Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- conjunction Than.
from The Century Dictionary.
- And not: generally used correlatively after a negative, introducing a second or a subsequent negative member of a clause or sentence.
- Correlative to another nor.
- With the omission of neither or nor in the first clause or part of the proposition.
- Correlative to some other negative.
- And … not: not correlative, but merely continuative.
- [In this use formerly used with another negative, merely cumulative, nor being then equivalent, logically, to and.
- Than: after comparatives. Compare
or in like use. - An abbreviation of
Norman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- conjunction A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following
neither , ornot , in the first member or clause (asor in affirmative propositions followseither ).Nor is also used sometimes in the first member forneither , and sometimes theneither is omitted and implied by the use ofnor .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun logic, electronics Alternative form of
NOR . - conjunction literary And not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one)
- conjunction A function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true
- conjunction Used to introduce a further negative statement
- conjunction UK, dialect, Yorkshire
than
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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-- _Neither, nor, or, either ... or_, and _neither ... nor_ are conjunctions proper.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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-- _Neither, nor, or, either ... or_, and _neither ... nor_ are conjunctions proper.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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-- _Neither, nor, or, either ... or_, and _neither ... nor_ are conjunctions proper.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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And if he bids you wait some time at the convent, dont wander away; and be sure you dont go with other boys to the lake to throw stones into the water, nor to watch them fish, nor to play with the nets hung up to dry, nor
Chapter VII 1909
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Scouts never grouse at hardships nor whine at each other, nor_ swear _when put out, but go on whistling and smiling.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899
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Canaan's descendants (on whom _alone_, and not _at all on Ham_, nor on his three other sons, Noah's curse fell), are now, _nor ever have been_, as a whole, in a state of bondage.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870
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A horse is no wealth to us if we cannot ride, nor a picture if we cannot see, _nor can any noble thing be wealth, except to a noble person_.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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I am not a fan of tweets as well...nor even facebook...facebook may have a little value in some situations..nor am I a fan club member type even when very young.
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The answer to this is short: _I never wrote such poems, never received the sum he mentions, nor any other in the same quarter, nor_ (as far as moral or mortal certainty can be sure) _ever had, directly or indirectly, the slightest communication with Johnson in my life_; not being aware that the person existed till this intelligence gave me to understand that there were such people.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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-- He's not that way: not a couple in all Ireland, and that's saying a great dale, looks less after their own, nor is more off-handeder, or open-hearteder, or greater openhouse-keeper, _nor_ [3] my Lord and my Lady Killpatrick. '
Tales and Novels — Volume 06 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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