nor
Part of speech: conj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. By surface analysis, not + or.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
pos: conj
tags: literary
examples: Nor did I stop to think, but ran.
They are happy, nor need we worry.
Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.
And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]
The cheeks drop in; the body bows;
Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
gloss: A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
pos: conj
examples: I am neither hungry nor thirsty.
I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
But neither breath of Morn when she ascends / With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun / On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, / Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; / Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent Night / With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
gloss: Neither.
pos: conj
tags: archaic
examples: I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.
gloss: Used to introduce a further negative statement.
pos: conj
examples: The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.
I hardly spoke with nor listened to anybody else.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
gloss: Than.
pos: conj
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: He's no better nor you.
'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'
I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.
Related words: neither
Derived words: buff nor stye
common sense is neither common nor sensical
for love nor money
gentle nor simple
hide nor hair
make head nor tail of
make neither head nor tail of
meddle nor make
neither a borrower nor a lender be
neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring
neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
neither fish nor flesh
neither fish nor fowl
neither here nor there
neither use nor ornament
neither … nor
rhyme nor reason
tide nor time tarrieth no man
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: as
lang: Arabic
word: وَلَا
roman: walā
lang: Belarusian
word: ні
roman: ni
lang: Bulgarian
word: нито
roman: nito
lang: Catalan
word: ni
lang: Czech
word: ani
lang: Dutch
word: noch
lang: Esperanto
word: nek
lang: Estonian
word: ega
lang: Finnish
word: -kä
lang: French
word: ni
lang: Galician
word: nin
lang: Georgian
word: არც
roman: arc
lang: German
word: noch
lang: Hungarian
word: sem
lang: Hungarian
word: se
lang: Icelandic
word: né
lang: Italian
word: né
lang: Latin
word: nec
lang: Latvian
word: arī ne
lang: Luxembourgish
word: nach
lang: Middle English
word: ne
lang: Norwegian
word: eller
lang: Norwegian
word: heller ikke
lang: Persian
word: نه
roman: na
lang: Persian
word: و نه
roman: va na
lang: Polish
word: ani
lang: Portuguese
word: nem
lang: Romanian
word: nici
lang: Russian
word: ни
roman: ni
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: no
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: neo
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: air neo
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cha mhò
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: niti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ni
lang: Slovak
word: ani
lang: Slovene
word: niti
lang: Slovene
word: ne
lang: Spanish
word: ni
lang: Swedish
word: eller
lang: Turkish
word: ne
lang: Ukrainian
word: ні
roman: ni
lang: Ukrainian
word: ніт
roman: nit
lang: Welsh
word: na (preconsonatal)
lang: Welsh
word: nac (prevocalic)