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   not

   /nɒt/

   adverb

   • 1. used with an auxiliary verb or ‘be’ to form the negative: "he would not say"
   • ▪ used in some constructions with other verbs: "he has been warned not to touch"
   • 2. used as a short substitute for a negative clause: "maybe I'll regret it, but I hope not"
   • 3. used to express the negative of other words: "not a single attempt was made"
   • ▪ used with a quantifier to exclude a person or part of a group: "not all the poems are serious"
   • ▪ no more than (used to indicate a surprisingly small quantity): "the brakes went on not ten feet from him"
   • 4. used in understatements to suggest that the opposite of a following word or phrase is true: "the not too distant future"
   • ▪ following and emphatically negating a statement: informal, humorous "that sounds like quality entertainment—not"

   noun

   • 1. a Boolean operator with only one variable that has the value one when the variable is zero and vice versa.
   • ▪ a circuit which produces an output signal only when there is not a signal on its input.

   adjective

   • 1. (of paper) not hot-pressed, and having a slightly textured surface.

   Word Origin Middle English: contraction of the adverb nought.

   Scrabble Points: 3

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   noun. a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive. not- 3. variant of noto- before a vowel. not. 1. / nɒt / adverb. used to negate the sentence, phrase, or word that it modifies. I will not stand for it. ( in combination ) they cannot go. not that.

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   Not is a powerful word. When Hamlet says "to be or not to be," he is questioning whether he should live or die, the inverse of living. Just be careful of what's called a "double negative," where you use not with another negating word and end up negating your negation.

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