ni
part of speech
fragment or abbreviation (NI, Ni, ni)
meaning for a pupil
1) NI is short for Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom. tree →
2) (UK) NI is short for National Insurance, money taken from wages to pay for state pensions and benefits. tree →
3) (science) Ni is the chemical symbol for the metal nickel. tree →
4) In the old film «Monty Python and the Holy Grail», the Knights Who Say «Ni!» shout it as a silly word. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography: NI on maps and in addresses. In money (UK): an NI number on a payslip. In chemistry: the symbol Ni in the periodic table. As a lowercase fragment it may also appear from Spanish «ni» (nor) or Ni in names.
examples
- Klyce (f/ni- verse 1921 para. 43 f) advances the view that zero and infinity are logically identical. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- nB3 mynp nna ni2isn hpa graved by the voice, hewn out :mDipD nti-ens in the air, and fixed in the moutli in five places. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Belfast is the capital of NI. tree →
- Every worker in the UK has an NI number. tree →
- Ni is the symbol for nickel. tree →
- The postcode area BT is in NI. tree →
- Coins can contain Ni (nickel). tree →
- NI contributions help pay for state pensions. tree →
note
Not an ordinary English word; always check the context. Abbreviations are usually in capitals (NI); chemical symbols have a capital first letter and small second letter (Ni).
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ni» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.