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nor

[nawr; unstressed ner]

conjunction

(used in negative phrases, especially after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent member): Neither he nor I will be there. They won't wait for you, nor for me, nor for anybody.

(used to continue the force of a negative, as not, no, never, etc., occurring in a preceding clause): He left and I never saw him again, nor did I regret it.

(used after an affirmative clause, or as a continuative, in the sense of and not): They are happy, nor need we worry.

Older Use. than.

Archaic. (used without a preceding neither, the negative force of which is understood): He nor I was there.

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Archaic. (used instead of neither as correlative to a following nor): Nor he nor I was there.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English, contraction of nother, Old English nōther, equivalent to ne not + ōther (contraction of ōhwæther) either; compare or¹

Can be confused: and, and/or, nor, or (see usage note at and; see usage note at and/or).

Usage note
See neither.

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Nor is always a great word to know.

So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Example Sentences

From a scientist's perspective, the emergence of humanity as a global force of nature is neither good nor bad.

Their diffuse messages are not evidence of a lack of understanding, nor of an emphasis on anarchism.

Nor has she ever been obnoxiously offensive either diplomatically or morally.

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From a scientist's perspective, the emergence of humanity as a global force of nature is neither good nor bad.

Their diffuse messages are not evidence of a lack of understanding, nor of an emphasis on anarchism.

Nor has she ever been obnoxiously offensive either diplomatically or morally.

Neither high-efficiency nor homemade detergent will cause your machine to foam over.

Do not become righteous overmuch, nor show yourself excessively wise.

The march toward gender-specific clothes was neither linear nor rapid.

Neither the oaks nor the daffodils need any extra summer water.

Nor had dispersants been previously deployed in the volumes needed in the gulf.

Jobs was neither a hardware engineer nor a software programmer, nor did he think of himself as a manager.

Not a single professor rose to question those decisions, nor did anyone seem to give a thought to how their students would pay.

Nor is it possible to establish the impact of migration on overall growth.

Nor was another idea, to build reservoirs on the tributaries to hold back the water.

Seven-month-old infants cannot talk, nor can they do arithmetic.

Some trees do not disperse well: not many birds or animals carry their seeds far from the tree, nor does the wind.

The best picnic is the one at which neither kids nor grown-ups are exhausted from cooking and cleaning up.

Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human.

Nor will people who overextended themselves to such a degree that there's no hope they'll ever repay their loans.

Nor do they react to the distress shown by other people.

Their members are neither rich nor poor but somewhere in-between.

They can be male or female, but daddy long legs are neither spiders nor insects.

No such thing exists, neither in the smallest known quanta, nor the visible universe.

Nor did they have much of a lasting impact on the island, other than to give it its name.

Zhu's team showed that neither red nor blue influenced mood.

Prantis is neither a software wizard nor a hardware guru.

Nor was there substantial change in students' persistence in or completion of developmental reading.

The welfare bill is neither as objectionable as its critics depict it nor as uncontroversial as its supporters would have it.

The fishing spider needs neither rod nor reel to lure in tadpoles, fish, or frogs.

Gu is bedridden and can neither talk nor remember his children.

But wolves neither behave nor misbehave-they try to survive wherever they happen to be.

Nor will the selection process be made public, in order to prevent candidates from prepping.

Dioxin was neither suspected nor expected, but was found inadvertently.

Unfortunately, today such involvement is neither widespread nor growing.

Nor do they yet think they have stabilised the property market.

We don't even have places for them all, nor time to count all the deaths," she said.

From the point of view of the earth, the sun neither rises nor sets, but merely shines on different areas at different times.

They are neither chameleons nor dragons, but are a type of lizard called an agamid.

It seems that the world has finally discovered that the traditional camera strap is neither comfortable nor practical.

Neither my case nor my critics seemed all that unusual.

Nor did they allow the yuan to strengthen against the dollar until last month.

Nor are environmentalists, wildlife groups, and even government agencies.

No one imagines that the luminary is finger-size nor that your fist is in outer space.

Nor did it appeal to my sense of adventure and exploration.

Nor does it include the lost limbs and emotional suffering that are a part of every war.

Nor does anyone in the private sector seem at all impressed with my experience in injecting dopaminergic agents into rats.

The radicals of the anti-war movement did not take to him, however, nor he to them.

It's dustproof, so neither beach nor desert will damage it.

They are neither little people nor dogs nor something in between, and they do not prosper if kept in the human world.

Nor do paleontologists worry themselves about finding spiritual lessons from the life of the past.

Technology is not the seed of these protests, nor is it even the sunlight.

Oglethorpe is neither highly ranked nor highly endowed.

But their leaders say they have seen none of the promised compensation for giving up mining nor investment in alternative jobs.

Most pubs do not require reservations nor do they expect you to wait to be seated.

They do not have the skills, nor health, necessary to survive much longer.

He neither rose from poverty nor went off the deep end through drink or craziness.

Nor would many greens have put so much of our limited renewable energy funding into corn-based ethanol.

Neither she nor other senior administrators would discuss details of the.

But no one is sure where the limits lie, nor how painful the ultimate adjustment will be.

Neither nuclear energy nor alternative sources such as wind and solar seem likely to meet the demand for electricity.

Not a rocket with its boosters on full blast nor a photon of light.

Nor are professional photographers who earn more than half of their income taking pictures.

Nor can it find enemies below who might be expecting paratroopers.

Nor did she quote a single student or a single resident of the target neighborhood she visited.

Nor are people in those countries well placed to adapt to change.

Nor are researchers sure how snow crystals impact global climate.

Not long ago a hard-and-fast rule held that neurons could neither divide nor emerge from elsewhere.

The brain region was not larger in absolute terms, nor were the brains themselves larger.

It's neither difficult nor prohibitively expensive nor dangerous to swab a cervix or perform a mammogram.

Nor are children merely the accidental victims of war.

It's neither change nor technology that threatens the integrity of the ethnosphere.

There is no diminishment in the amount of water, nor is there any contamination of the downstream water.

In fact, it is neither an underdeveloped melon nor the freakish product of a mad scientist.

She reports that her smile has never been so radiant, nor her legs so smooth and relaxed.

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor madness will keep us from being tourists.

Thus a home-defense shooting does not appear statistically as a crime nor a violent death.

He neither loves nor hates the city but could not live as happily anywhere else, he told me over dinner, and intends to die there.

Neither student nor professor dared hazard a guess as to why.

Neither males nor females are monogamous, both mating with multiple members of the group.

Nor has this latest delay been the only setback of the summer.

When you're getting ready to dig, the soil should be neither too wet nor too dry: a handful squeezed in your fist should form a.

Nor could local congregations impose civil penalties on anyone who violated secular law.

The position is defined as management and does not imply appointment in a department nor faculty tenure.

Slime moulds are unusual critters-neither animal, nor plant nor fungus.

The world beneath a jungle canopy is neither dim, nor gloomy, nor monochrome.

Nor did they display serious distress, although some did feel sad for a short time.

Short, scrawny and sickly, he suffered from a hypochondria that convinced him he would lead neither a long nor a healthy life.

Neither soft nor frivolous, the humanities are research.

No words could describe either the beauty of the place, nor the profound sadness of the moment.

Neither heavy nor perfume-y, it gives the sorbet a delicate.

Nor that they are facing new political pressures as legislatures and governors in.

For a while, there was neither government nor rules.

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in the world until unconditional life is granted to all its citizens.

Adamas, the indomitable, yielded neither to fire nor force.

However, neither the number of scientists awarded grants nor the quality of applications has declined.

Nor has there been much sign of rejoicing in those countries whose currencies have tended to strengthen.

Freedom does not mean inflict damage, not on yourself nor onto someone else.

Nor does it attempt to count civilian deaths in clandestine.

Disabled person performing as disabled is neither acting nor art.

They aren't asking for any money, but nor are they sending.

Careless, you might think, that neither board nor regulator had checked before.

Nor does standing on the ground looking up a foreshortened column of wood.

Nor were there any paradigm-shifting business plans or splashy announcements.

Neither funding agencies nor peer reviewers nor conference audiences will always agree.

Nor were his achievements applauded by admiring theatre.

There is also ice that appears neither white nor blue but rather brown and even black-darkened by a substance called cryoconite.

It would be ideal to find an inexpensive self-treatment that has almost no side effects, nor risks.

Nor are you going to see any of them catching a thermal and spiraling up into the sky.

The biggest threat to personal computing is neither spam nor viruses.

We can't trade without war, nor make war without trade.

In yet another region a clump of dark matter sits alone, with neither galaxies nor gas.

Among both kids and adults, neither region nor gender made much difference.

It's neither a yacht nor a pleasure cruiser, but a gun-gray warship.

But because it neither emits nor reflects light, its.

Nor is this process simply a matter of scribing data into neural tissue.

Many of the volunteers don't have or need a background in audio production, nor do they have professional recording equipment.

One needs neither to be especially good at arithmetic nor paranoid to.

But it is neither cautious nor transparent, qualities that investors are likely to prize in coming months.

Its nests weren't vandalized, nor was it suddenly preyed upon by a newly introduced predator.

They are not reasonable nor are they care much about the social and environmental consequences of their actions.

Nor was he the only paleontologist to describe his thoughts about the fossil record in verse.

The specs themselves are neither shaming nor exciting.

Nor do they account for the depreciation of money over time.

It is neither persuaded by diplomacy, nor cowed by the threat of.

There are neither the optical effects of varying focal lengths nor the full quality, since only part of the pixels have been used.

Nor have the legions of physicists who pursue string theory been able to find a mathematically unique version of it.

Sweetbreads are neither sweet nor bread, but rather a type of animal gland.

Nor do you experience the nonstop scoring experienced during pro basketball.

Donoghue loses sight of the fact that not all college attendees are the same, nor do they share the same odds of graduation.

Neither the infant nor the mother survived the procedure, and they were buried and naturally mummified together.

Sorry, but this unfortunately this graphic is neither clever nor outstanding.

These birds don't pretend to be something they are not, nor do they get ourtraged when you tell them they can't sing.

Nor is it only jets that light-attack turboprops can outperform.

Some cowboys are religious but believe there is neither reason nor time to visit churches.

His presence is no longer a source of melancholy to himself nor of sadness to his relatives and friends".

Now the little-known work, never before published nor performed, is available online.

Exxon, in contrast, is neither swapping shares nor violating any previous agreement.

Voodoo spirits are not distant, nor are they abstractions or symbolic constructs.

Nor do the fossils resemble the forms produced by nonmetazoan organisms.

By then it was clear that neither the commission nor our report would spark a general reform of higher education.

Nor could anyone conceive of logistical support required to make a success of the operation.

Neither men nor women should wear shorts in churches.

Denying lifesaving treatments to the poor and elderly would be neither ethical nor politically popular.

Obviously, neither polycarb nor ballistic nylon is the solution.

Nor will it be able to cut interest rates to aid its debt-laden households and businesses.

Once entered, a life membership is not transferable, nor is the fee refundable.

Neither the patients nor the doctors knew which medication subjects took.

McGee nor the college would give the reasons for the bioethicist's departure.

But then it changed its mind, saying that neither parliament nor the voters had had time to look at the small print.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

a combining form used in the names of chemical compounds which are the normal or parent forms of the compound denoted by the base words: l-norepinephrine.

Origin:
short for normal

noun

a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when both operands are negative.

Origin:
1955–60

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World English Dictionary

nor (nɔː, (unstressed) nə)

—*conj, —prep* (foll by an auxiliary verb or have, do, or be used as main verbs)
1.	(used to join alternatives) neither ... nor and not: neither measles nor mumps
2.	(and) not … either: they weren't talented — nor were they particularly funny
3.	dialect than: better nor me
4.	poetic neither: nor wind nor rain

[C13: contraction of Old English nōther, from nāhwætherneither]

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

nor

c.1300, contraction of M.E. nauther (see neither). Influenced in form by or.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

nor- pref.
A precursor compound that differs from its successor by the absence of a radical group, usually methyl: norepinephrine.

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Computing Dictionary

NOR definition

Not OR.
The Boolean function which is true if none of its inputs are true and false otherwise, the logical complement of inclusive OR. The binary (two-input) NOR function can be defined (written as an infix operator):
A NOR B = NOT (A OR B) = (NOT A) AND (NOT B)
Its truth table is:
A | B | A NOR B --+---+--------- F | F | T F | T | F T | F | F T | T | F
NOR, like NAND, forms a complete set of Boolean functions on its own since it can be used to make NOT, AND, OR and any other Boolean function:
NOT A = A NOR A
A OR B = NOT (A NOR B)
A AND B = (NOT A) NOR (NOT B)
(1995-02-06)

American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

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