📖 N — The English dictionary · page 15

nonsense — Everyday, meaning 1: Nonsense is words or ideas that are silly, untrue or have no meaning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Nonsense is also silly or annoying behaviour, as in "Stop this nonsense!".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Nonsense!" is said to disagree strongly with something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Nonsense words and nonsense poems are made up for fun and do not have real meanings.↗ Example: Don't talk nonsense — monsters don't live under your bed.↗ · "Jabberwocky" is a famous nonsense poem.↗ · In phonics we read nonsense words like "plim" and "groft".↗ · "I'm too old to play." "↗ Nonsense!↗ Come and join in."↗ · That's enough of this nonsense; sit down, please.↗ · The idea that goldfish remember only three seconds is nonsense.↗ · Our coach is a no-nonsense woman who expects hard work.↗ · 'My friend, you are talking nonsense.↗

nonstop — Everyday, meaning 1: Nonstop means without stopping or pausing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A nonstop flight, train or bus goes straight to the end without stopping at any station or airport on the way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Happening all the time, so much that it feels like it never ends.↗ Example: We took a nonstop flight from Sydney to Perth.↗ · It rained nonstop for the whole camping trip.↗ · My little brother talked nonstop all the way to Nan's house.↗ · The train ran nonstop from London to Edinburgh.↗ · A cyclist rode nonstop for 2 hours at 15 km an hour, so she went 30 km.↗ · The party was nonstop fun from start to finish.↗ · The phone rang nonstop after the news came out.↗

noodle — Everyday, meaning 1: Noodles are long, thin strips of dough made from flour, water and sometimes egg, cooked in boiling water or soup.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Informally, your noodle is your head or brain.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A pool noodle is a long, soft foam tube used to float in water.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Noodle can also mean a silly or foolish person.↗ Example: We had chicken noodle soup for lunch.↗ · I eat noodles with chopsticks.↗ · Instant noodles are ready in three minutes.↗ · Use your noodle and work it out!↗ · She floated on a pool noodle.↗ · Rice noodles are made from rice flour.↗ · After all, their faces said, were they not noodles to want to go?↗

nook — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, cosy or hidden corner of a place.↗ Example: She read in a nook by the window.↗ · They looked in every nook and corner.↗ · The cat curled up in a quiet nook.↗

noon — Everyday, meaning 1: Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day.↗ Noon is 12 o'clock in the daytime, also called midday.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is the time when the sun is about highest in the sky.↗ Example: The shop opens at 9 and closes at noon.↗ How long is it open?↗ · Lunch is at noon.↗ · He worked from noon until 5 o'clock.↗ · It is 2 hours after noon.↗ · At noon our shadows are very short.↗ · We must finish the hike by noon.↗ · The church bell rings twelve times at noon.↗ · Noon is 12:00 in the day, and midnight is 12:00 at night.↗ · It was past noon when he awoke.↗ · And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon; for they heard that they should eat bread there.↗ (Torah GEN.43.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house: 'Bring the men into the house, and kill the beasts, and prepare the meat; for the men shall dine with me at noon.'↗ (Torah GEN.43.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went out at noon.↗ (Prophets 1KI.20.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I complain, and moan; and He hath heard my voice.↗ (Writings PSA.55.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.20, JPS 1917)↗

noonday — Everyday, meaning 1: The middle of the day, about twelve o'clock; midday.↗ Example: We had our picnic at noonday.↗ · The sun was hot at noonday.↗ · Shadows are shortest at noonday.↗ · And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.↗ (Torah DEU.28.29, JPS 1917)↗ · They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.↗ (Writings JOB.5.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.↗ (Writings PSA.91.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And He will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, and thy right as the noonday.↗ (Writings PSA.37.6, JPS 1917)↗

noontide — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Midday, the middle of the day.↗ Example: I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.↗ (Prophets ISA.38.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide; (Prophets JER.20.16, JPS 1917)↗

noose — Everyday, meaning 1: A loop of rope or string that tightens when the end is pulled.↗ Example: He tied a noose in the end of the rope.↗ · The farmer caught the calf with a noose.↗ · The rope made a loop, or noose, at one end.↗ · A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.↗ (Writings JOB.18.10, JPS 1917)↗

normal — Everyday, meaning 1: Usual, ordinary or expected; what happens most of the time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Healthy and as it should be: normal temperature.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Noun: the usual state: «Things are back to normal».↗ Example: It's normal to feel nervous on the first day.↗ · Your normal body temperature is about 37 °C.↗ · Things went back to normal after the storm.↗ · I got up earlier than normal.↗ · It was a normal school day.↗ · It's normal for babies to cry.↗ · Normally we walk to school.↗ · The ice cream was twice its normal price.↗

normalise — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something seem normal or ordinary, so people accept it, as in "normalise talking about feelings".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To return something to a normal state, as in "relations normalised".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths, science) To change numbers to a standard scale so they can be compared.↗ Example: We should normalise talking about mental health.↗ · Laughing at bullying normalises it, which is wrong.↗ · After the storm, life slowly normalised.↗ · The two countries agreed to normalise relations.↗ · Scientists normalise the results so they can compare them.↗ · Her temperature normalised after the medicine.↗ · Some games normalise violence, critics say.↗

normally — Everyday, meaning 1: Usually; in most cases: «I normally walk to school».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a normal or ordinary way: «Breathe normally».↗ Example: I normally have cereal for breakfast.↗ · Normally the library is quiet.↗ · Breathe normally and relax.↗ · The shop is normally open on Sundays, but not today.↗ · The bus normally comes at eight.↗ · After the cast came off, he could walk normally again.↗ · Although Resh is usually thought to belong to the letters which cannot normally receive a dagesh, this was apparently not the case for these traditions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The first is clearly the root שָׁכַב shakhav ‘to lie, lie down’, but שכובה looks like a passive participle, shekhuvah, while shakhav is normally an intransitive verb not amenable to being made passive.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

norman — Everyday, meaning 1: noun (history).↗ e.g. The Normans were people from Normandy in northern France; in 1066 William the Conqueror led them to conquer England.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective: To do with the Normans.↗ e.g. Norman castles, Norman French.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Norman is a man's first name, and also a surname.↗ Example: The Normans invaded England in 1066.↗ · William the Conqueror was a Norman duke.↗ · We visited a Norman castle with thick stone walls.↗ · Norman French gave English words like «beef» and «court».↗ · The Bayeux Tapestry shows the Norman invasion.↗ · My grandad's name is Norman.↗ · Norman churches have round arches.↗

norse — Everyday, meaning 1: Norse describes the people of old Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland) in the time of the Vikings, and their language, gods and stories.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Old Norse is the language the Vikings spoke.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Norse are the people of that time.↗ Example: Thor is a Norse god of thunder.↗ · We read Norse myths about Odin and Loki.↗ · The Vikings spoke Old Norse.↗ · Norse sailors reached North America long before Columbus.↗ · «Sky» and «egg» came into English from Old Norse.↗ · The Norse believed in a great tree joining nine worlds.↗ · Dublin was founded as a Norse town.↗

north — Everyday, meaning 1: North is one of the four main directions, towards the top of most maps.↗ The other three are south, east and west.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The north of a country or place is the part that lies in that direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: North also means going towards the north: we drove north.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The North Pole is the most northern point of the Earth.↗ Example: He walked 5 km north and then 3 km south.↗ How far is he from the start?↗ · The town is 20 km north of the city.↗ · The north side of the garden is 10 m long.↗ · Birds fly north in spring.↗ · A compass needle always points north.↗ · Polar bears live near the North Pole.↗ · Our school is north of the river.↗ · Scotland is in the north of Great Britain.↗ · and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards.↗ (Torah EXO.26.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, (Torah EXO.36.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea ye shall mark out your line unto mount Hor; (Torah NUM.34.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Can iron break iron from the north and brass?↗ (Prophets JER.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.↗ (Writings JOB.37.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.↗ (Writings JOB.37.9, JPS 1917)↗

northeast — Everyday, meaning 1: Northeast is the direction halfway between north and east on a compass.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The northeast of a country or area is the part in that direction, for example the Northeast of England or the northeastern United States.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A northeast wind blows from the northeast.↗ Example: The treasure is buried to the northeast of the old oak tree.↗ · Newcastle is in the northeast of England.↗ · Turn the compass so the needle points north, then look halfway towards east: that is northeast.↗ · A cold northeast wind blew across the field.↗ · Maine and Vermont are in the northeastern United States.↗ · The ship sailed northeast for two days.↗ · Northeast is written NE on a map.↗ · I am Momotaro, and I am on my way to subdue the devils in their island stronghold in the northeast of Japan.↗ · These symbolize also twelve directions in space: northeast, southeast, the east above, the east below, the northwest, southwest, the west above, the west below, the upper south, the lower south, the upper north, the lower north.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

northeastern — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In or from the northeast.↗ Example: Their measure is the Twelve Diagonal Borders: Northeastern border, Southeastern border, Upper-Eastern border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Northern border, Lower-Northern border, Southwestern border, Northwestern border, Upper-Western border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Southern border, Lower-Southern border.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

northern — Everyday, meaning 1: Northern means in or from the north part of a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Northern also means facing or going towards the north.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Northern Lights are bright, colourful lights that shine across the night sky near the North Pole.↗ Example: Scotland is in the northern part of Great Britain.↗ · The northern lights glow in the night sky in the far north.↗ · We live in the Northern Hemisphere.↗ · It snows more in northern Canada.↗ · Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.↗ · The northern side of the house gets less sun in the UK.↗ · Birds fly south to escape the northern winter.↗ · Darwin is in northern Australia, where it is hot.↗ · The crown-shaped Northern Light burned fiercely in the sky.↗ · Their measure is the Twelve Diagonal Borders: Northeastern border, Southeastern border, Upper-Eastern border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Northern border, Lower-Northern border, Southwestern border, Northwestern border, Upper-Western border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Southern border, Lower-Southern border.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

northward — Everyday, meaning 1: (adverb) Towards the north: the geese flew northward.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Going or facing towards the north: a northward journey.↗ Example: The geese fly northward in spring.↗ · We drove northward along the coast.↗ · The river flows northward to the sea.↗ · The storm is moving northward.↗ · The northward road was blocked by snow.↗ · Walk northward until you see the lighthouse.↗ · The explorers made their way northwards across the ice.↗ · Early in the spring, when the storks were again about to journey northward, beautiful Helga took off her golden bracelets, scratched her name on them, and beckoned to the stork-father.↗ · 'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward.↗ (Torah DEU.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil.↗ (Torah EXO.40.22, JPS 1917)↗ · the prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari being Zuriel the son of Abihail; they were to pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward; (Torah NUM.3.35, JPS 1917)↗ · Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah.↗ (Prophets JOS.18.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the Storehouse two and two.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.17, JPS 1917)↗