📖 N — The English dictionary · page 5

nd — Everyday, meaning 1: -nd: the letters written after a number that ends in 2 (except 12) to make an ordinal number: 2nd = second, 22nd = twenty-second, 102nd.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: ND: short for North Dakota, a state in the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: n.d.: «no date» in a list of books or sources.↗ Example: She came 2nd in the race.↗ · Our classroom is on the 2nd floor.↗ · Write the ordinals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.↗ · He was the 22nd person in the queue.↗ · Bismarck is the capital of ND, North Dakota.↗ · The 2nd step in the problem is to add the two totals.↗ · Source.--Henderson's Folk-Lore of Northern Counties, 2nd edition, published by the Folk-Lore Society, pp.↗ 266-7.↗

ne — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) «Ne» is the first half of the French way to say «not»: «je ne sais pas» is «I don't know»; the word goes before the verb and «pas» goes after it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (abbreviation) «NE» means north-east, the direction halfway between north and east, as on a compass or a map.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: It is not an English word on its own; French «ne» sounds like «nuh».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In Russian, «ne» also means «not», and it goes before the verb.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A word meaning "not" in another language, so it is not an English word.↗ Example: «Je ne parle pas allemand» means «I don't speak German».↗ · «Il ne mange jamais de viande» means «he never eats meat».↗ · In fast French, people often leave out «ne».↗ · Before a vowel, «ne» becomes «n'»: «je n'aime pas».↗ · The map showed the town to the NE of the lake.↗ · A compass has N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW.↗ · French «ne» sounds like «nuh».↗ · Hinc jam rebus Israel inclinatis ne deficeret per sapientes Hierusalem arcanis et (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Hinc jam rebus Israel inclinatis ne deficeret per sapientes Hierusalem arcanis et [p. 12] profundissimis sensibus literis commendatus."↗ Johannes Pistorius.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Modern writers are also divided in their opinions concer- ning the age of the Sefer Yetzirah.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · [354] Tak de ego ne vzat'.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · Hinc jam rebus Israel inclinatis ne deficeret per sapientes Hierusalem arcanis et↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) · Athene (a-thee'-ne, th as in both), 43.↗ (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome)

neanderthal — Everyday, meaning 1: A Neanderthal was a kind of early human who lived in Europe and western Asia from about 400,000 to about 40,000 years ago and then died out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, rude) Calling someone a neanderthal means they are rough, rude or old-fashioned in their ideas.↗ Example: Neanderthals lived during the Ice Age.↗ · Neanderthals made sharp stone tools.↗ · Scientists found Neanderthal bones in a cave in Germany.↗ · Some of our DNA comes from Neanderthals.↗ · Neanderthals had big, strong bodies for the cold.↗ · «Don't be such a neanderthal!» she said when he burped at the table.↗ · Neanderthals and modern humans lived at the same time for thousands of years.↗

neap — Everyday, meaning 1: A neap tide is a tide with the smallest difference between high and low water, which happens twice a month when the Sun and Moon pull at right angles to each other.↗ Example: At neap tide the sea does not go out very far.↗ · Neap tides happen about twice a month.↗ · Spring tides are bigger than neap tides.↗ · The fishermen waited for the neap tide to launch the boat.↗ · During neaps, the rock pools stay covered.↗ · The Moon at half full means a neap tide is near.↗

near — Everyday, meaning 1: Near means close, not far away.↗ The shop is near my house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Near can mean close in time: «Summer is near.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To near something is to come closer to it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Nearest» means the closest one.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Near» can mean almost: «a near miss».↗ Example: The park is near the school.↗ · Round 47 to the nearest ten.↗ · Who lives nearer to the lake?↗ · There are 5 trees near the pond.↗ · Stay near me in the crowd.↗ · The holidays are near.↗ · Round 3.6 to the nearest whole number.↗ · As the ship neared the shore, we saw the lighthouse.↗ · And he came near, and kissed him.↗ (Torah GEN.27.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed down.↗ (Torah GEN.33.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD.↗ (Torah NUM.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.↗ (Prophets JER.46.3, JPS 1917)↗ · So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.↗ (Writings EST.5.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.16, JPS 1917)↗

nearby — Everyday, meaning 1: Nearby means not far away, close to here or close to a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective it comes before a noun: a nearby park.↗ As an adverb it comes after a verb: we live nearby.↗ Example: We live in a small town with a beach nearby.↗ · Is there a toilet nearby?↗ · My best friend lives nearby, so we walk to school together.↗ · If you are lost, ask a nearby shop assistant for help.↗ · A dog was barking somewhere nearby.↗ · We went to a nearby park for a picnic.↗ · The nearby river can flood after heavy rain.↗ · Stay nearby where I can see you.↗ · There were several roads nearby, but it did not take her long to find the one paved with yellow bricks.↗

nearly — Everyday, meaning 1: Nearly means almost, but not completely.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Nearly can mean that something almost happened but did not («I nearly fell»).↗ Example: It is nearly time for lunch.↗ · I nearly missed the bus this morning.↗ · We have nearly finished the jigsaw.↗ · There were nearly 30 children at the party.↗ · She nearly fell off the wall, so be careful.↗ · My little brother is nearly five.↗ · That is not nearly enough paint for the whole fence.↗ · We are nearly home; I can see our street.↗ · The merchant himself nearly went mad.↗ · The Twenty-second Path is the Faithful Intelligence, and is so called because by it spiritual virtues are increased, and all dwellers on earth are nearly under its shadow.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Twenty-second Path is the Faithful Intelligence and is so called because by it spiritual virtues are increased, and all dwellers on earth are nearly under its shadow.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

nearness — Everyday, meaning 1: Being close in distance.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being close in time, as in "the nearness of the holidays".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Being close in a relationship or feeling.↗ Example: The nearness of the school means I can walk there.↗ · We loved the nearness of the beach.↗ · The nearness of Christmas made everyone excited.↗ · The nearness of the storm made the dog nervous.↗ · She felt a nearness to her grandmother when she read her letters.↗ · The nearness of the two planets made them look like one bright star.↗ · The house's nearness to the motorway made it noisy.↗ · Yet there was no sign to tell her of their nearness.↗ · But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works.↗ (Writings PSA.73.28, JPS 1917)↗

neat — Everyday, meaning 1: Tidy and in good order: «a neat bedroom».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Done carefully and clearly: «neat handwriting».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, especially US) Very good, cool: «That's a neat trick!».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Clever and simple: «a neat solution».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (of a drink) With no water or ice added.↗ Example: Keep your desk neat and tidy.↗ · She has very neat handwriting.↗ · Line up your numbers neatly in columns.↗ · Wow, that's a neat trick!↗ · He folded his clothes in a neat pile.↗ · Using a pattern was a neat way to solve the puzzle.↗ · My room is neater than my brother's.↗ · Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.↗

neatly — Everyday, meaning 1: Neatly means in a tidy, careful way, with everything in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Neatly can mean cleverly and skilfully, with no fuss, like a problem neatly solved.↗ Example: Please write neatly in your book.↗ · She folded her clothes neatly.↗ · Line up the numbers neatly in columns before you add.↗ · The books were stacked neatly on the shelf.↗ · He was neatly dressed for the photo.↗ · The puzzle piece fitted neatly into place.↗ · The cat neatly jumped onto the wall.↗ · Tidy your desk neatly before you go home.↗ · No six men could have divided the herd so neatly.↗ · Midrash Tanchuma 1:5 on [Genesis 1:1], Zohar 1:3a inter alia.]↗ [note 8: Though the phrase is usually translated the ‘Thirty-Two Paths’, I find that the alliteration of ‘Wondrous Ways of Wisdom’ neatly approximates the SY’s choice of poetic vocabulary.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

neatness — Everyday, meaning 1: Neatness is being tidy, clean and well arranged.↗ Example: Our teacher gives a sticker for neatness.↗ · Neatness counts in your science book.↗ · I admired the neatness of her drawing.↗ · His room is famous for its neatness.↗ · Take care with the neatness of your answers.↗ · Neatness helps others read your work.↗ · If there is any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds' nests, I must have learnt my lesson badly.↗

nebuchadnezzar — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The name of the powerful king of Babylon who destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple in 586 BCE.↗ Example: All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.↗ (Writings DAN.4.25, JPS 1917)↗ · They spoke and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: 'O king, live for ever!↗ (Writings DAN.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.↗ (Writings DAN.4.1, JPS 1917)↗

nebula — Everyday, meaning 1: A nebula is a huge cloud of gas and dust in space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some nebulae are places where new stars are being born; others are what is left after a star dies.↗ Example: The Orion Nebula is a nursery for new stars.↗ · The telescope photo showed a glowing pink nebula.↗ · A nebula is made of gas and dust.↗ · The Crab Nebula came from an exploded star.↗ · Our Sun was born from a nebula.↗ · The nebula looked like a giant space cloud.↗

nec — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The first part of "necessity", broken off at the end of a printed line.↗ It is not a word on its own.↗ Example: The Siphra Dtzeniouta, or Book of Concealed Mystery, translated by Mac Gregor Mathers, in his " Kabalah Denudata," opens with a reference to this Equilibrium as a fundamental neces- sity of stable existence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

necessarily — Everyday, meaning 1: Used mostly in «not necessarily»: not always, not in every case.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a way that cannot be different; because it must be so.↗ Example: Big dogs are not necessarily scary.↗ · An expensive toy is not necessarily better.↗ · A longer word is not necessarily harder to spell.↗ · «Will it rain?»↗ «Not necessarily.»↗ · Taller people do not necessarily run faster.↗ · Something on the internet is not necessarily true.↗ · A shape with four sides is not necessarily a square.↗ · “Will you please tell me if, on this island, there are places where one may eat without necessarily being eaten?”↗ · 23) The ancient philosophers maintained that if God is the first cause, and He is necessarily, He, the immediate effect of Him, as an absolute unity, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · He failed, however, to see that by way of contrast riTnr must necessarily mean consonants.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

necessary — Everyday, meaning 1: Needed; something you must have or must do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «If necessary» means «if it is needed».↗ Example: Food and water are necessary for life.↗ · Is it necessary to bring a packed lunch?↗ · Take an umbrella if necessary.↗ · A helmet is necessary when you ride a scooter.↗ · Only take the things that are necessary for the trip.↗ · Light is necessary for photosynthesis.↗ · Don't make more noise than necessary.↗ · Nothing more is necessary, only to stir it."↗ · Attention must be called to the essential peculiarity of Hebrew doctrines, the inextricable and necessary associa- (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · It is necessary to avoid confusion between these letters ; different authors translate them in different manners.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · "Numeral characters, were first invented because they were first necessary to mankind."↗ (Th.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.↗ (Writings JOB.23.12, JPS 1917)↗

necessitate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To necessitate something is to make it necessary or needed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To necessitate means to force something to happen because there is no other way.↗ Example: The heavy rain necessitated closing the school field.↗ · A broken leg will necessitate a long rest.↗ · (formal) The larger class size necessitates an additional teacher.↗ · The trip necessitated an early start.↗ · Building the bridge necessitated a lot of planning.↗ · (formal) Determine how many boxes the delivery necessitates.↗ · His injury necessitated a visit to hospital.↗ · Nor is there, after all, so close a relation between the two types in their full development as to necessitate the derivation of one from the other.↗

necessity — Everyday, meaning 1: Something that you need and cannot do without: water is a necessity.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The fact of being needed: the necessity of sleep.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) A situation that forces you to do something: out of necessity.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: necessities (plural): the basic things needed to live, such as food and shelter.↗ Example: Food, water and shelter are basic necessities.↗ · A coat is a necessity in a Canadian winter.↗ · Is a phone a necessity or a luxury?↗ · They walked to school out of necessity because the bus broke down.↗ · Necessity is the mother of invention.↗ · Sleep is a necessity, not a choice.↗ · We packed only the necessities for camping.↗ · I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity.↗