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NOT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Negation of a word or group of words
Example:
not at all
Synonyms:
non; not
Classified under:
Context examples:
Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Abiotrophia genus level.
(Abiotrophia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An artifact that results when an imaging agent is not absorbed or metabolized at the expected rate.
(Abnormal Uptake Kinetics, NCI Thesaurus)
"Don't take them off," I cried; "I will not stir."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Not existing in a specified place at a specified time.
(Absent, NCI Thesaurus)
Could not be a better time, Sir Walter, for having a choice of tenants, very responsible tenants.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The quantity of 260nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.
(Absorbance at 260nm, NCI Thesaurus)
The quantity of 280nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.
(Absorbance at 280nm, NCI Thesaurus)
It is used in patients whose disease has not gotten better during or after treatment with other anticancer drugs.
(ABX-EGF, NCI Dictionary)
I did not take any, but it was a comfort to know it was there all the same.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You would not if you saw him.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)