROGET THESAURUS
ne
Direction
N direction, management, managery, government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance, bossism, legislature, steerage, pilotage, reins, reins of government, helm, rudder, needle, compass, guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star, cynosure, supervision, superintendence, surveillance, oversight, eye of the master, control, charge, board of control, command, premiership, senatorship, director, chair, portfolio, statesmanship, statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft, ministry, ministration, administration, stewardship, proctorship, agency, director, directing, hegemonic, at the helm, at the head of, direction, bearing, course, vector, set, drift, tenor, tendency, incidence, bending, trending, dip, tack, aim, collimation, steering steerage, point of the compass, cardinal points, North East, South, West, N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation, line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march, alignment, allignment, air line, beeline, straight shoot, directed, directed towards, pointing towards, bound for, aligned, with alligned with, direct, straight, undeviating, unswerving, straightforward, North, Northern, Northerly, towards, on the road, on the high road to, en avant, versus, to, hither, thither, whither, directly, straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow, point blank, in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with, in a line with, full tilt at, as the crow flies, before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind, windwards, in the wind's eye, through, via, by way of, in all directions, in all manner of ways, quaquaversum, from the four winds, the shortest distance between two points is a stra.
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