📖 N — The English dictionary · page 16

northwards — Everyday, meaning 1: Northwards means towards the north.↗ Example: The geese flew northwards in spring.↗ · The river flows northwards to the sea.↗ · We drove northwards towards Scotland.↗ · The storm is moving northwards.↗ · A compass needle points northwards.↗ · The road goes northwards through the forest.↗ · The beggar scrambled to his feet, and without a pause walked quickly down the road that led northwards.↗

northwest — Everyday, meaning 1: The direction halfway between north and west.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The part of a country or area that lies in that direction, as in "the Northwest of England".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (as adjective) In, from or facing the northwest: a northwest wind blows from the northwest.↗ Example: The wind is blowing from the northwest.↗ · Manchester is in the northwest of England.↗ · Walk northwest until you reach the river.↗ · On the map, the castle is northwest of the village.↗ · Explorers searched for the Northwest Passage for hundreds of years.↗ · NW on a compass stands for northwest.↗ · Seattle is in the Pacific Northwest.↗ · 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)↗

northwestern — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In or from the northwest.↗ 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)↗

norwegian — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) From or to do with Norway, a country in northern Europe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A person from Norway.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) The language spoken in Norway.↗ Example: Norwegian fjords are long, deep sea inlets.↗ · My pen pal is Norwegian.↗ · Many Norwegians love skiing.↗ · She is learning to speak Norwegian.↗ · The Norwegian flag has a blue cross.↗ · We read about a Norwegian explorer who reached the South Pole.↗ · A Norwegian forest cat has very thick fur.↗ · The old goblin is a true-hearted, honest, old Norwegian graybeard; cheerful and straightforward.↗

nose — Everyday, meaning 1: The part of your face that sticks out above your mouth, used for smelling and breathing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The sense of smell: «a dog has a good nose».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The front part of a plane, car or boat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Verb: to look around in a nosy way, or to move forward slowly.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To turn up your nose at something means to refuse it or look down on it as not good enough.↗ Example: Blow your nose into a tissue.↗ · I have a runny nose.↗ · Dogs use their noses to find things.↗ · We smell with our nose.↗ · Don't put beads up your nose.↗ · Pinch the soft part of your nose for a nosebleed.↗ · The nose of the plane is pointed.↗ · The answer was right under my nose.↗ · "Brer Coon tu'n up his nose.↗ · And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.↗ (Torah GEN.24.47, JPS 1917)↗ · And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought nose-rings, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and girdles, all jewels of gold; even every man that brought an offering of gold unto the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.35.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Seven Gates in the person: two eyes, two ears, two punctures of the nose, and the mouth.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not; (Writings PSA.115.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall any take him by his eyes, or pierce through his nose with a snare?↗ (Writings JOB.40.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook?↗ (Writings JOB.40.26, JPS 1917)↗

nosebleed — Everyday, meaning 1: Blood coming out of your nose, often because a tiny blood vessel inside it breaks.↗ Example: I had a nosebleed in class, so I went to the nurse.↗ · Lean forward, not back, when you have a nosebleed.↗ · Pinch the soft part of your nose to stop a nosebleed.↗ · Dry winter air can give you nosebleeds.↗ · The ball hit his face and gave him a nosebleed.↗ · She held a tissue under her nose until the nosebleed stopped.↗ · Picking your nose can cause a nosebleed.↗ · Tell an adult if a nosebleed won't stop.↗

nosegay — Everyday, meaning 1: A small bunch of flowers, held or worn in the hand.↗ Example: She carried a nosegay of violets.↗ · The bride held a nosegay.↗ · He picked a nosegay for his mother.↗

nosiness — Everyday, meaning 1: Being too interested in other people's private business; being nosy.↗ Example: Her nosiness got her into trouble when she read her sister's diary.↗ · Excuse my nosiness, but where did you get that coat?↗ · The neighbour's nosiness was annoying.↗ · Nosiness helped the detective solve the case.↗ · "Stop your nosiness and mind your own business!"↗ · The cat's nosiness led it into the cupboard.↗ · Nosiness about other people's passwords is never okay.↗

nostril — Everyday, meaning 1: One of the two openings at the end of your nose that air goes in and out through.↗ Example: Air goes in through your nostrils.↗ · Hairs in your nostrils catch dust.↗ · The horse flared its nostrils.↗ · Never put beads up your nostril.↗ · A whale's blowhole is its nostril.↗ · Breathe in slowly through your nostrils.↗ · My left nostril is blocked because of my cold.↗ · And now her nostrils are twitching.↗ · all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.↗ (Torah GEN.7.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.↗ (Torah GEN.2.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up — the floods stood upright as a heap; the deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.↗ (Torah EXO.15.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.↗ (Writings JOB.41.12, JPS 1917)↗ · All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, (Writings JOB.27.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!↗ (Prophets ISA.2.22, JPS 1917)↗

nosy — Everyday, meaning 1: Nosy means too interested in other people's private business.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A nosy person asks too many personal questions or snoops.↗ Example: Our nosy neighbour watches everyone from her window.↗ · Don't be nosy; that's her private letter.↗ · My little sister is so nosy!↗ · The nosy cat poked its head into my bag.↗ · He asked lots of nosy questions.↗ · Stop being a nosy parker.↗

not — Everyday, meaning 1: Not makes a sentence say no, or the opposite.↗ e.g. It is not cold.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not can go before a word to say «no» to just that word: not quite, not me, not yet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Not … any» means none at all.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Not only … but also» adds a second, bigger point.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «Not!» said after a sentence (joking, US) takes it back: «I love homework — not!»; «not bad» often means quite good; «not even» means it is not at all true.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (rough) «Not a chance», «not on your life», «not bloody likely» (UK) are blunt refusals.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (formal) The exam voice says «by no means», «in no case», «under no circumstances», «it is not the case that», «fails to», «other than».↗ Example: Not quite: 2.↗ · Here the word «more» does not mean adding …↗ · Tom did not eat any of the 6 cakes.↗ · I am not sleepy.↗ · It's not fair!↗ · Do not run near the pool.↗ · «Can I have a cookie?»↗ «Not now.»↗ · The bus has not come yet.↗ · That is not my bag.↗ · «Will you share?»↗ «Not a chance.»↗ · «How was the test?»↗ «Not bad, got 18.»↗ · Which of the following statements is not consistent with the established facts concerning the boiling of water?↗ · One swallow does not make summer.↗ · It shall not be baked with leaven.↗ (Torah LEV.6.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Notwithstanding the sons of Korah died not.↗ (Torah NUM.26.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.↗ (Torah DEU.14.3, JPS 1917)↗ · So his strength was not known.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Is it not wheat harvest to-day?↗ (Prophets 1SA.12.17, JPS 1917)↗ · But he told not his father.↗ (Prophets 1SA.14.1, JPS 1917)↗

notable — Everyday, meaning 1: Worth noticing or important enough to be noticed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Famous or well known, as in "a notable writer".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, formal) An important or famous person.↗ Example: The town is notable for its old castle.↗ · Marie Curie was a notable scientist.↗ · There was a notable improvement in his reading.↗ · Most birds can fly; the penguin is a notable exception.↗ · The day's notable events were a fire drill and a visit from an author.↗ · Many local notables came to the opening.↗ · Her kindness was notable.↗ · A very notable Hebrew expression of Divinatory intuition was BATh QUL, the Daughter of the Voice.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!↗ (Prophets AMO.6.1, JPS 1917)↗

notably — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a way that is especially worth noticing.↗

notate — Everyday, meaning 1: To write something down using a system of signs or symbols, especially music, dance steps or chess moves.↗ Example: The composer notated the melody on the stave.↗ · Can you notate this rhythm using crotchets and quavers?↗ · Chess players notate every move in a game.↗ · She hummed the tune and her teacher notated it.↗ · Dances can be notated with special symbols.↗ · In maths we notate «less than» with the sign <.↗

notation — Everyday, meaning 1: A system of signs or symbols used to write things down, especially in maths, music or science.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A written note or mark: a notation in the margin.↗ Example: Musical notation shows how long each note lasts.↗ · In maths notation, «×» means multiply.↗ · Scientific notation writes 3000 as 3 × 10³.↗ · Learn the notation for fractions: 3/4 means three quarters.↗ · Chess players use notation to record their moves.↗ · The teacher made a notation in the margin of my book.↗ · Roman numerals are an old notation for numbers.↗ · Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · As the Arabic numeral system of notation, the vowels, and the (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · In a binary system of notation the Zero is the second Symbol.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

notch — Everyday, meaning 1: A small V-shaped cut in an edge or surface.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A level or step on a scale: turn the heat up a notch.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To make a notch in something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, informal) notch up: to achieve or score: notch up a win.↗ Example: He tightened his belt by one notch.↗ · Turn the music down a notch, please.↗ · The prisoner cut a notch in the wall for each day.↗ · Our team notched up another win.↗ · The cake was top-notch!↗ · Cut a small notch in the stick to hold the string.↗ · The tally stick had twelve notches.↗ · He took the bow, and fitting an arrow to the notch, took careful aim and let fly.↗

note — Everyday, meaning 1: A note is a short written message.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A note is also a piece of paper money, like a 10-pound note (a bill in the USA).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A note is one sound in music, or the sign for it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Notes are short words you write down to remember things.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To note is to write something down, or to notice it.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A note can also be a comment or reference added to a book to explain something or to name its source.↗ Example: She paid with a 20-pound note.↗ · He wrote 3 notes to his friends.↗ · How much change does she get from a 10-pound note?↗ · The song has 12 notes.↗ · Take notes while you watch the video.↗ · Mum wrote a note to the teacher.↗ · She played a high note on the piano.↗ · Please note that the pool closes early today.↗ · I made a note of the answer.↗ · Mr. Nutt's notes (MacInnes' Tales, 453).↗ · I, etc., etc.; his notes on "Yezirah" Chap.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 35) Compare Chapter I, Section 3, Note, 8.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 13) See above Note 1, God, idea and word are indivisible.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗