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单词 non-
释义

non-prefix

Primary stress is usually retained by the element following this prefix. The prefix may attract the primary stress in selected noun formations, particularly some of those in sense 2.
Forms: Middle English nom-, Middle English nonn-, Middle English nooun-, Middle English noum-, Middle English nown-, Middle English–1500s noon-, Middle English–1500s noun-, Middle English–1500s nowne-, Middle English–1600s none-, Middle English– non-.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French non-; Latin nōn.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman non-, noun-, nun- (compare Old French non- , nom- , nun- , num- ) and its etymon classical Latin nōn not (see none pron.), used as a prefix. From about 1500 the predominant form of the prefix is that of the Latin nōn.Compare French non- (formations in which are found from at least the early 13th cent., e.g. non-sense (compare nonsense n. and adj.), nonchalant nonchalant adj.), Italian non- (formations in which are found from at least the mid 14th. cent., e.g. noncurante : see noncurant adj.), German non- (formations in which are found from at least the 20th cent., e.g. Nonactin : see nonactin n.). English formations are found from the late 14th cent. (apparently earliest in non-power n.), many of which originally appear to have been suggested by Anglo-Norman or French formations (see e.g. non-power n., non-certain n.). The prefix is also attested in borrowings from Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French, which apparently appear slightly later than the earliest English formations (see e.g. nonage n.1, nonpareil adj.). In the 15th and 16th centuries a considerable number of compounds (chiefly nouns of action and gerunds) were in use, most of them being of a legal character. Until about the middle of the 17th cent. the compounds formed with non- are mostly of a special or technical kind, but from that time the prefix became less restricted in its use and began to be prefixed freely to nouns, adjectives and adverbs, participles, and verbal nouns (rarely to infinitival forms). Many new formations arise from the political and religious movements of the 17th and 18th centuries, e.g. nonconformist n., nonjuror n., non-resistance n. The word is also attested in a small number of loans from Italian (as e.g. noncurant adj.) and German (as e.g. nonactin n.) from the 20th cent. The majority of non- compounds are hyphenated, but some are sometimes also written as solid forms (see e.g. nonentity n., nonsense n. and adj.). Normally the prefix is unstressed or has secondary stress, but non- receives primary stress in the disyllables non-act n., nonage n.1, and nonsense n. and adj., and (in British English pronunciation) in nonchalance n., nonchalant adj., and nondescript n. and adj. It is also liable to be stressed when the compound and the simple word are coupled together (e.g. being and ˈnon-being ; compare non-being n.).
Used to express negation. One of the major formative elements in English.
1. Prefixed to nouns of action, condition, or quality with the sense ‘absence or lack of’, often corresponding semantically to ‘not doing, failure to do’ (where a verb is implied by the noun, as in non-accomplishment, lack of accomplishment, failure to accomplish) or to ‘not being, failure to be’ (where an adjective is implied by the noun, as in non-activity, lack of activity, failure to be active).
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non-accomplishment n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈkʌmplᵻʃm(ə)nt/
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c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 15 It were to be done..to make writing from you to my maistres..excuseing the non accomplishment of her desire.
1854 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. (new ed.) V. i. 32 Scandalised by the non-accomplishment of a prophecy, which he was said to have uttered.
1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 184 The New York Times commented that this Congress seemed ‘determined to establish an all-time record for non-accomplishment’.
a1969 J. K. Toole Confederacy of Dunces (1982) 226 Your hostility to my lecture is a manifestation of your feelings of failure, nonaccomplishment, and mental..impotence.
2007 W. Hirtle Lessons on Eng. Verb vii. 106 The choice leading to the accomplishment of one event and the non-accomplishment of the other is felt to be ‘inevitable’ because of the either-or conjunction.
non-achievement n.
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1869 H. Greeley Recoll. Busy Life 457 The Able Editor of the Nineteenth Century may..lie down to his long rest with the non-achievements of his life emblazoned on the very whitest marble.
2001 Wired Feb. 116/2 Bulgaria was ordered by Moscow to develop Eastern Europe's computer industry—the result of one of socialism's great nonachievements, the Pravets computer, legendary in its uselessness.
non-acquaintance n.
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1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 9 True I am young, and thence I dare approve My non-acquaintance with the slights of love.
1884 Manch. Examiner 27 Aug. 6/3 Owing to their non-acquaintance with the English tongue.
2001 Times of India (Nexis) 2 Nov. Refraining from casting our votes due to non-acquaintance with candidates will mean digging our own grave.
non-acquiescence n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnakwɪˈɛsns/
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1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 282 Alarming her with the evil consequences of her non-acquiescence.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xxviii. 321 She had watched his face, and read something of his feelings: his disappointment at their non-acquiescence in his plan of a day's pleasure in Hurstwood.
1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-Drill xcv. 106 The principle of non-acquiescence.
2016 K. E. Murphy & M. Higgins Concepts in Federal Taxation vi. 10 If the IRS loses in a court proceeding, it may issue an announcement as to whether it will follow the decision by issuing an acquiescence (acq.) or a nonacquiescence (nonacq.).
non-activity n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnakˈtɪvᵻti/
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1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 528 Many Ministers have shewed, by their taking it, in such a sense of passiveness under, and non-activity against the present establishment,..what others would doe, if they could, with inward peace.
1750 W. Dodd New Bk. Dunciad 20 Long has a deedless hero filled the throne, Renown'd for non-activity alone.
1847 W. Smith tr. J. G. Fichte Characteristics Present Age 6 Every one would accept the proof of non-existence at a particular time, as equivalent to the proof of non-activity [Ger. Nichtgethanhaben (1806)] at the same time.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Mar. 39/2 All of this dizzying non-activity is related in detail.
non-adherence n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnədˈhɪərəns/
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/ˌnɒnədˈhɪərn̩s/
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/ˌnɒnadˈhɪərəns/
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1616 Fraserburgh Kirk Session 24 July Being complainit vpon be his spous for non adherence according to the dewtie of ane husband.
1696 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1823) X. 67/2 An act anent divorce for non adherence.
1715 Mem. Life Earl of Halifax 208 in Wks. & Life Earl of Halifax The same Members could not be as much as suspected for Non-adherence to the same Principles.
1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 45 This character of the aril, viz., its non-adherence to the testa.
1908 Cases Court of Session, & Court of Justiciary & House of Lords 1126 In this case the defender being insane could not be called on to adhere, and, as, therefore, he was not in nonadherence at the date when the action was brought, the pursuer could not obtain divorce.
1990 Jrnl. Pediatric Psychol. 15 423 Problems with treatment compliance have been observed even when nonadherence is potentially life-threatening.
2010 M. A. Rapoff Adherence to Pediatric Med. Regimens ii. 33 Nonadherence to medical regimens can adversely affect the health and well-being of patients.
non-agreement n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈɡriːm(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈɡrimənt/
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1770 tr. C. von Wolff Logic 71 Propositions express either the agreement or non-agreement of something with the subject; or they shew in what manner a thing may be made or done.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands i. i. 8 The practical difference between them amounts to little more than a non-agreement as to their rates of decomposition.
1980 Amer. Speech 52 65 There is widespread nonagreement as to what it is.
2003 C. Boeckx in A.-M. Di Sciullo Asymmetry in Gram. I. 90 It is important to bear in mind that ‘local’ and ‘distant’ non-agreement effects are taxonomic devices only.
non-alienation n.
Brit. /ˌnɒneɪlɪəˈneɪʃn/
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1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xx. 301 The feodal doctrine of non-alienation without the consent of the heir.
1860 Abridgm. Deb. Congr. (U.S.) 1789–1856 IX. 118/2 (heading) Non-alienation of Cuba to any European power.
2000 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. (Nexis) 6 It is a mistake to insist that reciprocity and non-alienation are not just observable features of some relations created through gift transactions.
† non-amotion n. Obsolete
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a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. v. 138 What he had said regarded the clause of non-amotion.
non-apprehension n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnaprᵻˈhɛnʃn/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌæprəˈhɛn(t)ʃən/
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1579 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 187 Finding himself be his non-apprehensioun disappointit of his weikit purpois.
1866 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. (new ed.) 167 One observed in him not so much an indisposition to attack it [sc. Transcendentalism] as a seeming non-apprehension of its existence or whereabouts.
1991 R. W. B. Lewis Jameses 453 The impression given..of that embodied benignancy, poor old, tragic Lincoln, freeing slaves only,..shows the marvellous possibilities of non-apprehension.
2005 D. S. Ruegg in P. Williams Buddhism IV. 233 Non-apprehension of an object apart from cognition is established in a first phase, on the basis of apprehension of pure representation (vijñaptimātra).
non-arrival n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈrʌɪvl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈraɪv(ə)l/
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1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxvi. 214 By reason of the non arrival of my Cattel, I was disappointed of Moneys.
1796 F. Burney Camilla I. 177 Camilla..had now no resource against Mr Dubster, but the non-arrival of the gloves; for he had talked so publicly of waiting for them to dance with her, that everyone regarded her as engaged.
1808 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1849) V. 133 I..am much mortified by the non-arrival of my copies.
1978 G. Greene Human Factor v. iii. 284 Non-arrival of incoming plane. Spending the night here.
non-articulation n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɑːtɪkjᵿˈleɪʃn/
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a1817 R. L. Edgeworth Mem. (1820) I. 63 My articulation, or nonarticulation of the letter r.
1996 China Jrnl. (Austral. National Univ.) No. 36. 64 Social practices may thrive in non-articulation; only if they are expressed in public will they oppose the universal ideal of the modernizing state.
non-aspiration n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnaspᵻˈreɪʃn/
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1910 Science 25 Nov. 766/2 The aspiration or non-aspiration of a consonant, as oxyryncus, oxyrhynchus.
1979 Jrnl. Black Stud. 9 386 Non-aspiration of voiceless plosives—p, t, k.
† non-assentation n. Obsolete
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1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 16 I got him to repeat this maxim, and then ventured upon a little non-assentation.
non-attention n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈtɛnʃn/
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1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conv. p. lvii The Mind being wholly taken up, and the Consequence of Non-attention so fatal.
1851 G. Meredith Let. 26 May (1970) I. 14 I must also complain of non attention to my correction of proofs.
1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus xxvi. 390 In a nation with a lively press, and with traditions for full and detailed reporting..the great debate stands out for its nonattention.
non-availability n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəveɪləˈbɪlᵻti/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˌveɪləˈbɪlᵻti/
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the world > space > place > absence > [noun] > absence or unavailability
unavailability1855
non-availability1868
1868 W. C. Richardson Yellow Fever 19 The morale, as to quarantine, being thus settled, its availability or non-availability, as a means of protection, becomes of secondary importance.
1904 Science 25 Mar. 500/1 The history and status of each name is fully set forth, so that its availability or non-availability is easily determined.
1998 Classic Cars Apr. 135/1 The classic-car owner's bible, reprinted after years of non-availability.
† non-close n. Obsolete rare
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1853 J. Martineau Ess., Rev., & Addr. (1891) III. 472 Infinite non-commencement and infinite non-close are impossible to thought.
† non-cock n. Obsolete rare
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1827 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times II. 20 A snap or a non-cock is to be considered a miss-fire.
non-commitment n.
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1871 Biblical Repertory Jan. 35 An inefficient judiciary and executive encourage crime by offering chances of non-commitment, non-conviction, or easy pardon.
1959 Brno Stud. in Eng. 1 133 This is not so much non-commitment..as withdrawal.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Oct. 35/1 He has turned non-commitment into a weird form of advocacy.
non-committance n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəˈmɪt(ə)ns/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnkəˈmɪtns/
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1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 72 The people's non-commitance of any power to their Representees.
1955 W. Faulkner Fable (U.K. ed.) 300 The watchful non-committance of people.
† non-commorancy n. Obsolete
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1781 Rep. Cases King's Bench Reign Queen Ann (ed. 2) Table of Entries sig. 5E2/1 Plea of non-commorancy.
non-communication n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəmjuːnᵻˈkeɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnkəˌmjunəˈkeɪʃən/
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1648 N. Ward Mercurius Anti-mechanicus 43 I must separate the wild from the mild, by a line of non-communication.
1816 ‘P. Pindar’ Wks. II. 103 A Discontent..on Account of Sir Joseph's non-communication of Wisdom to the royal Journals.
1876 Appletons' Jrnl. Oct. 304/2 The same weary lifting of the feet,..the same non-communication, mark the gold-hunter as mark the simple hewer of stone.
1996 Independent 16 Oct. i. 16/7 Autism did not always refer to a psychological state of non-communication.
non-comparability n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒmp(ə)rəˈbɪlᵻti/
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1905 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 68 727 The non-comparability of large classes of statistical data..remains the weak spot of statistics.
1999 Family Planning Perspectives 31 214/1 The net effect should not introduce any substantial element of noncomparability into the analyses of trends of sexual activity.
† non-complaisance n. Obsolete rare
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1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 311 He was..out of Humour at her supposed Non-complaisance.
non-comprehension n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒmprᵻˈhɛnʃn/
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1859 Westm. Rev. Apr. 454 The Archduke viceroy's suggestions..were..rejected with the stolid impassibility which appertains to non-comprehension.
1897 Mind 6 371 He..attributes my non-comprehension to want of trouble bestowed upon the subject.
1992 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 63 646 People..didn't really understand your complaints. It was total noncomprehension.
non-conception n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈsɛpʃn/
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a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 532 Her [sc. the Virgin's] non-conception of humane seed.
1866 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. (new ed.) 226 There has been a drift..towards Nihilism, or the conception of an ultimate nothingness, or, if the expression is preferred, the resolute non-conception of an ultimate anything.
1922 T. Dreiser Bk. about Myself 458 I was completely thrown down in my conceptions or non-conceptions of life.
1999 Current Anthropol. 40 272/2 After multiple nonconception cycles many female primates have heavier menstruation.
† non-concludency n. Obsolete
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a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 85 It sees the non-concludency of those arguments, that it rested upon before.
† non-connivence n. Obsolete rare
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1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 207 The non-connivence of their anthers.
non-conservation n.
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1885 Mind 10 324 The natural belief of an Australian savage in the non-conservation of energy.
1941 Physical Rev. 59 441 A natural consequence of this nonconservation of spin angular momentum is a dependence of the scattering cross section upon the spin magnetic quantum number.
1991 J. Russell in H. Robinson & R. Tallis Pursuit of Mind ii. 46 The non-conservation of length by children below about seven years of age.
non-consideration n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənsɪdəˈreɪʃn/
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1644 T. Hill Season for Englands Selfe-reflection 18 The simple passe on and are punished, goe plodding on in a sinfull course, by an heedlesse secure non-consideration of their wayes.
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 307 A Non-consideration of his [sc. God's] Presence and Inspection.
1911 Mind 20 404 I always thought a confession of bias was a plea for non-consideration.
1993 Jrnl. Operational Res. Soc. 44 663 Steps (ii)–(v) are executed for all links that were not flagged for non-consideration in a previous pass.
† non-consociety n. Obsolete
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1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 52 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) Her very Palace was distasteful unto her, by reason of the non consociety of her dead Lord and King.
non-contiguity n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒntᵻˈɡjuːᵻti/
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1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 240 Memorandum, that the parishes of Islington, Newington, and Hackney, for which only there is any Colour of Non-contiguity, is not a two and fiftieth part of what is contained in the Bills of Mortality.
1899 Overland Monthly 34 495 Neither the vastness of our empire, the non-contiguity of our possessions, nor their remoteness from our capital any longer enters into the problem of National Governement.
1965 Language 41 367 The discontinuous elements of constituent analysis present no problem of noncontiguity (relation at a distance).
non-conversion n.
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1652 J. Goodwin et al. Έιρηνομαχια 31 They resolve the non-conversion, and non-believing of all those who are not effectually converted.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. xxxv. 22 One distinguished lawyer..ascribed his non-conversion, after innumerable prayers made for him in public,..to the unfortunate omission of his middle name!
1990 Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 19 779/2 It is implicitly assumed that seroconversion was equivalent to protection and that non-conversion was the same as susceptibility.
non-conviction n.
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1653 T. Swadlin 2 Lett. 8 If yet you..will not perform your promise upon my Non-conviction; Yet I pray give me leave to subscribe my self, Sir, Your friend and Servant, Tho. Swadlin.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. i. 16 Her heart sunk under the appalling prospect of discussion, explanation, and probably non-conviction . View more context for this quotation
1873 J. D. McCabe Behind Scenes in Washington 451 The counterfeiter estimates among his profits..the chances of escape or non-conviction.
1998 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 7/2 As well as the information on the other certificates, these will include ‘non-conviction information’ held on files in local police stations.
non-culture n.
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a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1893) II. 154 If the non-culture of the human race allowed them to break out into war with little or no preparation.
1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) vi. 144 The great drama of our era is that of the culture unifying itself completely, passing by the particularities of every culture, every country... A uniformization of culture that becomes nonculture.
non-deliverance n.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈlɪv(ə)rəns/
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1490 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 165/1 Throw þe non deliuerance & wantin of þe said elisabethe.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xii. 497 The evil committed by the non-deliverance of Camilla's letter was now passed all remedy.
1986 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 25 116 Nondeliverance of certain other commitments was inherent in Britain's desperately weak postwar financial position.
non-delivery n.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈlɪv(ə)ri/
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society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > [noun] > handing over > non-delivery
undeliverancea1578
non-delivery1646
undelivery1807
1646 R. Overton Divine Observ. upon Lett. against Toleration 8 Now let the World judge, whether this..becomes the Ministers of the City of London. First to suppresse the delivery, and then like Scholast Synodicall Disputants, to urge the non-delivery, as an Argument against their Toleration.
1742 G. Gilbert Rep. Cases Equity (ed. 2) 254 The Plaintiff, by assigning a particular Breach in the Non-delivery at any one Time, may bring the whole Matter in Question.
1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen 266 A timber merchant in Malabar sued the proprietress of a forest for non-delivery of certain logs of wood.
2000 BusinessDay 27 Jan. ii. 18/4 They stretch the organisation by setting extraordinarily aggressive performance targets, and create a culture of performance and intolerance of nondelivery.
non-deposition n.
Brit. /ˌnɒndɛpəˈzɪʃn/
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1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. iii. ix. 499 The presence or absence of an uninterrupted communication with the sky causes the deposition or non-deposition of dew.
1900 Science 19 Jan. 105/2 The sandstone and shale beds are locally absent through non-deposition.
1989 S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 274 The infamous ‘Lipalian interval’ was Walcott's name for this time of Precambrian nondeposition. Walcott proposed a world-wide break in accessible marine sedimentation.
non-derivability n.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻrʌɪvəˈbɪlᵻti/
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1915 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 12 617 Men..accepted as basic facts the superiority of the psychic over the material and the non-derivability of the inner life from any material cause.
1964 G. Kreisel in P. Benacerraf & H. Putnam Philos. of Math. 157 Hilbert emphasized the consistency problem which is so to speak the weakest non-derivability result.
non-development n.
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1826 Lancet 18 Nov. 201/1 The non-development of the part depends on some causes which do not, in the natural state, affect the formation of the different organs.
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 241 The directors..expressed their regret at the non-development of the coal traffic.
1960 K. Esau Anat. Seed Plants xvi. 203 Development or nondevelopment of axillary buds into lateral shoots.
1998 Parasitology 117 117 This strongly suggests that..unidentified humoral factors are responsible for the non-development of the sporocysts.
non-disagreement n.
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1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 41 In vaine is their excuse, if non-disagreement in fundamentalls.
1984 Social Psychol. Q. 47 342/2 The 16 nondisagreement trials were interspersed randomly among the other trials.
non-discernment n.
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a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 417 The non-discernment, if owing to inability, being not a wickedness committed.
2001 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 21 Sept. As if great music exists as a kind of aural Prozac to lull one into a semi-conscious state of non-discernment.
non-distribution n.
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1540 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 256 A reasonable accompt of the distribucioun and non-distribucioun thereof.
1827 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 2) 138 The other kind [of Logical Fallacies] may be most properly called semi-logical; viz. all the cases of ambiguous middle Term except its non-distribution.
1887 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic (ed. 9) iv. 34 The distribution or non-distribution of an attributive, as ‘human’, ‘red’, etc., follows that of the corresponding common term, ‘human being’, ‘red thing’, etc.
1993 Industr. Property 26 Feb. 27/2 We are slowly trading off all our non-distribution property holdings, and reinvesting in distribution.
non-divinity n.
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1851 Southern Literary Messenger 17 188/2 The question of the divinity or non-divinity of our Saviour.
1996 Washington Times (Nexis) 18 Mar. They did not refer, as some of our brothers do, to the Lord Jesus as non-divinity.
non-divisibility n.
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1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. i. v. 108 The Divisibleness or non-Divisibility of each Corporeal Substance into infinite Material Parts.
1853 J. D. B. De Bow Industr. Resources Southern & Western States III. 213/2 The divisibility or non-divisibility of matter.
1922 Amer. Math. Monthly 29 162 The failure of teachers to introduce non-divisibility by zero at the very start.
1991 Jrnl. Risk & Insurance 58 398 The concerted effort of the defendants is not necessarily required for joint and several liability. Rather, the critical element..appears to be the non-divisibility of harm.
non-donation n.
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1652 J. Weatherall Discovery 47 Neither does this Preterition or Reprobation imply a substraction of any Grace, or helpes obtained: but a non-Donation of such Graces.
1990 Ann. Rev. Sociol. 16 35 The commonest reason given for nondonation is not having been asked.
non-employment n.
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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlviii. 141 I doe not wonder to see some of our Gentrie growne (well-neere) the lewdest men of our Land: since they are, most of them, so muffled in a non-employment.
1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. v. iv. 398 It is not the nature of the faculties..but the non-employment of them.
1966 A. Battersby Math. in Managem. iii. 74 The quick answer..is not necessarily the best when the non-employment of labour is unjustified on social or moral grounds.
1996 W. Hutton State we're In (rev. ed.) iv. 93 Non-employment, those claiming benefit but unavailable for work, climbed steadily.
non-equation n.
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a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics & Logic (1863) II. 515 A Negative Proposition is simply the declaration of a non-equation of its terms.
2000 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 12 Aug. When Homer celebrates virtues, he does so without trivialising the breadwinner's burden..and the non-equation of religious faith and well-being.
non-equivalence n.
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1878 Mind 3 224 Physical equivalence or non-equivalence of the systems of topogenous moments.
1894 J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exerc. Formal Logic (ed. 3) ii. iii. 111 To establish their non-equivalence we may proceed as follows.
1955 A. N. Prior Formal Logic 212 The connected non-equivalence of ΠxMϕx and MΠxϕx.
1995 M. Garber Vice Versa iii. xvi. 371 In the nonequivalence of patrimony and matrimony we encounter..a crux of some significance for ideas of gender, desire and partnership, social freedom and economic control.
non-eternity n.
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a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iv. 99 The Non-eternity of Mankind.
1888 Mind 13 396 He does not think that the universe cannot possibly be eternal, but maintains that its non-eternity is only probable, not sure.
2000 Isis 91 349/1 Muñoz..was part of a tradition that argued variously for the noneternity of the heavens..and the presence in the planets of elemental qualities.
non-exercise n.
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1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 Chron. 94/1 The non-exercise of the mind contributes not a little to the increase of the scurvy.
1889 W. Wilson State (1893) §426. 266 [The German chancellor] is..ultimately responsible in every case—even for the non-exercise of his office. The vice-chancellorship is only a convenience.
1999 Guardian 23 Feb. ii. 13/1 The Mayo Clinic scientists examined what they call non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT, where we burn up energy without consciously doing exercise.
† non-foreknowledge n. Obsolete rare
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1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 181 This..supposition of God's..Non-foreknowledge of his finite free Intelligences future actions.
non-freedom n.
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1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 176 All that sit on that foot of non-freedom or non-residency.
1896 Mod. Lang. Notes 11 112/2 This is his conception of the freedom or non-freedom of the will.
1995 Church Times 13 Jan. 10/2 When power is seen as personally concentrated in certain ways, people absolve themselves from reflecting on the different kinds of non-freedom that everybody is involved in.
non-fulfilment n.
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1799 C. B. Brown Ormond xxvi. 300 Heaven grant the non-fulfilment of my prophecy.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. II. iv. iv. 494 The amount of the damage..that might result from the non-fulfilment of it [sc. a contract].
1889 Dict. National Biogr. XVII. 10/1 Before he came to the throne he had..made a vow of pilgrimage to Rome, and its non-fulfilment troubled his conscience.
1998 Housing Agenda Apr. 9/2 It is this first brush with the world of work, often the non-fulfilment of early aspirations, which raises the stakes on the whole issue.
† non futurition n. Obsolete rare
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1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 15 A certaine perswasion of the non futurition of the evill.
non-futurity n.
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1657 R. Baxter Acct. Present Thoughts 11 It is not the Impossibility but the non-futurity that God decreeth.
1997 Re: 8.161, Disc: the English Future in Linguist List (Electronic Mailing list) 5 Feb. Simple forms have a ‘non-futurity’ constraint as part of their interpretation.
non-implication n.
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1878 Proc. London Math. Soc. 9 180 In a non-implication, as in an implication, the rule is Transpose and change signs.
1932 C. I. Lewis & C. H. Langford Symbolic Logic ix. 281 Facts like these about non-implication and independence.
1972 M. A. Boden Purposive Explan. in Psychol. viii. 318 The logical characteristics of indeterminacy,..and non-implication of embedded clauses.
non-improvement n.
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1660 T. Watson in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1871) II. Ps. l. 22 The non-improvement of talents... He had not spent it, only not trading it is sentenced.
1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Mark iv. 25 He that hides his Talent..is in danger of being punished severely for the Non-improvement of it.
1864 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 27 Index 635 Death-rate, non-improvement of, by our national sanitary measures.
1989 Jrnl. Philos. 86 360 Typical instances of improvement or nonimprovement (of prediction due to more realistic input) will not be decisive.
non-inclusion n.
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1857 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 20 325 Its non-inclusion in the Return of course materially affects the position of Marylebone in the list of Metropolitan Boroughs.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Aug. 22/4 Only one person complains of noninclusion and faulty directions to the pig roast.
non-increase n.
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1682 N. Grew Exper. Solution Salts vii. i. §3 in Anat. Plants 296 Whether the Solution of a smaller quantity of several Salts, doth consist with the non-increase of the bulk of the Water?
1882 R. Giffen Use of Import & Export Statistics vii. 58 The non-increase of our apparent exports.
1994 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 319 The theorem transforms the hypothesis of instantaneous..nonincrease for some d in D..into a global conclusion.
non-independence n.
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1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic 293 A mean which combines in itself the centrality with the non-independence of the objects.
1930 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 25 387 The non-independence of the two variables.
2000 Jrnl. Labor Econ. 18 638 Our estimates imply significant nonindependence of initial schooling and type.
non-influence n.
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1836 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 126 126 This rendered the non-influence of variation of surface still more remarkable.
1907 W. James Pragmatism iv. 138 All these systems of influence or non-influence may be listed under the general problem of the world's causal unity.
1993 Econ. Jrnl. 103 1226 The reported equation..was insignificantly affected..(reflecting the non-influence of any weather variations in the rural sector).
non-instruction n.
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1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 94 To..leave our daughters..to Mrs. C.'s system of non-instruction.
2001 Intelligencer Jrnl. (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 18 Dec. How appalling to see more of the results of non-instruction produced by high schools and universities.
† non-intelligency n. Obsolete
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1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 31 These Fops of Rhetorick, spawns of non-intelligency.
non-intention n.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 157 Where we finde such Instruments, wee may with strictnesse expect their actions, and where we discover them not, wee may with safety conclude the non-intention of their operations. View more context for this quotation
1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 916/1 What are his intentions or his non-intentions to you, pray?
1993 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 20 57 More extensive mental stimulation may occur for abnormal or atypical judgments (here, nonintentions) than for normal or typical judgements (e.g., intentions).
non-invincibility n.
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1688 J. Norris Theory & Regulation Love i. iv. 35 If in this Absolute non Invincibility he will have our..Free will to consist.
2000 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 5 Sept. Later that night, the weng-weng caught on with me, brought me face to face with the reality of my non-invincibility.
non-invitation n.
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1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage II. vi. 96 The Duchess was obliged to plead guilty of non-invitation.
1908 Daily Chron. 24 July 4/3 Invitations would be robbed of their grace, and non-invitations be invested quite unnecessarily with the air of a slight.
2001 New Statesman (Nexis) 29 Oct. Berlusconi's ‘gaffe’..may have contributed to the non-invitation to the military strategy meeting of France.
non-involvement n.
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1921 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 15 233 The recorded progress of our republic..proves the wisdom of the inherited policy of noninvolvement in Old World affairs.
1940 Economist 11 May 853/1 Japan's policy, for all her declarations of ‘non-involvement’ (a new type of non-belligerency?) is bound to be that of fishing in troubled waters.
1992 Economist 11 July (Suppl.) 21/2 Even Switzerland seems to be moving..away from its hedgehog pose of well-defenced non-involvement.
non-liberation n.
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c1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 95 That its uncharitableness to punish any Infants for the Parents faults, and that a non-liberation is such a punishment.
1866 W. Odling Lect. Animal Chem. 142 The loss, or rather non-liberation, of force resulting from the merely half-burning..of the excess of carbon.
1999 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 18 Apr. The liberation of a sex depended partly on the non-liberation of a class.
† non-nescience n. Obsolete rare
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1863 A. De Morgan in S. E. De Morgan From Matter to Spirit Pref. 12 The civilised man of non-nescience—a word I take the liberty of using for science, since two negatives make an affirmative.
non-observation n.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. ii. 6 The Pelagians.., who peremptorily maintaining they can fulfill the whole Law, will insatisfactorily condemne the non-observation of one. View more context for this quotation
1883 Mind 8 157 The so-called psychological observation is more difficult,..but..the dangers of mal-observation or non-observation are not materially altered on that account.
1999 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 43 991 Selecting a domain for an empirical test of these hypotheses is challenging given the importance of nonobservations.
non-occurrence n.
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1807 R. Kirwan Logick I. 178 Their occurrence or non-occurence being consonant to common observation.
1936 N. Feather Introd. Nucl. Physics iv. 62 Gamow..has argued for the inclusion of a hypothetical negative proton, despite its non-occurrence in the transformations.
1992 IEEE Spectrum Mar. 48/1 This leads to either the nonoccurrence of the neural discharges..or their later-than-usual occurrence.
non-opposition n.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xviii. 383 So must..the non opposition of our reasons procure our..acquiescence in the other. View more context for this quotation
1904 Science 7 Oct. 460/2 The mere conception of opposition as distinct from non-opposition.
1998 Amer. Polit. Sci. 92 323/2 The Christian Democrats agreed to cooperate with the Communists..in return for Communist support (more specifically, nonopposition).
non-perpetuity n.
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1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. E4 A violent indulgence of the Queenes..towards this great Lord, which argued a non perpetuity.
1974 Jrnl. Financial & Quantitative Anal. 9 1072 Nonperpetuity type contracts exist between the firm and its suppliers of capital.
† non-Popery n. Obsolete
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1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 58 No union, they pretend, but in Non-Popery.
non-possession n.
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1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches I. 56 The possession or non-possession of it [sc. money] makes the difference whether life has to be an enjoyment or a task.
1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 50/1 The five ‘Great Vows’..enjoin non-violence, not lying, not taking what has not been given, abandonment of sexual relations, and non-possession.
non-predestination n.
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1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 36 Any who was under a non-predestination unto effectual and infallible means of eternal life.
1719 J. Plaifere in Coll. Tracts conc. Predestination & Providence i. 11 The fourth is the most ambiguous assertion; for if it suppose Non-predestination to be the cause of the necessity of condemnation for Sin, it putteth Non causam pro causa.
1853 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church (rev. ed.) III. 77 Whenever such a work turned out a failure, men, instead of seeking for a cause in the want of correct teaching, sought rather to trace it..to non-predestination.
1916 tr. L. Labauche God & Man II. iii. ii. 174 Predestination to sin and damnation seems to be somewhat a consequence of the non-predestination to good and heaven.
2008 G. D. Dodds Exploiting Erasmus vi. 198 It is actually far easier to evaluate the growing importance of non-predestination theology by considering the large number of scathing denunciations of free will by Calvinist theologians.
† non-prescience n. Obsolete
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1738 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 23/1 To say ‘his Goodness stands firmer on his Non-Prescience’..is to divest him of one Attribute to establish another.
non-presentation n.
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1808 S. Toller Treat. Law Tithes iii. 53 By non-presentation of a vicar for a long series of years.
1883 Mind 8 158 The correlatives in and not-in must both apply to the same category, whether space, or time. or presentation (or non-presentation) to a given subject.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxvii. 424 The chief complications of the operation are making the trephine hole too peripheral,..and non-presentation of iris in the wound.
non-prohibition n.
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1650 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions (ed. 2) Addit. i. 397 To give Testimony to the non-prohibition of this marriage.
1876 Mind 1 143 A plea..for the non-prohibition to them of marriage.
1984 Jrnl. Risk & Insurance 51 358 Fatality rates for drivers in states with county-level prohibition were significantly greater than in nonprohibition states.
non-pronunciation n.
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1842 S. Lover Handy Andy x. 95 His..non-pronunciation of the letter R.
1964 H. Kökeritz in Daniel Jones 139 He recognized its non-pronunciation in colloquial speech.
non-prosecution n.
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a1626 F. Bacon Speech in Resuscitatio (1657) i. 85 There be other particular Orders, I mean to take, for Non Prosecution, or faint Prosecution, wherewith I will not trouble you now.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1522/4 [He] was, in regard of his long Imprisonment, and non-Prosecution, Bailed out.
1913 Polit. Sci. Q. 28 438 If..such an appeal were not prosecuted within twelve months' time, it might be..dismissed for non-prosecution.
2001 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 95 444 The federal government..had not..chosen to prosecute. But nonprosecution can be a conscious choice.
non-protection n.
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1647 Declar. Protestant Clergie of Dublin 2 You require the discontinuance of the Booke of Common-Prayer, and the receiving of the Directory, &c. which injunction lies still upon us, with the danger of non-protection in case we disobey the same.
1871 W. M. Grosvenor Does Protection Protect? 226 The history of the production of iron in this decade of non-protection.
1997 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 34 29 Protection or non-protection from grazing.
non-publication n.
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1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 195 In respect of non-publiccatioun of the said abstinence.
1787 A. Yearsley Poems Var. Subj. p. xxv The non-publication of the Deed of Trust occasioned many to doubt, whether there was anything uunreasonable in it.
1817 P. B. Shelley Let. 11 Dec. (1964) I. 433 The non-publication of my book.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 18/4 The objects are more accessible to scholars than much that has been scientifically excavated in recent years, most of it thereby destined for invisibility and nonpublication.
non-punishment n.
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1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 §3 The penaltie lymytted..to be forfeited by any officer..for noun punysshement of Vagaboundes.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlv. 7) How great myscheefs bred of non-punishment and libertie.
1865 H. M. Dexter Serm. preached in Berkeley-street Church, Boston 32 An apparent precedent for the non-punishment of treason.
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 5 835 The non-punishment of crime.
1996 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 25 83 The non-punishment of such routine law-breaking gave Amir and his friends the feeling that lawlessness was ‘acceptable’.
non-pursuit n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnpəˈsjuːt/
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1583 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 601 Tueching the non-persute of Alexander Lawder.
1978 Internat. Security 3 141 Authoritative commentators have echoed these themes of parity, equal security, and the non-pursuit of superiority.
non-rateability n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnreɪtəˈbɪlᵻti/
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1836 W. Theobald Pract. Treat. Poor Laws iv. 123 Tolls per se are not rateable (a), which seems a necessary consequence of the non-rateability of a navigation.
1885 Law Times 78 385/1 The non-rateability of empty houses.
1909 District Court & Magistrate's Court Rep. (N.Z.) 4 200/1 The question of rateability or non-rateability must, once for all, be determined.
2016 F. A. S. Plimmer Rating Law & Valuation ii. 18 The non-rateability of a lodger does not depend upon the continued presence of the landlord, but [etc.].
non-reality n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrɪˈalᵻti/
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the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > unreality
phantoma1375
non-reality1651
unreality1744
unrealness1802
irreality1803
1651 in W. Birchley Christian Moderator 14 Admitting the Doctrine of non-reality to be true, (said the Letter of the Recusant) yet ought no Catholikes to be iudged guilty of the sin of idolatry, because their adoration is not intentionally directed to any crature, but to the Person of Christ our Lord.
1846 E. Raux Road to Fortune I. ii. 7 Let us not indulge in dreams, that the non-reality would rend our quiet and our happiness.
1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe iv. 234 Zeno..has no alternative but to say that our intellect repudiates motion as a non-reality.
1991 J. Mander In Absence of Sacred ii. v. 85 This is jammed together in a steady stream of imagery, fracturing your attention while condensing time and mixing categories of reality, nonreality, and semireality.
non-receipt n.
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1794 J. Bentham Corr. 30 Mar. (1981) V. 25 Upon receipt of your official answer, or rather upon the non-receipt of it within a week.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. iii. 656 To the account of loss, or of non-receipt of gain.
c1868 ‘H. Castlemon’ Go-ahead 142 Troubles occasioned by the non-receipt of his twenty-five hundred dollars.
1997 Amer. Polit. Sci. rev. 91 iii. p. ix/2 Claims for nonreceipt of issues must be made within four months of the month of publication.
non-reception n.
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1792 W. Short Let. 20 Nov. in T. Jefferson Papers (1990) XXIV. 646 You will probably have received the information..of the non-reception of the letter expected from you.
1868 Proc. Royal Soc. 17 144 The operations of the Bombay Observatory were delayed by the non-reception of the necessary self-recording magnetical and meteorological instruments.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Mar. 152/4 His [sc. Chopin's] reception—or non-reception—by the English.
† non-recess n. Obsolete
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1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 543 This Message for non-recess, was not well pleasing to the House.
non-recital n.
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Law
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1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 13 §16 For mysrecitall or nonrecitall of leases.
1704 Exact Abridgm. All Statutes from Magna Charta 473 The King..shall hereafter obtain within seven years next after the making of this Act, by Bargain, Exchange or Purchase, notwithstanding any Mis-recital, Non-recital, or not naming of the said Honours, &c.
1885 Law Times Rep. 51 803/1 The non-recital of the Act of 1845.
1960 Parl. Deb. (Ireland) 181 1094/2 One could have expected that if they did find that there was no reference in the College Charter to College Lecturers and College Professors, that might have been construed as a non-recital, a mis-recital, an uncertainty or an imperfection.
1972 S. Afr. Law Rep. Mar. 646 If the description in the prior document differs, even in a small respect, provided it is a real difference, such as the non-recital of a single essential integer, the objection of anticipation fails.
non-recognition n.
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1822 A. Walker Colombia I. Introd. p. lxxxiv The non-recognition of the Republic of Colombia.
1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Aug. 484 His non-recognition of them does not put them out of existence.
1862 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 257 Its non-recognition by what is called the public.
1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 x. 373 February 1932... ‘Non-recognition’ became a League [of Nations] principle.
2001 Out Aug. 45/1 I've heard queer people protest state interference in and nonrecognition of their relationships.
non-recurrence n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈkʌrəns/
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1794 Lit. & Crit. Remarks 446 The non-recurrence of certain diseases, as the small pox.
1847 A. De Morgan Formal Logic xiii. 278 The demand for non-recurrence of words arises from the public (I beg its pardon) not knowing how to read.
1911 J. Ward Realm of Ends xv. 335 In place of the existing certainty of evil, there will be an even chance of its non-recurrence.
2008 R. H. Greiner et al. in M. H. Seegenschmiedt et al. Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders xxviii. 507/2 Fractionation should give an increased therapeutic ration between non-recurrence and late side effects.
non-resemblance n.
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1798 Sound Alarm to Inhabitants Great Brit. 9 The propriety of their application being to be determined by their non-resemblance to the subject, which they are brought to illustrate.
1807 Crit. Rev. July 241 The nonresemblance between ideas and their archetypes.
1993 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 29 Apr. One area of non-resemblance between Wright and Shepard lies in the field of romance.
2014 M. Klotz (K)information vi. 300 I had earlier perceived a noticeable non-resemblance between son Alvaro and his father Miguel when meeting them for the first time.
non-security n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsᵻˈkjʊərᵻti/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnsəˈkjʊrədi/
rare before 20th cent.
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a1420 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy (1555) iv. xxix. sig. Svi Their hope is fully put a bake. And dispeired in nonsecurytye [1513 nonsuerte].
1825 J. J. Cribb Small-pox & Cow-pox 72 At the London institutions, indeed, some note as to the supposed security or non-security of the case is made.
1931 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 4 461 Selecting men to be assigned to ‘nonsecurity’ prisons.
1998 Jrnl. Conflict Resol. 42 153 The relative importance of nonsecurity issues (such as domestic politics and..humanitarian concerns) and security issues were an essential part of the actual end of the cold war.
non-solution n.
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1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 43 If we cannot bee contented with his non-solution.
1865 G. Hamilton in Mod. Classics from Atlantic Monthly 128 The non-solution of the problem, however, did not ruffle her serenity.
1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Aug. Witness this Administration's propensity for offering up inconsequential non-solutions with much public fanfare.
2009 S. P. S. Chauhan Microecon. xix. 772 Variables z, S₁ and S₂ that don't form a part of the final solution are called the non-solution variables.
non-stationarity n.
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1939 Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS 23 783 Let us consider non-stationarity great if the changes in stress during relaxation were great compared to stress magnitude, and consider it small in the opposite case.
1951 Rev. Econ. & Statistics 33 360/2 The problem of trend and non-stationarity in general is a particularly vexing one.
1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) iv. 158 Non-stationarity of the EEG signals during each of the 10-second epochs does not pose the same limitations.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 44 824/2 Using the first differences to deal with trend nonstationarity in count data is appealing.
non-submission n.
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1649 Moderate No. 30. 285 Let them that intend to lay this yoke upon us, expect our non-submission to it.
1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law (1767) I. 409 He was suspended, and afterwards upon his non-submission deprived.
1837 H. B. Chapin Penalty of Divine Law 16 We affirm that non-submission is rebellion.
1987 D. J. Storey et al. Perf. Small Firms vii. 260 The overall rate of predictive success, although not as high as the basic ratio and non-submission reclassification results of Tables 7.5 and 7.11, is well above that which could be achieved by a random model.
2013 O. Lukason in T. Vissak & M. Vadi (Dis)honesty in Managem. vi. 137 It can be seen that during the economic crisis years the non-submission[of annual reports] has been more frequent in absolute figures.
non-support n.
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1822 Christian Watchman 6 July 119/3 I hasten to observe, that, while the evil of non-support for the ministers of Christ has been frequently named and deplored, it appears to me no adequate remedy has been proposed.
1839 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 50 465 The argument of non-support of the right hon. Gentleman by his colleagues did not square very well with the argument, that the House was overborne by official votes.
1864 Boston Herald 1 Dec. 4/8 (advt.) Divorces. Legally procured for persons from any State without publicity or change of residence. Incompatibility, Desertion, Non-Support and Drunkenness, sufficient cause.
1909 Daily Chron. 20 Jan. 6/2 The English woman makes a charge of non-support against her husband.
1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vi. 130 Serious research into the ‘what if’ questions were going to have to wait through a long siege of nonsupport from the Department of Energy.
2018 Reproductive Health Matters 26 94 (table) Non-support Includes behaviour which is not necessarily harmful..but is also not supportive: ignoring of cues,..loud/cold/harsh tone [etc.].
non-surety n.
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Law
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 3106 (MED) Of his fader he was ay in doute What man he was or who it myȝt be, Beinge þere-of in noon-surete.
1481 W. Botoner Oracion of Flammeus Cayus (Caxton) e 8 They euery day put it in peryll and nonsurete.
1813 Customal of Romney §36 in J. Lyon Hist. Dover & Dover Castle II. 330 If the principal withdraw his hand from the book, when he is doing his law, or his oath; then may the party, his adversary, ask judgment of him, as non-surety, other not defendant by his skill.
1940 U.S. Investor 18 May 854/2 Any adjustments along those lines must be procured, as we see it, through the concessions that may be granted by non-surety companies or mutual carriers.
2007 T. H. Cohen & B. A. Reaves Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants State Courts (U.S. Dept. of Justice) 4/2 The Bail Reform Act of 1966..created a presumption in favor of release for most non-capital defendants and led to the creation of non-surety release options.
non-sympathy n.
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1826 Janus 201 That which is in sympathy with us begets a grateful feeling of self... On the other hand, non-sympathy chills and represses.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 117 Wordsworth and Goethe..have this peculiarity of utter non-sympathy with the subjects of their poetry.
1950 Billboard 23 Sept. 93/2 Since it [sc. the list] includes..groups which philosophically and/or politically battle Communism, I think it establishes at least presumption of my non-sympathy with Communist causes.
2012 I. Csengei Sympathy, Sensibility & Lit. of Feeling ii. 86 It is only at such moments of non-sympathy that we seem to be able to escape the structure of the mechanical universe.
non-transgression n.
Brit. /ˌnɒntrɑːnzˈɡrɛʃn/
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/ˌnɒntranzˈɡrɛʃn/
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/ˌnɒntrɑːnsˈɡrɛʃn/
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/ˌnɒntransˈɡrɛʃn/
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a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 82 Iudah transgressed, and the Promise failed, as not to be verified but upon Supposition of non-transgression.
1832 R. H. Carne Rev. Disc. Originat. Manhood Son of God 43 A pledge of continual existence to Adam and Eve,..so long as they should abstain from sin, by a non-transgression of the interdict of their Creator.
1940 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 14 97 In such a setting there is no room for guilt. Transgression and nontransgression are matters of expediency.
2007 U. Best Transgression as Rule ii. 29 Borders are constituted through processes of transgression and non-transgression.
non-transitivity n.
Brit. /ˌnɒntranzᵻˈtɪvᵻti/
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/ˌnɒntrɑːnzᵻˈtɪvᵻti/
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/ˌnɒntransᵻˈtɪvᵻti/
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/ˌnɑnˌtræn(t)səˈtɪvədi/
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1892 F. N. Cole tr. E. Netto Theory Substitutions xv. 291 It follows..that H' is non-primitive in those elements which it connects transitively, and that H'' is intransitive, the systems of intransitivity coinciding with the system of non-transitivity of H'.
1938 Philos. Rev. 47 268 The logic of involvement is a logic of relevance, and therefore must firmly rest on the non-transitivity of the relation, ‘is involved with’.
1974 Sci. Amer. Oct. 120/2 If the nontransitivity is so counter-intuitive as to boggle the mind, we have what is called a nontransitive paradox.
2006 B. M. Brown et al. in A. C. Hsiung et al. Random Walk & Related Topics 236 Signals of non-transitivity, where pairwise comparisons might yield A > B > C > A, or circularity, are of interest because they may indicate the presence of mixtures with different components.
non-universality n.
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a1747 T. Chubb Posthumous Wks. (1748) ii. 218 This has been urged, in order to shew, that the non-universality of a revelation is no just objection against it's divinity.
1836 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 363 The doctrine of the ‘moral sense’..is objected to on the score of the non-universality of the feeling which it supposes to be an essential attribute of humanity.
1893 W. Minto Logic 70 The expression of Quantity, that is, of Universality or non-universality, is all-important.
1992 Nat. Hist. Feb. 8/1 He discussed the landing place of Caesar in Britain, the nonuniversality of Noah's flood, the antiquity of playing cards.
2015 K. Morita in A. Adamatzky Automata, Universality, Computation vi. 129 As discussed in [9] by Margenstern, it is important to know the frontier between universality and non-universality.
non-validity n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnvəˈlɪdᵻti/
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1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 343 The non validity of bulles.
1864 S. D. Carpenter Logic of Hist. (ed. 2) 75/1 The non validity of the fugitive law.
1952 W. V. Quine Methods of Logic §9. 50 Interchange of equivalents..preserves consistency, nonvalidity, nonimplication, and nonequivalence.
1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 8/4 I feel obliged to give my own impressions..of the validity or non-validity of the charges so cruelly and persistently raised against him.
non-volition n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnvəˈlɪʃn/
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1654 J. Norton Orthodox Evangelist 111 A positive cause cannot be terminated in a Non-ens, such as mans Non-volition; i.e. Not-willing is, it must therefore be suspensive.
1874 Amer. Cycl. VIII. 491/2 The end of development is the turning back of volition into non-volition.
1988 Speculum 63 284 Nothing of the sort is happening in Lancelot's mind. He is precisely in a passive state of stunned non-volition.
b.
non-action n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈakʃn/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈækʃən/
absence of action, inaction; failure or refusal to act.
ΚΠ
1648 Mercurius Melancholicus 14–21 Nov. sig. A1 No I'me feeble, with non-action, and my sense Is dull'd with Morpheus Charmes: O Impudence, Thou with the brazen front, and woodden-head, Though most Immoderate Rascall, earth ere bred.
1757 A. Mitchell Jrnl. 20 Sept. in Mem. & Papers Sir . Mitchell (1850) I. ix. 378 I cannot help suspecting, from the non-action of the French, that the King of Prussia is treating..by the way or means of Duke of Brunswick.
1822 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 112 119 He had not heated his iron to a sufficient degree to detect the non-action at the white heat.
1897 W. E. Gladstone E. Crisis 2 The concerted action, or non-action of the Powers of Europe.
1994 K. Perry Business & European Community xi. 182 A government which fails to apply remedial action should explain its reasons for its non-action.
non-coincidence n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəʊˈɪnsᵻd(ə)ns/
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failure to coincide, meet, or agree.
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1789 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 157 Such as affirm the non-coincidence of lines extended from angles less than two right.
1800 H. Davy Res. Nitrous Oxide i. iii. 84 Kirwan, from the non-coincidence in the accounts of its composition, has imagined that it is partially decomposable.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. x. 279 The non-coincidence of the point of swiftest motion with the centre of the glacier.
1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. v. 186 According to Ricoeur textual interpretation consists in a process of ‘distanciation’, in the non-coincidence of texts and events of interpretation.
non-credibility n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkrɛdᵻˈbɪlᵻti/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌkrɛdəˈbɪlᵻdi/
†(a) a set of untrue or unbelievable things (obsolete); (b) failure to be believable.
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a1450 Terms Assoc. in PMLA (1936) 51 604 (MED) A noncredibilite of soteltes.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) 494 They..assume..the non-credibility of the Gospels.
1996 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 56 172 The queen or the prime minister could veto all decrees and laws, including those that the Cortes passed... For a more extensive discussion of the noncredibility of the Spanish state, see [etc.].
non-gravitation n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɡravᵻˈteɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɡrævəˈteɪʃən/
the inability or failure of a liquid to fall to its lowest possible level.
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1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 136 His third Argument is from the Non-gravitation of the Mercurial Cylinder.
1672 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) III. 620 Rather from the robustness of the bladder,..than from the non-gravitation of water.
1962 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 23 472 Boyle explodes a number of popular arguments for the non-gravitation of water, such as the reports of divers.
nonidentity n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌɪˈdɛntᵻti/
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(a) the fact or quality of not being identical, or not being identifiable with something; (b) lack of a specific or noteworthy presence, nature, or personality.
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1808 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 36 The non-identity of the common electricity, and that given out by the Voltaic apparatus.
1880 J. Fiske Let. 14 May (1940) 441 I got in on the floor of the House instead of the strangers' gallery, and passed for some time as a new member..until finally my non-identity becoming apparent, I was respectfully shown to the gallery.
1967 Arch. Neurol. (Chicago) 16 10/2 Wilson's disease is an autosomal recessive, but the absence of a Kayser–Fleischer ring and liver involvement in the Mast syndrome indicates nonidentity.
1987 A. Theroux Adultery ii. v. 161 I found her pessimistic, secretive, ambitious, and totally lacking in the fostering principle which left nothing but a nonidentity that depended on separation.
2.
a. Prefixed to agent nouns and designations of persons and things, indicating that the person or thing is not that, or not of the sort, specified.
non-abstainer n.
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1869 F. R. Lees Text-bk. Temperance 59 Separate books have been opened for the insurance of good lives of non-abstainers.
1882 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 50 53 Any thoughtful person, whether abstainer or non-abstainer.
1993 Independent on Sunday 17 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 46/1 Kingsley Amis (author of On Drink and How's Your Glass?,..a committed non-abstainer) also does a neat sideline in the sobering alcoholic.
non-accent n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈaks(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈækˌsɛnt/
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1857 A. D. Sproat Endeavor towards Universal Alphabet 19 The accent on every word..should be shown; and if the vowel types are re-duplicated to mark the distinction between accent and non-accent, this showing..must be done as a matter of necessity.
1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 73 ‘Incompetence’..takes an accent on the ‘com’, and a sort of sub-accent—different from a non-accent—on the ‘tence’.
1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 23 A pattern..which..then trails off into non-accent.
1989 Rhythm Dec. 53/2 The accents are generally performed from a stick height of 6″ to 12″ and the non-accents (ghosted strokes) are from a stick height of ½″.
non-actor n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈaktə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈæktər/
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1935 Mod. Lang. Notes 50 169 We know from face to foot-gear how this non-actor looks.
1937 Times 17 Aug. 8/3 The air of reality, the judicious use of non-actors, the social consciousness of the Russian film.
1991 BOMB Summer 48/1 There are a lot of actors in the cast, but a lot of nonactors as well, because the cast is huge.
non-addict n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈadɪkt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈædɪk(t)/
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1924 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 3 Aug. 2/3 Much of India's [opium] output goes to Japan, and these shipments to a comparatively non-addict country must mean..that they are exported again.]
1931 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 4 347 The addict, when not deprived of his opium, showed no abnormal behaviour which distinguished him from a nonaddict.
1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 34 The natural revulsion which nonaddicts feel toward addicts.
1980 Amer. Speech 55 186 Many argot words from the subculture have found acceptance in the language of middle-class nonaddicts.
non-advocate n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈadvəkət/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈædvəkət/
ΚΠ
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. ii. ix. 506 What the non-advocate is hanged for, the advocate is paid for.
2002 Times of India (Nexis) 1 Feb. The south district forum upheld the contention that a non-advocate could not plead before it on behalf of a party.
non-agent n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈeɪdʒ(ə)nt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈeɪdʒ(ə)nt/
rare before 20th cent.
ΚΠ
1632 P. Heylyn Augustus 34 His being a Non agent in the busines, would bring his honor off without staine.
1965 Transition No. 23. 30/1 The inmate is defined by his situation as a non-agent.
1996 Ethics 106 832 The range of beings that have moral standing..may be more extensive than the set of agents. The latter only may have duties, but nonagents may be owed consideration.
non-architect n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈɑːkᵻtɛkt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɑrkəˌtɛk(t)/
ΚΠ
1962 N. Pevsner in J. Cassou et al. Gateway to Twentieth Cent. iii. 230 The crystal Palace was entirely of iron and glass, it was designed by a non-architect, and it was designed for industrial quantity production of its parts.
1993 Representations Spring 130 Perrault, in this company, can be seen as the only nonarchitect.
non-body n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈbɒdi/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbɑdi/
ΚΠ
1933 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 72 The life of the non-body..is capable..of creating an artistic progeny.
1949 G. Ryle Concept of Mind vi. 189 Perhaps it is because of the absurdity of such collocations that so many people have felt driven to describe a person as an association between a body and a non-body.
2001 Independent (Nexis) 11 Apr. It renders parliament a non-body where members take pay and privileges for doing the bidding of a powerful one-man figure.
non-breeder n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈbriːdə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbridər/
ΚΠ
1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 139 To consider this society individually, it may be said to consist of a female breeder, female non-breeders, and males.
1843 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Invertebr. Animals 240 The fertile females share with the non-breeders or neuters..the labour of rearing the young broods.
1950 Chem. Engin. Progress 46 112/1 The nonbreeders are pointed essentially toward power production.
1990 Birder's World Aug. 27/3 I walked out into the nonbreeder field and a young Stanley Crane walked up to me and dropped dead at my feet.
non-clitic n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈklɪtɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈklɪdɪk/
ΚΠ
1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) iv. 103 Such bound forms are..nonclitics—additives, replacives, subtractives.
1994 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicogr. 7 120 The Danish pronominal system is not organized in the same way as for example the French pronominal system, where two series: a clitic, i.e. verb-bound, and a non-clitic, i.e, not verb-bound, series can be distinguished.
non-cognitivist n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈkɒɡnᵻtɪvɪst/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkɑɡnədɪvəst/
ΚΠ
1951 Philos. Rev. 60 47 Non-cognitivists have frequently relied on some of these same arguments,..alleging that they disprove naturalism.
1963 R. Carnap in P. A. Schilpp Philos. R. Carnap 1008 Both cognitivists and non-cognitivists agree that beliefs play a very important role in the origin of attitudes and decisions.
2000 Social Theory & Pract. (Nexis) 26 A non-cognitivist, at least one of my stripe, will tend to think of a moral judgment as more like an emotion than a standard belief.
† non-conficient n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem i. 135 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles Priests..in the institution of this Sacrament..were nonconficients.
† non-confitent n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 293 All Non-confitents, That thinke not of confessing their sinnes at all.
non-contributor n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈtrɪbjᵿtə/
,
/ˌnɒnˈkɒntrᵻbjuːtə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnkənˈtrɪbjudər/
ΚΠ
1643 E. Bowles Plaine Eng. 23 The Ordinance for assessing the Non-contributors.
1927 Economica No. 20. 213 He recommended the publication of the lists of contributors and non-contributors.
1992 R. Harris Fatherland i. 31 An asocial: one step down from traitor in the Party's lexicon of crime. A non-contributor to Winter Relief.
non-creation n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkrɪˈeɪʃn/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnkriˈeɪʃən/
ΚΠ
a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 280 If there were any thing..in the whole Creation, or Non-Creation,..unknown to him.
1855 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 622 The choice in the Divine mind..lay..between such a system as we actually have..and the non-creation of moral, accountable, intelligent beings altogether.
1892 Science 5 Aug. 73/1 It involves the non destruction of energy, as well as its non-creation.
1981 MLN 96 1134 The wilderness..comes from Matthew Arnold whose concordat..that the critical and the creative are distinct activities, necessarily left the poor critic in the desert of non-creation.
† non-credent n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 93 Being an Infidel and non-credent.
non-dancer n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈdɑːnsə/
,
/ˌnɒnˈdansə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdænsər/
ΚΠ
1846 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 13 693/2 Non-dancers, old and young, sate or stood thronged near the walls.
1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. vii. 136 Now the room was partially cleared, the non-dancers being pressed back.
1992 New Yorker 9 Mar. 22/3 She was too bad a dancer even to play a bad dancer—she was a nondancer.
non-driver n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈdrʌɪə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdraɪvər/
ΚΠ
1939 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. ii. 7/3 One of the most sensible ways of eliminating all this anguish is to have the non-driver learn at a driving school.
1953 Ess. in Crit. 3 422 The customary impression of the non-driver, that handling a car by night involves merely the switching on of headlights, and the turning of a wheel.
1986 B. Brophy in Contemp. Authors Autobiogr. Ser. IV. 87/2 She is a nondriver who lives in the philistia of the home counties.
1991 Dateline Mag. Jan. 43/2 (advt.) Peace and love on Exmoor, sought by Dave, 54,..non smoker, non driver.
non-employee n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɛmplɔɪˈiː/
,
/ˌnɒnᵻmplɔɪˈiː/
,
/ˌnɒnɛmˈplɔɪiː/
,
/ˌnɒnᵻmˈplɔɪiː/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnəmˌplɔ(ɪ)ˈi/
,
/ˌnɑnəmˈplɔ(ɪ)ˌi/
,
/ˌnɑnˌɛmˌplɔ(ɪ)ˈi/
,
/ˌnɑnˌɛmˈplɔ(ɪ)ˌi/
ΚΠ
1912 Amer. Econ. Rev. 2 209 The proposals embodied in the Canal Bill now before Congress (future organization, establishment of toll rate and method of tonnage measurement, exclusion of non-employees from residence in the canal zone).
1999 Leicester Mercury (Electronic ed.) 5 Jan. In those days it was not unusual for non employees to play for works teams.
non-fact n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈfakt/
,
/ˈnɒnˌfakt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfæk(t)/
,
/ˈnɑnˌfæk(t)/
ΚΠ
1646 N. Homes Vindic. baptizing Beleevers Infants 21 Mr. Tombes argues from the non-fact to the non-equitie, and from the non-efficacie to non-administration, and from an after discovery to crosse the present rule.
1899 Amer. Hist. Rev. 5 118 Even in these early documents we find that writers..record portentous falsehoods, or let us rather say non-facts.
1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 576/1 Utopia, the realm of non-fact or the imaginary.
1964 Listener 9 Jan. 48/2 Our opinions..should not be based on non-facts, or dubious facts.
1995 Mother Jones June 58/1 The Mexican loan package is complex, but the senator has sidetracked the entire debate by turning a nonfact into a central issue.
non-form n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈfɔːm/
,
/ˈnɒnˌfɔːm/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfɔrm/
,
/ˈnɑnˌfɔrm/
ΚΠ
1886 K. Pearson tr. M. Eckehart in Mind 11 29 A non-god, a non-spirit, a non-person, a non-form.
1999 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. Built of steel components with stylized Chinese motifs, the full-scale rectangular fence is shown separately from the shrine, possibly so as not to mask one form with another, or one form with one nonform.
† non-frauder n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 430 It is vniust to punish all promiscuously as well frauders as non frauders.
non-freeman n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈfriːmən/
,
/ˌnɒnˈfriːman/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfriˌmæn/
,
/ˌnɑnˈfrimən/
ΚΠ
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) i. 147 A petition..from about five and twenty non-freemen.
1827 E. Mackenzie Descr. & Hist. Acct. Newcastle II. 649 The claim of toll thorough..is made by the corporation upon all goods..of non-freemen, brought into or carried out of the town.
1891 F. A. Hibbert Eng. Gilds 156 There could no longer be any invidious distinction between freemen and non-freemen..gildsmen and tensers.
1995 16th Cent. Jrnl. 26 187 Coventry's mercers and grocers.., unable to exclude nonfreemen from trading in the city, were forced to restrict their inventories.
non-householder n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈhaʊs(h)əʊldə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈhaʊsˌ(h)oʊldər/
ΚΠ
1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 6/2 And that every other persone non housholder..paie to yowe yerely vi d.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 89 All Journeymen and Labourers,..whether non-house-holders or house-holders.
1996 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 35 429 The tax, amounting to 1s. 4d. on every alien householder and 6d. on nonhouseholders, was renewed in 1442.
non-infallibilist n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈfalᵻbəlɪst/
,
/ˌnɒnɪnˈfalᵻbl̩ɪst/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈfæləbələst/
ΚΠ
1870 Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 443 All non-infallibilists are but half-Catholics.
2000 Commonweal (Nexis) 8 Sept. The stage had been set—some said rigged—by Pius IX... There were roughly three factions: the infallibilists, the noninfallibilists, and the inopportunists.
non-instructress n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈstrʌktrᵻs/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈstrəktrəs/
Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 115 The grief of the children on losing this most indulgent non-instructress.
non-joiner n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈdʒɔɪnə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdʒɔɪnər/
ΚΠ
1926 Social Forces 4 564/2 As a result of the multiplicity of formal organizations in the community, there develop the ‘joiner’ and the ‘non-joiner’.
1964 R. Miliband in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 78 Mills was a determined non-joiner, with an intense dislike of togetherness.
1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) xiii. 456 Maintaining open channels of communication with the whole community..can encourage the ‘non-joiners’ to participate.
non-lawyer n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈlɔɪə/
,
/ˌnɒnˈlɔːjə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈlɔɪər/
,
/ˌnɑnˈlɔjər/
,
/ˌnɑnˈlɑjər/
ΚΠ
1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 23 On the part of the non-lawyer, conscious ignorance, thence consultation and advice (opinion-trade).
1994 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 1 Jan. a3/5 The nation's largest association of lawyers plans to solicit the ideas of nonlawyers..about ways to improve the courts.
non-linguist n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈlɪŋɡwəst/
ΚΠ
1870 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 431 Almost all non-linguists would admit that h was generally mute.
1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct ii. 28 The linguistic term gender has been pressed into service by nonlinguists as a convenient label for sexual dimorphism.
non-motorist n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈməʊtərɪst/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈmoʊdərəst/
ΚΠ
1904 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 May 314/4 A Chat with the Non-Motorist.
1936 Discovery Apr. 108/2 Even the non-motorist may enjoy the adventure, as a comfortable bus service has been established.
2002 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 Jan. I'd like to know where he got the fact that roads are subsidised by non-motorists.
non-musician n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnmjuːˈzɪʃn/
,
/ˌnɒnmjᵿˈzɪʃn/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑn(ˌ)mjuˈzɪʃən/
ΚΠ
1858 Sci. Amer. 29 May 302/1 The number of musicians, as well as non-musicians, who are acquainted with the cause of sound and music, is but small.
1906 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 3 293 Non-musicians of general culture discriminate normally 10 vibrations.
2001 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. ii. 1/3 As more and more nonmusicians become hit makers, is the skilled pop instrumentalist an endangered species?
non-news n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈnjuːz/
,
/ˈnɒnˌnjuːz/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈn(j)uz/
,
/ˈnɑnˌn(j)uz/
ΚΠ
1931 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 36 796 The classification of news content and non-news material.
1963 Hansard Commons 7 May 272 Drugged by their normal diet of non-news stories and non-events, the newspapers tend to lose their heads when..faced with..a news story.
1972 Wall St. Jrnl. Index 681/1 President Nixon clears desk with sweep of proclamations and orders, other (yawn) nonnews items.
1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 3 Nov. 21/2 (heading) When non-news is good news.
non-parent n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈpɛːrənt/
,
/ˌnɒnˈpɛːrn̩t/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpɛrənt/
ΚΠ
1861 Lit. Churchman 16 Mar. 119/2 The Catholic Church had from the beginning the custom of non-parent sponsorship.
1988 E. Kaufman & L. Borders in R. H. Coombs Family Context Adolescent Drug Use 111 Parental tasks are provided by nonparent adults of the extended family.
2000 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 15/2 She became the sort of maiden aunt who bonds with the kids precisely because she is a non-parent.
non-philosopher n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnfᵻˈlɒsəfə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnfəˈlɑs(ə)fər/
ΚΠ
1860 J. McCosh Intuitions of Mind 2 It is to be hoped, that..the feeling against then on the part of so many, philosophers and non-philosophers, may be dispelled.
1991 Lancet 21 Dec. 1581/1 One last editorial sweep, getting rid of terms like ‘urconsciousness’ and ‘Laplacian prediction’, would have made a friendlier book for the non-philosopher.
† non-presbyter n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1653 Στερέωμα 112 Because the Church is not formally invested with any such power, as the Presbytery is, non-presbyters cannot make a Presbyter.
1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. Pref. p. cxciv The Mission..which the Ministers of some Presbyterian Churches..derive from Non-Presbyters, or mere Lay-Men.
nonquality n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈkwɒlᵻti/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkwɔlədi/
,
/ˌnɑnˈkwɑlədi/
ΚΠ
1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxxv The quality..were to eat a breakfast, and the non-quality were to eat a dinner.
1905 Brahmavâdin (Madras) July 357 [tr. of Avadhuta Gita] I am bound by the rope of quality and non-quality how then can I be subject to the acts of death and life.
1921 S. MacKenna tr. Plotinus Enneads II. ii. vi. 208 One and the same thing cannot be both Quality and non-quality.
2011 P. Scalliet in T. Pawlicki et al. Quality & Safety Radiotherapy xii. 59/1 Deviations from quality standards are treated as risks of nonquality or nonconformity to expected outcomes.
non-religion n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˈnɒnrᵻˌlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˈnɑnrəˌlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˌnɑnriˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
,
/ˈnɑnriˌlɪdʒ(ə)n/
ΚΠ
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 109 A..dissembling wilinesse, with a relation to Atheisme or a non-religion.
1855 I. Taylor Wesley, & Methodism 278 Philosophic non-religion thus becomes articulate infidelity.
1897 J.-M. Guyau (title) The non-religion of the future: a sociological study.
1993 B. Watson Effective Teaching of Relig. Educ. (BNC) 8 To appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion.
non-saint n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈseɪnt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈseɪnt/
rare before 20th cent.
ΚΠ
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (vi. 10) ii. 53 The opposition..is..betwixt such as are Saints, and non-Saints.
1972 Hist. & Theory 11 239 The rhetoric of tribalism deliberately separated the children of the saints from the children of non-saints.
1996 Speculum 71 732 Regular commemoration of the dead on certain days of the year continued even after nonsaints were separated off from saints on their own necrology rolls.
non-sentence n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈsɛntns/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɛn(t)əns/
ΚΠ
1933 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 4 405/2 High-school principals..have declared..that an English teacher has completed her duty when she has taught the recognition of sentences and non-sentences.
1992 New Republic 27 Apr. 6/1 Everyone can identify the components of a typical Bushism. The staccato sentences with no pronouns. The long, meandering non-sentences that reverse course.
non-singer n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈsɪŋə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɪŋər/
ΚΠ
1931 N.Y. Times 14 June viii. 9/7 He, as a non-singer, paid tribute to the work being done by the organization [sc. the German Labor Singing Society] in promoting the cultural activities of the labor movement.
1948 R. M. Lovett All our Years i. 14 I apologized in advance for any inadequacy in my performance on the ground that I had been a non-singer at school.
1996 R. Miller Art of Singing 95 Nonsingers who wish to write and talk about the singing voice.
non-skier n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈskiːə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈskiər/
ΚΠ
1937 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Jan. 10/1 The non-skier may shake his head dubiously. Here is a sport, as all the breath-taking pictures show, chockfull of danger.
1969 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. x. 14 It was argued that skimobiling..provided an outlet for out-of-doors enjoyment by nonskiers.
2000 Denver Post 17 Dec. f5/2 That doesn't mean the non-skiers have to spend their winters down on the plains or parked in a warming hut.
non-speaker n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈspiːkə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈspikər/
ΚΠ
1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. Lang. I. 242 The inarticulate cries of the infant or ‘non-speaker’ are on the same level as the roar of the lion or the shriek of the cockatoo.
1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 168 A language is the way to construct the world we want, by making a grid of meaning that every speaker of it agrees with, and non-speakers do not.
non-supporter n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsəˈpɔːtə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnsəˈpɔrdər/
ΚΠ
1831 Biblical Repertory Apr. 286 Let them declare war against all sin, whether in..supporters or non-supporters of the Christian ministry.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xviii. 193 It was in January the Premier came, to address his loyal supporters and such of his non-supporters as chose to be present.
1979 Dædalus Winter 46 The Left is still largely defined by reference to a heritage that party supporters and nonsupporters alike find less and less desirable and relevant.
non-swimmer n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈswɪmə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈswɪmər/
ΚΠ
1864 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 395/2 Non-swimmers would have predicted exhaustion, and swimmers cramp.
1892 Amer. Naturalist 26 180 Some of the final straightening in the non-swimmers is referred to the effect of gravitation.
1994 Daily Tel. 27 Aug. 17/3 To renew society with unrenewed Christians is like a non-swimmer trying to rescue a drowning man.
non-sympathizer n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈsɪmpəθʌɪzə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɪmpəˌθaɪzər/
ΚΠ
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. v. 195 As an outsider and non-sympathizer.
2001 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 6 Sept. There are two taxation schemes the NPA has imposed on both supporters and non-sympathizers in Masbate.
non-visualizer n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈvɪzjʊəlʌɪzə/
,
/ˌnɒnˈvɪzjᵿlʌɪzə/
,
/ˌnɒnˈvɪʒʊəlʌɪzə/
,
/ˌnɒnˈvɪʒᵿlʌɪzə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈvɪʒ(ə)wəˌlaɪzər/
,
/ˌnɑnˈvɪʒəˌlaɪzər/
ΚΠ
1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan p. xxi Some other people see imaginary diagrams and landscapes..and are thereby able to perform feats of memory and arithmetic impossible to non-visualisers.
1953 A. Huxley Let. 21 June (1969) 676 I am a non-visualizer, and got very little in the way of imagery.
1989 Times (Nexis) 28 June My own score was an estimated 80 per cent. Could I be among the tiny minority one in 10,000 of non-visualizers?
non-writer n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈrʌɪtə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈraɪdər/
ΚΠ
a1863 W. M. Thackeray Early & Late Papers (1867) 400 In regard of mere information, non-writers must often be superior to writers.
1940 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 29 Mar. (1953) 330 All the detail that seems to the non-writer so easy..to me is torture.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Aug. 31/4 Bunin's books were banished from the Soviet Union, and he only ceased being a non-writer there when the thaw came in the Fifties.
b. spec. Prefixed to a noun, denoting a person or thing that is not really or adequately what is designated by the noun. (Some of the following lemmas are more or less ad hoc formations.)
non-architecture n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈɑːkᵻtɛktʃə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɑrkəˌtɛk(t)ʃər/
ΚΠ
1960 20th Cent. Oct. 357 Manchester..is a city with no architecture, only an inert mass of building. I believe that the adherents of the Betjemanesque cult of Victorian bad taste find things to admire in examples of Manchester non-architecture.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts July 477/1 Flexibility and non-architecture is becoming fashionable.
non-budget n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈbʌdʒɪt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbədʒət/
ΚΠ
1967 Observer 16 Apr. 10/2 The crescendo of the roll call of defeat..came just two days after the Chancellor of the Exchequer's non-Budget.
non-conversation n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒnvəˈseɪʃn/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən/
ΚΠ
1960 News Chron. 28 July 6/8 Pinter is..a writer over-occupied with the externals of behaviour. The non-conversations..can stale into nothingness.
1989 B. M. Gill Dying to meet You (BNC) 83 I'm reduced to verbal inanities, he thought. This is a non-conversation.
1998 H. R. Madhubuti HeartLove 74 I'll miss those nonconversations between novelist and poet.
non-country n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈkʌntri/
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1970 Gainesville (Florida) Sun 24 Sept. a6 Jordan was and remains a non-country, created out of sandscape by Britain to pay off a dynastic debt.
1992 Economist 15 Aug. 9/2 There is a world of difference between rescuing a viable country from foreign aggression and pacifying a non-country that has collapsed into tribal warfare.
non-debate n.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈbeɪt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑndəˈbeɪt/
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/ˌnɑndiˈbeɪt/
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1964 J. W. Fulbright in N.Y. Times 6 Apr. 16/4 The abnegation of responsibility by the Congress in this field is strikingly illustrated by debate or more actually by its non-debate on the defense budget.
1970 Times 21 May 8 The debate on the amendments to end the Indo-China war was the usual non-debate.
non-drama n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈdrɑːmə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdrɑmə/
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1962 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. 23/2 Both of these lovely, sensitive films manifest a disposition of their directors away from the arty, sterile trends toward technical tricks and non-drama that have been evident in more recent films.
1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 20 Jan. 33 Most of the noise is made by Mailer, who, as principal player in a turgid nondrama..barks sometimes like a dog and sometimes like a seal.
non-film n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈfɪlm/
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/ˈnɒnˌfɪlm/
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1963 Listener 31 Jan. 201/1 Their violent and derisory manifestations—such as the non-film Hurlements en faveur de Sade—are all intended to create situations..such as will produce certain kinds of human behaviour.
1997 I. Sinclair Lights Out for Territory (1998) 313 Think of Whitehead's non-film, with all the paraphernalia of production (except film stock), as the one that got away.
non-lecture n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈlɛktʃə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈlɛktʃər/
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1953 E. E. Cummings (title) I: six nonlectures.
1985 J. Kerman Musicol. 22 The rediscovery of Ives, usually dated approximately from the time of his death in 1954, coincided with..writings in the form of lectures, non-lectures, squibs, interviews, and ‘silences’.
non-music n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈmjuːzɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈmjuzɪk/
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1958 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 41 There has always been a tendency in some circles to regard jazz as non-music.
1969 Listener 3 July 26/1 The most interesting and successful work in the programme was the one which kept consistently and coherently to the realms of non-music.
1986 R. Brindle Smith Mus. Composition (BNC) 110 To some atonal music meant ‘non-music’, or at least something ugly and unpleasant.
non-newspaper n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈnjuːzpeɪpə/
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/ˌnɒnˈnjuːspeɪpə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈn(j)uzˌpeɪpər/
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1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1443/4 There's a new type of newspaper occurring in the world: the non newspaper.
non-novel n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈnɒvl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈnɑv(ə)l/
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1959 Mod. Lang. Notes 74 644 This epic element..is to be found most commonly in the ‘non-novel’.
1961 Guardian 27 Oct. 6/5 Henry Miller's two remarkable non-novels.
1994 Entertainm. Weekly 29 Apr. 64/1 It is the couple's first full-length ‘graphic non-novel’, a comic book examining and recalling the hell they lived through.
non-place n.
Brit. /ˈnɒnˌpleɪs/
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/ˌnɒnˈpleɪs/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpleɪs/
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/ˈnɑnˌpleɪs/
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1961 M. M. Webber (title) Urban realms. The non-place urban communities. (Dept. City & Regional Planning, Univ. Calif., Berkeley.)
1979 W. Golding Darkness Visible (1980) iv. 69 He found a kerb near the central parking lots, a kind of nonplace with rank grass and seeding flowers.
1994 P. Theroux Translating LA ii. 30 In an instant you could have gone from the most anonymous suburban nonplace to what could be West Virginia, all..within the city limits of Los Angeles.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Sept. 85/1 Handke needed a new myth, and he discovered it in Serbia, which world opinion..had thrown off the map and turned into a sort of non-place.
non-play n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈpleɪ/
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/ˈnɒnˌpleɪ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpleɪ/
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/ˈnɑnˌpleɪ/
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1968 New Yorker 28 Dec. 2 Dustin Hoffman does his brave best to make us believe that this non-play by Murray Schisgal is a touching comedy about the ignominy of young manhood.
1988 Sun (Brisbane) 15 Apr. 56/2 It's not so much that Michael Noonan's work is a bad play: rather it's a non-play.
non-policy n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈpɒlᵻsi/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpɑləsi/
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1962 E. Cleaver in Negro Hist. Bull. 25 131/3 The fallacious stupidity of the non-policy of segregation.
1977 Irish Times 8 June 9/5 Every vote cast for the Coalition will be regarded by the Government as a vindication of their non-policy on employment.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Feb. The current policy is a non-policy.
non-problem n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈprɒbləm/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈprɑbləm/
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1965 Admin. Sci. Q. 10 262 [He] does not assume that explanation and empathy have converted an organizational problem into a non-problem.
1969 Guardian 7 Nov. 12/2 The apostles of relevance..bring massive expertise to bear on non-problems.
1998 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 48/2 Since Arthur has been publisher, being gay at the New York Times has been an absolute non-problem.
non-sherry n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈʃɛri/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈʃɛri/
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1967 Economist 5 Aug. 477 The non-sherries have carved themselves out healthy chunks of the fortified wine market on the basis of what they really are, more than by pretending to be the real Spanish thing.
non-story n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈstɔːri/
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1967 Gainesville (Florida) Sun 19 Mar. The latest non-story out of New Orleans on the Kennedy assassination ‘plot’.
1971 M. Russell Deadline xiii. 157 This promises to be the non-story of the month.
2000 Independent 10 June ii. 9/6 But her publishers, Granta, advised against. Anyway, it seems a non-story.
c.
non-kin n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈkɪn/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkɪn/
chiefly Cultural Anthropology those who (or which) are not related to a person (or an animal).
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1938 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 68 331 The..patrilineal unity of the lineage..is affected both by the introduction of non-kin and by the loss of true kin.
1992 Sci. Amer. Aug. 48/1 Using DNA fingerprinting..they discovered that colony mates are much more alike than nonkin in other wild vertebrates.
non-secretor n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsᵻˈkriːtə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnsəˈkridər/
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/ˌnɑnsiˈkridər/
Physiology a person whose saliva and other secretions do not contain his or her blood-group antigens.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [noun] > non-secretor
non-secretor1941
1941 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 42 933 If a fetus of Group A belongs to the class of non-secretors (20 per cent)..the maternal iso-agglutinin anti-A may serve as the source of the intrauterine hemolytic process.
1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xl. 586 Those who get duodenal ulcers include more group O than would be expected. Non-secretors are more liable to the disease than secretors.
1997 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. Pathol. 21 1023 Lewis(a+b−), nonsecretor and blood group A phenotypes, were all positively associated with esophageal adenocarcinoma, suggesting a genetic susceptibility.
non-truth n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈtruːθ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtruθ/
an untruth; a lie, a falsehood; (also) untruthfulness.
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1642 in D. C. MacTavish Minutes Synod of Argyll (1943) I. 44 It was fund nontruth.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xv. 102 They will be sure to vent out some non-truth.
1881 Times 17 Jan. 6/2 Many conventional non-truths (to speak kindly) must..be excused.
1982 I. Asimov Foundation's Edge (1983) xii. 183 To know when a truth will do is admirable, since no nontruth can be presented with the same sincerity.
1994 Amer. Spectator Oct. 49/2 He's toying with you, folks, getting you all riled up with a stew of half-truths and non-truths.
3.
a. Prefixed to adjectives to express a neutral negative sense, forming adjectives and occasionally nouns. (The use of non- sometimes contrasts with parallel words formed with in-, un-, or another negative prefix that have particular connotations; e.g. non-active against inactive, non-historical against ahistorical, unhistorical.)
non-aboriginal adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnabəˈrɪdʒᵻnl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌæbəˈrɪdʒənl/
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1889 Mod. Lang. Notes 4 117/2 Spoken English of the United States and Canada and incidentally of other non-aboriginal dialects spoken in the same countries.
1992 Face Feb. 56/1 The title of the single refers to the treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians proposed by former Prime Minister Bob Hawke in 1988.
non-absorbable adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəbˈzɔːbəbl/
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/ˌnɒnəbˈsɔːbəbl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəbˈzɔrbəb(ə)l/
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/ˌnɑnæbˈzɔrbəb(ə)l/
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/ˌnɑnæbˈsɔrbəb(ə)l/
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1808 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 361 A..quantity of non-absorbable gas.
1985 M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) xxvi. 452 Non-absorbable sutures are removed on the sixth day or sooner.
non-absorbent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəbˈzɔːb(ə)nt/
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/ˌnɒnəbˈsɔːb(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəbˈzɔrb(ə)nt/
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/ˌnɑnəbˈsɔrb(ə)nt/
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/ˌnɑnæbˈzɔrb(ə)nt/
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/ˌnɑnæbˈsɔrb(ə)nt/
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1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 16 The only distinction of earths, till about the last half century, was into absorbent and non-absorbent.
1937 Discovery Nov. 103/1 Fibres made non-absorbent of water.
1990 L. Martin Deficit Ending (1991) vii. 104 Sarah cut out the entire bloodstain area of the seat cover and laid it flat on nonabsorbent plastic to air-dry.
non-academic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnakəˈdɛmɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌækəˈdɛmɪk/
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1873 J. B. Mullinger Univ. Cambr. from 1535 I. 140 It was customary in the earliest times to delegate to a non-academic functionary the instruction of youth in the elements of the [Latin] language.
1918 Nation (N.Y.) 28 Mar. 335 The real trouble with American universities has been their inability to ‘get it across’ to the ‘man in the street’..and all those other fearsome beasts that inhabit the non-academic jungles.
1992 Economist 21 Nov. (Suppl.) 17/1 The non-academic offspring of middle-class parents endure the pain of education..because they know it will pay dividends.
non-active adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈaktɪv/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈæktɪv/
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1850 Amer. Whig Rev. Mar. 227/1 Congress is non-active in the plan.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 27 528 Where parties have been merely non-active.
1941 A. Christie Evil under Sun x. 183 Protective colouring is your line. Remain rigidly nonactive and fade into the background!
1992 Independent 4 Aug. 13/8 Urine does contain melatonin, but in tiny quantities, and in its non-active form.
non-actual adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈak(t)ʃʊəl/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈak(t)ʃ(ᵿ)l/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈæk(t)ʃ(əw)əl/
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a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. 151 Knowledge of the non-actual or possible.
1939 Mind 48 483 If true sentences can be said to mean ‘actual’ states of affairs or situations, false sentences must mean ‘non-actual’ states of affairs or ‘possible’ situations.
1991 Word 42 264 ‘Intensionality’—both beliefs and sentences can represent nonactual possibilities.
† non-Adamical adj. Obsolete
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xi. 207 The Pygmies of Paracelsus; that is, his non-Adamicall men, or middle natures betwixt men and spirits. View more context for this quotation
non-addictive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈdɪktɪv/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈdɪktɪv/
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1960 N.Y. Times 27 Jan. 22/1 There is overwhelming evidence that meprobamate, used properly, is nonaddictive.
2000 Police Feb. 31/3 It is a non-addictive medicine with no mood altering effects.
non-adherent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnədˈhɪərənt/
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/ˌnɒnədˈhɪərn̩t/
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/ˌnɒnadˈhɪərənt/
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/ˌnɒnadˈhɪərn̩t/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnædˈhɪrənt/
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/ˌnɑnædˈhɛrənt/
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/ˌnɑnədˈhɛrənt/
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1848 Sci. Amer. 18 Mar. 208/2 The gold then adheres solely to the black parts, and the non-adherent is brushed off.
1873 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (ed. 3) xxix. 211 Sometimes the tube is free and non-adherent..; more commonly it is attached to some submarine object.
1990 Internat. Immunol. 2 1236/1 The non-adherent cells were separated into B and T cell fractions on nylon wool columns.
non-adjacent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈdʒeɪs(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈdʒeɪs(ə)nt/
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1879 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 2 193 If this clearness of definition be the sole object in view, it is obviously unnecessary that non-adjacent districts [on a map] should be painted different colours.
1941 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 179 224 The most interesting term is the cross-term in x1xc representing a coupling of two non-adjacent links.
1990 E. Horowitz & S. Sahni Fund. Data Structures in Pascal (ed. 3) iv. 216 A request for this much memory cannot be met since the memory is fragmented into four nonadjacent nodes.
non-aesthetic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒniːsˈθɛtɪk/
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/ˌnɒnᵻsˈθɛtɪk/
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/ˌnɒnɛsˈθɛtɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnɛsˈθɛdɪk/
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/ˌnɑnəsˈθɛdɪk/
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1877 Mind 2 390 The pleasures of bon-bons..are non-aesthetic because they are unshareable.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 251 Music for organized and non-aesthetic action such as military marches and foxtrots.
1990 B. Bergonzi Exploding Eng. (BNC) 195 Though the successful encounter with a poem may result in a unique aesthetic experience, academic practice demands that it be turned into non-aesthetic discourse.
non-agentive adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈeɪdʒ(ə)ntɪv/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈeɪdʒən(t)ɪv/
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1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 206/2 This type of verb may be called a pseudo-reflexive, or a non-agentive, active verb.
1994 Oxf. Dict. Eng. Gram. 17 The postman banged on the door (agentive verb)... The door was banging in the wind (non-agentive verb).
non-agricultural adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnaɡrᵻˈkʌltʃ(ə)rəl/
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/ˌnɒnaɡrᵻˈkʌltʃ(ə)rl̩/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌæɡrəˈkəltʃ(ə)rəl/
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 4 Labourers non-agricultural..618,712.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. iii. vi. §2 The non-agricultural, or rather the non-peasant population.
1992 Earth Matters Summer 6/1 In May this year..the Government banned all non-agricultural uses of atrazine and simazine.
non-antigenic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnantᵻˈdʒɛnɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌæn(t)əˈdʒɛnɪk/
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1928 Jrnl. Immunol. 15 595 Specifically reacting non-antigenic substances—so-called haptens—play a great part in the constitution of the antigens of animal cells and bacteria.
1948 J. H. Burn Lect. Notes Pharmacol. 75 The protein must, of course, be non-antigenic.
1993 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 80 iv. p. vi (advt.) These sutures are relatively inert, non-antigenic, non-pyrogenic and elicit only a mild tissue reaction during absorption.
non-aquatic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈkwatɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈkwɑdɪk/
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/ˌnɑnəˈkwædɪk/
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1853 N.Y. Jrnl. Pharmacy 2 28 Ten toads which I opened contained only non-aquatic insects.
1872 J. E. Harting Handbk. Brit. Birds Introd. p. xi It is extremely difficult to believe that the non-aquatic species in this list have..journeyed across the Atlantic.
1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation xvii. 338 Sediments of nonaquatic origin, such as those of deserts, can receive rain water.
1998 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 67 752/1 Mathematical models describing density-dependent regulation have been applied..in aquatic..as well as non-aquatic literature.
non-aqueous adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈakwɪəs/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈeɪkwɪəs/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɑkwiəs/
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/ˌnɑnˈækwiəs/
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1857 G. Wilson in Edinb. Ess. viii. 337 The fibrin, albumen, casein, and gelatine which form..the non-aqueous part of blood, milk, and the other animal fluids, contain much nitrogen.
1899 Science 3 Feb. 180/1 (title) The electrical properties of non-aqueous solutions.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. iii. 202 The only other non-aqueous natural liquids are the complex mixtures of hydrocarbons and other organic compounds known as petroleums.
1997 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 91 508 Progress in developing a nonaqueous chemical decontamination capability.
non-archaeological adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɑːkɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɑrkiəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/
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1930 Science 11 Apr. 391 It was taken for granted that the findings of such non-archeological specialists would not only be of intrinsic value to the sciences represented by them.
1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 200/2 To the nonarchaeological eye these objects are of minor aesthetic interest.
non-articular adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɑːˈtɪkjᵿlə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɑrˈtɪkjələr/
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1841 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 131 171 Vessels enter the substance of the bone by the large foramina which are seen at its non-articular surfaces.
1967 G. M. Wyburn et al. Conc. Anat. iv. 111/1 The [parotid] gland occupies the nonarticular part of the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone.
1984 J. Joseph Aids to Anat. (ed. 13) i. 37 The facet on the medial side of the talus is comma-shaped, with a large non-articular area below it.
non-assimilable adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈsɪmᵻləbl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈsɪmələb(ə)l/
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1868 G. H. G. Jahr Venereal Dis. iii. 226 To reconduct all heterogeneous, non-assimilable matters to the periphery.
1904 Collier's 7 May 7/3 Holding in continued subjectivity alien, hostile, and non-assimilable people.
1995 P. Bourgois In Search of Respect (1997) ii. 58 A neighborhood study..calculated that 79.5 percent of the community's residents were ‘nonassimilable’.
non-assistive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈsɪstɪv/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈsɪstɪv/
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1829 C. Lamb Let. 30 Nov. (1935) III. 236 A certain personal defiguration in the man part of this extraordinary centaur [i.e. a bolting horse and rider] (non-assistive to partition of natures).
1988 C. Hollingsworth & J. Berhang-Doggett Clin. Proc. Man. i. 35 Procedure: Moving a non-assistive patient up in the bed.
2012 Future of Families to 2030 (OECD) iv. 213 The use of non-assistive technologies has increased substantially in recent years in many OECD member countries.
non-auditory adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɔːdᵻt(ə)ri/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɔdəˌtɔri/
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/ˌnɑnˈɑdəˌtɔri/
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1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 50 The momentary loss..of our non-auditory images..makes us mentally deaf.
1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 649/3 Calvin was not hostile to art as such, but merely to the use of any non-auditory art in connexion with worship.
1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 14660/2 Each stimulus..lasted for 200 ms in the nonauditory cases and ranged from 275 to 421 ms for auditory ones.
non-automatic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɔːtəˈmatɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɔdəˈmædɪk/
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/ˌnɑnˌɔdoʊˈmædɪk/
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/ˌnɑnˌɑdoʊˈmædɪk/
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1872 U.S. Patent Office Classified Index 154/2 Indicators, time, (non-automatic).
1947 Language 23 284 Morphemes with alternating shape, first automatic (depending on phonemic environment), then non-automatic.
1994 K. Perry Business & European Community iv. 65 Non-automatic weighing instruments.
non-axiomatic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnaksɪəˈmatɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌæksiəˈmædɪk/
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1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic 295 The petitio principii..consists in assuming, in demonstration, a non-axiomatic principle as axiomatic.
1992 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 57 1343 A particular case of peirce's law in its deductive (nonaxiomatic) presentation.
non-behavioural adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnbᵻˈheɪvjərəl/
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/ˌnɒnbᵻˈheɪvjərl̩/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnbəˈheɪvjərəl/
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/ˌnɑnbiˈheɪvjərəl/
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1944 Jrnl. Philos. 41 451 If..desire, interest, etc., are given a non-behavioral meaning, then it seems that they must stand for something ‘internal’.
1986 M. Ridley Animal Behaviour (BNC) 50 The mechanism of inheritance was cracked using non-behavioural traits, but we can reasonably infer that behaviour is inherited.
non-biblical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbɪblᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbɪblək(ə)l/
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1874 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 588 Modern non-biblical conceptions of God.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 19/1 The scene Caravaggio depicted, in which Mary Magdalen has just readmitted the apostles to the presence of the dead Virgin,..is nonbiblical.
non-biodegradable adj.
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1967 New Scientist 31 Aug. 440/1 Organic substances which are largely or totally nonbiodegradable are currently being used in both domestic and industrial applications.
1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus i. 15 Never mind what he did to the environment with his nonbiodegradable plastics.
1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel 243 I kind like the idea of silicone. It's non-biodegradable.
non-bookish adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbʊkɪʃ/
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1859 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. 130 A genuine non-bookish man like Captain Speke.
1981 Dict. National Biogr. 1961–70 627/1 Tough and resilient, he became typical of the outdoor, non-bookish child.
non-British adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbrɪtɪʃ/
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1874 Papers relating to Treaty of Washington (U.S. State Dept.) VI. 36 An embargo on saltpetre-laden vessels bound for non-British ports.
1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) vi. 153 In the 1930s, the British were the A Stream, notable Arabs, Parsees and other non-British VIPs were the B Stream; the C Stream was the Rest.
non-calcareous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkalˈkɛːrɪəs/
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1853 Sci. Amer. 27 Aug. 395/1 Madder raised in the non-calcareous soil of Alsace, gives a color of no permanency or beauty.
1990 A. S. Trenhaile Geomorphol. Canada x. 198 Non-calcareous material accumulates in the poljes.
† non-calcary adj. Obsolete
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1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 232 When the rocks below are mixed, calcary and noncalcary.
non-canonical adj.
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1873 T. Christlieb Best Methods counteracting Mod. Infidelity (1874) 43 The startling difference in spirituality which exists between canonical and apocryphal, or, indeed, all non-canonical writings.
1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. viii. 192 Johnson found himself introducing fifty poets,..including such noncanonical worthies as Pomfret, Sprat, Yalden, Dorset, Roscommon, Stepney, and Felton.
non-causal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɔːzl/
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1888 A. Winchell Speculative Consequences Evol. 20 The non-causal character of external conditions.
1911 W. James Some Probl. Philos. xii. 201 Non-causal sequences can be reversed; causal ones follow in conformity to rule.
1989 R. Penrose Emperor's New Mind (1991) vi. 286 Any kind of realistic description of the quantum world which is consistent with the facts must apparently be non-causal, in the sense that effects must be able to travel faster than light!
non-causative adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɔːzətɪv/
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1919 Amer. Econ. Rev. 9 305 There are social movements in which the economic motives play a minor and non-causative rôle.
1990 Eng. World-wide 11 131 To these could be added non-causative constructions like The door opened.
non-chromosomal adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkrəʊməˈsəʊml/
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1911 Amer. Naturalist 45 290 A non-chromosomal demonstration of this fact is found in connection with the chloroplasts of plant cells.
1995 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 85 710/1 The distribution of prevalences of all nonchromosomal malformations was U-shaped across maternal age.
non-classical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈklasᵻkl/
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1849 F. H. Doyle Oedipus, King of Thebes p. vii The few notes which I have added to the text, are addressed..to non-classical readers.
1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXIV. 80/1 After a non-classical education by the Rev. J. Blanchard of Nottingham he was placed at fourteen with a chemist at Newark.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama v. 127 In the non-classical value system the balance swings in favour of the individuality of authorship.
non-cognitive adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒɡnᵻtɪv/
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1864 Biblical Repertory Oct. 681 All the active or non-cognitive powers of the soul.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xvii. 9 Plato's earlier pupils used to admit Sensation's existence, grudgingly, but they trampled it in the dust as something corporeal, non-cognitive, and vile.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Apr. 57/4 The largely practical and noncognitive emphasis of Chinese thinking.
non-coherent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkə(ʊ)ˈhɪərənt/
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1864 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 87 Corydaline forms light, non-coherent, greyish-white masses.
1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xvi. 325 Lead is obtained from nitrate solutions in non-coherent, coarsely crystalline form.
1988 New Scientist 19 May 39/2 The noncoherent light was at a range of wavelengths, although of the same power as the laser.
1990 C. Harris in S. Arterburn & J. Felton Toxic Faith (1991) v. 126 His senses are overloaded with noncoherent information.
non-coincident adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəʊˈɪnsᵻd(ə)nt/
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1789 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 155 A right line cutting non-coincident right lines.
1888 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 10 251 Let three (non-coincident) conics..have a common chord.
1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 41 Plate 167 TJ Perf. A second state has been reported, namely a non-coincident re-entry.
non-coital adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkəʊᵻtl/
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1958 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 23 560/2 The occurrence of orgasm from noncoital sex play does not appear related to early marital sex adjustment.
1971 G. H. Bourne Ape People x. 255 Among humans the amount of sexual play..and..noncoital sex in general seem to be related to the social level..and intelligence in the individual concerned.
1993 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 98 990 She also supported noncoital practices as appropriate sources of pleasure for married couples.
non-collinear adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒˈlɪnɪə/
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1888 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 10 245 In each plane three distinct non-collinear points.
1992 H. Eves Fund. Mod. Elem. Geom. i. 10 Any three noncollinear points determine one and only one plane.
non-colonial adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəˈləʊnɪəl/
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1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 755 The Hydroidea..the second order of Craspedota, contains both non-colonial and colonial hydroids.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 384/1 ‘Viritane’ was, therefore, the wider term which would cover..the system of non-colonial assignment.
1996 Ethology 102 686 Ectoparasite loads were not higher in colonial than in noncolonial marmots.
non-combustible adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəmˈbʌstᵻbl/
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1848 Sci. Amer. 18 Mar. 201/4 He gave his candid opinion that when the world was to be burned the anthracite coal beds were to be the only noncombustible materials in old Pennsylvania.
1975 B.S.I. News May 10 The term ‘incombustible’ as a synonym for ‘non-combustible’ is deprecated in BS 4422: Part 1: 1969 and should not be used in standards.
2000 P. W. B. Semmens & A. J. Goldfinch How Steam Locomotives really Work ii. 46 Most solid fuels contain some non-combustible material.
non-commercial adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəˈməːʃl/
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1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. June 606/2 An indolent, uneducated, non-commercial and passionate people..are not to be restrained by principles either of philanthropy or commerce.
1933 D. Thomas Let. Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 14 It is prose..but an utterly non-commercial prose.
2000 Econ. Affairs 20 32 (advt.) Free copying for non-commercial course packs.
non-communicative adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəˈmjuːnᵻkətɪv/
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1852 Harper's Mag. Feb. 335/1 Eunuchs..sometimes are petulant, cross, and confoundedly non-communicative.
1994 R. Preston Hot Zone 144 They become clinically depressed. Noncommunicative.
non-Communist adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒmjᵿnɪst/
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1920 B. Russell Pract. & Theory Bolshevism v. 76 If they elected a non-Communist representative he could not obtain a pass on the railway.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Mar. 6/2 Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries, and others of the non-Communist left.
non-communistic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒmjᵿˈnɪstɪk/
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1852 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) I. ii. i. 258 The two elaborate forms of non-communistic Socialism known as St. Simonism and Fourierism.
2001 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 29 Dec. Stanislav Zuzak said his father wanted to go to college, but his grandfather was steadfast in his non-Communistic beliefs.
non-competent adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒmpᵻt(ə)nt/
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1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 125 [He] was excepted against by Mr. Hudson for a non-competent witnesse.
1932 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 221 223 We retain then the three concepts, non-competent, competent to differentiate to the tissue in question.., and determined.
1990 Ethics 100 330 Paternalistic interference with the imprudent choices of noncompetent persons is no violation of their autonomy.
non-competitive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəmˈpɛtᵻtɪv/
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1881 Princeton Rev. Jan.–June 415 If they discontinued the through competitive business, they [sc. the railroads] would be obliged to charge higher local rates from non-competitive places.
1989 Psychol. Today Sept. 60/2 Noncompetitive games provide children with a sense of accomplishment through perseverance.
non-complementary adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒmplᵻˈmɛnt(ə)ri/
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1897 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 19 111 The problem is..to distribute ½r2 non-complementary numbers in ½r adjacent rows or columns.
1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts i. 22 But the distinction between complementary and noncomplementary contained modifiers can generally be disregarded.
1998 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 57 1133 Greek city states were based on noncomplementary hierarchical oppositions between those who did and did not hold political rights.
non-complex adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒmplɛks/
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1911 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 33 173 The reciprocation of non-complex curves in space.
1991 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. in Lang. Teaching 29 285 Get will be portrayed as having different shades or ‘generations’ of meaning which stand in a non-complex, semantically motivated relation to each other.
non-compound adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒmpaʊnd/
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1887 J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exerc. Formal Logic (ed. 2) vi. 381 The proposition..is supposed to be non-compound.
1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic iv. 66 We must develop methods for analyzing non-compound statements.
2000 P. W. B. Semmens & A. J. Goldfinch How Steam Locomotives really Work iv. 165 The world's largest steam locomotives, the Union Pacific's ‘Big Boy’ 4-8+8-4s, were of the non-compound variety.
non-conceptual adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈsɛptʃʊəl/
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1851 T. Laycock tr. J. A. Unzer Princ. Physiol. 227 A non-conceptual, internal impression.
1989 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics 29 37 As art is the product of human actions, it cannot..be non-conceptual and completely unattached to ideas or previous expectations.
† non concludent adj. Obsolete
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1641 E. Dering Four Speeches Laud iii. 11 Wee may prosecute non concludent Arguments.
non-concrete adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒnkriːt/
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1921 Mind 30 315 What is non-concrete and non-sensuous is always a meaning, a sense..of that unfathomed beyond.
1991 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. in Lang. Teaching 29 333 Part of the concept of symmetry in language is that tendency to relate one non-concrete, conceptual word or word type to another.
non-condensable adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈdɛnsəbl/
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1850 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 140 48 A great deal of combustible but non-condensable gas was evolved.
1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 177/2 Molecular nitrogen is chemically inert..and noncondensable.
non-confident adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒnfᵻd(ə)nt/
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?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder Pref. sig. A4v If the Non-confident Author hath been any ways defective.
1977 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 46 285 Those who selected either the first or second choice were classified as ‘confident’ and those who selected one of the bottom choices..were classified as ‘non-confident’.
non-connotative adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒnəteɪtɪv/
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1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. ii. §5 37 A non-connotative term is one which signifies a subject only, or an attribute only.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 75/1 In Logic, it [sc. the word absolute] has been applied to non-connotative terms which do not imply attributes.
1989 Philos. Rev. 98 126 We take ‘Yahweh’ to be such a non-connotative purely referential proper name.
non-conscious adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒnʃəs/
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1874 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 301 The characteristic quality of rationally conscious, as distinguished from non-conscious, being.
1912 J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom iii. 84 To discriminate between conscious and non-conscious brains.
1994 Lang. in Society 23 225 In any given interaction, an individual will have a set of (mostly nonconscious) goals.
non-consonantal adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒnsəˈnantl/
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1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iv. 157 Opposed acoustic features:..consonantal, non-consonantal.
2001 Jrnl. Speech, Lang., & Hearing Res. 44 673/1 As they begin to expand their lexicon children may build on earlier production routines, both consonantal and nonconsonantal.
non-constitutional adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒnstᵻˈtjuːʃn̩(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒnkɒnstᵻˈtjuːʃən(ə)l/
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1775 in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 350 Furious non-constitutional men.
1918 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 12 104 It is the nonconstitutionl character of the school election which has made it possible for the legislature to control school suffrage.
1992 P. W. Hogg Constit. Law Canada (ed. 3) iv. lvi. 1278 There is much to be said for deciding the issue then and there, even if the case could be disposed of on a non-constitutional or narrower constitutional basis.
non-constructive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈstrʌktɪv/
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1868 Overland Monthly Sept. 252/1 The whole race of non-producing, non-manufacturing and non-constructive geniuses, had better tarry at home.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 14/1 Non-resistance is for the non-constructive man.
1992 Sci. Fiction Age Nov. 36/2 I felt..a non-constructive emotion rarely experienced by even a junior grade agent.
non-contentious adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈtɛn(t)ʃəs/
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1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. xi. 567 Those courts which have a voluntary or non-contentious jurisdiction.
1904 Econ. Jrnl. 14 322 He decided..to provide for the deficit in a simple and non-contentious manner.
1996 Ann. Rep. Gen. Council of Bar 1995 12/2 The Bar Council..recognised that there might be room to permit..direct access by lay clients in non-contentious areas.
non-contiguous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈtɪɡjʊəs/
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1845 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 26 603 The non-contiguous material atoms cannot form a continuous mass.
1924 Cabler v. Alexander 111 Or. 257. 224 P. 1076.1080 By the words ‘noncontiguous parcels’ we do not mean separated merely by surveyor's lines, as lots in a block, or separated by streets or alleys, but parcels absolutely disconnected by intervening land.
1990 Behavioral Ecol. 1 38/1 Four noncontiguous occupied squares would properly be described as four separate leks.
non-continuous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈtɪnjʊəs/
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1859 T. P. Shaffner Telegr. Man. 529 On the English [telegraph] lines the electric force is weaker and non-continuous.
1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. xx. 421 We defined an animal's behaviour as the sum of its actions, both continuous and non-continuous.
1999 Amer. Lit. 71 808 The numbering of the notes..is continuous throughout the entire book but noncontinuous in the endnotes.
non-contrastive adj.
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1947 Language 23 328 In phonemic analysis, non-contrastive distribution is often used as a criterion permitting the grouping of two or more allophones into a single phoneme.
1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 374 Standard French in principle does not allow non-contrastive dative à + stress pronoun.
non-controversial adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkɒntrəˈvəːʃl/
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1861 Ladies' Repository May 317/1 To judge from what I find in contemporary non-controversial literature.
1928 J. Reith Diary 13 Apr. (1975) i. 100 Winston Churchill..said he would like to..speak for 15 minutes the next night, factual and non-controversial.
1992 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 37 56 This material is fairly standard and non-controversial, with the exception of the placement of Osco-Umbrian as an separate (i.e., non-Italic) branch of IE.
non-critical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkrɪtᵻkl/
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1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason ii. 578 The non-critical dogmatist..has not determined..the limits of his possible cognition.
1893 G. B. Shaw Let. 3 Mar. (1965) I. 386 Assuring you, in our personal, non-artistic and non-critical relations, of my unmitigated defiance.
1967 A. Battersby Network Anal. (ed. 2) iii. 26 The systematic analysis of a network sorts out the individual jobs into two main classes, critical and non-critical.
1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. iii. 14 This noncritical atmosphere works for us because the three of us are so tight assed about revealing our emotions.
non-cruciform adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkruːsᵻfɔːm/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkrusəˌfɔrm/
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1848 Ecclesiologist Feb. 255 An arrangement which..has not yet been hackneyed in modern church building,—that of a central tower, to a non-cruciform church, supported by the nave-arches being continued as far as the chancel.
1892 Archit. Rev. 14 Mar. 32/2 Notre Dame de Paris, Troyes, Limoges, and Narbonne show relatively slight accentuation of the transepts, while Bourges has a non-cruciform plan.
1933 U.S. Patent 1,934,938 2/2 The quadrant portions of the plug and said cap are adapted to be separately driven by cruciform and non-cruciform portions of a key.
2009 M. J. Gorman Inhabiting Cruciform God iii. 128 The embedded theology of most Christians still revolves around a non-cruciform model of God's holiness, character, and power.
non-deductive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈdʌktɪv/
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1914 B. Russell Our Knowl. External World ii. 34 The ultimate result of the introduction of the inductive method seems not the creation of a new kind of non-deductive reasoning.
1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. Solar Syst. vii. 250 An intricate subjective psychological process must be concerned, of a non-deductive character.
2000 Shofar (Nexis) 30 Apr. Practical insight is like perceiving in the sense that it is non-inferential, non-deductive.
non-degenerate adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈdʒɛn(ə)rət/
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1883 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 174 450 Supposing the Myxinoids to be degenerate descendants of some more developed form.
1900 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 462 This represents the most general non-degenerate quadric.
1929 E. U. Condon & P. M. Morse Quantum Mech. iv. 136 It is better to speak of a particular level as degenerate or non-degenerate, for there are mechanical systems in which some states are degenerate and others are not.
1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 72/1 In the early 1970s, x-ray binaries were detected. These consist of a nondegenerate star paired with a neutron star or, in a few cases, a black hole.
non-delinquent adj.
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1873 Chambers's Cycl. VIII. 290/2 Only one of the accused was brought to trial, the others being allowed to escape from the difficulty of finding a sufficient number of non-delinquent officers to try them.
1919 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 25 230 The effect of poor school adjustment are well worth investigating..not only for the sake of the delinquent but also for the non-delinquent child.
2002 Commerc. Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 3 Feb. The cards were suspended Tuesday, and non-delinquent accounts were reinstated Friday.
non-deliquescent adj.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 948 The non-deliquescent sulphates..such as sulphate of soda, &c.
1978 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context xxi. 328 ‘Nitro-chalk’..is non-deliquescent..and it is a convenient way of liming the soil.
non-demonstrative adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈmɒnstrətɪv/
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1914 Philos. Rev. 23 156 The generalizations of experience and the non-demonstrative sciences.
1944 Mind 53 344 We must admit non-demonstrative principles of inference which are not derivable from experience.
1965 P. Caws Philos. of Sci. xxvi. 193 The most common name for such non-demonstrative inference is induction.
1992 Lit. & Ling. Computing 7 51/2 Induction refers to all cases of non-demonstrative argument.
non-denominational adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻnɒmᵻˈneɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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1858 I. W. Allen Hist. Antioch Coll. 73 A light sprinkling of obsequious and non-Denominational Christians.
1908 Daily Chron. 19 Nov. 4/4 The Churches..together with all the ethical and non-denominational societies should be summoned to co-operate.
2000 Massage Mag. May 40/2 The center offers massage..and yoga, in addition to nondenominational spiritual counseling.
non-derivative adj.
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1902 W. James Let. 29 July in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) II. 650 I may maximize unduly the non-derivative character of these forces, which you minimize.
1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 39 The derivative manly as compared with the simple ‘non-derivative’ word man.
1998 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 62 491 A more in-depth look at the principal themes of the military works..accompanied by an analysis of the probable nonderivative sources of their concepts.
non-descriptive adj.
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1881 Science 9 Apr. 165/1 There are other terms in use for these structures, or they are non-descriptive.
1925 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms iii. 83 The non-descriptive, non-explanatory, and purely identifying term of the French Précieuses, je ne sais quoi.
1995 Jrnl. Japanese Stud. 21 12 To claim as a bildungsroman any narrative that deals with the growth of a young man into adulthood is to make the term so inclusive as to be non-descriptive.
non-designative adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈdɛzᵻɡneɪtɪv/
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1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior 116 Knowledge about the adequacy of non-designative signs is a powerful factor in their control.
1987 Current Anthropol. 28 78/2 Abstract representations are the most definitive evidence for the presence of nondesignative codes in the art.
non-diabetic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndʌɪəˈbɛtɪk/
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1933 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 19 631 16 of the 153 non-diabetic patients, or 10.46 per cent, reported such diabetic relatives.
1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) iii. 40/2 In the third trimester of nondiabetic pregnancy, there is increased insulin resistance as evidenced by the hyperinsulinemia in response to glucose.
non-diffusable adj.
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1915 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1 495 The second or internal factor in normal fertilization is a non-diffusable substance.
1992 Ecology 73 206/1 Purified type 2 nondiffusable polyphloroglucinols.
non-diffusible adj.
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1870 Nature 15 Sept. 404/2 The active element in the vaccine lymph is non-diffusible.
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) iv. 57 The toxins of bacteria which do not produce exotoxins are termed endotoxins and are thought to be firmly bound to the bacterial proteins in a non-diffusible form.
1999 Jrnl. Clin. Lab. Anal. 13 151 This paper establishes the presence of two fractions of serum fluorine: diffusible and nondiffusible.
non-dispersive adj.
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1905 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 76 370 An isotropic non-dispersive transparent medium (the solvent).
1962 W. B. Thompson Introd. Plasma Physics ii. 11 These oscillations have the unusual character of being non-dispersive.
1999 Plumbing, Heating & Air Movement Apr. 32/6 Models such as the IAQ Surveyor will be highlighted, including the new non-dispersive infrared detection (NDIR) sensor.
non-dispositional adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndɪspəˈzɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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1941 Mind 50 339 So it does not seem as if ϕ can be a non-dispositional, non-relational characteristic.
1949 A. Pap Elem. Analyt. Philos. xii. 289 The dispositional predicate is said to be reducible, by means of the reduction-sentence, to non-dispositional predicates.
1996 Jrnl. Philos. 93 586 It is natural to look for a nondispositional property of the hole that grounds these dispositions.
non-disruptive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndɪsˈrʌptɪv/
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1915 Proc. Royal Soc. 1914–15 A. 91 130 The non-disruptive spark spectrum of boron was also investigated.
1970 Manch. Guardian Weekly 24 Oct. 9 The colleges on their side would agree to permit non-disruptive occupations and boycotts of classes.
1992 Isis 83 80/1 Three basic principles of Galileo's kinematics: nondisruptive combination.., horizontal inertia, and the times-squared law.
non-dissipative adj.
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1893 Proc. Royal Soc. 54 448 Suppose, once the current is started in our non-dissipative circuit, that both the condensers are instantaneously removed.
1993 Bioelectromagnetics 14 299 This additional term in the equation of motion, being nondissipative, could allow for the buildup of stored energy within the system.
non-dramatic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndrəˈmatɪk/
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1856 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 451 These founders of English drama..whilst writing for the stage, continued to write poems and other literary pieces of a non-dramatic character.
1991 C. Allmand Hundred Years War (BNC) 58 It had been shown that the essentially non-dramatic tactic, slow as it might be, was in the last resort the one which brought results.
non-eatable adj.
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1871 C. Kingsley Lett. (1877) II. 359 Flax and hemp would be the only non-eatable crops here.
1913 L. F. Baum Patchwork Girl of Oz xx. 263 He realized, from the way the straw crunched between his fingers, that he had captured the non-eatable man.
1994 M. S. Frings in L. B. Coser & W. W. Holdheim tr. M. Scheler Ressentiment (new ed.) 16 Visible but non-eatable objects.
non-economic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒniːkəˈnɒmɪk/
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1886 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 1 119 My second class of egoistic motives included the..hope of a reward of a non-economic kind.
1920 B. Russell Pract. & Theory Bolshevism ii. 123 I do not think that non-economic factors can be neglected.
1998 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 25 264/1 Formal recognition ceremonies and other noneconomic rewards provide an important basis for volunteer recruitment.
non-elementary adj.
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1855 Southern Q. Rev. Oct. 500 Non-elementary or compounded propositions.
1996 Ann. Probability 24 202 This involves, as the only nonelementary step, a stochastic integration.
non-emotional adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻˈməʊʃn̩(ə)l/
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1859 Bentley's Misc. 45 255 It is rare, in the present non-emotional days , for any princess to endure such a romance of misery as fell to the lot of Helen of Orleans.
1941 Mind 50 168 Expressed in non-metaphoric and non-emotional words.
1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 309 This intellectual, nonemotional jazz was also called cool jazz as opposed to the hot jazz of the 1920s.
non-emphatic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪmˈfatɪk/
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1863 National Rev. July 177 Mr Owen Meredith's descriptions..sometimes remind us of a lady's letter, with dashes under all the non-emphatic words.
1901 W. James Let. (1920) II. 153 The optimism and healthy-mindedness are yours... But the moderate and non-emphatic way of putting things is not.
1983 P. J. Roach Eng. Phonetics & Phonology (BNC) 173 In these examples, (a) is non-emphatic and (b) is emphatic.
non-empirical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪmˈpɪrᵻkl/
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1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason ii. 538 For the construction of a conception..a non-empirical intuition is required.
1998 Philos. Rev. 107 286 Even though one must infer force from mood, this is a non-empirical, presumably analytic, inference.
non-English adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
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1861 Ladies' Repository July 403/1 The West India missions early reached to some of the neighboring dependencies of non-English governments.
1992 Eng. Today Apr. 20/1 There are many words embedded in Australian English that derive from non-English sources.
non-enumerative adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻˈnjuːm(ə)rətɪv/
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1910 Philos. Rev. 19 286 The assumption already asserts the regress for whose discovery some non-enumerative method..is presupposed.
1991 Biometrika 78 194 There are no known nonenumerative algorithms for obtaining the global minimum.
non-episcopal adj.
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1816 J. M. Mason Plea Catholick Communion (ed. 2) 206 The inconsistency of the government of England in supporting..the non-episcopal churches abroad.
1889 Polit. Sci. Q. 4 370 Of the 990 non-Episcopal Protestant ministers in Ireland, 864 signed an anti-Home-rule address.
1943 W. Temple Let. 18 Sept. (1963) 109 Non-episcopal Churches.
2000 Daily Tel. 19 July 31/1 He was..created Protonotary Apostolic, the highest of the ancient Vatican titles for non-episcopal functionaries.
non-equivalent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻˈkwɪvələnt/
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1885 J. Veitch Inst. Logic §560 What are equivalent, or non-equivalent, to a common third term, are equivalent or non-equivalent to each other.
1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) xvi. 915 The cells of the forelimb bud and the hindlimb bud, although they give rise to the same range of differentiated types of cells, are evidently nonequivalent.
non-eternal adj.
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a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. vi. 124 A limited or non-eternal time.
1889 A. E. Shipley tr. A. Weismann Ess. Heredity i. 34 If the eternal and indestructible are alone without beginning, then the non-eternal and destructible must have had a beginning.
1993 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 52 763 The issue of a noneternal substance destroyed in the very moment of its origin is not considered.
non-ethical adj.
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a1856 H. Miller Essays (1865) 247 Of all non-ethical things, labor is the most moral.
1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xi. 487 Purely ethical characteristics..cannot be identified with or defined in terms of non-ethical or ‘natural’ characteristics.
2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. 70/1 This year has seen the launch of a UK counterpart, the FTSE4Good index, which will exclude firms operating in ‘non-ethical’ areas.
non-exclusive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻkˈskluːsɪv/
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1845 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 21 To divide governments..into exclusive and non-exclusive, with reference to the admission to power, or exclusion from it, of particular classes.
1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 402 Friendship is a nonexclusive, nonpossessive relationship.
1980 Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 5 All other parties concerned hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Hong Kong courts.
non-excusable adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻkˈskjuːzəbl/
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1888 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (new ed.) IV. x. 267 The not having a ship ready, if it were intended, was non-excusable [1704 unexcusable].
1997 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 91 131 Does paragraph 2E imply a non liquet, i.e., a nonexcusable failure to render judgment?
non-existential adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɛɡzᵻˈstɛnʃl/
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1893 Mind 2 156 The fact of an assertion being ‘particular’ does not seem to prevent its being verbal and so non-existential.
1949 A. Pap Elem. Analyt. Philos. iv. 85 Such discourse about connections of properties without any regard to particulars exemplifying them, is often called ‘non-existential’.
1997 Jerusalem Rep. (Nexis) 17 Apr. Oren was not the first Israeli author to deal with non-existential issues in his fiction.
non-explanatory adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻkˈsplanət(ə)ri/
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1901 A. Sidgwick Use of Words iv. 119 Some kind of non-explanatory verbiage.
2001 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 26 Oct. The pair has offered up myriad non-explanatory explanations in the hopes that the vast majority of open-minded Nazis in the county wouldn't find out.
non-explosive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻkˈspləʊsɪv/
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/ˌnɒnᵻkˈspləʊzɪv/
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1817 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 107 80 In a mixture of olefiant gas non-explosive from the excess of inflammable gas, much carbonic oxide was formed.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 72/2 When a lighted candle is exposed in a non-explosive mixture of this gas, the flame gradually elongates.
1998 Exper. & Clin. Endocrinol. & Diabetes 106 Suppl. No. 3. 22 Ammonium persulfate, a non-explosive, non-hazardous chemical.
non-extant adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɛkˈstant/
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1641 W. Prynne Antipathie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶4 A now-non-extant Booke, written..in King Edward the 6. his dayes.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii. 65/2 Two little visual Spectra of men..simultaneously..explode one another into Dissolution; and off-hand become Air, and Non-extant!
1885 Dict. National Biogr. III. 158/1 When certain lives of other saints, said to have been written by Barclay, but all non-extant, were composed, can only be conjectured.
1996 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 2 357/2 Neich seems to have assembled comprehensive documentation on all the extant decorated meeting-houses and all the non-extant ones which were photographed in the past.
non-extensional adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻkˈstɛnʃn̩(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒnᵻkˈstɛnʃən(ə)l/
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1891 Philos. Trans. 1890 (Royal Soc.) A. 181 462 The vibrations would cease to be non-extensional if the constraints were removed.
1955 A. N. Prior Formal Logic 269 Modal operators (and non-extensional operators generally).
1998 Philos. Rev. 107 556 By ‘simple sentence’, I mean a sentence that contains no modal, attitudinal, quotational, or other non-extensional contexts.
non-factual adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfaktʃʊəl/
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1915 Mind 24 191 This principle of self-consciousness resolves itself into various principles, which are all connected with one another in a peculiar non-temporal, non-factual way.
1936 Mind 45 359 According to Mr. Ayer every significant, non-factual proposition is analytic; every factual proposition is synthetic.
1994 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 54 254 The candidates for being (non-factual) objects if inner perception are, first of all, the self itself.
non-fatal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfeɪtl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfeɪd(ə)l/
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1854 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 17 241 The number of deaths or the number of non-fatal injuries.
1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman vii. 69 He had a toothache, and non-fatal illnesses may make monsters of the meekest of us.
2000 Times 20 Jan. 13/6 Every year at least 20,000 hospital patients die of pulmonary emboli, and 40,000 have non-fatal episodes.
non-fimbriate adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfɪmbrɪeɪt/
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1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 59 A point corresponding to the junction of the fimbriate with the non-fimbriate portion of the mantle.
1992 Infection & Immunity 60 3244 Fimbriate and nonfimbriate strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b were studied.
non-finitist adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfʌɪnʌɪtɪst/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfaɪnədəst/
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1940 Mind 49 248 The theory that the non-finitist symbols used in pure mathematics are to be interpreted as ‘ideal elements’..would provide a fruitful starting-point for a consideration of certain aspects of scientific method.
1956 J. H. Woodger tr. A. Tarski Logic, Semantics, Metamath. 260 On account of its non-finitist nature the rule of infinite induction differs fundamentally.
non-fissile adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfɪsʌɪl/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈfɪsl/
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/ˌnɑnˈfɪˌsaɪl/
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1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Non-fissile.
1953 Economist 14 Nov. 508/1 These [‘breeder’ reactor] plants, which create fissile fuel out of normally non-fissile materials at a faster rate than they are used up, are in the early stage of development.
1991 Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia 25 2263 An interesting aspect of this approach is that Zr is non-fissile.
non-fissionable adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfɪʃn̩əbl/
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1946 Science 14 June 699/2 Radioactive isotopes are created in chain-reacting piles by..the fission of U 235 nuclei.., and..neutron absorption by nonfissionable nuclei.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Dec. 35/2 Feynman collaborated with Paul Olum and Robert Wilson on a device for culling the fissionable form of uranium from the nonfissionable.
non-floriferous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnflɒˈrɪf(ə)rəs/
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1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Non-floriferous..bearing no Flowers.
1993 Jrnl. Plant Anat. & Morphol. 6 5 There being a striking resemblance between nonfloriferous materials of Tetracentron sinense Oliv. and Betula alnoides Buch.- Ham...the two are often confused.
non-formal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfɔːml/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfɔrm(ə)l/
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1842 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought 14 The matter of any representation is that part of it which with reference to any given law, is non-formal.
1949 Social Forces 28 205/2 The formal organization of the factory was blocked by a latent (non-formal) organization followed by the workers.
2000 Econ. & Philos. 16 155 The application of formal logical principles to particular cases can go astray without our concluding that the inference principles employed are themselves non-formal.
non-formulaic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnfɔːmjᵿˈleɪɪk/
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1959 in Speculum (1960) 35 596 No one has yet had anything to say about non-formulaic OE poetry, for it seems that no one has come across any.
1998 Hotline (Virgin Trains) Autumn 65 Although a franchise this is a non-formulaic chic Italian offering imaginative, moderately priced, generous and flavour-packed dishes.
non-fossiliferous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnfɒsᵻˈlɪf(ə)rəs/
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1833 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 243 The country is non-fossiliferous.
1923 Science 13 July 31/2 At 2800 feet the Queen City beds were found as non-fossiliferous sand.
1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. xiii. 317/1 The discovery of non-fossiliferous stromatolites in the same area is further evidence for living organisms.
non-functional adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfʌŋ(k)ʃn̩(ə)l/
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1878 Philos. Trans. 1877 (Royal Soc.) 167 585 These two bars..are evidently..non-functional, the labials being..the working jaws.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. xviii. 301 The embryonic or non-functional period.
1997 Navy News July 10 (advt.) In presentation box with..a guide to piping. Beware non-functional and untuneable imitations.
non-generic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndʒᵻˈnɛrɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑndʒəˈnɛrɪk/
ΚΠ
1929 Mind 38 436 Propositions of the kind ‘x has some character of the kind f’, where a character of the kind f would be a non-generic character.
1996 H. Marks Mr Nice (1998) i. 10 Non-generic coffee, stamps and cigarettes.
non-geometric adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndʒiːəˈmɛtrɪk/
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1911 Amer. Math. Monthly 18 183 The foregoing non-geometric solution is given to show the advantage sometimes resulting from the introduction of vectors in..geometric problems.
1933 Man 33 63 One complete and one fragmentary microlith..of non-geometric form.
1991 C. B. Boyer & U. C. Merzbach Hist. Math. (ed. 2) xi. 183 Diophantus has had a greater influence on modern number theory than any other nongeometric Greek algebraist.
non-geometrical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndʒiːəˈmɛtrᵻkl/
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1856 H. F. Brownson tr. J. L. Balmes Fund. Philos. xiv. 91 From non-geometrical ideas alone we could not get so much as the idea of a right line.
1936 Mind 45 466 Some non-geometrical kind of analysis.
1988 Pattern Recognition 28 75 The algorithm can be easily extended to incorporate other geometrical or non-geometrical object attributes.
non-grammatical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɡrəˈmatᵻkl/
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1888 Mod. Lang. Notes 3 144/2 A verbal construction peculiar to Spanish grammar, the signification of which is neither non-grammatical nor non-logical.
1991 Amer. Speech 66 4 The same pattern repeats when we compare—stress, the second-strongest constraint, with nongrammatical [d], the third strongest constraint.
non-gravid adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡravɪd/
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1854 J. C. Peters Treat. Dis. Married Females 18 It [sc. the pulse] is often harder and more full than in the non-gravid state.
1961 L. C. Martin Clin. Endocrinol. (ed. 3) i. 15 Oxytocin has little or no effect either upon the non-gravid human uterus.
1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 259 Figure 1 illustrates the frequency distribution of the size of non-gravid snakes used for the cross-sectional analysis.
non-gravitational adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɡravᵻˈteɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒnɡravᵻˈteɪʃən(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒŋɡravᵻˈteɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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1902 Science 7 Mar. 391/1 The recent views advanced by Lord Kelvin that the ether is imponderable or non-gravitational matter.
1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 33/1 The number of bodies in each class increases with decreasing size, until nongravitational forces (e.g., Poynting–Robertson drag, Yarkovsky effect) begin to significantly deplete the population.
non-habitual adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhəˈbɪtʃʊəl/
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/ˌnɒnhəˈbɪtʃ(ᵿ)l/
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/ˌnɒnhəˈbɪtjʊəl/
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1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 539 The display of cunning in non-habitual manners.
1990 Acad. of Managem. Rev. 15 323/2 Charting how and when people use nonhabitual, creative ways to frame and resolve those issues.
non-haemolytic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhiːməˈlɪtɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌhiməˈlɪdɪk/
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ΚΠ
1903 Science 3 July 6/2 Ricin..is non-hæmolytic, and..produces extensive extravasation of corpuscles into the serous membranes.
1946 Nature 31 Aug. 294/1 It is non-hæmolytic and does not produce any pyrogenic effect on intramuscular injection in man.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) x. 152 Strains of streptococci are arbitrarily divided into those which are alpha-hemolytic, those which are beta-hemolytic, and those which are nonhemolytic.
non-harmonious adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhɑːˈməʊnɪəs/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌhɑrˈmoʊniəs/
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1657 Rec. Dingwall in W. Mackay Rec. Presbyteries Inverness & Dingwall (1896) 291 The nonharmonious concurrence of the parochiners to that transplantatione.
1922 Philos. Rev. 31 409 Under the imperfect conditions of a non-harmonious social order, it is simply the least bad thing for the individual.
1995 New Yorker 13 Nov. 127 Jen's dad and her ‘non-harmonious’ friend Penny join them for the air-cooled ride.
non-heroic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhᵻˈrəʊɪk/
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1654 P. English Surv. Policy 56 Codrus and his posterity..were but of an ordinary and non-heroick temper.
1804 J. Sayers (title) The foundling-chapel brawl, a non-heroic ballad.
1996 Orlando Sentinel (Nexis) 1 Sept. Twelve O'Clock high is one of the first films to look at the air war of World War II from a nonheroic standpoint.
non-historical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhɪˈstɒrᵻkl/
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1840 W. H. Mill Observ. i. 118 The same non-historical region of philosophical myth.
1896 W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. ix. 508 A metaphysical analysis of the world must naturally always be taken in a timeless or ideal (non-historical) sense.
1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 536 Let us..discuss which epistemology would be most beneficial concerning religion, something which may be required to prevent non-historical factors from influencing historical judgment.
non-ideological adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌɪdɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/
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1937 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 162 Any synthesis postulates ‘nonideological’ knowledge rather than multiple social determination.
1999 New Yorker 11 Jan. 89 A remarkably nonideological critic, Giddins has long demonstrated a passion for jazz in all its guises.
non-illusory adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪˈl(j)uːs(ə)ri/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻˈlus(ə)ri/
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1909 Philos. Rev. 18 20 Change..in a perfect being, might rightly be regarded as change in pure or non-illusory time.
1991 J. Russell in R. Tallis & H. Robinson Pursuit of Mind ii. 46 In another experiment one of the pair had a non-illusory view; for example he or she had portholes of plane glass.
non-imitative adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪmᵻtətɪv/
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1875 Galaxy June 841/2 The non-imitative character of music.
1973 Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 123 145 The reinforced group emitted significant [sic] more physical, verbal, and nonimitative aggression than the nonreinforced group.
2000 Cambr. Compan. Singing xi. 134 After a clear cadence a second section of imitative or non-imitative counterpoint begins.
non-independent adj. (and n.)
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪndᵻˈpɛnd(ə)nt/
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1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic 208 When the form..is not reflected into self it is equivalent to the negative of the phenomenon, to the non-independent and changeable.
1965 G. E. Hughes & D. G. Londey Elements Formal Logic xviii. 131 A4..can be proved from the other axioms... We express this fact by saying that A4 is a non-independent axiom.
1998 Jrnl. Conflict Resol. 42 752 I decided to merge them into a single crisis to reduce the risks of including nonindependent observations in the data set.
non-indigenous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈdɪdʒᵻnəs/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈdɪdʒənəs/
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1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Mar. 255/2 No nation..ever passed from any condition which history..calls ‘uncivilised’.. to a civilised character, except by the introduction of ‘the arts of civilised life’ from an extraneous or non-indigenous source.
1894 C. Dixon (title) The nests and eggs of non-indigenous British birds.
2000 Sydney Morning Herald 31 May 18/3 160 years of warfare..raged within its borders, leaving a maximum of 2,000 non-indigenous and a minimum of 20,000 indigenous Australians dead.
non-individual adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪndᵻˈvɪdʒʊəl/
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/ˌnɒnɪndᵻˈvɪdʒ(ᵿ)l/
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/ˌnɒnɪndᵻˈvɪdjʊəl/
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1872 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 488/2 The labor is like that of a vast manufactory, mostly done by machinery, and altogether non-individual.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent vii. 128 Men, dark, collective men, non-individual.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Oct. d7/2 The proposed Constitution has..been one of the world's first documents to identify and deal with both individual and non-individual needs.
non-Indo-European adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪndəʊjʊərəˈpiːən/
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/ˌnɒnɪndəʊjɔːrəˈpiːən/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪndoʊˌjərəˈpiən/
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1874 H. Bendall tr. A. Schleicher Compar. Gram. i. 80 Through the influence of the non-Indo-Eur. langg. spoken by Dravidian (Dekhanic) peoples.
1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. ii. v. 251 A residue of untraced words which have led some scholars..to postulate a non-Indo-European strain in the early vocabulary.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Apr. 61/1 Rivaling Basque genes in distinctiveness is the Basque language, the only native non-Indo-European tongue spoken in Europe (except for the recently arrived Finno-Ugric languages).
non-industrial adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈdʌstrɪəl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈdəstriəl/
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1856 S. F. Haven Archæology U.S. 132 The hunter and non-industrial tribes of the present area of the United States..have left but little that is entitled to historical respect.
1990 Carcinogenesis 11 1399/2 Ordinary healthy inhabitants of non-industrial environments.
non-inferential adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnfəˈrɛnʃl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪnfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl/
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1878 Mind 3 442 No degree of..analysis..can change its essential character as motion. This..gives it a high degree of non-inferential immediacy.
1998 Philos. Rev. 107 645 Pain requires both having a state with phenomenal character and a (spontaneous and non-inferential) evaluation of that state as representing harm to the body.
non-inflectional adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈflɛkʃn̩(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒnɪnˈflɛkʃən(ə)l/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈflɛkʃ(ə)nəl/
(also non-inflexional)
ΚΠ
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxv. 509 Had no Norman ever set foot on our shores, the inflexional Old-English would still have passed, sooner or later, into the non-inflexional modern English.
1937 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 16 C crosses every line through P, including the tangent at P, unless this tangent is non-inflectional.
1979 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 8 366 The nonalphabetic orthography or the noninflectional morphology.
2001 China Rev. Internat. (Nexis) 22 Mar. Chinese is a non-inflectional language.
non-inherent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈhɛrənt/
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/ˌnɒnɪnˈhɛrn̩t/
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/ˌnɒnɪnˈhɪərənt/
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/ˌnɒnɪnˈhɪərn̩t/
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1894 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 3 42 Violations of the fiscal principles often arise solely from incidental or non-inherent causes.
1991 Word 42 297 When applied to sentences such as ‘They kissed passionately’ and ‘He treats her properly’, this criterion of inherent and non-inherent roles seems to run into difficulties akin to those of structural essentiality.
non-initial adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪˈnɪʃl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻˈnɪʃəl/
ΚΠ
1891 Mod. Lang. Notes 6 233/2 Words in which non-initial u, ue..represent [etc.].
1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. ii. 286 He gives substitution by AS. i, y, or e in all cases, apparently not considering Pr.W. stressed ï in non-initial syllables.
1994 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 122 392 It is sufficient that, for each noninitial object X ∈ |C|, the unique map X → 1 is an epimorphism.
non-insightful adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈsʌɪtf(ᵿ)l/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈsaɪtf(ə)l/
ΚΠ
1935 Science 26 July 87/2 The relative merits of mechanical or non-insightful methods and of thoughtful or insightful methods in learning arithmetic.
1962 Listener 20 Sept. 436/2 The differences between insightful and non-insightful problem-solving behaviour.
2001 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 31 Oct. The Tourist Board and Arts Council published glossy but non-innovative, non-insightful bumf about cultural tourism.
non-intellectual adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪntᵻˈlɛktʃʊəl/
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/ˌnɒnɪntᵻˈlɛktʃ(ᵿ)l/
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/ˌnɒnɪntᵻˈlɛktjʊəl/
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/ˌnɒnɪntᵻˈlɛktjᵿl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪn(t)əˈlɛk(t)ʃ(əw)əl/
ΚΠ
1649 W. Charleton tr. J. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 136 Which Climax, or three-fold degree of Non-intellectuall cognition, is more manifest in the most stupid sorts of Insects, as also in Fooles and Mad men.
1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 276/2 These portions of the brain include some of Gall's best established organs;..and if they prove to be non-intellectual, Phrenology loses of its ancient domain.
1981 ‘A. Cross’ Death in Faculty ix. 109 She was a nurse and not an academic, and was thus..presumably womanly and nonintellectual.
non-intuitive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈtjuːᵻtɪv/
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/ˌnɒnɪnˈtʃuːᵻtɪv/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈt(j)uədɪv/
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1856 H. F. Brownson tr. J. L. Balmes Fund. Philos. 118 Ideas purely intellectual, either intuitive or non-intuitive.
1981 Icarus 47 220 The nonintuitive dynamical environment of Phobos and Deimos.
non-ionizable adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈʌɪənʌɪzəbl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈaɪəˌnaɪzəb(ə)l/
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1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 73 109 The error..had arisen from applying conceptions drawn from the behaviour of electrolytes, or ionisable compounds, to non-electrolytes, or non-ionisable compounds.
1936 A. Lowy & B. Harrow Introd. Org. Chem. (ed. 4) Introd. i. 9 Remember that the halogen in organic combinations is mainly in a non-ionizable form.
1974 D. Nicholls Inorg. Complexes i. 4 The chloride ions precipitated by silver nitrate are known as the ionizable chlorides, while those not precipitated are the non-ionizable chlorides.
2002 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 31 Jan. f5 Manufacturers and researchers alike, in desperation to solve the taste problem, have added metal chelators..or used other non-ionizable zinc compounds.
non-Irish adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈʌɪrɪʃ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈaɪrɪʃ/
ΚΠ
1854 Spectator 18 Nov. 1204/2 It is not true..that any large proportion of the land of Ireland has been alienated to non-Irish purchasers.
1996 M. T. Krause in A. R. Becker Visions of Fantastic x. 78 The occurrence of Samhain and St. Martin's feast day on the same date could also explain the reverence of the Irish for a non-Irish saint who never set foot in Ireland.
non-isomorphic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌɪsə(ʊ)ˈmɔːfɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌaɪsəˈmɔrfɪk/
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/ˌnɑnˌaɪsoʊˈmɔrfɪk/
ΚΠ
1900 Ann. Math. 1 147 (title) Two non-isomorphic simple groups of the same order 20, 160.
1990 Proc. London Math. Soc. 61 498 It is possible to construct arbitrarily large (finite) sets of [formula] groups which are pairwise non-isomorphic, yet have identical families of finite quotients.
non-isotropic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌɪsə(ʊ)ˈtrɒpɪk/
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/ˌnɒnʌɪsə(ʊ)ˈtrəʊpɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌaɪsəˈtrɑpɪk/
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/ˌnɑnˌaɪsoʊˈtrɑpɪk/
ΚΠ
1888 Proc. Royal Soc. 44 214 This paper treats of elastic solids of various non-isotropic kinds.
1962 D. R. Corson & P. Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields viii. 305 They are valid for nonhomogenous, nonlinear and even for nonisotropic media.
1995 Hearing Res. 87 187 Although the responses were non-isotropic, increases in thickness were highly correlated with increases in volume.
non-issuable adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪʃ(j)ʊəbl/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈɪs(j)ʊəbl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɪʃ(j)uəb(ə)l/
ΚΠ
1860 J. J. S. Wharton Law-lexicon (ed. 2) Non issuable pleas, those upon which a decision would not determine the action upon the merits, as a plea in abatement.
1940 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) (Lexis) 34 748 The Government moves to strike out alleged non-issuable allegations.
2001 Hindu (Nexis) 11 Sept. Against the total stock of about 14 lakh tonnes, nearly 1.25 lakh tonnes of rice was non-issuable.
non-kosher adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkəʊʃə/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkəʊʃə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkoʊʃər/
ΚΠ
1919 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 2/4 By the sale of ‘nonkosher’ meat as ‘kosher’, it is estimated that the public is being overcharged $2,426,000 a year.
1937 Econometrica 5 266 Food prices were compared as between Kosher and non-Kosher stores in Minneapolis.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. iii. iii. 317 The Cabinet has capitulated to the rabbis and no non-kosher meat will be imported into Israel.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes iii. 34/2 Scales may be microscopic and embedded as in freshwater eels (Anguillidae), which led to their being classified as nonkosher because of the supposed absence of scales.
non-lactescent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnlakˈtɛsnt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌlækˈtɛsənt/
ΚΠ
1835 G. T. Burnett Outl. Bot. II. 1091 (table) Begoniaceæ. Non-lactescent, inf. winged ovary, indef. seeds.
1960 Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica Suppl. No. 261. 20/2 Seven sera and seven non-lactescent ascitic fluids were submitted to determination of the total protein content by each of the two methods.
1984 J.-L. Lamarque Atlas & Text of Breast xii. 444/2 (heading) Non-lactescent discharge.
2000 Mycologia Nov.–Dec. 1126/2 Russula campinensis is recognized..by the small, white, usually dimidiate basodiomata that are non-lactescent and acrid-tasting when fresh.
non-lexical adj.
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1889 Notes & Queries 26 Oct. 325 Archdoltes: Foolesophers.—These words which, so far as I have been able to examine, are both non-lexical, occur in the same sentence.
1951 J. Ullmann Princ. Semantics ii. 107 Multiple meaning—which includes a number of non-lexical elements, comprises everything running counter to ‘monosemy’ in the language system.
1971 Archivum Linguisticum 2 131 The terms Pre-article and Post-article can be used when talking about arrangements of non-lexical formatives in surface structure.
1995 G. W. Humphreys & R. Bradbury in C. Hollin Contemp. Psychol. ii. 30 The development of a non-lexical, phonological reading process may be crucial also in the development of a visual-lexical reading process.
non-linguistic adj.
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1909 Science 8 Oct. 460/2 The second need is that of more efficient methods of teaching, particularly in non-linguistic subjects.
1927 Mod. Philol. Nov. 217 An ear trained to other languages will hear differences between the [t]'s of [tik, stik, botr, bit] which are not distinctive, that is, in English non-linguistic.
1993 Appl. Linguistics 14 94 The non-linguistic context of situation has not been considered in disambiguating utterances.
non-literary adj.
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1850 Examiner 5 Jan. 2/2 A disposition to pay court to the non-literary class by disparaging his literary fellow-labourers.
1889 Granta 17 May 9/1 To a non-literary man, like myself, the post of Editor offered temptations well-nigh irresistible.
a1943 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 258 Non-literary sources, such as coins and inscriptions.
1991 Amer. Speech 66 258 He discusses a number of borderline usages which are currently in vogue in nonliterary German and not yet accepted in standard grammars.
non-luminous adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈl(j)uːmᵻnəs/
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1825 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 115 187 The heating effect emanating from luminous hot bodies has been..shown to be..very different from that evolved from non-luminous sources.
1893 Dublin Rev. July 653 The wick of the lamp has to be pulled down until the flame becomes pale and non-luminous.
1993 Sci. Amer. Jan. 13/1 Many astronomers have speculated that the mass in the outer parts of galaxies may be hidden in such nonluminous bodies as free-ranging planets..and black holes.
non-malarious adj.
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1853 J. Laurie Elem. Homoeopathic Pract. Physic (ed. 2) 522 (heading) Non-malarious congestive fever.
1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xiii. 454 Most of the migrating humans either came from nonmalarious regions and had no immunity or were moving between areas inhabited by distinctly different strains.
non-manual adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmanjʊəl/
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1912 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 26 281 The income limit for non-manual workers.
1956 J. E. Floud Social Class i. i. 7 In South West Hertfordshire the non-manual occupations are much better represented.
2000 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 11/2 Grandparenthood came around four years earlier for those from manual social groups compared with those from non-manual groups.
non-marine adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnməˈriːn/
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1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age 283 The absence of fossils is not sufficient to prove the non-marine origin of a deposit.
1946 Nature 31 Aug. 299/1 The non-marine Lamellibranchs have become of extreme economic importance in the correlation of seams in British and Continental coalfields.
1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 16/1 At least two yards were building ships ‘on spec’, and others were taking non-marine work.
non-measurable adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmɛʒ(ə)rəbl/
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1897 Mind 6 336 With the..measurable..quantities of mathematics, this purely psychical, non-measurable, indivisible intensity has nothing whatever to do.
1920 A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravitation 4 What you are comparing it with is not some non-measurable ideal of length, but some attainable, or at least approachable, ideal of material constitution.
1992 Operation Forestry Northwest June 37/1 Continual testing..has revealed the presence of any dioxins and furans in finished products or final effluent to be non-measurable.
non-mechanical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnmᵻˈkanᵻkl/
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1851 Edinb. Rev. 94 257 The extraction of metals..and the many other non-mechanical arts.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 144 Language..has two aspects: physiological or mechanical, and psychological or non-mechanical.
2000 Irish World 2 June 10/4 You come to the bocage (copse) country, with hedged fields that still quite heavily rely on non-mechanical farming.
non-medical adj.
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1834 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. 8 818 The most important facts of the human organization, explained in a manner peculiarly well suited..even to non-medical readers.
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch ii. xviii. 133 To non-medical friends they had already concurred in praising the other young practitioner.
1990 Which? May 250/3 The heart muscle..is starved of oxygen and permanently damaged. That process is called a ‘myocardial infarction’—in non-medical terms, a heart attack.
non-Mendelian adj.
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1902 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity p. xiii Non-Mendelian phenomena.
1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 103 It almost seems as if no biologist in recent years had been interested in any non-Mendelian aspect of heredity.
1989 Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 46 1139/2 For diseases that are nonmendelian, these criteria should not be diminished.
non-mentalistic adj.
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1922 Jrnl. Philos. 19 569 Consistency gets an objective, non-mentalistic meaning when it is understood to mean capacity for integration of different responses in a single more comprehensive behaviour.
1936 Language 12 95 Now let us re-word the statement in non-mentalistic terms.
1996 Philos. Q. 46 246 He nowhere explains, in non-mentalistic terms, how semantics gets into the picture in the first place.
non-metabolizable adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnmᵻˈtabəlʌɪzəbl/
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1955 Amer. Naturalist 89 173 The use of versenes as non-metabolizable solubilizing complex-formers in culture media is described.
1962 R. van Heyningen in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism 400 The interconversion of sugars..can, in certain micro-organisms, enable the incorporation into a major metabolic pathway of an otherwise non-metabolizable sugar.
1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) xx. 380/2 The stimulating effects of nonmetabolizable sugars such as galactose.
non-metaphorical adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective] > literal
unfigured1577
unmetaphorical1641
unrhetorical1680
literal1690
unfigurative1780
uncaricatured1880
non-metaphorical1941
1941 Mind 50 173 His main aim here is to distinguish metaphor from non-metaphorical language.
1997 Amer. Lit. 69 613 An unsophisticated discourse that is deliberately clumsy, emotional, and nonmetaphorical.
non-metaphysical adj.
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1847 Littell's Living Age 16 Jan. 97/2 Mr. Hunt then sketches his own simple, non-metaphysical plan.
1892 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic (ed. 2) 66 In these material, non-metaphysical surroundings, thought is free.
1998 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 57 825 Hansen is particularly concerned to interpret the Daoists as nonmetaphysical in temperament.
non-metrical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmɛtrᵻkl/
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1867 Fraser's Mag. 75 525/1 It is in the very nature of Prose to be non-metrical.
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 33 319 This condition is the non-metrical equivalent of a condition stated by G. Ascoli in the usual metric terms.
1933 A. N. Whitehead Adventures of Ideas viii. 142 Geometry, developed in this fashion, has been termed ‘Non-metrical Projective Geometry’.
1993 Lang. & Lit. (BNC) 2 This view..has meant that the study of non-metrical verse and of rhythmic prose has been neglected.
non-mimetic adj.
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1898 Science 1 Apr. 437/2 The sexes are alike and non-mimetic.
1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 290 Farce, being a non-mimetic form of comedy, has a natural place in the masque.
1991 Lancet 9 Mar. 599/1 (title) Absence of tonic electromyographic activity during sleep in normal and spastic nonmimetic skeletal muscles in man.
non-minimal adj.
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1911 Ann. Math. 13 18 The general problem of the congruence of non-minimal curves is stated.
1942 Language 18 19 Non-minimal contrasts are those involving more than a single determining feature.
1999 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 107 111 In principle, workers could also exhibit a cooperative behavior by choosing nonmimimal (i.e., more costly) effort levels.
non-missionary adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmɪʃn̩(ə)ri/
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1855 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Feb. 17 Have greater rights been allowed to the missionary applicants than to non-missionary applicants?
1875 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop IV. 317 I had divided the six great religions of the world into Missionary and non-Missionary.
2001 Independent (Nexis) 12 Dec. His non-missionary mission had begun in a POW camp where he had no pulpit to protect him.
non-modal adj.
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a1856 W. Turnbull Discuss. Philos. & Lit. (1861) 624 The pure or non-modal proposition,..altogether different from the predication of actuality.
1928 H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng.: Pt. 1 (ed. 2) I. i. 37 Also non-modal may is frequently attended by emotional perhaps.
1992 Mind 101 117 If they also accepted a non-modal version of (EP) and also restricted the comprehension axiom for second-order logic.., then they could parallel his representation of proper classes as ‘sets’ in richer models.
non-molecular adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnməˈlɛkjᵿlə/
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1889 Proc. Royal Soc. 1888–9 45 4 A gas, which..obeys all the laws of an ideal non-molecular gas filling all space.
1965 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. I. vi. 193 Most non-molecular solids give this type of spectrum, but salts do not.
1991 D. T. Sawyer Oxygen Chem. i. 16 Much of the older literature has treated the enzymology of O2 and HOOH activation in nonmolecular terms.
non-monetary adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmʌnᵻt(ə)ri/
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1889 R. Giffen 19th Cent. Nov. 864 The precious metals..have an extensive non-monetary use.
1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iv. 133 A non-monetary economy does provide for a great deal of direct matching of goods and services.
1999 Bingo Link Oct. 6/3 Electronic and other non-monetary payment methods to be permitted.
non-monotonic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/
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1915 Ann. Math. 17 50 B(t), being supposed non-monotonic, will have either a maximum or a minimum.
1988 European Sociol. Rev. 4 101 These assumptions imply that the founding rate is a nonmonotonic function of density.
non-motile adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈməʊtʌɪl/
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1887 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. K. Goebel Outl. Classif. Plants 83 The non-motile cells are the result of abjunction.
1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) vii. 593 In true heterogamous forms the macrogamete becomes a large, non-motile cell.
1993 Guardian 30 July 6/7 Doctors..say this is the first reported case of pregnancy occurring with ‘non-motile’ sperm.
non-musical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmjuːzᵻkl/
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1859 C. Mackay Life & Liberty in Amer. 298 England, erroneously and stupidly said to be a non-musical country.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xvi. 421 Music gives us ontological messages which non-musical criticism is unable to contradict.
2001 Independent 9 Aug. (Educ. Plus section) 2/5 Britten has been puffed by an intellectual establishment for largely nonmusical reasons.
non-mystical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmɪstᵻkl/
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1885 Cent. Mag. Jan. 327/2 The simple, severe, non-mystical rites of the Presbyterian faith.
1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 71/2 Rather than stifling his work, this relatively freethinking and nonmystical religion seems to help it.
non-nasal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈneɪzl/
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1879 W. D. Whitney Sanskrit Gram. 50 Before another non-nasal mute or before a sibilant.
1987 Science 8 May 670/1 The production of a range of non-nasal vowel sounds.
non-Nazi adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈnɑːtsi/
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1932 N.Y. Times 13 Mar. 24/4 In the Nazi-governed town of Coburg, the Bavarian Minister of the Interior placed a non-Nazi commissioner at the head of the police forces.
1995 Hist. Jrnl. 38 227 Non-Nazi conservative judges strongly favoured ‘protective law’ to ‘purge society’.
non-negligible adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈnɛɡlᵻdʒᵻbl/
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1915 Mod. Lang. Notes 30 224/1 If by ‘irregular verb’ we understand any verb showing non-negligible variations in its stem, [etc.].
1957 L. Fox Numerical Solution Two-point Boundary Probl. vii. 180 This involves..a non-negligible difference correction in the finite-difference equations.
1998 Materials World 6 236/1 It is a non-negligible producer of iron ore, copper and nickel.
non-negotiable adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒ(n)nᵻˈɡəʊʃ(ɪ)əbl/
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1859 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation (ed. 2) 175/2 A distinction is had between negotiable and non-negotiable instruments.
1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ix. 177 In the higher animals, the living capital is locked up in non-negotiable forms to a much greater extent.
2001 New Republic 15 Jan. 34/2 The city council's Black and Hispanic Caucus released its non-negotiable demands. But Giuliani refused to budge.
non-nitrogenous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒ(n)nʌɪˈtrɒdʒᵻnəs/
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1843 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 439 The constitution and properties of the non-nitrogenous constituents of the organic matter in soils.
1873 C. H. Ralfe Outl. Physiol. Chem. p. xv Non-nitrogenous fatty acids.
1946 Nature 26 Oct. 588/2 A much larger proportion of non-nitrogenous material is also dispersed into the solution.
1988 Indian Jrnl. Animal Sci. 58 388 Digestible non-nitrogenous nutrients.
non-noxious adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈnɒkʃəs/
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1892 Science 20 38 If we exclude from Professor Halsted's list all obscure and non-noxious species we shall have left about 150 species of weed-plant.
1966 Economist 17 Dec. 1216/1 The companies, while energetically pushing the sales of non-noxious cigars, are no longer overtly encouraging people to smoke more cigarettes.
2002 Diabetes (Nexis) 1 Apr. 1214 The inability of skin microcirculation in diabetic patients to respond normally to injury..and even to nonnoxious stimulation..may be an important factor in the development of ulceration.
non-null adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈnʌl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑ(n)ˈnəl/
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1890 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 12 362 A non-null matrix.
1958 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 88 144 A class M of non-null subsets of M.
1999 Jrnl. Labor Econ. 17 528 λmax is the largest nonnull eigenvalue of L2/ 1.
non-numeric adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒ(n)njuːˈmɛrɪk/
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1910 Philos. Rev. 19 90 This question M. Reymond hopes to answer by setting up a distinction between numeric and non-numeric classes.
1991 New Scientist 30 Nov. 27/1 The chip..is a very fast coprocessor designed specifically to handle non-numeric data.
non-numerical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒ(n)njuːˈmɛrᵻkl/
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/ˌnɒ(n)njᵿˈmɛrᵻkl/
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1870 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 39 207 Neither being multiplied into the other or into any differential or other non-numerical coefficient.
1999 Stud. Family Planning 30 343/1 13 gave an estimate that was too high,..and 12 did not remember or gave a nonnumerical response.
non-nutritious adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒ(n)njuːˈtrɪʃəs/
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1846 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. iv. 280 The attempt to allay the pangs of hunger by filling the stomach with non-nutritious substances.
1902 Amer. Naturalist 36 95 The pods are emptied of their seeds and the leaves are evidently thrown away as non-nutritious and useless.
1992 D. J. Mabberley Trop. Rain Forest Ecol. (ed. 2) 149 There are many species with non-nutritious seed appendages.
non-nutritive adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈnjuːtrᵻtɪv/
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1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 435 To swallow it, digest it, and return the non-nutritive parts back again by the same way.
1898 Bot. Gaz. 26 36 Glycerin is a non-nutritive substance for the moss-spores.
1983 M. G. Lindley in T. H. Grenby et al. Devel. Sweeteners—2 viii. 240 Non-nutritive sweeteners in carbonated beverages need to be carefully selected for flavour.
non-obese adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnə(ʊ)ˈbiːs/
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U.S. /ˌnɑn(ˌ)oʊˈbis/
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1937 Q. Rev. Biol. 12 89 The expected or standard metabolism of obese women can be calculated directly from the general equations used for the calculation of the metabolism of the non-obese.
1968 Metabolism 17 690 (title) Blood pyruvate and plasma glucose levels during oral and intravenous glucose tolerance tests in obese and non-obese women.
1992 Sci. Amer. Apr. 11/1 Human diabetics and nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice, a special laboratory strain that has a predisposition to develop the disease, appear to have abnormalities in their genes for MHC class II..proteins.
non-observational adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɒbzəˈveɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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1931 Science 27 Feb. 218/1 What is the method of science? In essence it is this—the rejection in toto of all non-observational and non-experimental authority in the field of experience.
1945 Mind 54 4 The theory [of matter] itself contains a large number of highly abstract, non-observational terms such as ‘atom’, ‘electron’, ‘nucleus’, ‘dissociation’.
1996 Philos. Rev. 105 457 To fix the meanings of (nonobservational) sentences.
non-officinal adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɒfᵻˈsiːnl/
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/ˌnɒnəˈfɪsᵻnl/
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ΚΠ
1852 N.Y. Jrnl. Pharmacy 1 292 I have detected in most of the sulphate of quinine lately imported from abroad, more or less of this non-officinal, and..non-efficient substance yclept quinidine.
1929 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 23 Suppl. 140 All preparations officinal and non-officinal..containing more than 0.2 per cent. of morphine.
2000 B. Fugmann et al. RÖMPP Encycl. Nat. Prod. (2014) (e-book ed.) at Cinchona alkaloids The non-officinal ‘yellow bark’ of C.calisaya is used for the technical isolation of C.a.
non-operational adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɒpəˈreɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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1891 Philos. Trans. 1890 (Royal Soc.) A. 181 489 By ‘symbolic’ is to be understood ‘non-operational’, as in what is commonly known as the ‘symbolic’ form of Taylor's Theorem.
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 63 The C.M.E. has passed me ‘fit for non-operational flying at home’. And the Blitz has started!
1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) xiv. 282 He was fed intravenously during this period since his gagging and swallowing reflexes were non-operational.
non-optimal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɒptᵻml/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɑptəm(ə)l/
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1920 Science 31 Dec. 616/2 High temperatures and therefore non-optimal conditions of growth.
1975 Language 51 528 Much in language is non-optimal for purposes of communicating cognitive information.
1998 Water & Waste Treatm. June 20/2 Incomplete understanding of these flows can result in non-optimal designs, inefficient operation and reduced reliability.
non-orthogonal adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɔːˈθɒɡənl/
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1927 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 114 41 A certain intrinsic angular velocity of rotation of the stress axes which in non-orthogonal fields is present superposed on the rotation produced by the motion of the tubes.
1969 Jrnl. Inst. Navigation 22 377 The effect that really hits you is the effect of getting the input axes of the various gyros non-orthogonal to the rotation axis.
2001 Jrnl. Pressure Vessel Technol. 123 517 The method employs a body-fitted, nonorthogonal grid system to accommodate the pipe wall.
non-parasitic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnparəˈsɪtɪk/
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1835 V. Audouin in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 202/2 In the non-parasitic species [of arachnids].
1901 Daily Chron. 30 Oct. 3/4 The Platyhelminthes include ‘liver flukes’ and ‘tape-worms’, besides non-parasitic creatures devoid of a vernacular name.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xiii. 200/2 Lampreys... Fecundity varies from about 1000 eggs in nonparasitic species to a few hundred thousand in the larger parasitic species.
non-perceptual adj.
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1897 Mind 6 140 Most non-perceptual magnitudes are indivisible.
1963 P. Gardiner Schopenhauer ii. 52 Attempts to describe or explain the physical world in non-perceptual terms.
1996 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 56 329 Any state which is apprehended as a revival of a previous perceptual experience is ipso facto felt as non-perceptual.
non-perfective adj.
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1962 B. M. H. Strang Mod. Eng. Struct. viii. 142 Thus, he is eating is non-interrogative, non-negative, non-passive, non-perfective, but is durative.
1973 Archivum Linguisticum 4 34 The behaviour of transitive verbs in non-perfective sentences is exactly parallel to that of intransitive verbs in both perfective and non-perfective sentences.
non-pertinent adj.
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c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 47 (MED) Of a precious cloth I am a-schamed, for it is non-pertinent to our profession, ne conuenient to my white herys.
1901 S. E. Mezes Ethics, Descriptive & Explanatory 376 If a man is not benevolent, brave, and temperate..pertinent considerations will be overlooked, non-pertinent considerations will be held to, and possibly from both directions errors will arise.
1999 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. i. 28/6 A ‘sterile cockpit,’ with all non-pertinent conversation eliminated below 10,000 feet.
non-phallic adj.
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1906 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 11 622 The dedication of women to non-phallic deities would be more apt to lead..to religious celibacy.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. 13 Mar. (1932) 711 I feel one still has to fight for the phallic reality, as against the non-phallic cerebration unrealities.
1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. i. 67 The same situation is..suggested by the unarmed and non-phallic human figures.
non-phenomenal adj.
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1856 Biblical Repertory Jan. 106 It is indispensable to this scheme to deny the existence of any necessary truths. To concede it, would be to concede the knowledge of non-phenomenal entities.
1879 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 94 Such relations, represented as non-phenomenal entities, become thus the bête noire and pet aversion of many thinkers.
1996 Jrnl. Philos. 93 423 It is precisely a conception of states like belief as nonphenomenal, functional states which has led to the idea that there might be zombies.
non-philosophical adj.
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1858 F. B. Wilkie Davenport, Past & Present 10 These facts..will sufficiently interest non-philosophical readers, without a strict enquiry into their rationale.
a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) xvi. 243 Only the older utilitarianism..has any sympathy with this non-philosophical spirit.
1965 Language 41 511 A nonphilosophical writer like Euripides.
1998 Polit. Theory 26 815 This banalization risks a double alienation: both from a philosophical audience..and from the nonphilosophical audience of the ‘folks at home’.
non-phonemic adj.
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1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. ix. 147 Non-phonemic, gesture-like features may become fairly fixed.
1990 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 19 426 Nonphonemic vowel nasalization in Yokuts..serves a variety of functions.
non-phonetic adj.
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1848 C. H. Cottrell tr. C. C. J. Bunsen Egypt's Place I. 496 The Ideographics comprise all non-phonetic signs.
1964 Archivum Linguisticum 16 43 The main non-phonetic or non-French features of the graphie occitane.
1997 J. Diamond Guns, Germs & Steel xii. 220 The earliest Sumerian writing consisted of nonphonetic logograms.
non-pickable adj.
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1852 L. F. Allen Rural Archit. 378 Neither Chubbs' nor Hobbs' non-pickable locks were then invented.
1893 Manufacturer & Builder Nov. 260/2 For non-pickable locks, the ‘Jackson’ night-latch.
1946 Catal. Copyright Entries Index for 1945 New Ser. 40 iv. 300/1 Non-pickable lock and safety hinge.
2013 S. Blackman Beginning 3D Game Devel. with Unity 4 xii. 468 Now that you've got the mouseover text up and running, you'll want to prevent those messages from showing up on the non-pickable objects as well.
non-poetic adj.
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1875 E. M. Hale Materia Medica (ed. 4) II. 219 This beautiful plant—the trailing Arbutus—..has been used for very non-poetic purposes.
1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. 250 In ordinary, non-poetic, non-imaginative experience.
1997 Renaissance Q. 50 280/2 The rewards that ‘close readings’ of a variety of texts—poetic and non-poetic, literary and non-literary—offer.
non-poisonous adj.
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1848 C. H. Meeker tr. ‘J. H. Rausse’ Misc. Graefenberg Water-cure 64 A poison, combined with a non-poisonous body or substance..can be..freed from the combination only by a chemical transformation of the substance with which it is combined.
1935 Discovery Nov. 316/1 White non-poisonous pigments.
2000 Guardian 18 Oct. i. 13/8 The intruder was, in fact, a non-poisonous corn snake.
non-polarizable adj.
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1874 Appleton's Jrnl. 7 Feb. 191/1 One of these leaves was so placed that its opposite ends should rest on non-polarizable electrodes.
1905 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 76 337 Place a piece of nerve as truly in a straight line as possible between non-polarisable electrodes.
1966 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. II. xxv. 243 (caption) Upper plot (type A) corresponds to a non-polarizable ligand, lower plot (type B) to a polarizable ligand.
1994 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91 9513/1 The use of a simple Debye potential requires the toxin to be rigid and nonpolarizable.
non-porous adj.
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1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance viii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 198/2 Her mind, apparently, was of that non-porous flinty character which is not in the least danger from surrounding damp.
1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding 116 The non-porous leathers need only be washed with thin paste water or vinegar.
1946 Nature 5 Oct. 475/1 Compact, non-porous sorbing media such as wool.
1992 Mech. Products & Tools July 1289/2 It has excellent unprimed adhesion to both porous and non-porous construction substrates.
non-predicative adj.
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1895 Mind 4 291 An intermediate proposition..which..seems to be itself as non-predicative as a proposition can be.
1906 B. Russell in Proc. London Math. Soc. 4 34 Norms..which do not define classes I propose to call non-predicative; those which do define classes I shall call predicative.
1998 Philos. Rev. 107 417 The proposition will not be about being, for it will not contain that concept in a subject (that is, non-predicative) position.
non-predictable adj.
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1917 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 23 104 Some allowance must also be made for some non-predictable variety in the offspring of hybrid parents.
1964 E. Palmer tr. A. Martinet Elements Gen. Linguistics iii. 88 An accent with a non-predictable position.
1996 S. J. Gould Life's Grandeur (1997) ii. 29 Darwin's revolution will be completed when we smash the pedestal of arrogance and own the plain implications of evolution for life's nonpredictable nondirectionality.
non-pregnant adj.
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1854 J. C. Peters Treat. Dis. Females: Disorders Menstruation 140 The cavity of a non-pregnant healthy womb will not contain more than 10 or 12 drops of fluid.
1946 Nature 26 Oct. 590/1 The sera studied were taken from umbilical blood, infants up to the age of eighteen months, and adults in the pregnant and non-pregnant state, as controls.
1989 Adverse Drug Reactions 8 199 Acute lower urinary tract infection in a non-pregnant woman is complicated by pyelitis.
non-prepositional adj.
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1904 H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. i. i. iii. 130 Both the objects are non-prepositional.
1933 M. Callaway Consecutive Subjunctive in Old Eng. i. 11 In the Lindisfarne Gospels we find few Consecutive Subjunctives Introduced by Non-prepositional Correlative Particles.
1997 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 29 489 Perhaps a deverbative of the nonprepositional form of Proto Savannah *-pfgik- ‘to fix into’.
non-prescriptive adj.
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1948 Jrnl. Philos. 45 150 It appears that this ground for a method is by no means non-prescriptive as supposed.
1992 Eng. Today Jan. 30/1 Standard English is not, technically speaking, ‘pure’. In a non-prescriptive way, though, we can say that it is a model of reference for foreigners.
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1649 W. Charleton tr. J. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 121 Man doth differ from God in substance no otherwise, then a part doth from the whole, or that which had beginning from that which is non-principiate.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Non-principiate, not having a beginning.
non-probable adj.
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1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 295 The petitio principii..consists in assuming..a non-probable principle as probable.
1934 Philos. Rev. 43 407 Propositions which are non-probable. i.e., which have, not zero probability, but indeed no probability at all.
1998 Nucl. News (Nexis) Oct. Preparedness could be enhanced by coming to terms with extreme or nonprobable scenarios.
non-professorial adj.
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1927 N.Y. Times 10 May 24/3 In non-professorial hours, it seems, he is inclined to run to French Canadians.
1969 H. Perkin Key Profession i. 15 Non-professorial tutors and lecturers.
1990 Dict. National Biogr. 1981–85 429/2 Witts, despite his own problems, realized those of the non-professorial staff and arranged a weekly meeting..to discuss matters of mutual interest.
non-progressive adj.
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1851 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 432 The non-progressive state of the oriental Indian mind presents itself.
1882 Cent. Mag. May 150/2 Equally silly and hastily formed opinions have been expressed by other non-progressive critics.
1950 B. Russell Unpop. Ess. ix. 166 Learning in Babylonia seems..to have become stereotyped and non-progressive.
1993 RES Feb. 89 The Wisse is non-progressive with no clear logical ascent to higher truth.
non-propositional adj.
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1906 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 205 472 (heading) Non-propositional functions.
1937 Mind 46 103 Of course, she could not discuss in detail the question of non-propositional truth in so short a volume.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 47/1 Churchland's insistence on the nonpropositional character of neural representation leads to a strange result.
non-psychological adj.
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1867 Catholic World Nov. 239 They begin their process..by analyzing the mind,..but they always include in their premises non-psychological elements.
1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. iii. 35 If I may be allowed to use the word assertion in a non-psychological sense.
1996 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 34 1295/1 More traditional economists pointed out the folly an impracticability of nonpsychological preference theory.
non-public adj.
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1892 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 3 160 Only those cases in which the act [of suicide] was committed by some secret and non-public method would go undetected and unreported.
1946 Nature 14 Sept. 381/2 Within the scope of non-public management lie such special fields as industrial administration, commercial or business administration, [etc.].
2000 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. a31/2 It enabled the Federal Trade Commission to curb the easy ‘redisclosure’ of nonpublic, personal information.
non-purposeful adj.
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1917 Mind 26 110 A distinction of adaptation into passive, i.e., non-purposeful.., and again active, i.e., purposeful.
1990 Organization Sci. 1 123 Nonpurposeful bankruptcy, i.e., the filing of a chapter X and XI petition in the Federal bankruptcy courts when the filing was not a legal strategy to void onerous labor contracts.
non-purposive adj.
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1892 Amer. Naturalist 26 459 Many of our inherited organs are at present non-purposive, in some cases even harmful.
1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist i. 41 Apparently purposive structures could arise by means of a non-purposive mechanism.
1965 P. Caws Philos. of Sci. xl. 312 The goal itself may emerge from an originally nonpurposive activity.
non-quantitative adj.
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1887 Mind 12 595 If he reply ‘pleasure measured by a non-quantitative standard’, what is that standard, and by what faculty is it recognised?
1940 W. V. Quine Math. Logic 7 To the scientist longing for non-quantitative techniques,..mathematical logic brings hope.
1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) v. 81 His was an important approach..but I judged it too nonquantitative to guide..agricultural responses to future climate change.
non-reciprocal adj.
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1866 Sci. Amer. 31 Mar. 215/1 The writer calls attention to the non-reciprocal character of the Canadian patent system.
1903 Amer. Math. Monthly 10 221 Upon eliminating t, there results a non-reciprocal quartic for k.
1949 Mind 58 3 A ‘determining’ element which qualifies it in some non-reciprocal way.
1990 Protein Engin. 4 75/1 Data were fitted to the non-reciprocal forms of the following equations.
non-rectangular adj.
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1789 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 181 That which is rectangular, is shewn to be greater than that which is non-rectangular.
1917 Science 13 July 46/2 Electrical capacity of similar, non-parallel plane plates, and its application where the plates are non-rectangular.
1992 Workstation News Sept. 25/4 eXodus supports the shapes extension for drawing non-rectangular windows.
non-recurrent adj.
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1871 Appletons' Jrnl. 15 Apr. 444 What becomes of the enormous force thus apparently non-recurrent in the same form?
1935 B. Russell Relig. & Sci. ii. 45 What was unusual or non-recurrent was assigned directly to the will of God.
1992 Harper's Mag. Jan. 28/1 Cancer of the breast..if non-recurrent or requires lumpectomy: $75,000.
non-redundant adj.
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1920 Amer. Math. Monthly 27 20 It is essential that a system of axioms should be consistent with each other, and desirable that they be non-redundant, and complete.
1939 Mind 48 399 Russell long ago emphasised that Peano's axioms, for instance, could be satisfied in infinitely many ways by objects other than the integers. The same is true of all nonredundant sets of axioms.
1998 N.Y. Mag. 20 Apr. 29/1 USA Networks Studios executive vice-president Henry Schleiff claims the move is also to keep the product ‘fresh and nonredundant’.
non-refundable adj.
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1924 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 June 15/2 Their feelings were similar to those of an elderly school teacher who goes to a lecture on relativity, only to find herself, seat already paid for, non-refundable, in the wrong theatre with a burlesque show starting.
1974 N.Y. Times 27 May 1/1 The referral services charge nonrefundable advance fees of about $25 to $35 for their listings.
1999 Healing Arts Festival 1999 Programme 3/2 All tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
non-religious adj.
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1841 Biblical Repertory July 319 The authorities show with sufficient exactness the ground occupied by the non-religious party.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience viii. 176 In these non-religious cases the new man may also be born either gradually or suddenly.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 Nov. 79 (advt.) Divorced, non religious, Jewish-flavored math professor..seeking surfing companion.
non-representational adj.
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1923 Gramophone June 25/2 Music to assert itself has become representational; painting to assert itself has become non-representational.
1958 Times 20 Aug. 11/1 The non-representational third symphony.
1986 F. Spalding Brit. Art since 1900 iii. 68 While interest in non-representational art was prevalent, he briefly experimented with pure abstraction.
1999 Edinb. Student (Univ. of Edinb.) 18 Feb. (Review section) 2/3 If..you're someone who gets excited about non-representational art.
non-representative adj.
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1855 S. Bailey Lett. on Philos. Human Mind 212 Ideas of a non-representative character.
1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. 159 From Raphael..to Rembrandt..all degrees of participation between non-representative form and represented subject..can be found.
1991 Internat. Jrnl. Law & Family 5 259 Much of the existing research on divorce has employed small and often selected clinical or other non-representative samples.
non-reproducible adj.
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a1910 W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) v. 82 What I am contending for is that the non-reproducible part of reality is an essential part of the content of philosophy.
1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) ix. 135 Reports of sightings are ill-documented and anecdotal, which means they are based on single, nonreproducible events.
non-reproductive adj.
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1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) iii. 33 (heading) Non-reproductive or resinous trees.
1869 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 32 265 The non-reproductive sources of our material wealth, such as our minerals, are being very heavily drawn upon.
1910 Amer. Naturalist 44 319 The problem of the non-reproductive worker [ant] in relation to heredity is fully elucidated.
1990 Behavioral Ecol. 1 14/2 We analyze the contribution that hoarding makes to a bird's ability to survive during a nonreproductive period (such as winter).
non-respectable adj.
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1868 A. C. Swinburne W. Blake 132 François Villon and Aphra Behn, the two most inexpressibly non-respectable of male or female Bohemians.
1914 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 24 195 The ordinary realist..ignores those features and incidents of human nature which are conventionally regarded as non-respectable and even ignoble.
1996 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Soc. 2 326 Younger women are targets of the men's flirting... Their own flirting and non-‘respectable’ behaviour indicates to men that they would possibly be receptive to sexual advances.
non-respirable adj.
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1800 H. Davy Res. Nitrous Oxide iii. i. 334 Non-respirable gases are those, which when applied to the external organs of respiration, stimulate the muscles of the epiglottis in such a way as to keep it perfectly close on the glottis.
1853 V. Regnault Elem. Chem. 121 42 inches of mephitis or non-respirable air, and the 8 cubic inches of respirable air.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 7 Irritant gases have been classified as non-respirable and respirable.
1990 Woodworker July 670/3 Woodworking can create large quantities both of fine respirable dust, and larger non-respirable dust particles.
non-revolutionary adj.
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1867 J. A. Jameson Constit. Convent. 392 Cases in which Conventions have undertaken, in non-revolutionary times, by ordinance, to regulate matters of ordinary administration.
1908 Daily Chron. 4 May 3/3 If Socialism was to come in England,..it must needs have come in a slow, quiet, non-revolutionary, almost invisible way.
1991 J. Kingdom Local Govt. & Politics in Brit. xiv. 232 The Fabians..saw local government as an ideal vehicle for the gradual, non-revolutionary road to social and economic reform.
non-rigorous adj.
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1910 Philos. Rev. 19 463 Exact logical concepts apply to reality only in a relative and non-rigorous fashion.
1999 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 104 1168 Some scholars have viewed narrative as an underspecified and nonrigorous form of causal investigation.
non-routine adj.
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1899 Mind 8 463 Granted the existence and the importance of trends in the mind, we still know that they are the result of non-routine activity.
1994 Accountancy Sept. 147/1 (advt.) In addition to statutory work, you can expect a high level of non-routine assignments.
non-royal adj.
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1853 Littell's Living Age 30 Apr. 283/2 How easily the non-royal wife could be moved aside, whenever the interests of the crown or the nation should require it.
1908 Amer. Hist. Rev. 14 101 A series of non-royal documents will be inaugurated next year by Léopold Delisle's monumental study of the charters of Henry II.
1999 KMT Winter 22/2 The exhibition begins with a group of precanonical statues of non-royal individuals dating to the 3rd Dynasty.
non-saponifiable adj.
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1859 J. C. Peters Compl. Treat. Headaches & Dis. Head. 174 The natural non-saponifiable fat of the serum.
1944 J. B. Parry in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder viii. 283/2 One is well advised to use oil-bound distemper or other non-saponifiable paint.
1997 Lipids 32 303 A constituent of the nonsaponifiable lipids..is at least partially responsible for the cholesterol-lowering action.
non-sceptical adj.
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(also non-skeptical)
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1840 T. de Quincey in Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 556/1 The faith in this order of the physico-miraculous is open alike to the sceptical and the non-sceptical.
1875 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 4 (As is almost always the case with non-skeptical systems) it simply ends by ‘indorsing’ common-sense.
1988 R. S. Woolhouse Empiricists (BNC) Berkeley's desire to support non-sceptical common sense, while accepting from the philosophers something common sense would not, gives an awkward complexity to what he says.
non-selective adj.
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1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) A. 185 785 There are also to be included the terms in W of higher orders, that produce regular (i.e. sensibly non-selective) dispersion of various kinds.
1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art 95 It was the artist's duty to rival the camera in purely mechanical non-selective vision.
1990 ACE Bull. Nov. 11/1 A general improvement in performance at the non-selective schools.
non-sensory adj.
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1885 Mind 10 161 The only sort of hallucination which is necessarily characterised by false belief is the purely non-sensory sort.
1937 Mind 46 307 Kant holds that we are never acquainted with existence in a wholly non-sensory way.
1989 Brain 112 864 The interhemispheric transfer time of nonsensory information across the corpus callosum.
non-sensuous adj.
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1855 J. M. D. Meiklejohn tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason ii. i. 56 The understanding was defined above only negatively, as a non-sensuous faculty of cognition.
1934 Mind 43 364 Locke taught that we can have a non-sensuous intuition of agreement and disagreement of ideas.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Jan. 30/3 Synonyms in different languages, though they may not sound or look alike..have ‘nonsensuous’ similarities to what they signify.
non-sentential adj.
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1936 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 22 322 What 3.4–3.6 yield in non-sentential application is merely indifferent to us.
1966 Jrnl. Philos. 63 665 Propositions in a nonsentential sense were unavailable,..so facts seemed all the more needed.
1996 Noûs 30 Suppl. 66 This is a general problem for verbs that take non-sentential noun phrases as complements.
non-sentient adj.
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1812 R. Southey Omniana II. ccxxxiv. 251 The..opinion that animals are non-sentient.
1910 Mind 19 199 A purely conceptual abstract ultramundal space,..void of every kind of reality, sentient or non-sentient.
1988 O. E. Butler Adulthood Rites (1991) i. ii. 10 You would be kept only for breeding—like nonsentient animals.
non-sequential adj.
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1873 W. Smith Art Educ., Scholastic & Industr. 158 The inexperience and impetuosity of youth, which leads its victims, if uncontrolled, into ill-regulated and non-sequential habits of study.
1953 Communications & Electronics (N.Y.) Nov. 593/1 The synthesis of efficient combinational that is, nonsequential, logic circuits.
1995 G. Vidal Palimpsest 6 Reading their records, true or false, my own memory is stirred in a nonsequential way.
non-septate adj.
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1878 Amer. Naturalist 12 250 The modern distinguishing characters of the now living species of the genera Peronospora and Pythium, as furnished by a septate or non-septate mycelium.
1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) i. 98/1 This large and diverse group of eubacteria includes some that grow septate or nonseptate multicellular filaments.
non-serious adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsɪərɪəs/
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rare before 20th cent.
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1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 282/1 In the latter [sc. puns], I include all non-serious subjects.
1939 Social Forces 17 368/2 Drunkenness, begging, vagrancy, similar misdemeanors were listed as non-serious.
1992 Mind 101 10 One should treat not-p as a non-serious possibility in a certain decision context..only if one adds p to the corpus of propositions.
non-sharp adj.
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1960 Amer. Speech 35 232 Correlates of Central Romance palatals..are best interpreted as members of a three-way set: plain (nonsharp)..,sharp..,and palatal.
1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset vii. 80 The image area..otherwise is non-sharp towards the edges of the image.
1997 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 62 1185 The non-sharp and the sharp unsplitting relations behave different with respect to the existence of Borel morphisms.
non-shrinkable adj.
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1889 N.Y. Times 10 Mar. 9 (advt.) Non-shrinkable Boating Cloths.
1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. v. 242 This shrunk non-shrinkable finish is then set by passing it (with drying) around the hot cylinder of a Palmer machine P.
1992 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 331 241 A nonshrinkable decomposition G of [a sphere] S3 into points and cellular arcs.
non-social adj.
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1857 Southern Q. Rev. Feb. 395 The two great elements of civilization, the individual and the social. [Note] Guizot's classification; and a safe one surely, as it is necessarily exhaustive, being equivalent to the ‘social’ and the ‘non-social’.
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. ii. 18 Powerful monopolies develop, which, from being merely non-social, may become definitely anti-social.
1990 Behavioral Ecol. 1 81 The findings indicate the importance of intrinsic characteristics in molding nonsocial aspects of behavior.
non-spatial adj.
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(also non-spacial)
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1869 N. Porter Human Intellect (ed. 2) 150 Externality..is the..distinguishability of an extended object from the spirit as non-spatial.
1878 Mind 3 446 Those who assert that..space..is added to or imposed upon non-spacial sensations..by the mind.
1897 B. Russell Ess. Found. Geom. iv. 181 Only if sensations are necessarily non-spatial does their projection demand a subjective space-form.
1940 Jrnl. Philos. 37 178 The two dimensions taken together are time, and both are of a temporal, non-spacial nature.
1995 Lay Witness Mar. 4/2 When I look into my friend's eyes I am literally looking right through the magic door into a non-spatial, spiritual world.
non-spherical adj.
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1845 Polytechnic Rev. 2 208 The united testimony of practical men is against the employment of non-spherical missiles.
1894 Proc. Royal Soc. 56 93 The non-spherical enclosure used in our experiments.
1959 Lancet 3 Oct. 513/1 Colloidal solutions containing non-spherical particles.
1997 D. Park Fire within Eye vi. 181 Descartes writes at length about machines for grinding lenses of nonspherical profile.
† non-spiritous adj. Obsolete
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1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 375 The non-spiritous, or breathless Consonants, P, T, C.
non-stationary adj.
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1877 W. W. Beach Indian Misc. 197 In strictly village life the tendency to disruption was even greater than in the non-stationary condition.
1892 Ann. Math. 6 137 The general problem of the non-stationary flow of heat will..involve no essentially new applications of Bessel's function.
1968 P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory iii. 173 This is a non-stationary pure birth process.
2001 Jrnl. Business 74 14 The monthly analysis is helpful when we wish to make comparisons between subperiods, especially when the series may be nonstationary.
non-statistical adj.
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1881 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 44 305 The questions raised by these items are partly of non-statistical kind.
1949 A. Pap Elem. Analyt. Philos. ix. 179 We use the word ‘probable’ in a non-statistical sense.
1986 Independent 17 Nov. 19/2 Consumption is likely to be 3 million tonnes more than production after discrepancies between export and import figures are reconciled—the ‘non-statistical disappearance’.
non-statutory adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈstatʃᵿt(ə)ri/
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1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) Contents 15 Non-statutory actions..have no power at civil law of consuming or novating a right of action.
1963 Higher Educ.: Rep. Comm. under Ld. Robbins 315 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2154) XI. 639 The form of government, including financial and other relations with central and local government, with non-statutory bodies and with industry.
1995 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Feb. (National Curriculum Update Suppl.) 17/1 The cross-curricular nature of the subject is stressed by the issue of the non-statutory guidance.
non-steady adj.
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1923 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 223 5 In the non-steady state, let us assume [etc.].
1946 Nature 5 Oct. 475/2 He laid the foundation for a fundamental study of the kinetics of dyeing by deriving four differential equations to describe the non-steady state of flow.
1975 Sci. Amer. Nov. 81 The muscle-powered flight of birds, bats and insects depends on the flapping of the wings, which introduces a degree of nonsteady airflow.
1991 Struct. Change & Econ. Dynamics 2 2 The resulting dynamic paths in such a situation will in general be non-steady.
non-structural adj.
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1879 J. M. Ross Globe Encycl. V. 199/2 It is only a matter of convenience to treat of bricks..as building materials, and include only among pottery vessels non-structural substances and ornamental ware.
1921 Mod. Lang. Notes 36 191 The (Alexandrian) amphibrach is one of these non-structural [metrical] forms.
2000 L. Crane Ninth Day of Creation 349 Since the transmembrane segment was missing, the protein had to be a non-structural one.
non-subjective adj.
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1879 19th Cent. Sept. 493 To the Hebrew the universe was charged with personal conceptions..while his practical views were altruistic, non-subjective.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xviii. 433 Logical reason drawing rigorous inference from non-subjective facts.
1996 Biometrics 52 1525/2 The developments of subjective probability..and non-subjective theories.
non-suctorial adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsʌkˈtɔːrɪəl/
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1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 vi. 301 The structure of the mouth..proves it to be a non-suctorial insect.
1914 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 8 Suppl. No. 1. 11 The dangerous characteristics of the non-suctorial flies have received but scanty attention from the medical profession.
2004 G. C. Kearn Leeches, Lice & Lampreys vi. 112 (heading) Non-suctorial clamps. The clamps of other mazocraeidean monogeneans operate on a different principle.
non-superimposable adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsuːp(ə)rᵻmˈpəʊzəbl/
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1890 Chemist & Druggist 37 620/1 We should then get, as in the models shown, two non-superimposable figures, one of which would be the reflected image of the other.
1974 D. Nicholls Inorg. Complexes v. 47 (heading) It must have no plane of symmetry and the structure and its mirror image must be different, that is non-superimposable.
2007 B. Nicholson Chem. of Love vii. 192 The chemical representation for a pair of enantiomers shows two non-superimposable mirror images.
non-suppurative adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsʌpjᵿrətɪv/
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1877 H. C. Angell Treat. Dis. Eys vii. 134 Keratitis may be divided into two distinct forms,—namely, the suppurative and the non-suppurative.
1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. xviii. 112/2 Lesions in the brain consist of multifocal, nonsuppurative meningoencephalitis, particularly of the cerebellum.
non-syllogistic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsɪləˈdʒɪstɪk/
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1849 H. L. Mansel Artis Logicæ Rudim. of Aldrich App. 38 Aquinas..admits the ἔκθεσις as a non-syllogistic process, being an appeal to the senses, not to the reason.
1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 84 239 This was an effort to present deductive reasoning demands in a nonsyllogistic form.
non-symbolic adj.
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1891 Philos. Trans. 1890 (Royal Soc.) A. 181 520 In these formulæ the multiplications of operations are non-symbolic and denote successive operations.
1995 New Scientist 6 May 52/1 An edited collection of articles about computer systems that tries to combine the best of conventional programming with neural networks, genetic algorithms and other nonsymbolic methods.
non-symmetric adj.
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1890 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 12 352 The vids..of the type (αr:αs) I shall term non-symmetric vids.
1959 J. Singh Great Ideas Mod. Math. 49 The symmetry in effects would be too short-lived to be noticeable—the observed effects therefore would be non-symmetric.
1991 Struct. Change & Econ. Dynamics 2 5 Brock stresses the notions of (global and local) ‘connectors’ as well as non-symmetric interactions.
non-symmetrical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsᵻˈmɛtrᵻkl/
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1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 324/1 Organs of respiration and shell non-symmetrical.
1843 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 355 There was always distinct evidence of an electric current, when two non-symmetrical points of either surface were touched.
1913 L. Silberstein Vectorial Mech. v. 96 The decomposition of the general operator into a symmetrical and a non-symmetrical part.
1955 H. Leblanc Introd. Deductive Logic 188 A relation R is said to be non-symmetrical in a class A if it is neither symmetrical nor asymmetrical in A.
1986 Electronic Musician May 11/3 Conventional magnetic structures utilize non-symmetrical magnetic fields, which add significantly to distortion.
2003 M. Popescu et al. Appl. Hydraul. Transients iii. 71 The effect of non-symmetrical hydraulic resistance on the extreme pressures inside a pumping installation protected by an air chamber.
non-synchronous adj.
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1870 Proc. Royal Soc. 1869–70 18 274 The sound which results from the closure of the semilunar valves has been found reduplicated;..such an event may occur from the non-synchronous fall of the valves.
1912 G. Kapp Electr. viii. 219 The motor may be started by the alternating current itself without bringing it first up to the speed of synchronism. Motors of this kind are called ‘asynchronous’ or ‘non-synchronous’ motors.
1988 Rev. Financial Stud. Summer 145 Our focus is on (1) the extent to which nonsynchronous (or stale) prices are a problem in available index values and (2) the relative variability of the prices in two markets.
non-syntactic adj.
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1911 Amer. Anthropologist 13 278 Noun incorporation in Iroquois is..a kind of derivational or compositional, at any rate a purely non-syntactic or etymologic process.
1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) ix. i. 283 Such a non-syntactic group as happy-go-lucky.
1996 Jrnl. Philos. 93 409 There is evidence that the bound-variable use of descriptions is subject to additional, nonsyntactic constraints.
non-systematic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsɪstᵻˈmatɪk/
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1892 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 3 264 The subsidiary and non-systematic application of numbers.
1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 622 Interactions between blobs beneath an island can result in complex, non-systematic patterns, as are observed on some of the Canary Islands.
non-tautologous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒntɔːˈtɒləɡəs/
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1902 Mind 11 100 The establishment of non-tautologous analytical judgments.
1986 E. Pivcevic Concept of Reality (BNC) 22 Unlike ‘I actually exist’ such statements are non-tautologous and can be significantly denied.
non-teleological adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒntiːlɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/
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1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 41 Viewed in a non-teleological..light.., their origin becomes extremely simple.
1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook x. 153 Like all means towards an end (or subfunctions in nonteleological language).
1993 RES Feb. 89 The Wisse literalises, frustrating any will to ascent in its dilatory, non-teleological structure.
non-temporal adj.
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1886 Science 17 Sept. 262/1 We shall in vain endeavour to go outside of time and space to..present their genesis from non-spacial and non-temporal relations.
1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic v. 132 The words ‘always’, ‘never’, and ‘sometimes’ frequently have a strictly non-temporal significance.
1997 Polit. Theory 25 664 God is perceived as nonfinite and nontemporal.
non-terminal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtəːmᵻnl/
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1880 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 171 572 Any non-terminal segment of a striated discharge in such a tube.
1965 J. R. Dyer Applic. Absorption Spectroscopy Org. Compounds iii. 50 The absorption is weak, especially if the acetylenic linkage is nonterminal.
1989 B. Boguraev & T. Briscoe Computational Lexicogr. (new ed.) i. 26 The more recently developed grammar formalisms..generalise the notion of a non-terminal symbol.
non-theological adj.
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1852 Harper's Mag. July 280/1 The motion for abolishing tests in regard to the non-theological chairs of the Scottish universities has been thrown out.
1887 Dict. National Biogr. X. 24/2 He looked upon the question as one purely scientific and non-theological.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 17/2 The religion of Jesus was sound because non-institutional, non-theological, non-professional.
non-theoretical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnθɪəˈrɛtᵻkl/
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1877 Mind 2 126 The average philosophical capacity of the non-theoretical person.
1992 M. Anderson Imposters in Temple iv. 88 I..chose a nontheoretical, nonmathematical, straightforward exposition of the terms of trade with West Germany in the years 1950–1959.
non-tonal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtəʊnl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtoʊn(ə)l/
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1922 Mus. Opinion Oct. 48/1 I have been working for two years at a system of non-tonal harmony.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iii. 111 English, a non-tonal language.
1982 Listener 23 Dec. 48/2 It would be unable to function in a non-tonal context.
non-totalitarian adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˌtəʊtalᵻˈtɛːrɪən/
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/ˌnɒntə(ʊ)ˌtalᵻˈtɛːrɪən/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑntoʊˌtæləˈtɛriən/
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1937 Internat. Affairs 16 635 Its non-totalitarian character is adversely commented on.
1994 Jrnl. Politics 56 1126 Dallmayr presents us with a revisionist Hegel: nontotalitarian, nonauthoritarian, perhaps proleptically multicultural.
non-traditional adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒntrəˈdɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒntrəˈdɪʃən(ə)l/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑntrəˈdɪʃ(ə)nəl/
ΚΠ
1915 Ann. Reg. Univ. Chicago 1914–15 179 The course seeks to define in a fundamental way the nature of the mental automatism in different types of crowds and other ‘non-traditional’ groups.
1938 W. Lewis Let. 1 May (1963) 253 A Non-traditional (and so a ‘fashionable’) policy.
1990 Rolling Stone 22 Mar. 70/3 Maurice applied for admission to Duke's School of Continuing Education, a nontraditional program for working adults.
non-transgenic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒntrɑːnzˈdʒɛnɪk/
,
/ˌnɒntranzˈdʒɛnɪk/
,
/ˌnɒntrɑːnsˈdʒɛnɪk/
,
/ˌnɒntransˈdʒɛnɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌtrænzˈdʒɛnɪk/
,
/ˌnɑnˌtræn(t)sˈdʒɛnɪk/
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1985 Science 6 Dec. 1159 (caption) Normal liver is derived from a nontransgenic littermate.
1996 World-Herald (Omaha) (Nexis) 27 Mar. That could mean alternating Bt and nontransgenic corn varieties within a field.
1999 J. D'Silva in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xiii. 141 On average the transgenic salmon were 11 times heavier than the non-transgenic control salmon.
non-transitive adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtranzᵻtɪv/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈtrɑːnzᵻtɪv/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈtransᵻtɪv/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈtrɑːnsᵻtɪv/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtrænzədɪv/
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/ˌnɑnˈtræn(t)sədɪv/
ΚΠ
1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 561 The non-transitive verbs have a smaller number [of terminations].
1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. vii. 155 Friend is nontransitive if you are my friend and have friends who are not my friends.
1974 Sci. Amer. Oct. 120/1 Familiar games abound in transitive rules (if poker hand A beats B and B beats C, then A beats C), but some games have nontransitive (or intransitive) rules.
non-turbulent adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtəːbjᵿlənt/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈtəːbjᵿln̩t/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtərbjələnt/
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1916 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 207 202 He considers his results as verifying Boussinesq's law for a non-turbulent flow.
1946 Nature 14 Sept. 361/2 Another means of attaining greater efficiency in flight..is to design the wing section so that the flow in the very thin ‘boundary-layer’ of air near the wing surface remains non-turbulent over as much of the surface as possible.
1993 S. W. Hawking Black Holes & Baby Universes (BNC) 111 By placing a low upper limit on the density of such black holes, the observations will indicate that the early universe must have been very smooth and nonturbulent.
non-typical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtɪpᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtɪpᵻk(ə)l/
ΚΠ
1870 Philos. Trans. 1869 (Royal Soc.) 159 803 The non-typical coarseness and strength of the whole skull and face.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iii. 93 We get times so very long that they must be rejected from the count as non-typical.
1989 Peterson's Hunting Ann. 1990 50/1 He started to tell about the large nontypical caribou he had arrowed.
non-ultimate adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈʌltᵻmət/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈəltəmət/
ΚΠ
1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic 299 Finite things as finite ought in justice to be viewed as non-ultimate.
1935 Mind 44 351 He ought to say that such facts as ‘orange is between red and yellow’ are incomplete or non-ultimate.
1991 Philos. Q. 41 159 Not just agent-implicating ultimate moral principles but highly circumstance-dependent non-ultimate moral judgements.
non-urban adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈəːb(ə)n/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈərbən/
ΚΠ
1886 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 49 331 The exodus from rural (or non-urban) districts amounts to 605,000.
1909 Daily Chron. 12 Apr. 4/4 I revisit America and wander off into the non-urban—there are no really rural—parts.
1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 230 A state of affairs that was essentially non-urban.
2001 National Post (Canada) 9 Apr. c2/4 Subscribers in non-urban areas have a compelling incentive to unplug and put a satellite dish on their roof.
non-utilitarian adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˌjuːtɪlᵻˈtɛːrɪən/
,
/ˌnɒnjuːˌtɪlᵻˈtɛːrɪən/
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/ˌnɒnjᵿˌtɪlᵻˈtɛːrɪən/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnjuˌtɪləˈtɛriən/
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a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) p. xvii Mr. Mill gives up points objected to in the old utilitarianism, and approximates to non-utilitarian schools.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon i. 10 My grandmother was entirely non-utilitarian, a dreamer.
2001 C. Freeland But is it Art? iii. 77 Certain things are appreciated for their beauty, sensuous form, and skill of creation, and are treasured even in non-utilitarian settings.
non-vacuous adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈvakjʊəs/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈvækjəwəs/
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1884 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 6 276 When a matrix is non-vacuous (i.e. has a finite content or determinant appertaining to it), an inverse to it fulfilling this double condition can always be found.
1939 Mind 48 202 And if s does express a proposition, thereby being subject to non-vacuous application of this [verification] principle, it could be the case [etc.].
1997 Internat. Econ. Rev. 38 743 Cumulative utility consumer theory is nonvacuous.
non-valid adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈvalɪd/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈvæləd/
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1803 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1941) III. 6 Any contract entered into by Mr. Davis was non-valid.
1874 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains 245 The defence was considered non-valid, and the dead man was solemnly condemned.
1935 Mind 44 504 The content of a sentence is said to be the class of its non-valid consequences.
1997 Admin. Sci. Q. 42 762 We also eliminated from the sample those with missing or nonvalid values for the independent variables for 1985.
non-venomous adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈvɛnəməs/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈvɛnəməs/
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1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 182 Serpents are divided into venomous and non-venomous.
1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) lxiii. 431 The non-venomous and most typical Snakes.
1991 Insight 4 Feb. 56/1 Most of the 150 species to be identified are either lizards—all of which are nonvenomous—or snakes.
non-veridical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnvᵻˈrɪdᵻkl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnvəˈrɪdək(ə)l/
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1913 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 10 36 Even in non-veridical perception the perceiving must be held to be non-constitutive of the object.
1997 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 264 924/2 Caricatured identities are also non-veridical in that they no longer look exactly like the person.
non-vital adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈvʌɪtl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈvaɪd(ə)l/
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1831 N. Amer. Rev. July 130 The grand secrets of Necessity and Free-will, of the mind's vital or non-vital dependence on matter.
1933 Discovery Sept. 278/1 It is, in fact, not an aposeme to frighten an enemy away..but an episeme, to distract attack from a vulnerable to a fortified or non-vital region.
1989 V. Shiva in J. Plant Healing Wounds 86 Resource intensive industries disrupt essential ecological process... Often such destruction is caused by the resource demands of nonvital industrial products.
non-vocal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈvəʊkl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈvoʊk(ə)l/
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1867 T. Carlyle in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 334/2 Goethe has shadowed out a glorious far-glancing specimen of that Non-vocal, or very partially-vocal kind of School.
1936 J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. xiii. 184 There is still left the question of interjectional acts or even non-vocal behavior.
1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality iii. vii. 165 Kramer developed a glove that used strain gauges to convert finger-spelled words into speech, for use by nonvocal deaf and deaf-blind persons.
non-vocalic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnvə(ʊ)ˈkalɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnvoʊˈkælɪk/
ΚΠ
1935 ELH 2 86 The validity of Vatblus' laws—that [quantity by] position is non-existent in Hebrew and that the ‘Shewa’ is non-vocalic—..is not our present concern.
1995 J. Drucker Alphabetic Labyrinth (1999) ii. 40 The practice of non-vocalic notation..remains common in the writing of modern Arabic and Hebrew, whose roots are consonantal in structure.
non-vocational adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnvə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒnvə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃən(ə)l/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnvoʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)nəl/
ΚΠ
1915 Science 26 Mar. 445/2 It is further assumed that this non-vocational or avocational propensity is legitimate and laudable.
1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Feb. 70/2 What was known as non-vocational education.
1997 Eng. Bridge June 11/3 Many LEA bridge courses are feeling the squeeze because funding is being withheld from non-vocational and non-accredited courses.
b.
non-actinic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnakˈtɪnɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnækˈtɪnɪk/
not having the property of chemically affecting a photographic emulsion; not having the sensitivity of such an emulsion.
ΚΠ
1868 M. C. Lea Man. Photogr. 137 It does not give the bright-colored negatives before spoken of, but beautiful russet-brown ones, which are perhaps as non-actinic as those obtained without the ammonia.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 14 The real essential in comfort..is the use of one of the scientifically prepared light screens which gives us all the possible non-actinic light.
1935 Discovery Apr. 97/1 The non-actinic paper in which photographic plates were wrapped.
1992 Microelectronic Engin. 17 321 Dyes have been investigated which serve to enhance the latent image..especially in the non-actinic spectral range.
non-algorithmic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnalɡəˈrɪðmɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌælɡəˈrɪðmɪk/
not involving an algorithm; not capable of being expressed using an algorithm.
ΚΠ
1967 Managem. Sci. 13 C316/1 Maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters were calculated using direct search (non-algorithmic) optimization techniques.
1973 Math. Rev. 45 1773/1 A non-algorithmic discrete electronic model for the problems of Hamiltonian circuits.
1989 R. Penrose Emperor's New Mind ix. 402 According to Deutsch's analysis, quantum computers cannot be used to perform non-algorithmic operations (i.e. things beyond the power of a Turing machine).
non-aromatic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnarəˈmatɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɛrəˈmædɪk/
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/ˌnɑnˌɛroʊˈmædɪk/
Chemistry (of a compound) not aromatic (aromatic adj. 2); not containing a ring of the kind typified by the benzene molecule.
ΚΠ
1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Non-aromatic.
1912 A. J. Allmand Princ. Appl. Electrochem. xx. 323 Important is the addition of high-molecular non-aromatic sulphur organic compounds in presence of calcium salts, patented by Thiele.
1995 School Sci. Rev. June 69/1 Frequently..they incorrectly locate the formal positive charge and fail to illustrate the non-aromatic nature of the intermediate since the delocalization is not completely cyclic.
nonbacterial adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnbakˈtɪərɪəl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌbækˈtɪriəl/
Medicine and Biology not bacterial in origin or nature.
ΚΠ
1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 642 Communicable diseases..which are probably of non-bacterial nature.
1907 J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye x. 188 Other cases may be due to the action of caustics, severe atropin irritation,..and other non-bacterial causes.
1988 A. M. Silverstein Hist. Immunol. v. 104 The discoveries..demonstrated that antibodies could be raised against a wide variety of nontoxic and even nonbacterial substances.
1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio vi. 41 Many metazoans—nonbacterial life-forms—carried the dormant remains of ancient retroviruses in their genes.
non-baryonic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnbarɪˈɒnɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌbɛriˈɑnɪk/
Astronomy not containing or consisting of baryons (particles such as protons and neutrons which go to make up ordinary matter); (of a particle) that is not a baryon.
ΚΠ
1982 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 307 43 This implies that non-baryonic matter is not dominant by a large factor on scales as large as..small groups of galaxies.
1989 J. Silk Big Bang (rev. ed.) vii. 149 The universe need not be open if weakly interacting nonbaryonic particles provide the requisite contribution to the density.
1997 New Scientist 1 Nov. 18/2 The Universe contains about 25 times as much ‘non-baryonic’ dark matter—such as neutrinos—as ordinary baryonic matter.
non-clastic adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈklastɪk/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈklastɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈklæstɪk/
Geology (of rock) formed organically or chemically rather than by the mechanical deposition of particles from pre-existing rocks.
ΚΠ
1904 A. W. Grabau in Amer. Geologist Apr. 229 Endogenetic rocks may also be called non-clastic.
1949 Sci. Monthly 68 427/2 Two chapters are devoted to color and classification of sedimentary rocks, and then a chapter to each of the principal types..and to the nonclastic sediments.
1995 Mineralium Deposita 30 300 Adding a ‘non-clastic iron’ component (iron not associated with detrital particles either as mineral constituent or grain coating)..would produce an upward displacement.
non-clerical adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈklɛrᵻkl/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈklɛrᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈklɛrək(ə)l/
not relating to or belonging to the clergy; lay.
ΚΠ
1856 G. Punchard View of Congregationalism 388 The views of this church respecting the non-clerical character of deacons.
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xviii. 130 He had too much on his hands already, especially considering how much time he spent on non-clerical occupations.
1993 D. M. Greenwood Unholy Ghosts 11 Rosalind had always acted as Bishop Charles's spokesman in things non-clerical.
noncompact adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəmˈpakt/
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/ˌnɒŋkəmˈpakt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnkəmˈpæk(t)/
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/ˌnɑnˈkɑmˌpæk(t)/
not compact; (spec. in Mathematics, of a topological space) such that of any collection of open subsets whose union is the whole space, no finite number of these have a union that is the whole space.
ΚΠ
1917 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 177 Fréchet calls a set of points M compact if every infinite subset of M has at least one limit point... A set of points which does not possess this property is said to be non-compact.
1954 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 40 1150 The quotient G/K of a simple noncompact group with center reduced to {e} by a maximal compact sub-group.
1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. v. 114 It is only at the lowest levels that the noncompact nature of the morphemes appears.
1990 Q. Jrnl. Math. 41 16 Let G be a noncompact locally compact topological group with a (left) Haar measure m.
non-electronic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻˌlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/
,
/ˌnɒnˌɛlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/
,
/ˌnɒnˌɛlᵻkˈtrɒnɪk/
,
/ˌnɒnˌɪlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/
,
/ˌnɒnˌiːlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnəˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk/
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/ˌnɑniˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk/
(a) not relating to an electron (rare); (b) not relating to or involving electronics.
ΚΠ
1937 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 161 281 This fact..would make it very difficult to maintain the hypothesis of a non-electronic nature of the hard component.
1964 Times Rev. Industry & Techn. Jan. 22/2 The operation was put straight on to a computer without an intervening non-electronic stage.
1989 R. Hoggart Liberty & Legislation (BNC) 101 The Home Office expressly precluded the Committee from considering traditional manual or non-electronic information systems.
non-fatty adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfati/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfædi/
not containing, consisting of, or characterized by fat; (of meat) lean.
ΚΠ
1869 Manufacturer & Builder June 174/2 The action of this acid consists in the destruction of the non-fatty matters, which become carbonized.
1935 Discovery June 170/1 For analytical purposes, milk is divided into three parts: fat or cream; non-fatty solids..; and water.
1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering xii. 219 The home curing of cod, haddock, cusk, hake, and pollock, also to most large nonfatty fish, is given here.
1992 Food Entertaining Summer 22/1 You get two plausible beef patties sandwiched between non-fatty streaky bacon plus melted cheddar cheese.
non-finite adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfʌɪnʌɪt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfaɪˌnaɪt/
not finite; (spec. in Grammar, of a verb) not limited by tense, person, or number.
ΚΠ
1883 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 14 36 The inclusion of infinitives and participles in the verbal system, as the non-finite parts of the verb.
1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist vii. 264 Man's ideals are in themselves unlimited, non-finite.
1995 Appl. Linguistics 16 447 Dependent clauses (finite, non-finite, and verbless) functioning as adverbials.
non-gender-specific adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndʒɛndəspᵻˈsɪfɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌdʒɛndərspəˈsɪfɪk/
not specifically relating to, or connected with a particular gender.
ΚΠ
1984 P. Selkow Assessing Sex Bias in Testing ii. 29 A similar study by Boyd (1978) utilized a revised form of the SDS [sc. Self-Directed Search] that contained non-gender-specific occupational titles and sex-neutral instructions.
1996 Independent 22 Aug. ii. 11/3 Part of Moran's appeal is that his humour is completely non-gender specific, but for the most part it's down to the brilliant tactical deployment of a surreal and sensitive mind.
non-hierarchic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhʌɪ(ə)ˈrɑːkɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌhaɪ(ə)ˈrɑrkɪk/
= non-hierarchical adj.
ΚΠ
1936 J. B. Black Reign of Elizabeth v. 164 They denied that a learned ministry was essential..and exalted the idea of a non-hierarchic, non-ritualist form of public worship.
1962 H. C. Conklin in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 132 These features of nonhierarchic semantic structures, while not always sharply distinguished from the principles inherent in hierarchic systems, have been recognized and carefully analyzed.
1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Feb. 4/3 His anti-Semitism was of a piece with his headlong retreat from..the whole confusing, nonhierarchic world of Europe after the collapse of empire.
non-hierarchical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhʌɪ(ə)ˈrɑːkᵻkl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌhaɪ(ə)ˈrɑrkək(ə)l/
lacking a hierarchy or hierarchical structure; egalitarian; (also) not characteristic of a hierarchy.
ΚΠ
1910 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 16 329 Ross discounts the hedonic element and Small drops it entirely in his non-hierarchical classification.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 300 The (still theoretically determined but non-hierarchical) relation between grammar and phonology that we have postulated.
2000 Disability Now May 46/2 (advt.) The Law Centre operates as a non-hierarchical collective.
non-homologous adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnhəˈmɒləɡəs/
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/ˌnɒnhɒˈmɒləɡəs/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnhəˈmɑləɡəs/
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/ˌnɑnhoʊˈmɑləɡəs/
not homologous; (spec. in Genetics) not a member of a homologous pair of chromosomes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [adjective] > chromosome > chromosomes in respect of meiosis
non-homologous1883
quadrivalent1898
univalent1898
bivalent1899
plurivalent1901
homologous1903
heterotropic1905
monovalent1906
heteromorphic1917
homomorphic1917
trivalent1921
multivalent1929
sexivalent1931
nullisomic1932
quinquevalent1935
1883 Science 27 Apr. 334/1 The development of such non-homologous parts for analogous purposes is of great morphological interest.
1927 Jrnl. Heredity 18 269/1 One might suppose that a portion of one chromosome has become attached to a member of a non-homologous pair.
1971 Perceptual & Motor Skills 32 639 Synchrony of bimanual wrist movements..was compared when homologous muscles (e.g., left and right wrist flexors) and when non-homologous muscles (e.g., left flexors and right extensors) were simultaneously active.
1993 Cell 73 358/2 Similar types of exchanges between the subtelomeric regions of nonhomologous chromosomes are observed in mammalian systems.
non-horsey adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈhɔːsi/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈhɔrsi/
not concerned with or enthusiastic about horses, horse-riding, or horse racing.
ΚΠ
1866 Trewman's Exeter Flying Post 23 May 8/2 For non-horsey as well as for horsey folks there is plenty to see.
1952 Truth (Sydney) 28 Sept. 32/2 Britain has now the largest number of show-jumping enthusiasts in the world, with a non-horsy following that packed the shows at White City and Harringay last year.
2016 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Nov. This anthropomorphising will be too much for lots of non-horsey people but those who work with horses every day commonly come to think of them as individual personalities.
non-immune adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻˈmjuːn/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻˈmjun/
not immune; (esp. in Biology) lacking immunity to a specific organism or antigen; not part of a specific immune response.
ΚΠ
1900 Science 2 Nov. 692/2 Non-immune individuals were inoculated through the bites of mosquitoes.
1927 R. Muir et al. Man. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xvii. 476 If the suspected carrier is Schick-positive, i.e. non-immune, the organism is likely to be non-virulent.
1949 in A. K. Parpart Chem. & Physiol. Growth 283 Similar quantities of non-immune globulins are released..from the lymphocytes of non-immunized animals.
1991 J. L. Huffman in R. E. Meiners & B. Yandle Econ. Consequences Liability Rules iv. 65 An actor, including the nonimmune government, is liable for harm caused by the actor's failure to exercise ordinary or reasonable care.
non-inflammatory adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈflamət(ə)ri/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈflæməˌtɔri/
not inflammatory; (spec. in Pathology) not caused or characterized by inflammation.
ΚΠ
1850 E. E. Marcy Homœopathic Theory & Pract. Med. 381 Two kinds of cerebral and spinal softening, an inflammatory and a non-inflammatory.
1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 216 A non-inflammatory affection, viz., spasm of the glottis.
1912 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 85 549 Non-inflammatory necrosis in the liver.
1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 54 (advt.) Ms. Arnson..provides a careful and noninflammatory reading of the issues that both divided and united the two branches of government.
non-insulin-dependent adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnsjᵿlɪndᵻˈpɛnd(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪnsəlᵻndəˈpɛndnt/
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/ˌnɑnˌɪnsəlᵻndiˈpɛndnt/
Medicine not reliant upon insulin (for control of diabetes); (also) designating type II diabetes, which can often be controlled, at least initially, by weight loss, diet, and oral hypoglycaemic agents.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [adjective] > diabetes > types of
maturity-onset1959
insulin-dependent1961
non-insulin-dependent1970
juvenile-onset1975
type 11977
type 21977
1970 N.Y. Times 7 June iv. 7/6 The findings provide no evidence that the combination of diet and tolbutamide therapy, used in this study for mild, non-insulin-dependent diabetics is more effective than diet alone.
1990 Q. Jrnl. Med. 77 1209 Femoral neuropathy is more common in non-insulin-dependent diabetic men, on average in their sixties.
2000 Daily Tel. 10 Aug. 7/1 They believe MHCP may delay or even prevent the non-insulin dependent version of the disease, known as type II diabetes, taking hold.
non-Islamic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪzˈlamɪk/
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/ˌnɒnɪsˈlamɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnɪˈslɑmɪk/
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/ˌnɑnɪzˈlɑmɪk/
not Islamic; esp. contrary to or not in accordance with Muslim principles, practice, or tradition.
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1882 L. D'A. Jackson Mod. Metrol. ii. iii. 329 The original uncompromising separation of the Moslem from both Christian and pagan in point of religion caused a most rigid line to be made practically between Islamic and non-Islamic measures.
1920 Gen. Index Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc., 1855–78 31/1 Non-Islamic races to be found in the mountains.
1935 Hebrew Standard Australasia 6 Sept. 4/3 The Rabbi illustrated these points by reference to the differences that arose in the Middle Ages between Jews resident in Islamic countries and their brethren in non-Islamic countries.
1987 Man 22 637 The non-Islamic ‘Kafir’ tribes of the Hindu Kush mountains,..provide an exceptional opportunity to examine indigenous ritual and moral values.
2010 Independent 9 July 33/1 Drive-by paintballers attack women in Grozny over ‘non-Islamic’ clothes.
non-legal adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈliːɡl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈliɡ(ə)l/
not relating to matters of law or the practice of law; having no legal status.
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1856 A. T. Bledsoe Ess. on Liberty & Slavery 375 The nature of their attack is concealed from the eyes of their non-legal followers.
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. x. 160 ‘Oh, if you talk in that sense!’ said Mr Standish, with as much disgust at such non-legal quibbling as a man can well betray towards a valuable client.
1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 712 Of his lighter and non-legal publications there may be mentioned..For my Grandson. Remembrances of an Ancient Victorian (1933).
2001 N.Y. Times 31 May c1/2 As competition among law firms has increased..a small but growing number of law firms are turning to nonlegal businesses.
non-low adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈləʊ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈloʊ/
Phonetics (of a vowel sound) produced with the tongue near or above its usual resting position.
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1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. iv. 305 Low sounds are produced by lowering the body of the tongue below the level that it occupies in the neutral position; nonlow sounds are produced without such a lowering of the body of the tongue.
1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 31 The consonantalization of unaccented nonlow vowels in hiatus, which created the C + yod combinations, can be dated back to the first and second centuries.
1999 J. R. Craddock in R. J. Blake et al. Ess. in Hispanic Linguistics vi. 58 Classical Latin long vowels remain unchanged as to the high/low parameter; non-low short vowels are opened one step, so that /i/ merges with /e:/.
non-Marxist adj. and n.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmɑːksɪst/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈmɑrksəst/
(a) adj. not Marxist, esp. not relating to proponents of Marx's theories; (b) n. a person who is not a Marxist.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [adjective] > relating to Marxism
Marxian1887
scientific socialist1887
Marxist1890
Marxite1895
non-Marxist1930
1930 H. D. Lasswell Psychopathol. & Politics v. 457 The non-Marxist literature on government and administration has tended to minimize the elite consequences of institutional practices.
1949 Mind 58 259 There is a good deal of rather tedious criticism of non-Marxist Russian revolutionaries.
1983 A. Béteille in A. Béteille Ess. Compar. Sociol. (1987) 162 A question on which Marxists and non-Marxists are often divided..is that of a value-neutral science of society.
1986 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Trav. in Hyper Reality iii. 91 It was most difficult for non-Marxists to assert themselves as an organized force.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 105 1583 Many scholars—Marxist and non-Marxist—have proposed alternative class schemes.
non-mental adj. and n.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmɛntl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈmɛn(t)l/
(a) adj. not mental; not relating to the mind or its processes; (b) n. rare that which is non-mental; (also) a person who does not have a mental illness.
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1867 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 380/2 The mind as a whole may be stinted by the demands of the non-mental functions.
1959 Encounter Jan. 3 It prepares the philosophical student for the belief that mind has some kind of supremacy over the non-mental universe.
1973 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. 1/6 The Secret Service continued today to press its investigation of what was described as a ‘very serious, very large’ conspiracy by ‘nonmentals’ to assassinate President Nixon.
2001 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 7 May The 1995 law fell short of full parity with coverage of non-mental illness.
non-Ohmic adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈəʊmɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈoʊmɪk/
that does not obey or is not in accordance with Ohm's law.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > resistance > [adjective] > obeying Ohm's law > not
non-Ohmic1946
1946 Nature 23 Nov. 742/1 (heading) Silicon carbide non-ohmic resistors.
1973 Physics Bull. Dec. 741/1 The final chapter..describes the nonohmic behaviour observed in several semiconductors.
1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 15839/2 I–V relationships for cADPR-dependent currents..are nonohmic.
non-orgasmic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɔːˈɡazmɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnɔrˈɡæzmɪk/
not accompanied by or resulting in orgasm; (of a person) unable to achieve an orgasm.
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1970 W. H. Masters & V. E. Johnson Human Sexual Inadequacy viii. 237 Nonorgasmic states.
1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 133 118/1 In their study of nonorgasmic women the authors found negative self-concept to be correlated with nonorgasmic response.
1985 Jrnl. Sex & Marital Therapy 11 199 Five men who had been non-orgasmic earlier reported having orgasm after surgery.
1994 Gender & Society 8 66 Like Denise, she found the sex nonorgasmic but still enjoyable.
non-photosynthetic adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnfəʊtə(ʊ)sɪnˈθɛtɪk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌfoʊdəˌsɪnˈθɛdɪk/
Biology that does not carry out photosynthesis.
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1934 Bot. Gaz. 96 47 The inner, non-photosynthetic zone consists of large, thin-walled cells.
1953 G. E. Fogg Metabolism of Algae vii. 109 The substances assimilated by a non-photosynthetic cell are largely used for the synthesis of more material capable of growth.
2001 Pract. Fishkeeping Feb. 26/2 Non-photosynthetic corals..are another story. Although many of these are very colourful..they have a dismal success rate in the aquarium.
non-positive definite adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnpɒzᵻtɪv ˈdɛf(ᵻ)nᵻt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌpɑzədɪv ˈdɛf(ə)nət/
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/ˌnɑnˌpɑztɪv ˈdɛf(ə)nət/
Mathematics not positive definite (see positive definite adj. at positive adj. and n. Compounds).
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1948 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 70 395 A(t) + A*(t) is non-positive definite for 0≦t<∞.
1964 E. A. Power Introd. Quantum Electrodynamics vi. 77 It has led to the necessity of defining a non-positive definite metric in the quantum theory of electrodynamics.
1991 Internat. Jrnl. Numerical Methods Engin. 32 347 The system of equations is..solved in parallel using a conjugate gradient algorithm for unsymmetric, non-positive definite systems.
non-prime adj. and n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈprʌɪm/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpraɪm/
Mathematics (a) adj. designating or relating to a number, group element, polynomial, etc., that is not a prime; (b) n. a number, group element, polynomial, etc., that is not a prime.
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1873 Proc. Royal Soc. 22 56 I reproduce Sohnke's modular equations..,adding to them those for the non-prime cases n=9 and n=15.
1908 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 30 156 B. Russell..obtained equations for prime orders up to 31, as well as for certain non-prime orders.
1944 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 533 Even in the case of non-primes, the coefficients of the unit class are the predominating ones.
1996 J. H. Conway & R. K. Guy Bk. Numbers vi. 168 This is proved using only the four rules of arithmetic, so it still works modulo any prime (it wouldn't work modulo a nonprime.
non-radioactive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnreɪdɪəʊˈaktɪv/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌreɪdioʊˈæktɪv/
not radioactive; not involving the use of radioactive substances.
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1904 E. Rutherford Radio-activity 397/2 Preparation of non-radio-active thorium.
1937 Discovery Apr. 127/1 An isotope of a non-radioactive element.
1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage i. 19/1 At death, the intake of C-14 ceases and the accumulated supply in the body begins to break down into nonradioactive carbon.
1993 Ann. Human Genetics 57 1 A 317-bp segment of DNA from the 3′ region..has been examined by a non-radioactive technique.
non-reactive adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrɪˈaktɪv/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnriˈæktɪv/
not reactive; (spec.) having no electrical reactance.
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1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Nonreactive, without inductance or capacity.
1918 Science 19 July 54/2 Metals..which have been brought into the temporarily non-reactive or ‘passive’ condition by immersion in strong nitric acid.
1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors vi. 107 Another non-reactive extrinsic effect is sometimes added to the low-frequency equivalent circuit.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 550/1 The braking safety and non-reactive road holding characteristics required by today's operators.
1991 Food & Wine Apr. 86/2 In a small nonreactive saucepan, combine the wine, vinegar and the remaining shallots and boil.
non-reducible adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈdjuːsᵻbl/
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/ˌnɒnrᵻˈdʒuːsᵻbl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈd(j)usəb(ə)l/
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/ˌnɑnriˈd(j)usəb(ə)l/
that cannot be reduced (in various senses of the verb).
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1873 W. Elderhorst Man. Qualitative Blow-pipe Anal. (ed. 4) iii. 83 The slag, containing uranium and other non-reducible oxides..is dissolved by warming it with a little aqua regia.
1899 W. James Talks to Teachers ix. 82 As teachers, it is the fact of association that practically concerns you,..let its laws be reducible, or non-reducible, to one.
1968 Brain 91 673 A posterior decompressive procedure became the recognized treatment of choice for non-reducible dislocations with cord compression.
1992 Mind 101 169 Some of a compound system's dynamical properties are composed of and determined by the relevant properties of its subsystems, i.e. are reducible, while some are non-reducible.
non-sensational adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒns(ɛ)nˈseɪʃn̩(ə)l/
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/ˌnɒns(ɛ)nˈseɪʃən(ə)l/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌsɛnˈseɪʃ(ə)nəl/
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/ˌnɑnsənˈseɪʃ(ə)nəl/
(a) not of the kind that generates or is intended to generate great public interest and excitement; (b) not relating to sensation and the senses.
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1870 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 509/2 The novel..is studiously non-sensational.
1909 W. M. Urban Valuation iv. 98 The non-sensational aspects of any experience are..describable in functional terms.
1921 B. Russell Anal. Mind iv. 81 (heading) Non-sensational elements in perception.
1991 F. Weldon Darcy's Utopia (BNC) 41 And that was how, in a gradual and non-sensational manner, Apricot's mother became her sister, and her grandmother her mother.
non-residing n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈzʌɪdɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈzaɪdɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnriˈzaɪdɪŋ/
(a) n. the fact or condition of not living in a place, esp. a place where residence would be expected; (b) adj. = non-resident adj.
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1638 in H. Paton Dundonald Parish Rec. (1936) 438 To mak answer fo hir non resieding with hir husband.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 246 His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, to whom about two thirds of it belongs, may be considered as the only non-residing heritor.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. vi. 103 We found the place much to our mind; the old landlady had interest with some old fellow, agent of a non-residing nobleman, who gave us permission to sport over his moors.
1991 Boston Globe (Nexis) 29 Mar. When custody issues are to be settled by a court, make a point to be specific about other things: Drive to see where the nonresiding parent will live, provide the phone number.
2001 Saigon Times Daily (Nexis) 4 Sept. The regulations comprise a circular on supplying commercial bills to enterprises, and one guiding the issue and transfer of promissory notes to non-residing foreigners.
non-singular adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsɪŋɡjᵿlə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɪŋɡjələr/
Mathematics and Physics not singular; not having a singularity; (of a matrix) having a non-zero determinant.
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1877 A. Cayley in Encycl. Brit. VI. 724/1 The classification mixes together non-singular and singular curves.
1947 S. A. Stigant Mod. Electr. Engin. Math. iv. 72 An inverse matrix can only be derived from a non-singular square matrix.
1968 E. T. Copson Metric Spaces viii. 117 Thus z = 0 is not a latent root of I − A, so that I − A is non-singular.
1991 Struct. Change & Econ. Dynamics 2 160 We can assume that B is a non-singular matrix.
non-soluble adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsɒljᵿbl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɑljəb(ə)l/
not soluble; esp. that cannot be dissolved.
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1852 J. Laurie Elem. Homoeopathic Pract. of Physic p. l Whether..they are liquid or solid, soluble or non-soluble in alcohol.
1913 Science 21 Mar. 433/2 The difference in the behavior of substances which are soluble in the cell wall (like alcohol) and non-soluble (like sugar).
1976 Nature 20 May p. viii (advt.) The classification of nonsoluble groups with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups.
1995 Chicago Tribune 2 May 7/1 Pectin is a sticky substance found in fruit membrane and rinds. It has different properties than non-soluble fiber such as wheat bran.
non-stellar adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈstɛlə/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈstɛlər/
(esp. of a celestial object) that is not a star, or does not consist of stars.
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1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Non-stellar.
1926 Astrophysical Jrnl. 64 324 The characteristic feature of extra-galactic nebulae is rotational symmetry about dominating non-stellar nuclei.
1972 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 1971 46/2 The first step toward understanding nonstellar sources is to acquire a knowledge of the kinds of radiation they emit.
1995 Magill's Surv. of Cinema 15 June It is nowhere near as uncompromising a film as its nonstellar cast or its subject matter..might suggest.
non-theatric adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnθɪˈatrɪk/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnθiˈætrɪk/
not intended for showing to a paying audience; of or relating to films of this kind.
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1959 New Statesman 14 Nov. 661/1 The film was made by the BBC Television Service, and is scheduled for non-theatric distribution; which means that it will only be seen by film societies and non-paying audiences.
1966 BBC Handbk. 39 The distribution of programmes for non-theatric use in schools.
1986 Anthropol. Today 2 7 They are available for purchase world wide from Non-Theatric Sales, Granada Television.
non-theatrical adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnθɪˈaktrᵻkl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnθiˈætrək(ə)l/
not derived from or characteristic of a theatre; (also) non-theatric.
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1885 Littell's Living Age 28 Mar. 823/2 A non-mythological and non-theatrical burlesque.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. III. 264/2 Phipps's principal designs of a non-theatrical character were the Devonshire Club, St. James's Street [etc.].
1987 D. Clandfield Canad. Film iii. 42 Although many of the films appeared in the television series ‘Temps présent’, they quickly secured extensive theatrical and non-theatrical distribution.
1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. vi. 167 Molière's originality was to progress from farce to a kind of critical comedy, and for that progress a nontheatrical catalyst was needed.
non-touristy adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtʊərᵻsti/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈtɔːrᵻsti/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtʊrəsti/
(esp. of a place) not frequented by tourists or geared to mass tourism; not part of an established tourist itinerary; = untouristy adj.
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1950 N.Y. Times 7 May 309 It is the sort of place many tourists say they are searching for while in Europe: The Real Thing—that is, an out-of-the-way, small non-touristy town.
1963 Mt. Vernon (Illinois) Reg.-News 14 May Miss Taylor talking about the city where she was born, and showing some of the nontouristy sights which interest her.
2012 Church Times 26 Oct. 29/1 Nearly all of these [sc. parish-church cathedrals], because of 19th-century industrialisation, are set in non-touristy inner-city places.
non-viral adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈvʌɪrəl/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈvʌɪrl̩/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈvaɪrəl/
Medicine and Biology not viral in nature or origin.
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1937 Sci. Monthly 45 275/1 No virus has yet been found to originate de novo from non-viral material.
1960 Q. Rev. Biol. 35 263/2 The major problem is that of separating a small amount of labile virus from large amounts of nonviral constituents.
1999 Family Planning Perspectives 31 257/1 The disorders included nonviral sexually transmitted diseases.
4.
a. Prefixed to a noun to form an adjective, usually used attributively.Occasionally such formations are used predicatively (as in quot. 1956 for non-protein adj., quot. 1889 for non-copyright adj.).Noun compounds (senses 1 and 2) also frequently occur in attributive use.
non-basement adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbeɪsm(ə)nt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbeɪsm(ə)nt/
now chiefly North American
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1886 Daily News 17 Apr. 8/1 (advt.) Ealing-Common, West Acton. Non-basement, freehold, convenient attractive house.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 Apr. 10/3 Charming Semi-detached Non-basement Houses.
1964 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 16 Oct. 9143 (table) Small, 4 room, non-basement bungalow.
1984 Pop. Sci. Feb. 109/2 In the non-basement version, the garage offers space for a water heater and optional furnace.
2018 Windsor (Ontario) Star 25 Apr. re21/2 (advt.) South Windsor Beauty... Fully finished basement—walkout/grade entrance make for a non-basement feel in the cozy family room w/gas fireplace!
† non-choke-bore adj. Obsolete
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1892 in W. W. Greener Breech-loader 285 [Greener's No. 12 choke-bore] kills on an average at least 20 yards further than a non-choke bore.
noncombat adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒmbat/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkɒmbat/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈkʌmbat/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkʌmbat/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkɑmˌbæt/
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1916 Daily Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) 25 Nov. 2/1 The minister believes that of several hundred thousand men exempted an appreciable number will be found..to be capable of enrollment for non-combat service at least.
1971 Fremdsprachen 15 209 In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths.
2006 J. Gordon et al. Leveraging Amer. Aircraft Carrier Capabilities v. 57 The preceding recommendation—improved capability of noncombat-capable carriers to respond to a disaster—would allow the Navy to provide more options [etc.].
non-copyright adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒpɪrʌɪt/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkɒpɪrʌɪt/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkɑpiˌraɪt/
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1889 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 473 In France and Germany..the first issues of standard and current publications, both copyright and non-copyright, are cheaper than anywhere else in the world.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. at Ruskin, John Since 1907, when copyright expired in all Ruskin's books published before 1865, non-copyright reprints have been numerous at cheap prices.
1983 New Scientist 27 Jan. (BNC) The company has devised a system of recording non-copyright material, like discordant brass band music or language tuition, on the bulk rolls of tape as they leave the magnetic coating bath.
non-craft adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkrɑːft/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈkraft/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkrɑːft/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkraft/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkræft/
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1952 Industr. & Labor Relations Rev. 5 487/2 A surprisingly wide range of distribution [of wage rates], especially in the case of noncraft occupations.
1958 Oxf. Mail 6 Aug. 1/1 NATSOPA indicate in a statement that..the question of craft and non-craft unions [etc.].
1996 Which? Guide to starting your own Business (new ed.) iv. 88 The Showman's Directory will give you a list of non-craft events throughout the country.
non-dollar adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈdɒlə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdɑlər/
ΚΠ
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 30 May 8/7 As a non-dollar area, Russia considers herself as both an important seller to Britain and a customer of Britain.
1958 Ann. Reg. 1957 88 Japan was placed on the same footing as other..non-dollar countries.
1994 K. Perry Business & European Community ix. 185 The ECU is a non-dollar hedge.
non-factory adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfakt(ə)ri/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfækt(ə)ri/
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 335 The embroidery of bobbin-net, called lace-running,..a non-factory household work.
1992 J. Rule Vital Cent. (BNC) 194 The tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account.
non-food adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfuːd/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfud/
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1902 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 65 214 As regards the non-food crops,..more cotton was exported than produced.
1946 Nature 7 Sept. 324/1 Possible non-food industrial utilizations of the wheat protein.
1998 Guardian 8 Sept. ii. 13/1 One poorly-understood phenomenon is pica, in which some iron-deficient people crave and eat non-food items, including..soil and ice.
non-Gospel adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡɒspl/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈɡɒspl/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɡɑsp(ə)l/
ΚΠ
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 96 And a thousand more non-Gospel phrases.
2003 www.matthiasmedia.com.au 12 June (O.E.D. Archive) Is non-gospel work second rate? More thoughts on this in a moment.
non-hunting adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈhʌntɪŋ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈhən(t)ɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour in New Monthly Mag. Sept. liii. 115 Mark you, sir, I'll fight you, sir, any non-hunting day you like, sir, except Sunday.
1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 22 Sept. 4/5 The Meko Forest Reserve in Egbado North of Ogun State would be converted to a game reserve and a non-hunting zone.
1990 Outdoor Life Apr. 34/1 It's time for non-hunting and non-angling users of wildlife and fish to pay an extra share of natural resource management costs.
non-image adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪmɪdʒ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɪmɪdʒ/
ΚΠ
1953 R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. XI. 139 The moisture film produced on the plate is continuous on the nonimage areas of the plate.
1970 Publishers' Weekly 14 Sept. 57/2 Traditionally, water has been required to keep non-image areas free from ink.
1995 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 56 90 How does the conceptual (non-image) use..relate to the philosophical use of ‘idea’ in general?
non-jazz adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈdʒaz/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdʒæz/
ΚΠ
1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz viii. 168 The orchestrations for bands, jazz and non-jazz are almost as important as the song plugger himself.
1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xv. 189 His fault at the moment..is his quick switching from jazz to non-jazz phrasing.
1995 Atlantic Oct. 108/2 I'm doing more and more playing in classical venues for nonjazz audiences.
non-kernel adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkəːnl/
,
/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkəːnl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkərn(ə)l/
ΚΠ
1962 Proc. Ninth Internat. Congr. Linguists 692 (heading) Kernel and non-kernel sentences in transformational grammar.
1975 J. Goulet Oh's Profit v. 31 Trabasso: You mean he demonstrates nonkernel sentences? Liedlich: Passive, interrogative, imperative, and he's beginning to get the hang of wh-subordination, too.
non-narrative adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈnarətɪv/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑ(n)ˈnɛrədɪv/
ΚΠ
1914 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 24 195 Non-narrative poetry that so impresses the reader with its extraordinary concreteness.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 237 It shows the written language in use in non-narrative registers.
1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 75/3 Russia had no non-narrative ballet tradition.
non-print adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈprɪnt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈprɪnt/
ΚΠ
1916 N.Y. Times 15 June 14 (advt.) 9-Col. Wales, non-add and non-print keys, totals in red, wide carriage, [etc.].
1939 Accounting Rev. 14 422 Nonprint and nonadd devices make possible all sorts of disparity between the indicated total and the actual one.
1967 Libr. Trends 16 266 The admittedly awkward expression, ‘non-print technologies’, is used to describe materials generally classified under the audio-visual rubric.
1992 Coll. & Res. Libraries News Feb. 142 (advt.) Wanted: Innovative librarian to revitalize collection development program, integrating traditional print collections with non-print and computer-based information resources.
non-protein adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈprəʊtiːn/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈproʊˌtin/
ΚΠ
1909 New Phytologist 8 341 Is phycoerythrin..a non-protein colouring matter?
1956 Nature 28 Jan. 190/2 Binkley..obtained a soluble fraction..which was apparently non-protein in nature.
1993 Ontario Dairy Farmer Sept. 8/1 Ammoniation will break down fibre, increase digestibility and intake, and provide a source of non-protein nitrogen.
non-tax adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtaks/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtæks/
ΚΠ
1891 Econ. Jrnl. 1 824 The proportions of non-tax revenue..were [etc.].
1992 M. C. Cullity & C. A. Brown Taxation & Estate Planning (ed. 3) i. 52 A series of transactions that is carried out primarily for non-tax purposes.
non-thoroughfare adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈθʌrəfɛː/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈθərəˌfɛ(ə)r/
,
/ˌnɑnˈθəroʊˌfɛ(ə)r/
ΚΠ
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 39/2 Other small non-thoroughfare courts, sometimes called blind alleys.
1910 C. Gilbert & F. L. Olmsted Rep. New Haven Civic Improvem. Comm. App. ii. 133 The appearance of a local or non-thoroughfare street which thus widens out after one enters it is apt to be very pleasing.
1979 Route 1 & 301, Robert E. Lee Bridge & Approaches (U.S. Federal Highway Admin.) 4f-6 Since this corridor is a major thoroughfare, the easing of traffic congestion within the area should decrease traffic pressure on nearby, non-thoroughfare streets.
non-title adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtʌɪtl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtaɪd(ə)l/
ΚΠ
1922 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 7/6 The Commission rules permit a top price of $25 for championship bouts... For non-title bouts, Assemblyman McKee suggests $1, $2, $3 and $5.
1999 Sun 26 Oct. 46/1 Jay Larkin..signed the former heavyweight world champ to a long-term contract and paid him £6million for the Norris farce, even though it was a non-title fight.
b.
non-association adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəsəʊsɪˈeɪʃn/
,
/ˌnɒnəsəʊʃɪˈeɪʃn/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnəˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
,
/ˌnɑnəˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/
that is not a member of a particular association; (of electric cable) not conforming to the standard laid down by a trade association.
ΚΠ
1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly June 726/2 Soon all the laughers that were left were the owners and crews of boats that had two non-association pilots.
1909 Installation News 2 180 A class equivalent to what is generally designated throughout the trade as Non-Association Cable.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 582/1 Non-association cable, cable which is not manufactured or designed in accordance with the standards of the Cable Makers' Association.
non-corridor adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkɒrᵻdɔː/
,
/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkɒrᵻdɔː/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkɔrədər/
,
/ˌnɑnˈkɔrəˌdɔr/
not having a corridor; spec. (of a railway train) not having a corridor running the length of the carriage off which separate compartments open.
ΚΠ
1908 Daily Chron. 31 July 1/7 The door on the non-corridor side of the train was found open.
1966 M. Catto Bird on Wing vi. 93 It was one of those old-fashioned non-corridor trains.
2000 P. W. B. Semmens & A. J. Goldfinch How Steam Locomotives really Work vii. 256 (caption) On many lightly-used branch lines, steam locomotives were required to operate..with one or more unbraked goods vehicles coupled on to the rear of the non-corridor passenger carriages.
non-count adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkaʊnt/
,
/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkaʊnt/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkaʊnt/
Grammar designating a noun other than a count noun (i.e. a mass noun).
ΚΠ
1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax ii. 107 Adding the rules that realize Definite as the and non-Definite as null before a following non-Count Noun, we derive the sentence ‘sincerity may frighten the boy.’
1975 Noûs 9 143 If mass-noun constructions are in this sense simply non-count, they need not be regarded as nominal at all.
1998 Eng. Today Oct. 20/2 Items such as furniture, luggage and equipment, which are generally described as ‘noncount nouns’, are used as being grammatically singular in British English.
non-county adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkaʊnti/
,
/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkaʊnti/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkaʊn(t)i/
designating a borough that does not have the administrative status of a county in English local government.
ΚΠ
1893 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 56 310 Non-county boroughs.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 May 9/2 Property owned and leased by county and non-county boroughs.
1963 Times 7 June 3/7 It contains a detailed breakdown of the rates levied by the 83 county boroughs and 28 metropolitan boroughs, and there is also a representative selection of 226 non-county boroughs, 219 urban districts and 144 rural districts.
1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) ii. 19 Those boroughs which failed to gain county borough status remained as non-county boroughs and became district councils, for local government purposes, within the counties.
non-dairy adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈdɛːri/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdɛri/
of or relating to farms other than dairy farms; (of a foodstuff) not made from or containing dairy produce.
ΚΠ
1933 I. G. Davis in J. K. Wright New England's Prospect viii. 158 Throughout the dairy and general farming regions of the upland will be found scattered specialized farms of non-dairy types.
1969 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 29 508 The nondairy sectors may have been characterized by large productivity advances.
1972 Which? Sept. 263/2 The non-dairy ice creams we found with the highest amount of non-fat milk solids and fat.
2000 J. Cummings World Food: Thailand 105 Most restaurants..serve instant coffee with packets of non-dairy creamer on the side.
non-fat adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfat/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfæt/
containing little or no fat; cf. non-fatty adj. at sense 3b.
ΚΠ
1905 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 76 382 Solids, non-fat.
1957 Woman's Day (N.Y.) July (inside front cover) Velveeta's special goodness comes from the non-fat part of the milk.
1969 Listener 30 Jan. 159/3 The important nutrients in milk (protein, vitamins and minerals, commonly known as the ‘non-fat solids’).
1990 Independent 6 June 11/1 The latest non-foods in the American cabinet are non-industrial meats and non-fat ice-cream.
non-fossil adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfɒsl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfɑs(ə)l/
not of the nature of or derived from a fossil fuel.
ΚΠ
1955 Sci. Monthly 81 21/1 Measurement of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere to determine the contribution of fossil versus nonfossil carbon compounds.
1971 Country Life 19 Aug. 422/2 It must be hoped that the development of non-fossil sources of power will make these deposits redundant.
1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) ix. 147 The International Conference on the Changing Atmosphere called for..a shift to nonfossil energy sources.
non-game adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡeɪm/
,
/(ˌ)nɒŋˈɡeɪm/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɡeɪm/
(of a bird or other animal) that does not fall into the category of game animal; relating to such an animal.
ΚΠ
1886 Science 26 Feb. 203/1 None of the bird-laws are above improvement... In respect to the non-game birds, nearly all require..change.
1939 WPA Guide to Florida (1984) i. 33 A separate commission administers all laws pertaining to game and nongame birds.
1991 Chile Pepper June 13/2 The chapters, containing the glossary, the basics..and the non-game recipes.
1996 High Country News 27 May 11/1 What we did was fold the nongame people into either the aquatic or wildlife section.
non-haem adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈhiːm/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈhim/
(also non-heme) Biochemistry designating iron that does not form part of a coordination complex with a porphyrin molecule.
ΚΠ
1953 Amer. Naturalist 87 66 Non-heme iron compounds.
1968 Proc. Royal Soc. 1967–8 A. 302 352 Xanthine oxidase belongs to the same class of non-haem iron compounds as spinach ferredoxin.
1992 Internat. Jrnl. Food Sci. & Nutrition 43 163/2 Tea, coffee and red wine inhibit the absorption of non-haem iron in foods with which they are consumed.
non-pressure adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈprɛʃə/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈprɛʃər/
that does not involve pressure (literal or figurative).
ΚΠ
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Non- Nonpressure.
1935 Hot News Aug. 18/3 He used the non-pressure method common to most white players, producing a tone..with just a suggestion of a growl.
1949 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 5 Non-pressure cowling, a cowling designed to prevent entry of surrounding air into the engine nacelle.
1956 Public Opinion Q. 20 9 The idea of systematic reporting was extended to include non-pressure mail.
2001 Atlanta Constit. (Electronic ed.) 5 Oct. We see this as a way to work on our groundstrokes in a nonpressure situation.
non-return-to-zero adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻtəːntəˈzɪərəʊ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˌtərn(t)əˈzɪroʊ/
,
/ˌnɑnrəˌtərn(t)əˈziroʊ/
,
/ˌnɑnriˌtərn(t)əˈzɪroʊ/
,
/ˌnɑnriˌtərn(t)əˈziroʊ/
Electronics designating a type of binary signal which does not return to 0 following each bit (as opposed to a return-to-zero signal); relating to or involving such a signal.A non-return-to-zero signal can store up to twice as much data as a return-to-zero signal.
ΚΠ
1951 A. A. Cohen et al. U.S. Patent 2,540,654 5 A ‘non-return-to-zero’ system..has certain advantages over the ‘return-to-zero’ system.
1968 Nucl. Instruments & Methods 58 223/1 Two magnetostrictive delay lines which have a bit rate of 2 MHz and operate in NRZ (non return to zero) mode.
2005 A. L. Norberg Computers & Commerce iii. 126 Different types of recording states, using both return-to-zero and non-return-to-zero carrier techniques.
non-tariff adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtarɪf/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtɛrəf/
Economics not involving or using a tariff; spec. (a) (of an insurance company) making use of a set of tariffs or rates agreed by a number of insurance companies; (b) designating a restriction on international trade other than a customs duty.
ΚΠ
1869 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 32 223 The last amalgamation recorded in Mr. Lefevre's paper is that of the Non-Tariff Insurance Company (Limited), formerly called the Hercules Fire and Life Insurance Company (Limited).
1901 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 10 145 The companies are confronted by anti-compact and anti-trust legislation which..assists in perpetuating the conflict between tariff and non-tariff companies.
1940 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 48 770 A comprehensive study of this country's nontariff trade barriers and controls has long been overdue.
1977 D. C. M. Platt Business Imperialism ii. 73 The British local boards were continually obliged to give way to non-tariff companies and insurance brokers over rates and regulations.
1992 J. Henley et al. Rival States, Rival Firms 111 Many developing countries try to liberalise their trade regimes..by reducing or eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers.
nonwireline adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈwʌɪəlʌɪn/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈwaɪ(ə)rˌlaɪn/
Telecommunications designating or relating to a form of telecommunications not using a fixed network like conventional telephony.
ΚΠ
1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 15 Apr. The FCC would fence off half the radio frequencies in each city for the local phone company. The other half would be up for grabs for any nonwireline carrier.
1994 New Jersey Computer User Jan. 3/2 One [service] provides the phone system to which the cellular phone connects (wireline) and the other provides the radio portion of the service (nonwireline).
1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Feb. a5/1 Associated will spin off..its stake in Portatel del Sureste, a non-wireline cellular system in southeastern Mexico.
5.
a. Prefixed to a verb to form its negative, with the sense ‘to refuse, neglect, or fail to do’ the thing specified. Cf. the use with gerunds (sense 7).This use has always been rather unusual. Cf. non-church v., non-concur v., non-consent v., non-cooperate v., non-intervene v., nonwill v.
ΚΠ
1645 W. Ball Tractatus de Jure Regnandi 8 I conceive..power..to consist rather in..the King's power to consent, and Act, rather than in his power to non-consent and non-act.
1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 40 The civill power..ought to non-licentiate him that shall take upon him..to prescribe to the people poysonous Drugs.
1846 T. De Quincey Mem. Marquess Wellesley in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 194/2 A war administration, that ever feebly misapplied, or non-applied, the resources of a mighty empire.
1911 M. Parton & C. Manning in C. E. Persons et al. Labor Laws 53 The House went on record as favorable to the resolution. The State nonconcurred.
1921 Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 9/1 The leaflet..asks the Moplahs actively to non-co-operate with the Government.
1969 Sociometry 32 316 He conforms or nonconforms as a strategy for manipulating the other person's liking for him.
1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 18 Apr. a.2/4 Arthur was one of several House members to take the floor Tuesday to urge the legislators to non-concur in the Senate amendments.
b. Prefixed to the bare infinitive of a verb to form an adjective with the sense ‘that does not do, undergo, or require’ the action specified (esp. in commercial contexts); cf. no adj. Compounds 3b. See also non-drip adj., non-iron adj., non-skid adj., non-stick adj.
non-crease adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈkriːs/
,
/ˌnɒŋˈkriːs/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkris/
ΚΠ
1936 N.Y. Times 22 Oct. 5 (advt.) Solid color non-crease authentic imp't'd English Macclesfield silk cravats.
1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress ix. 200 Utility non-crease (though they were neither) ready-made dresses.
1969 Punch 5 Feb. 195/1 You should wear non-crease clothes.
1998 Zest Sept. 36/2 These sleek bullet-style eye crayons..have a luscious and creamy, non-crease formulation.
non-crush adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈkrʌʃ/
,
/ˌnɒŋˈkrʌʃ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkrəʃ/
ΚΠ
1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 247/2 The heavy weight non-crush costume linens absorb an enormous quantity of flax in spinning.
1961 Times 4 Dec. (Agric. Suppl.) p. iii/5 An optional extra to be combined with a non-crush cab.
2000 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 12 Feb. The liberating introduction of takeaway food and non-crush nylon.
non-dazzle adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈdazl/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈdæz(ə)l/
ΚΠ
1949 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 Feb. 19 (advt.) A 30% increase in vision is given by the Opticurve non-dazzle windshield.
1962 Times 5 May 9/4 A non-dazzle protective covering for our remaining pictures.
1999 What's New in Building (Nexis) June A 150W high pressure sodium lamp for non-dazzle roadway illumination.
non-glare adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈɡlɛː/
,
/ˌnɒŋˈɡlɛː/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɡlɛ(ə)r/
ΚΠ
1914 N.Y. Times 30 Aug. 3 (advt.) Non-glare, dimmer headlights.
1937 Science 11 June 556/2 Non-glare automotive lights.
1994 Ontario Out of Doors Sept. 57/1 All-weather plastic decoys are finished with a rugged, chip-resistant, non-glare paint.
non-shrink adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈʃrɪŋk/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈʃrɪŋk/
ΚΠ
1927 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. viii. 22 (advt.) ‘Non-Shrink’ dress flannel.
1946 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 109 203 The qualities of natural wool have been further improved in recent years by the development of new scientific processes for non-shrink treatment.
a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) vii. 237 The Zodiac..signs are featured..in advertisements for..non-shrink cottons.
1991 Highways & Transportation Sept. 11/1 The shear bars were grouted using Conbextra HF non-shrink grout.
6.
a. Prefixed to participial adjectives to form adjectives with the sense ‘that does not, that has not been’, the thing specified. (As with sense 3a, there is sometimes a contrast with a parallel word formed with in- or un-, e.g. non-principled against unprincipled, non-sporting against unsporting.)Such compounds are very common in scientific use.
non-aspirated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈaspᵻreɪtᵻd/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈæspəˌreɪdᵻd/
ΚΠ
1888 Proc. Royal Soc. 44 459 Micro-organisms in non-aspirated tube.
1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. i. iii. 42 The non-aspirated mediae are treated differently from the aspirated mediae.
1992 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 29 438/2 Air temperature..was measured by thermistors..inside non-aspirated, open-ended shields.
† non-azotized adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 186 A non-azotized animal or vegetable substance.
1875 T. S. Hunt Chem. & Geol. Ess. x. 179 The lower forms of animals contain considerable portions of a non-azotized tissue.
non-binding adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbʌɪndɪŋ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbaɪndɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1918 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 12 850 [Austria] addressed a communication and note to belligerents and neutrals suggesting meeting for preliminary and non-binding discussion of war aims.
1994 Wanderer 11 Aug. 1/7 Then, in a real coup de main, some 150 left-leaning members..succeeded in passing a nonbinding resolution.
non-budding adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbʌdɪŋ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbədɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 69 The lateral non-budding polyps of the branch.
1956 Nature 31 Mar. 626/1 Single, non-budding cells were isolated with a micromanipulator and paired with similar cells of the opposite mating type.
non-centralized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsɛntrəlʌɪzd/
,
/(ˌ)nɒnˈsɛntrl̩ʌɪzd/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɛntrəˌlaɪzd/
ΚΠ
1893 G. B. Shaw Let. 11 Jan. (1965) I. 377 My present intention is to go uncompromisingly for..non-centralized local organization of the Labor Party.
1995 in Purpose & Use of Res. (BNC) Within the much more diverse and non-centralised British university system, such central control would be unacceptable.
non-ciliated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsɪlɪeɪtᵻd/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɪliˌeɪdᵻd/
ΚΠ
1856 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 148 141 One of the ordinary or non-generative segmental organs of the common Earthworm..; at j the enlarged non-ciliated portion ends.
1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) vi. 79 The duct in this portion of the tube is wide, intracellular, and non-ciliated.
1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) iv. 36/2 Asexual reproduction is common. It may occur by..production of frustules (non-ciliated planula-like bodies which develop into polyps).
non-clogging adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈklɒɡɪŋ/
,
/(ˌ)nɒŋˈklɒɡɪŋ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈklɑɡɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1910 Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 8/5 A truly efficient non-clogging lubricant has been used.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 106/2 Automatic recoil-starter eliminating the use of loose starting rope; special non-clogging, fast-cutting blades.
1991 Public Wks. Oct. 96/3 (advt.) An advanced non-clogging orifice design and built-in underdrain insure fast, continuous dewatering.
non-coloured adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkʌləd/
,
/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkʌləd/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkələrd/
ΚΠ
1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 119 These non-colored refracting points keep continually going out of sight.
1962 E. Cleaver in Negro Hist. Bull. 25 129/2 Blue eyes, long straight blonde hair, and non-colored skin.
1989 Jrnl. Heredity 80 62/2 Based on F1 results, he reported that colored lemmas were dominant over noncolored ones.
non-committed adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtᵻd/
,
/ˌnɒŋkəˈmɪtᵻd/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnkəˈmɪdᵻd/
ΚΠ
1848 J. J. Crittenden Let. 9 Dec. in C. Coleman Life John J. Crittenden (1873) 330 [He] will come into office more non-committed than any President we have had since the days of Washington.
1901 R. Fry Let. 14 Mar. (1972) I. 180 Shannon, coming to such design from the Impressionist side,..goes off into vague non-committed tastefulness.
1970 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness (1973) 153 My non-alignment with reality is quite evident and explainable..my being Black and non-committed to any political truths.
1991 Elle (U.S. ed.) Apr. 176/3 A hash-house waitress in a dead-end relationship with a noncommitted musician.
non-corroding adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkəˈrəʊdɪŋ/
,
/ˌnɒŋkəˈrəʊdɪŋ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnkəˈroʊdɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1889 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 367/2 The gun..was..to be made of a single piece of non-corroding, unbreakable material.
1988 M. Stewart Quick Cook Menus ii. 61 Put the sugar in a noncorroding saucepan and stir in 1 cup of the strained juice.
non-denaturing adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndiːˈneɪtʃərɪŋ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑndiˈneɪtʃərɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1965 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 53 643 The conformational changes induced in insulin by nondenaturing electrolytic reduction.
1993 Cell 73 306/1 After electrophoresis on a nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel, the PCR products were autoradiographed.
non-discharging adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndɪsˈtʃɑːdʒɪŋ/
,
U.S. /ˌnɑnˌdɪsˈtʃɑrdʒɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 167 The tissue having become firm, even, and non-discharging.
1988 Cortex 24 465 A discrete nondischarging lesion of the left fornix.
non-enquiring adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻnˈkwʌɪərɪŋ/
,
/ˌnɒnᵻŋˈkwʌɪərɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒnɛnˈkwʌɪərɪŋ/
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1811 Agric. Mag. Mar. 141 The slop-tilth opinion..remains in full force, among the ancient non-enquiring party, even of a certain district of exuberant fertility.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel ix. 561 A non-enquiring acquiescence in doubt, which is the peril of this day.
1958 Public Admin. 36 220 A less obvious but none the less damaging variant of the non-enquiring mind is seen at all levels of administration in the shape of a too-ready acceptance of the form in which problems are presented.
1993 Swami Venkatesananda tr. Vasiṣṭha's Yoga ii. 33 The non-enquiring fool is really a storehouse of sorrow. It is the absence of enquiry that gives rise to actions that are harmful to oneself and to others.
non-excepted adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻkˈsɛptᵻd/
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1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. v. 279 The supposed exception..according to the rule makes the affirmation hold the more strongly in the non-excepted instances.
1820 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 13 June I must..consider the duties on all the non-excepted articles as liable to cash payment.
2000 New Jersey Lawyer (Nexis) 17 Apr. The seller ordinarily is liable for the commission if the property is sold to any non-excepted buyer during the listing term.
non-fabricated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfabrᵻkeɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈfæbrəˌkeɪdᵻd/
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1939 Mind 48 170 The first objection asserts that all universals are fabricated, and no non-fabricated universals exist.
1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Sept. The results..are after a charge from the writedown of certain machinery and equipment in its non-fabricated line of business.
non-flagellated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈfladʒəleɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈflædʒəˌleɪdᵻd/
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1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. i. 16 The non-flagellated plasmodium..sporulates in the human blood-corpuscle.
1994 Jrnl. Plankton Res. 16 457 Released cells were non-flagellated and mostly located in the G-1 phase of the cell cycle.
non-galvanized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡalvənʌɪzd/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈɡalvənʌɪzd/
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rare
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1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 240 The non-galvanized rabbit wheezed audibly, and made frequent attempts to vomit.
2002 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 18 Jan. All new light poles being put up are galvanized steel but about 70% of the 77,000 are non-galvanized.
non-glottalized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡlɒtl̩ʌɪzd/
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1930 E. Sapir Southern Paiute 42 There are..certain cases..of initial short-voweled and non-glottalized syllables that seem to count for two moras and hence to bear the main stress.
1970 R. W. Wescott in Word 26 6 A regular interchange..between nonglottalized and glottalized stops.
non-graduated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡradʒʊeɪtᵻd/
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1693 Oxford-act ii. 11 For Graduates, and Non-graduated..the Gall'ries are reserved.
1711 in T. Clap Brief Hist. & Vindic. Churches of New-Eng. (1755) 377 The Rector..shall..cause the non-graduated Students to repeat Sermons.
1877 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 40 71 The influence on secessions of a non-graduated scale of payments will be self-evident.
1986 Stud. Family Planning 17 136/2 Many types of incentive can be offered:..graduated (depending on the number of children a couple has) or nongraduated, [etc.].
non-graphitizing adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡrafᵻtʌɪzɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɡræfəˌtaɪzɪŋ/
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1951 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 209 203 At a certain temperature..there is formed, in a non-graphitizing carbon, a certain proportion of graphitic or graphitizable carbon.
1971 Nature 30 July 306/2 The graphitizable carbon fibres probably have superior tensile properties..than the equivalently heated non-graphitizing carbon fibres.
non-growing adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡrəʊɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɡroʊɪŋ/
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1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 241 These..can only be safely and properly shipped during the cold or non-growing season.
1937 Discovery June 173/1 The non-growing tip must have some control over the growing region below it.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes x. 141/2 A habitat with distinct growing and nongrowing seasons, such as most temperate lakes.
non-immunized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪmjᵿnʌɪzd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɪmjəˌnaɪzd/
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1901 Science 3 May 694/2 The blood serum of non-immunized animals did not possess this antagonizing action.
1993 Jrnl. Trop. Pediatrics 39 74/2 Non-immunized children may have residual malnutrition secondary to preventable childhood diseases.
non-incarnated adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈkɑːneɪtᵻd/
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/ˌnɒnɪŋˈkɑːneɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɪnˌkɑrˌneɪdᵻd/
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1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life ii. 14 The glorious condition of the non-incarnated Son of God.
1916 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 46 404 The term waiwaia, which means embryo,..is also applied to the nonincarnated spirit children.
1989 Yale French Stud. No. 76. 293 The Swan..might be thought to be an idealized, nonincarnated and nonmortal version of the swan.
non-industrialized adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈdʌstrɪəlʌɪzd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈdəstriəˌlaɪzd/
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1920 A. Sweetswer League of Nations at Work 160 We will have the highly industrialized countries as against the non-industrialized countries.
1967 Brain 90 881 The agricultural practices in industrialized and non-industrialized regions are likely to differ.
2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 28 Feb. To stop themselves from being over-run by global corporations, non-industrialised countries have taken some measures.
non-inflected adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈflɛktᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈflɛktəd/
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1837 J. S. Mill Let. Sept. in Wks. (1963) XII. 350 Our non-inflected language.
1928 Mod. Lang. Rev. 23 136 Then we shall have two genitives in English, one inflected and one non-inflected.
1994 Managem. Sci. 40 736/1 For noninflected utility functions, moderate changes in wealth..have negligible effect on preference.
non-integrated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪntᵻɡreɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɪn(t)əˌɡreɪdᵻd/
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1854 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 144 69 The arc of a curve may in general be represented as the sum of two quantities, an integrated and a non-integrated part.
1902 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 16 223 A conservative policy is..more necessary in the capitalization of an integrated than of a non-integrated company.
2001 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 4 Apr. Problems such as non-integrated ticketing and doubling-up of services were multiplied for people with a disability.
non-interacting adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪntərˈaktɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪn(t)ərˈæktɪŋ/
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1923 Mind 32 323 If one mind can direct or control the ideas of another mind..then our bodies instead of being..the means by which non-interacting minds can have intercourse must be a hindrance to the direct interaction of minds.
1991 Progress Polymer Sci. 16 20 For spherical, non-interacting particles we find ϕi = 0.68.
non-interrupted adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪntəˈrʌptᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪn(t)əˈrəptəd/
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a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Shrop. 3 They have flourished the owners thereof, by an noninterrupted succession, from the time of King Edward the Confessor.
1867 J. King Causes Chronic Dis. 1241 Between the tympanal membrane and the labyrinthine cavities are a non-interrupted chain of ossicles.
1998 Managem. Sci. 44 704/1 A batch is a non-interrupted sequence of periods where production takes place for the same item.
non-intoxicating adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈtɒksᵻkeɪtɪŋ/
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1857 E. Nott Lect. Temperance p. xxi A mild, innocent, non-intoxicating state of the vinous fluid.
1919 in U.S. Statutes at Large (1921) 41 i. 316 The penalties provided..shall not apply to a person for manufacturing nonintoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his home.
1996 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. Child advocacy groups..have fought..to adopt a nonintoxicating formula, to add an irritant to the glue..or..to withdraw the product.
non-introduced adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪntrəˈdjuːst/
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/ˌnɒnɪntrəˈdʒuːst/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪntrəˈd(j)ust/
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1897 Science 10 Sept. 389/2 Fauvel..raises the number of non-introduced or circumpolar species to 366.
1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) v. ii. 217 Note the following example of a non-introduced clause (with so): I paid him double, I was so pleased.
1996 Ecology 77 469/1 The fact that disappearance was no higher for introduced than for nonintroduced females does not support the view that familiarity with the breeding area reduces the risk if predation.
non-involved adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈvɒlvd/
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1948 Yale French Stud. No. 2. 70 Valéry had confined himself to poetical exercises which were intensely non-involved.
1973 S. Fisher Female Orgasm xv. 434 A signal for potential future sexual difficulties is..a distant, non-involved relationship with the father.
1994 J. Updike Brazil v. 42 They had kindly, wrinkled, non-involved faces, like those of vegetable sellers in the market.
non-ionized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈʌɪənʌɪzd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈaɪəˌnaɪzd/
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1898 Philos. Trans. 1897 (Royal. Soc.) A. 190 280 The total diffusion would now consist of this part belonging to the ionized portion.., together with the actual diffusion of the non-ionized portion.
1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. iii. 39 At the physiological pH of body fluids, drug molecules exist as a mixture of the nonionized or uncharged molecular form and the ionized or charged form.
non-ionizing adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈʌɪənʌɪzɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈaɪəˌnaɪzɪŋ/
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1900 Science 12 Oct. 551/1 The change from the enol to the keto form being promoted by ionizing solvents like water and alcohol, while non-ionizing solvents prevent or hinder it.
1939 Physical Rev. 55 24 These non-ionizing particles must be much more penetrating than photons.
1991 Connecticut Environment Jan. 14/1 Microwaves and radio waves are called non-ionizing radiation.
non-living adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈlɪvɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈlɪvɪŋ/
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1868 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 394 Agenesis, or the formation of a living being by the spontaneous organization of non-living matter.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 261 For Haldane, regulation places organisms in a different category from any non-living systems.
1992 M. Riva Marlene Dietrich 706 It is this nonchallenging, this automatic acceptance,..of utterances made by ‘living legends’, and even nonliving ones, that angers me.
non-marrying adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈmarɪɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈmɛriɪŋ/
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1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xxxvii A non-marrying man, as the slang goes.
1972 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 37 158/2 To the extent that this non-marrying population lived in isolated households, [etc.]
non-nasalized adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈneɪzl̩ʌɪzd/
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1950 Mod. Lang. Notes 65 475 Contrasts between nasalized and non-nasalized vowels.
1993 Current Anthropol. 34 575/1 The ability to produce certain nonnasalized phonemes.
non-nitrogenized adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒ(n)nʌɪˈtrɒdʒᵻnʌɪzd/
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/ˌnɒ(n)nʌɪˈtrɒdʒn̩ʌɪzd/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈnʌɪtrədʒᵻnʌɪzd/
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1842 J. Liebig Animal Chem. i. xix. 493 The substances of which the food of man is composed may be divided into two classes; into nitrogenised and non-nitrogenised. The former are capable of conversion into blood; the latter incapable of this transformation.
1948 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 9 208 Nitrogenized and non-nitrogenized principles of food.
non-nucleated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈnjuːklɪeɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈn(j)ukliˌeɪdᵻd/
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1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 595 Simple, non-granular, non-nucleated, pellucid, spherical globules.
1933 A. Piney tr. P. Morawitz Blood Dis. in Clin. Pract. ii. 12 Among the non-nucleated red corpuscles Jenner's stain often shows elements which are not purely red, but violet.
1990 Sciences Nov. 8/3 A team of..biologists announced the discovery of dense communities of archaebacteria (non-nucleated organisms that differ markedly from bacteria) in another novel habitat.
non-overlapping adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəʊvəˈlapɪŋ/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈəʊvəlapɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌoʊvərˈlæpɪŋ/
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1894 C. Scott Mod. Anal. Geom. 162 A hyperbolic involution is non-overlapping.
1950 Mind 59 202 The division is exhaustive and non-overlapping.
1995 Atlantic Monthly June 34/3 Taping even a single event forces you indelibly to divide the moments of your life into two nonoverlapping categories: those that are worthy of subsequent viewing and those that are not.
non-oxidating adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɒksᵻdeɪtɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɑksəˌdeɪdɪŋ/
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1801 H. Davy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 399 The wire from the non-oxidating surface.
1986 R. Manoliu & M. Negulescu tr. M. Negulescu Municipal Waste Water Treatm. x. 408 (caption) Flow diagram of a non-oxidating heat conditioning process.
2015 P. Sweeney Gunsmithing Pistols & Revolvers (ed. 4) ix. 138 Ferritic Nitrocarburizing... Passivation is a process where the bonding sites where oxidation may occur have already been appropriated by a neutral, non-oxidating element.
non-oxidizing adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɒksᵻdʌɪzɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɑksəˌdaɪzɪŋ/
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1868 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 244 We pass from the electro-negative, non-oxidizing extreme of the Halogens..to the electro-positive, violently oxidizing extreme of the alkaline metals.
1918 Mining Mag. 19 193/1 Hydrochloric acid, a strong non-oxidizing acid capable of decomposing solid silicates.
1989 A. C. Davies Sci. & Pract. Welding (ed. 9) I. ii. 122 Annealing is usually carried out in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.
non-palatalized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈpalətəlʌɪzd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpælədlˌaɪzd/
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1888 Mod. Lang. Notes 3 172/1 A simple non-palatalized product for Latin un.
1977 Archivum Linguisticum 8 74 Even if we overrule the theoretical objection to a large set of consonants having palatalized and nonpalatalized allophones, there are still two objections to assuming that i-umlaut caused develarization of [ɫ].
non-perforated adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈpəːfəreɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpərfəˌreɪdᵻd/
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1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. x. 187 Their shape so much resembles the Sea Ears, that most authors..call them non-perforated Sea Ears.
1874 W. I. Burnett tr. C. T. E. von Siebold Anat. Invertebrata (new ed.) 192 Two delicate..peduncles, which arise from the sides of the two cardinal teeth situated upon the non-perforated valve.
1996 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 83 1102/2 The area of pores (as compared to nonperforated primary wall remnants)..is appreciably less.
non-pigmented adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnpɪɡˈmɛntᵻd/
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ΚΠ
1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 561 Blue eyes..are due to the urea shining through the non-pigmented iris.
1989 K. Conlon Distant Relations vi. 70 A patch of non-pigmented skin on his thigh.
non-playing adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈpleɪɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpleɪɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1860 R. S. Surtees Plain or Ringlets? iv. xxix. 107 The non-playing Major..volunteered his advice.
1898 H. E. Byers in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 206 The non-playing men alternately shout their approbation and make heavy bets.
1959 Times 11 Sept. 9/3 The British team's non-playing captain.
1993 Independent 15 Jan. 2/4 The organisers have threatened Short with a fine of 20,000 Swiss francs..for refusing to speak to the press on non-playing days.
† non-plushed adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster ix, in Whims & Oddities 124 Below he wears the nether garb of males, Of crimson plush, but non-plushed at the knee.
non-polarized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈpəʊlərʌɪzd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpoʊləˌraɪzd/
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1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy iii. 60 A non-polarized relay..is not much used in England. The forms of relay more largely used are called polarized, because their armatures are either permanent magnets or are maintained in a magnetized condition.
1946 Nature 30 Nov. 794/2 The erythrocytes become dipoles..and form chain-like aggregates... Sedimentation-rates of such red-cell aggregates will be greater than those of single non-polarized blood cells.
1990 On Sat 24 June 109/3 Try reversing the non-polarized AC cords on the receiver and the positioner.
non-polluting adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnpəˈluːtɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒnpəˈljuːtɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnpəˈludɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1889 Amer. Naturalist 23 966 These non-polluting germs.
1967 Economist 8 July 107/3 Tenants in some rural areas had to prostrate themselves at a safe, non-polluting distance on the one day they saw their Brahmin landlord, rent day.
2000 CEEmail Summer 5/1 Designing for sustainability means..choosing materials that are non-polluting.
non-preaching adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈpriːtʃɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈpritʃɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1622 King James VI & I Let. in G. Abbot Coppie of Let. 2 Not onely for a helpe for the Non-preaching, but withall for a patterne..for the preaching Ministers.
1645 His Majesties Proclam., concerning Bk. Common Prayer 5 The Common-Prayer was a meanes to nuzzle up a non-preaching and ignorant Ministry.
1861 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 465 The non-preaching incumbents of livings.
1991 Hist. Jrnl. 34 777 Doggerel verses..had accused the late archbishop..of being a patron of dumb dogs—non-preaching ministers.
non-preferred adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnprᵻˈfəːd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnpriˈfərd/
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/ˌnɑnprəˈfərd/
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a1866 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 217 The principle of equity or fairness exists..as between the preferred and the non-preferred.
1884 Mind 9 104 A tendency..to make an..error in favour of the non-preferred hand.
1964 Gloss. Letterpress Rotary Printing Terms (B.S.I.) 13 Ghosting, a non-preferred term for second impression set off.
2001 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Dec. He..crashed out of the US PGA Tour qualifying tournament last week, leaving no choice but to take up his non-preferred option of using his two-year exemption in Europe.
non-principled adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈprɪnsᵻpld/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈprɪnsəp(ə)ld/
ΚΠ
1885 Spectator 10 Jan. 51/2 The cynical and unprincipled, or at least non-principled, time of which he writes.
1990 N.Y. Woman Dec. 20/3 She is not only beautiful and talented but a breath of fresh air in these times of tarty, crass, nonprincipled, aggressive starlets.
non-professed adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnprəˈfɛst/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnprəˈfɛst/
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/ˌnɑnproʊˈfɛst/
ΚΠ
1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg 101 At Malta the bailiff Marulli has just made a call of all the knights professed and non-professed.
1844 Eng. Rev. Oct. 124 Every Jesuit, professed or non-professed.
1925 Amer. Mercury July 299/1 Between 95 and 98 per cent of those who were killed have been shown by statistics to have been non-professed Christians.
1994 16th Cent. Jrnl. 25 792 By 1549, the choir and clisters..resounded with the voices of more than eighty-three women, at least fifteen identifiably nonprofessed.
non-proliferating adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnprəˈlɪfəreɪtɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnprəˈlɪfəˌreɪdɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnproʊˈlɪfəˌreɪdɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1930 Q. Rev. Biol. 5 331/2 He used ‘non-proliferating’ bacteria.
1995 Planta Medica 61 313/1 All members of the series exhibited readily detected cytotoxic activity against proliferating and non-proliferating..cells in culture.
non-rectified adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈrɛktᵻfʌɪd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈrɛktəˌfaɪd/
ΚΠ
1782 Ann. Reg. 1780 Chron. 262/2 Many..killed themselves with drinking non-rectified spirits.
1869 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 159 179 A portion of non-rectified acid obtained from some double fluoride of hydrogen and potassium.
1999 Jrnl. Socio-econ. (Nexis) 28 Public corporations should be allowed to opt into a requirement that counsel notify the SEC of non-rectified wrongdoing.
non-recurring adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈkəːrɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈkərɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnriˈkərɪŋ/
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1889 Polit. Sci. Q. 4 722 A total of..81,349,597 marks of non-recurring expenditure in the ordinary estimates.
1910 Daily Chron. 7 Mar. 1/7 They did not mix up recurring and non-recurring expenditure.
1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 June 23/4 It consists of..net profit adjusted for any non-cash charges such as depreciation, or nonrecurring charges such as write-offs of absolute assets.
non-referring adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈfəːrɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈfərɪŋ/
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1906 Philos. Rev. 15 55 Only at certain intervals and simultaneously with a few non-referring quales do genuine references or interpretations occur.
1957 A. N. Prior Time & Modality 61 Genuinely non-referring names..are excluded.
1984 Fremdsprachen 28 241 English syntax permits ‘it’, too, as a non-referring subject in certain structures (‘It is cold’).
non-reflecting adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈflɛktɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈflɛktɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnriˈflɛktɪŋ/
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1788 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 56 The heat produced by the rays of the sun..at the points where they strike an opaque and non-reflecting surface.
1883 J. Millington Are we to read Backwards? 93 Paper of a brown or yellow tint, with a dead or non-reflecting surface.
1991 S. Constantine Hermetech (BNC) 302 A sleek computer housed in non-reflecting black sat seductively on a complex work station.
non-regimented adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈrɛdʒᵻmɛntᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈrɛdʒəˌmɛn(t)əd/
rare after 17th and before 20th cent.
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1653 Perfect Diurnall No. 191. 2906 A great part of the Army reduced, 11 Regiments of Foot, and 4 Regiments of Horse, besides all independant, or non-Regimented Troopers, and Foot-Companies, all consisting of 5000 Foot, and 3000 Horse.
1684 E. Chamberlayne 2nd Pt. Present State Eng. (ed. 12) ii. 138 The rest of his Majesties established Forces..being non-regimented.
1942 Amer. Econ. Rev. 32 19 The range within which the government can influence the level of employment is broad but,..in a nonregimented economy, limited.
1982 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 43 169 Two millennia of nonregimented philosophical discussion of ontological questions tell against this claim.
non-scripted adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈskrɪptᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈskrɪptᵻd/
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1959 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 32 424 To them it is necessary to have an actor speak the lines... We look to cheerier non-scripted days.
2001 Vogue (U.S. ed.) June 198/1 Bunim/Murray Productions is a reality-TV factory..for editors and camerapeople who have gone on to other so-called nonscripted shows.
non-specialized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈspɛʃəlʌɪzd/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈspɛʃl̩ʌɪzd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈspɛʃəˌlaɪzd/
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1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 374 The sound-waves probably enter the ampullar ends of the canals with much greater force than they enter the non-specialized ends.
1923 University Jrnl. Business 2 28 Tests for non-specialized clerical work.
1994 Sci. Amer. Sept. 73/2 Before the industrial revolution, there was a nonspecialized approach to manufacturing goods.
non-sporting adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈspɔːtɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈspɔrdɪŋ/
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1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour in New Monthly Mag. Jan. lxiii. 122 The non-sporting inmates of Nonsuch House.
1925 E. M. Aitken Pets i. 28 The Kennel Club has two main divisions, sporting breeds and non-sporting breeds.
1999 Sport at Home & Abroad (Finlayson Hughes) 11/2 For the non-sporting guest the estate offers gentle hill walks.
non-striated adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnstrʌɪˈeɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈstraɪˌeɪdᵻd/
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1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope xviii. 722 The ‘smooth’ or non-striated form of Muscular fibre.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) iii. 33 Both striated and non-striated muscle may be the seat of fatty degeneration.
1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) i. 5 Musculature in the vertebrates is of two types, striated and smooth (or nonstriated)—the two differing sharply in minute structure and in distribution in the body.
non-terminating adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈtəːmᵻneɪtɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈtərməˌneɪdɪŋ/
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1895 Amer. Math. Monthly 2 151 The inconsistency is interminable inasmuch as the series..is non-terminating.
1905 Ann. Math. 6 175 An example of a non-denumerable class is the class of all non-terminating decimal fractions.
1936 Mind 45 105 Popper..recognises that falsification, too, is a non-terminating process.
1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 7715/2 The number of each of the 61 nonterminating codons for all 254 sequences was determined.
non-threatening adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈθrɛtn̩ɪŋ/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈθrɛtnɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈθrɛtn̩ɪŋ/
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1941 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 6 668 Completely nonviolent and nonthreatening to the White culture, the Peyote cult has been able to survive in an environment which was radically opposed to the messianic movements.
1999 Dogs Today Oct. 40/1 Socialisation is how a dog learns to recognise and interact with others. Habituation occurs when a dog becomes accustomed to non-threatening environmental stimuli and learns to ignore them.
† non-turbinated adj. Obsolete rare
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1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. iv. 80 Univalves, in which they comprehend both the non-turbinated and turbinated.
non-umbrellaed adj. and n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌmˈbrɛləd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌəmˈbrɛləd/
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1864 E. Yates Broken to Harness xxxii The first drops..causing an immediate consternation..among the non-umbrellaed spectators.
1865 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Jan. 49/2 He enjoys the sufferings of the non-umbrella'd, for..‘Fair is foul, and foul is fare’ with the London cabman.
2002 B. F. Fisher in A. Smith et al. Fictions of Unease iv. 43 I reserve the right to offer a ‘miscellany’ classification if non-umbrellaed items from such a category are noteworthy.
non-winged adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈwɪŋd/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈwɪŋᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈwɪŋd/
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/ˌnɑnˈwɪŋᵻd/
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1862 2nd Ann. Rep. Nat. Hist. & Geol. Maine 201 Examining the internal organs of the non-winged individuals.
1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 336 Bipeds and quadrupeds, winged and non-winged beasts.
1989 Science 3 Feb. 643/3 Winged and nonwinged morphs of water striders.
b. Prefixed to compounds formed with participial adjectives to form adjectives.
non-beer-drinking adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbɪədrɪŋkɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbɪrˌdrɪŋkɪŋ/
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1858 W. Aitken Handbk. Sci. & Pract. Med. ii. 401 In the non-beer-drinking countries.
1982 Jrnl. Industr. Econ. 30 294 There is no closure or ‘non-beer-drinking’ state specified for this model.
non-English-speaking adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃspiːkɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃˌspikɪŋ/
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c1878 F. H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 231 We can imagine no greater misery than to be a non-English-speaking Indian in such weather.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxvii. 530 The plant known as ‘Creeping Thistle’ in Britain is known as..‘California Thistle’ in Australia, and by very many other names in non-English-speaking countries.
2001 Times 22 Oct. ii. 4/2 She married a bloke from Middlesbrough. But a non-English-speaking stateless Moldovan from Seattle was pushing it a bit.
non-gold-producing adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɡəʊl(d)prədjuːsɪŋ/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈɡəʊl(d)prədjuːsɪŋ/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈɡəʊl(d)prədʒuːsɪŋ/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈɡəʊl(d)prədʒuːsɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɡoʊl(d)prəˌd(j)usɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnˈɡoʊl(d)proʊˌd(j)usɪŋ/
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1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 66 The..non-gold-producing strata of serpentine.
2000 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 5 Dec. Most non-gold-producing Australian resource companies are now decreasing hedging.
non-habit-forming adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈhabɪtfɔːmɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈhæbətˌfɔrmɪŋ/
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1914 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Feb. 8/4 Heroin was first advertised about fifteen years ago, and accepted by the medical world as a non-habit-forming substance.
1949 M. Lowry Let. 16 Feb. (1967) 169 One or other of the non-habit-forming barbiturates should be often used in preference to strychnine or chloral.
1997 Indianapolis Star 5 June a10 (advt.) Buspar is a nonhabit-forming anti-anxiety medication that works progressively over a matter of weeks.
non-information-carrying adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnfəˈmeɪʃnˌkarɪɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒnɪnfəˈmeɪʃŋˌkarɪɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃənˌkɛriɪŋ/
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1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 85 These are a set of words which the user defines as non-information carrying words.
non-interest-bearing adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɪntrᵻstbɛːrɪŋ/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈɪnt(ə)rɛstbɛːrɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɪnt(ə)rəstˌbɛrɪŋ/
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1866 E. A. Pollard Lost Cause 651 Non-interest-bearing notes of the denomination of one hundred dollars.
1914 Billboard 3 Jan. 20/2 Take the $30,000 worth of non-interest bearing bonds necessary to start the building.
1991 Economist 2 Nov. 119/2 In the last resort ECOFIN may..require governments to hand over non-interest bearing deposits.
non-office-holding adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈɒfɪshəʊldɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈɔfəsˌhoʊldɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnˈɑfəsˌhoʊldɪŋ/
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1872 Rep. Joint Sel. Comm. Condition of Affairs in Late Insurrectionary States (Washington) 286 To this position men under disabilities are assigned. They are placed among non-office-holding non-office-seeking citizens.
1997 A. G. Smith Human Rights &Choice in Poverty 82 Cell leaders..may informally be clients of better-off non-office-holding households.
non-profit-making adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈprɒfɪtmeɪkɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈprɑfətˌmeɪkɪŋ/
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1933 Planning 1 viii. 11 A non-profit-making organisation for this purpose could probably obtain a large interest in British farming.
1971 Guardian 16 Dec. 1/8 A railway porter..has been told to stop his non-profit making early-morning hot drink service to passengers.
1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) i. 36 The Association is a non profit making company, limited by the guarantee of its membership.
† non-slave-grown adj. Obsolete rare
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1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. iii. vi. §3 Slave-grown will exchange for non-slave-grown commodities [etc.].
c. Forming compounds with an adjective or participle premodified by an adverb.In many formations of this kind, there is little significant difference in meaning whether non- is taken as prefixed simply to the adverb or as prefixed to the adjective with its adverbial modification. The examples given here illustrate cases where only the latter construction is likely.
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1914 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 24 211 There is no non-socially prejudiced way of estimating a value which transcends our group prejudices.
1938 Ecology 19 388 In these matched-pair tests a normally-protected individual became a non-protectively colored individual only because it was placed on a contrasting soil background.
1943 Q. Rev. Biol. 18 165/2 The basic principles of genetics are presented in an elementary way for non-biologically trained readers.
1990 Philos. Q. 40 457 Self-inflicted injuries which were of a non-seriously harmful kind.
2000 Org. Gardening Sept. 16/3 This pollen drift poses huge problems for any farmer trying to grow non-genetically engineered crops.
2010 A. Goudie & H. Viles Landscapes & Geomorphol.: Very Short Introd. i. 6 Even non-philosophically aware geomorphologists, however, realize that landforms are rather more elusive and slippery to identify and categorize than biological species.
d.
non-associated adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnəˈsəʊʃɪeɪtᵻd/
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/ˌnɒnəˈsəʊsɪeɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnəˈsoʊsiˌeɪdᵻd/
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/ˌnɑnəˈsoʊʃiˌeɪdᵻd/
rare before 20th cent. not associated; spec. (of natural gas, or a reservoir of natural gas) not occurring in association with an oil deposit.
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1695 C. Davenant Ess. Ways & Means supplying War 66 This was the Distinction they made (and not as is vulgarly thought) that of Associated or Non-associated Counties.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 78 Surrealism may conveniently be defined as the free grouping together of incongruous and non-associated images.
1974 Information Handbk. 1974–5 (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 85 Non-associated gas—either from structures capable of producing only gas economically or from condensate reservoirs which yield relatively large amounts of gas per barrel of light liquid hydrocarbons.
1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 4000/2 (caption) Active and inactive sequences partition differently between the self-associated and non-associated populations of chicken erythrocyte oligonucleosomes.
non-bonding adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈbɒndɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈbɑndɪŋ/
Chemistry not involved in bonding; not forming a chemical bond.
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1931 R. S. Mulliken in Chem. Rev. 9 349 We must assume not only bonding and non-bonding electrons, but also anti-bonding electrons, i.e., electrons which actively oppose a union of the atoms.
1974 G. B. Gill & M. R. Willis Pericyclic Reactions i. 23 An electron in ψ2 does not contribute to the bonding in the molecule and, hence ψ2 is called a non-bonding molecular orbital (NBMO).
1991 D. T. Sawyer Oxygen Chem. v. 120 Oxygen radicals are defined as those molecules that contain an oxygen atom with an unpaired, nonbonding electron (e.g., HO·).
non-coding adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
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/(ˌ)nɒŋˈkəʊdɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
Molecular Biology that does not direct the production of a peptide sequence.
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1962 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 48 1629 A suitable division of the total nucleotides into coding and noncoding fractions.
1977 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 114 115 There may be as many as 800 non-coding residues in ovalbumin mRNA.
1995 New Scientist 12 Aug. 32/2 Whatever the outcome of this debate, some researchers remain convinced that the noncoding DNA found within genes, at least, must be doing something valuable.
non-decreasing adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈkriːsɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑndəˈkrisɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑndiˈkrisɪŋ/
not decreasing; (spec. in Mathematics, of a function) not decreasing in value as the variable increases; (of a sequence) consisting of terms which do not decrease in value.
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1908 Ann. Math. 9 124 If a sequence of monotonic nondecreasing functions..converges [etc.].
1946 H. Cramér Math. Methods Statistics vi. 53 Any non-decreasing function..may be represented..as the sum of a step-function and an everywhere continuous function, both non-decreasing and uniquely determined.
1991 Struct. Change & Econ. Dynamics 2 216 To be well-behaved, the variable cost function must be non-decreasing, concave and linearly homogeneous in w, non-decreasing in Y, and non-increasing and convex in z.
non-defining adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈfʌɪnɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑndəˈfaɪnɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑndiˈfaɪnɪŋ/
that does not define; (spec. in Grammar) designating a relative clause which gives additional information about, rather than identifying, the antecedent of the relative; cf. descriptive adj. 4a.
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1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 635/2 The closer connexion between a defining, (or that-) clause & the antecedent than between a non-defining (or which-) clause & the antecedent.
1970 Dict. Sci. Biogr. I. 250/2 His [sc. Aristotle's] distinction..between defining and non-defining characteristics.
2000 Guardian (Nexis) 31 Dec. Most [women] simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.
non-dividing adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒndᵻˈvʌɪdɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑndəˈvaɪdɪŋ/
Biology that does not divide; containing cells that do not divide.
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1897 Science 5 Feb. 232/1 In the great majority of non-dividing cells, however, they [sc. the centrosome and sphere] have not been demonstrated.
1945 A. Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. iv. 242 Non-dividing organic constituents (proteins, enzymes, hormones, etc.).
1992 Sci. Amer. Dec. 95/1 Studies of replicative senescence cannot shed much light on the processes leading to deterioration of nondividing cells, notably neurons and heart muscle cells.
non-increasing adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnˈkriːsɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒnɪŋˈkriːsɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈkrisɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnᵻŋˈkrisɪŋ/
not increasing; (spec. in Mathematics, of a function) not increasing in value as the variable increases; (of a sequence) consisting of terms which do not increase in value.
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1848 E. A. Poe Eureka in Compl. Wks. (1902) xvi. 247 Non-increasing centripetal [force].
1909 Amer. Math. Monthly 16 5 The function f(x) is then monotonic if the numbers rk form a non-increasing series.
1962 D. R. Cox Renewal Theory i. 3 Clearly ℱ(0) = 1, ℱ(∞)= 0 and ℱ(x) is a non-increasing function of x.
1990 Proc. London Math. Soc. 60 226 A partition λ = (λ1, λ2,…) of n is a non-increasing sequence of non-negative integers whose sum is n.
non-load-bearing adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈləʊdbɛːrɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈloʊdˌbɛrɪŋ/
Building (esp. of a wall) that does not support (or is not designed to support) a structural load.
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1944 D. E. Warland Teach yourself Constructional Details ii. 22 This type of wall is naturally weaker than walls built in the ordinary English or Flemish bond, but it is suitable for non-load-bearing walls when cross strength is not vital.
1992 Which? Feb. 88/2 If some of your internal walls are non-loadbearing and made of plasterboard, or laths and plaster, screwing into the internal timber frame..that supports the plasterboard is ideal.
2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 3 Aug. Lighter to work with than traditional paving stones, they are simple to lay as no cementing is required on a non-load-bearing patio.
non-medullated adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnmɛˈdʌleɪtᵻd/
,
/ˌnɒnmᵻˈdʌleɪtᵻd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnməˈdəˌleɪdᵻd/
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/ˌnɑnˈmɛdəˌleɪdᵻd/
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/ˌnɑnˈmɛdʒəˌleɪdᵻd/
Anatomy and Zoology not having a myelin (medullary) sheath, unmyelinated; (also) not having a medulla.
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1862 Proc. Royal Soc. 12 76 Non-medullated terminal fibres.
1881 J. Ross Treat. Dis. Nerv. Syst. I. i. i. 23 A fatty material of a very special character accumulates in the interior of the protoplasm..in order to account for the development of the medullated from the non-medullated fibres.
1949 J. B. Speakman in J. M. Preston Fibre Sci. xvi. 277 Turning..to non-medullated fibres, Chamberlain found that the sulphur content of human hair, which had been descaled..was identical with that of the original untreated hair.
1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind xvii. 535 He found sympathetic nerve fibres were grey because they were non-medullated, and nerve axons were continuous with nerve cells in the spinal cord.
non-reducing adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈdjuːsɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒnrᵻˈdʒuːsɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈd(j)usɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnriˈd(j)usɪŋ/
Chemistry that does not reduce, that does not cause or permit reduction; spec. (of a sugar) that does not contain an aldehyde group.
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1893 Proc. Royal Soc. 54 57 The characters of agreement observable between my primary non-reducing product and Landwehr's ‘animal gum’.
1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xiv. 331 Trehalose..is a non-reducing sugar found in fresh moulds and in manna.
1970 A. L. Lehninger Biochemistry xv. 328 (caption) Phosphorolytic removal of a glucose residue from the nonreducing end of a glycogen chain.
1990 Internat. Immunol. 2 1017/1 Molecular weight standards in non-reducing..and reducing..conditions co-migrated with reducing samples.
non-sensitized adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsɛnsᵻtʌɪzd/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɛnsəˌtaɪzd/
Immunology that has not been sensitized to a specific antigen, organism, etc., or by a specific antibody.
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1921 Science 2 Dec. 535/1 No defects appeared with non-sensitized sera.
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) vi. 77 Complement does not combine with non-sensitized bacteria.
1989 National Med. Jrnl. India 2 292/2 In the non-sensitized host a tubercle may take 3 to 6 weeks to develop but in a sensitized patient caseation and a tuberculous reaction develop very quickly.
non-transposing adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒntranˈspəʊzɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒntrɑːnˈspəʊzɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌtræn(t)ˈspoʊzɪŋ/
Music designating an instrument whose music is notated at its true pitch; cf. transposing instrument n. at transposing n. Compounds.
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1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 80/1 All the non-transposing instruments said to be in C, emit their sounds as they are written.
1967 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 20 43 The non-transposing ‘expressive’ two-manual harpsichord appears to have been all but unknown in Flanders before 1650.
2014 L. Green Hear, listen, Play! ix. 45 The C version of ‘Link Up’ has been used successfully..in mixed ensembles where a range of transposing and non-transposing instruments were working together.
7. Prefixed to gerunds and verbal nouns, with the sense ‘failure or neglect to do’ the thing specified. Cf. the use with verbs (sense 5a).
† nonaccompanying n. Obsolete
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1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 227 For nonaccumpaneing him to ane raid.
† non-alienating n. Obsolete
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1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 37 The clause about the non-alienating the revenue was read.
† non-apostatizing n. Obsolete
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1657 R. Baxter Acct. Present Thoughts 8 The non-apostatizing of the Elect.
† non-ascertaining n. Obsolete
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a1680 J. Corbet Humble Endeavour (1683) iii. xxxiii. 52 The non-ascertaining of an Event doth not render it impossible.
non-coming n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈkʌmɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒŋˈkʌmɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈkəmɪŋ/
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?1444 J. Gresham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 13 [He] is right sory of þe matier þat is cause of your noun comyng hedir.
1447 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 31 (MED) Ye shall byseke my lord of his gode lordship to have me exscused of myn non comyng to Chudlegh.
1863 Harper's Mag. Feb. 349/2 She found her friends in great alarm at the non-coming of the Ariadne.
1887 Cent. Mag. Mar. 677/2 ‘Why dat man don't nevva come?’ ‘The wherefore of his non-coming I ignore.’
1956 Monumenta Nipponica 12 268 He came, but that coming did include non-coming.
1986 Paragraph 7 41 It is the material, local presence..of the coming, or the non-coming of the god.
† non-conceiving n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 532 Her [sc. the Virgin's] non-conceiving of humane seed.
† non-concerning n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen 32 None but the extremely-guilty would wish either his not-being, or his non-concerning himself in the Affairs of men.
† non concluding n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1539 T. Wyatt Let. 25 Dec. (1963) 110 He is not so abusid but that he seith the non concludying of thes thinges.
† non desisting n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 304 For non desisting of the landis of Castellwod.
non-doing n.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈduːɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈduɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 14 §34 It shall not be lefull..to enter into..anny Landes..for the non doing not naminge or none fyndinge of anny such preist.
1591 in C. Innes Bk. Thanes Cawdor (1859) 195 The nondoing thairoff sal be the occasioun of strater deling.
1865 R. G. Hazard Freedom of Mind in Willing 304 If we already are not doing, we do not will non-doing.
1943 Jrnl. Philos. 40 370 An act is our duty when the non-doing of it arouses disapproval.
1993 B. Moyers Healing & Mind ii. 133 There's an elaborate structure to this nondoing.
† non-employing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1665 R. Boyle Disc. iii. ii, in Occas. Refl. sig. D2 I could never suspect that the Non-employing of their thoughts could be their Choice rather than their Punishment.
† non-executing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 568 At euery tyme they be founde laches in serch-makyng, & non-executyng of þe premissez, that fyne to be levied be þe Mairs.
non-labelling n. and adj.
Brit. /ˌnɒnˈleɪbl̩ɪŋ/
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/ˌnɒnˈleɪblɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈleɪb(ə)lɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1883 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 17 Mar. 769/2 The seller, through no fault of his own, was to be continually dragged up before the justices for selling these articles, of the non-labelling of which he might be perfectly ignorant.
1942 Bottling (Brewing Trade Rev.) Apr. (Bottling Suppl.) 35/1 The crown vessel lends itself fairly well to non-labelling, as..different colours of crowns enable carter or dealer to see at a glance which kind of beer is being handled.
1989 H. Blagg & D. Smith Crime, Penal Policy & Social Work iii. 60 They may represent a means of working in a non-individualised, non-labelling way with a broad range of young people in a natural setting.
2014 S. Gill in I. Goodson & S. Gill Crit. Narr. as Pedagogy viii. 199 A safe space which fosters openness (non-judgement), empathy and acceptance (non-labelling of good or bad, victim or offender).
† non-making n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 49/2 Charged in defaute of nonmakyng of the said pavement.
† non-packing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1472–5 Rolls of Parl. VI. 155/2 If any Custumer..be necligent..in noon pakkyng of the said Clothes.
† non perishing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1650 Truth's Confl. with Error i. 25 If everlasting life imply non perishing.
† non-punishing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 160 Whos neclygence in non-Punyshynge of hare nacionys and Subiectes.
† non-putting n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1571–2 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 125 For non-putting the said Maister Allane Stewart to libertie.
non-receiving n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnrᵻˈsiːvɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnrəˈsivɪŋ/
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/ˌnɑnriˈsivɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 27/1 For ye nounreceivyng of ye saide ordre.
1960 J. Hewitt Yoga I. 27 Certain moral disciplines are required of the Yogi... Patanjali lists five: Non-violence.., Truthfulness.., Non-stealing.., Chastity.., and Non-receiving.
† non-redding n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1538 MS Rec. Aberdeen XV, in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 372/1 The nonredding of his buycht [= booth].
† non-redressing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxx The greate wronges..quhilk we haue suffered..in vpberyng, maynsweryng nounredressyng of Attemptates.
† non-regarding n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 50 By the non-regarding of God men rush into Evil.
† non-repealing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 13 A law not repealed continues in force..because it is not repealed; and the non-repealing passes for consent.
† non-riding n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 131 Lettrez..to be send to my lord Maxwell for non-ryding on the bordouris.
† non-syllogizing n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism Apol. 14 He had so sharply dealt with Mr. Marshall for non-syllogizing.
non-understanding n.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌndəˈstandɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌəndərˈstændɪŋ/
ΚΠ
1653 J. Goodwin Expos. 9th Chapter Rom. 408 Non-understanding of the mind and counsel of God in Christ for the justification and salvation of the world, is the reason why men turn aside into other ways of hope and expectation in this kind.
1833 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) III. 409 We had as much talk as his non-understanding of my dialect could admit.
1996 Jrnl. Philos. 93 399 There are certain clear cases of understanding and even clearer cases of nonunderstanding.
† non visiting n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 547 His dispensation for non-visiting and not circuiting.
8. Prefixed to adverbs to form adverbs, with the sense ‘not in the manner specified’.
non-contentiously adv.
Brit. /ˌnɒnkənˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli/
,
/ˌnɒŋkənˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnkənˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli/
ΚΠ
1885 Manch. Examiner 28 Mar. 5/4 Everything is plain when it is looked at non-contentiously.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 44 359 The League..incrementally, but always non-contentiously, developed an articulating recognition policy.
non-expansively adv.
Brit. /ˌnɒnᵻkˈspansᵻvli/
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/ˌnɒnɛkˈspansᵻvli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnɪkˈspænsəvli/
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/ˌnɑnɛkˈspænsəvli/
ΚΠ
1860 Sci. Amer. 31 Mar. 217 It is unquestionably better to use steam expansively at 55..lbs. per square 8inch..than at a much greater pressure, non-expansively.
1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) xv. 318 Some are of the rotary type using air non-expansively.
non-inferentially adv.
Brit. /ˌnɒnɪnfəˈrɛnʃl̩i/
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/ˌnɒnɪnfəˈrɛnʃəli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌɪnfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəli/
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1860 A. De Morgan On Syllogism 214 Non-inferentially and immediately seen.
1956 J. O. Urmson Philos. Anal. iii. 42 Some of these philosophers..inferred the existence of such things as God, substance, universals, the ego, which they did not claim to be non-inferentially discoverable.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 June 64/1 We are aware of some things without interpretation, directly, noninferentially—these things being signs themselves.
non-isotropically adv.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌɪsə(ʊ)ˈtrɒpᵻkli/
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/ˌnɒnʌɪsə(ʊ)ˈtrəʊpᵻkli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌaɪsəˈtrɑpək(ə)li/
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/ˌnɑnˌaɪsoʊˈtrɑpək(ə)li/
ΚΠ
1946 Nature 21 Dec. 917/2 The expansion of setting plaster-of-Paris might be due to the pressure exerted by crystals of gypsum growing non-isotropically.
1993 Biotechnol. Progress 9 86 To determine the direction of nonisotropically scattered light.
† non-nutationally adv. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §107 A symmetrical cup..when..set spinning non-nutationally.
1907 Gen. Elec. Rev. Aug. 117/2 Take the case of a disc spinning about a horizontal axis supported at one end which is precessing non-nutationally about a vertical axis through the point of support.
non-sequentially adv.
Brit. /ˌnɒnsᵻˈkwɛnʃl̩i/
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/ˌnɒnsᵻˈkwɛnʃəli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnsəˈkwɛn(t)ʃəli/
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/ˌnɑnsiˈkwɛn(t)ʃəli/
ΚΠ
1904 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 60 357 The Bone-Bed was deposited non-sequentially over the whole.
1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 24 May 15/2 A reader can follow Buttercup through her adventure, but is more likely to flip nonsequentially among the illustrations.
2001 Working from Home Mar. 36/1 Brochures, leaflets or folded documents with pages that need to be printed non-sequentially or upside down—the printing industry refers to this as work and turn.
non-seriously adv.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈsɪərɪəsli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈsɪriəsli/
ΚΠ
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 282/1 Subjects serious in themselves, but treated..non-seriously.
2009 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 16 May 34/2 Non-specialists are taken non-seriously.
non-spatially adv.
Brit. /(ˌ)nɒnˈspeɪʃl̩i/
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/(ˌ)nɒnˈspeɪʃəli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˈspeɪʃəli/
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1934 Mind 43 299 What confronts the mind, in this sense..is (perhaps non-spatially) there to be found, or haply to be found out, by searching.
1971 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 42 907 A nonspatially varying (k = 0) rf electric field.
1997 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 102 2343 Localization was also related to speech hearing in nonspatially separated noise.
non-understandingly adv.
Brit. /ˌnɒnʌndəˈstandɪŋli/
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U.S. /ˌnɑnˌəndərˈstændɪŋli/
ΚΠ
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 37 He shook his head non-understandingly.
1922 Texas Rev. Jan. 84 Vers libre is so atrociously and non-understandingly reviled and jeered at in the daily press and the periodicals that it is no wonder that most people think it a sort of deceptive substitute for poetry.
2011 T. Horgan in T. Bayne & M. Montague Cognitive Phenomenol. 77 The phenomenological difference between hearing spoken language understandingly and hearing it non-understandingly.
† non-vortically adv. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 181 Energy of non-vortically moving Liquid.
1894 New World Dec. 684 A single free finite spirit is a permanent spiritual unit moving non-vortically in the midst of the infinite ocean of perfect substance or spirit.
1904 F. C. Beach Encycl. Americana VIII. at Hydrodynamics It is possible that fluid may circulate in a region either vortically or non-vortically.
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