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NTabbr.1. New Testament2. Northwest TerritoriesnTabbr. nanoteslaAmerican Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.NT abbreviation for 1. National Trust 2. (Bible) New Testament 3. (Placename) Northern Territory (of Australia) 4. (Placename) (esp in postal addresses) Northwest Territories (of Australia) 5. (Placename) (esp in postal addresses) Nunavut 6. (Bridge) no-trump 7. (Education) (in Ireland) National Teacher (teacher in a National School) Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-n’t a contraction of not: didn’t; hadn’t; couldn’t; shouldn’t; won’t. NT or N.T., 1. New Testament. 2. Northern Territory. 3. Northwest Territories. 4. Nunavut. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

notexpressing negation, denial, or prohibition: I will not answer your question.Not to be confused with:knot ? cord, rope, ribbon, or the like that is tied or folded upon itself; a tangle in hair; a difficulty: a knotty problemAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary EmbreeNOT (n?t)n. A logical operator that returns a false value if the operand is true and a true value if the operand is false.not (n?t)adv. In no way; to no degree. Used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition: I will not go. You may not have any.[Middle English, alteration of naught, nought; see naught.]Usage Note: The positioning of not and other negatives in a sentence is important to avoid ambiguity. The sentence All classes are not open to enrollment could be taken to mean either “All classes are closed to enrollment” or “Not all classes are open to enrollment.” Similarly, the sentence Kim didn’t sleep until noon could mean either “Kim went to sleep at noon” or “Kim got up before noon.” · Not only and but also are usually classified as correlative conjunctions. They add emphasis to each part of the construction and suggest that the second part is particularly unexpected or surprising. As with both … and and other correlatives, parallelism requires that each conjunction be followed by a construction of the same grammatical type. Thus, She not only bought a new car but also a new lawnmower displays faulty parallelism, where She bought not only a new car but also a new lawnmower does not, because both not only and but also are followed by noun phrases. See Usage Note at only.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.not (n?t) adv1. a. used to negate the sentence, phrase, or word that it modifies: I will not stand for it. b. (in combination): they cannot go. 2. not that (conjunction) which is not to say or suppose that: I expect to lose the game ? not that I mind. Also (archaic): not but what sentence substituteused to indicate denial, negation, or refusal: certainly not. [C14 not, variant of nought nothing, from Old English n?wiht, from n? no + wiht creature, thing. See naught, nought]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014not (n?t) adv. 1. (used to express negation, denial, refusal, prohibition, etc.): It’s not far from here. Are they coming or not? You must not think about it. 2. Slang. (used jocularly as a postpositive interjection to indicate that a previous statement is untrue): That’s a cute dress. Not! [1275?1325; Middle English; weak variant of nought] NOT (n?t) n. a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.notNot is used with verbs to form negative sentences.You put not after the first auxiliary verb or modal, if there is one.If there is no other auxiliary verb, you use do as the auxiliary verb. After not you use the base form of a verb.In conversation, when not is used after be, have, do, or a modal, it is not usually pronounced in full. When you write down what someone says, you usually represent not as n’t and add it to the verb in front of it. In some cases, the verb also changes its form.You nearly always use an auxiliary verb when you want to make a negative form of a verb using not. Don’t say, for example, ‘I not liked it’ or ‘I liked not it’. You say ‘I didn’t like it’.There are two exceptions to this. When you use not with be, don’t use an auxiliary verb. You simply put not after be.When have is a main verb, not is sometimes added without an auxiliary verb, but only in the short forms hasn’t, haven’t, and hadn’t.However, it is more common to use the forms doesn’t have, don’t have, and didn’t have.Be Careful!When you use not to make what you are saying negative, you don’t usually use another negative word such as ‘nothing’, ‘never’, or ‘none’. Don’t say, for example, ‘I don’t know nothing about it’. You say ‘I don’t know anything about it’.You can make a negative statement more polite or less strong by using really after not.You can reply to some questions by saying ‘Not really’.When you make a negative statement using not and an adjective, you can make the statement less strong by putting very in front of the adjective.Be Careful!Although you can say that something is not very good, don’t use ‘not’ in front of other words meaning ‘very good’. Don’t say, for example, that something is ‘not excellent’ or ‘not marvellous’.You can use not with a to-infinitive. You put not in front of to, not after it.You can use not to link two words or expressions. You do this to point out that something is the case, and to contrast it with what is not the case.You can make a similar contrast by changing the order of the words or expressions. When you do this, you put not in front of the first word or expression and but in front of the second one.You can use not with surprisingly and unexpectedly to make a negative comment about a statement.Not is sometimes used with all and with words beginning with every- to form the subject of a sentence. For example, instead of saying ‘Some snakes are not poisonous’, you can say ‘Not all snakes are poisonous’.Not only is often used with but or but also to link two words or phrases.You can use not at the end of a short reply in order to give your opinion. For example, you can say ‘I hope not’, ‘Probably not’, or ‘Certainly not’.

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