Ne

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  ne \ne\ (n[=e]), adv. [AS. ne. See {No}.]
     Not; never. [Obs.]
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           He never yet no villany ne said.         --Chaucer.
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     Note: 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  ne \ne\, conj. [See {Ne}, adv.]
     Nor. [Obs.] --Shak.
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           No niggard ne no fool.                   --Chaucer.
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     {Ne . . . ne}, neither . . . nor. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Ne
       n 1: 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 [syn: {neon}, {atomic number 10}]
       2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45
          degrees [syn: {northeast}, {nor'-east}]
       3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: {Nebraska}, {Cornhusker
          State}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  NE
       Network Element
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ne
       
           The {country code} for Niger.
       
          (1999-01-27)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  NEW. Something not known before.
       2. To be patented, an invention must be new. When an invention has been 
  described in a printed book which has been publicly circulated, and 
  afterwards a person takes out a patent for it, his patent is invalid, 
  because the invention was not new, 7 Mann' & Gr. 818. See New and Useful 
  Invention.