Definition of nay in English:

nay

adverb neɪneɪ

1Or rather (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used)
permission to build the superstore will take months, nay years
Example sentencesExamples
- It is upsetting, nay distressing, to read that Leeds United Football Club may be forced into administration with debts totalling eighty-one million pounds.
- Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend.
- It will be spent, nay squandered, on unnecessary digital radio stations.
- The events of the last few weeks - nay the last 18 months - have led me to ask some questions.
- Which is partly why I and so many other Brits - nay, the rest of the world - shook our heads and rubbed our eyes in bewilderment when he got into the White House four years ago.
- They have invited - nay, commanded - the public to evaluate his qualification for the presidency based on that.
- This means astonished, nay furious, taxpayers will see expensive full-time staff working adjacent to cheaper county sub contract workers.
- By refusing to keep her emotional problems to herself and instead parading them in front of the nation, she implied - nay, screamed - that such behaviour was not merely permissible but required.
- The fact is universal: the life stream of blood links all men and women, nay the entire human race, irrespective of colour, creed, culture and religion.
- My window is over the desk, and provides plenty of light and an ample, nay unparalleled, view of the neighbour's shambolic back yard and the train tracks in the mid-distance.
- For I believe that it is the right, nay, the duty of the music critic to contribute to the seemingly endless and certainly redundant lists of ‘Best and Worst’ music for the year.
- As the site says: ‘This country, nay this planet, is going to the dogs.’
- I was angered, nay, infuriated, by your review of the movie.
- It is all told in his ornate, nay, bombastic prose.
- What better chance to re-employ the hordes of laid-off middle-aged workers from State-owned companies and all for free, nay, even a substantial profit could result.
- Good teaching, nay great teaching, may yet be the salvation of the university in society in our day.
- This is indicative of an official willingness - nay, an active eagerness - here in Ireland to embrace the change that is undoubtedly on the way in this entire area.
- Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
- I'm willing to write to my local MP and MPP and join the picket line if necessary to make sure that this highly valuable nay essential service is maintained.
- After all, do they think that we have forgotten that for months - nay, years - they have time and again denied being on the Army Council?
Synonyms
or rather, and more than that, (and) indeed, and even, in fact, in point of fact, actually, in truth
2British dialect, archaic No.
nay, I must not think thus
Example sentencesExamples
- Nay nay, they wrote him off in the '80s as a dinosaur, but he's back big time.

noun neɪneɪ

A negative answer.
the cabinet sits to give the final yea or nay to policies
Example sentencesExamples
- As this is our first formal review of products of this type, we think it best to postpone giving a formal yea or nay until we've had a chance to try out the competition's offerings.
- However, once Joint Defence Facility and Housing Commission households are subtracted from the results, the nays have it.’
- Voting can be accomplished by raising hands, by paper ballots, by calling for the ayes and nays, by marching before an official counter, or by installing computer terminals for each legislator on which votes are registered.
- He then announced with solemn formality, ‘On this vote, there are 65 yeas and 32 nays.’
- As you know, he's on the Judiciary Committee, which must vote yea or nay on sending her nomination to the full Senate.
- Sam's one aye was drowned out by the roomful of nays.
- For example, the Challenge Round, while receiving more ayes than nays from fans, will definitely be modified to provide greater drama for the audience.
- In the end, I think the nays had it - this was pretty self-indulgent.
- He probably was taking the counsel of his senior ministers, but not giving an aye or a nay - at least not in public.
- So I have until next week to give the final yea or nay.
- By a roll call vote of 12 yeas to 19 nays, the amendment was defeated.
- As I say, regardless of what was contained in the Revised Criminal Code, as usual, the yeas would easily outnumber the nays at the end of the day.
- But do not forget that at the end of the day it will be a Plans Panel of councillors (not including me) who say either yea or nay, so the more people who write to protest the better.
- Come up with details to support your yea or nay verdict.
- No one at the garage door company seemed able to tell me yea or nay.
- It's all a judgment call at the end of the day, and one person usually will step in and say yea or nay.
- According to Reuters, the nays won the day with 55.7 per cent of the vote.
- But, I repeat, no one doubted that he who controlled the Conan Doyle copyright could also say yea or nay to the further use of the character Sherlock Holmes.
- Has the Court of Criminal Appeal, by its disposition of those cases, indicated yea or nay whether immediate incarceration can ordinarily be expected to be the punishment imposed?
- The two brave souls who voted for the act, despite the overwhelming 402 nays, were democrats.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 2 of the adverb): from Old Norse nei, from ne 'not' + ei 'ever' (compare with aye²).

Rhymes

affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea

Definition of nay in US English:

nay

adverbnāneɪ

1Or rather; and more than that (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used)
it will take months, nay years
Example sentencesExamples
- This means astonished, nay furious, taxpayers will see expensive full-time staff working adjacent to cheaper county sub contract workers.
- I was angered, nay, infuriated, by your review of the movie.
- It is all told in his ornate, nay, bombastic prose.
- As the site says: ‘This country, nay this planet, is going to the dogs.’
- Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend.
- Which is partly why I and so many other Brits - nay, the rest of the world - shook our heads and rubbed our eyes in bewilderment when he got into the White House four years ago.
- They have invited - nay, commanded - the public to evaluate his qualification for the presidency based on that.
- It is upsetting, nay distressing, to read that Leeds United Football Club may be forced into administration with debts totalling eighty-one million pounds.
- For I believe that it is the right, nay, the duty of the music critic to contribute to the seemingly endless and certainly redundant lists of ‘Best and Worst’ music for the year.
- By refusing to keep her emotional problems to herself and instead parading them in front of the nation, she implied - nay, screamed - that such behaviour was not merely permissible but required.
- The events of the last few weeks - nay the last 18 months - have led me to ask some questions.
- I'm willing to write to my local MP and MPP and join the picket line if necessary to make sure that this highly valuable nay essential service is maintained.
- This is indicative of an official willingness - nay, an active eagerness - here in Ireland to embrace the change that is undoubtedly on the way in this entire area.
- The fact is universal: the life stream of blood links all men and women, nay the entire human race, irrespective of colour, creed, culture and religion.
- What better chance to re-employ the hordes of laid-off middle-aged workers from State-owned companies and all for free, nay, even a substantial profit could result.
- It will be spent, nay squandered, on unnecessary digital radio stations.
- My window is over the desk, and provides plenty of light and an ample, nay unparalleled, view of the neighbour's shambolic back yard and the train tracks in the mid-distance.
- After all, do they think that we have forgotten that for months - nay, years - they have time and again denied being on the Army Council?
- Good teaching, nay great teaching, may yet be the salvation of the university in society in our day.
- Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
Synonyms
or rather, and more than that, indeed, and indeed, and even, in fact, in point of fact, actually, in truth
2British dialect, archaic No.
nay, I must not think thus
Example sentencesExamples
- Nay nay, they wrote him off in the '80s as a dinosaur, but he's back big time.

nounnāneɪ

A negative answer or vote.
the cabinet sits to give the final yea or nay to policies
Example sentencesExamples
- As you know, he's on the Judiciary Committee, which must vote yea or nay on sending her nomination to the full Senate.
- He then announced with solemn formality, ‘On this vote, there are 65 yeas and 32 nays.’
- Come up with details to support your yea or nay verdict.
- He probably was taking the counsel of his senior ministers, but not giving an aye or a nay - at least not in public.
- Sam's one aye was drowned out by the roomful of nays.
- However, once Joint Defence Facility and Housing Commission households are subtracted from the results, the nays have it.’
- But, I repeat, no one doubted that he who controlled the Conan Doyle copyright could also say yea or nay to the further use of the character Sherlock Holmes.
- But do not forget that at the end of the day it will be a Plans Panel of councillors (not including me) who say either yea or nay, so the more people who write to protest the better.
- According to Reuters, the nays won the day with 55.7 per cent of the vote.
- No one at the garage door company seemed able to tell me yea or nay.
- For example, the Challenge Round, while receiving more ayes than nays from fans, will definitely be modified to provide greater drama for the audience.
- So I have until next week to give the final yea or nay.
- Has the Court of Criminal Appeal, by its disposition of those cases, indicated yea or nay whether immediate incarceration can ordinarily be expected to be the punishment imposed?
- As I say, regardless of what was contained in the Revised Criminal Code, as usual, the yeas would easily outnumber the nays at the end of the day.
- It's all a judgment call at the end of the day, and one person usually will step in and say yea or nay.
- The two brave souls who voted for the act, despite the overwhelming 402 nays, were democrats.
- Voting can be accomplished by raising hands, by paper ballots, by calling for the ayes and nays, by marching before an official counter, or by installing computer terminals for each legislator on which votes are registered.
- By a roll call vote of 12 yeas to 19 nays, the amendment was defeated.
- As this is our first formal review of products of this type, we think it best to postpone giving a formal yea or nay until we've had a chance to try out the competition's offerings.
- In the end, I think the nays had it - this was pretty self-indulgent.

Origin

Middle English (in nay (sense 2 of the adverb)): from Old Norse nei, from ne ‘not’ + ei ‘ever’ (compare with aye).

单词	nay
释义	Definition of nay in English: nay adverb neɪneɪ 1Or rather (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used) permission to build the superstore will take months, nay years Example sentencesExamples It is upsetting, nay distressing, to read that Leeds United Football Club may be forced into administration with debts totalling eighty-one million pounds. Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend. It will be spent, nay squandered, on unnecessary digital radio stations. The events of the last few weeks - nay the last 18 months - have led me to ask some questions. Which is partly why I and so many other Brits - nay, the rest of the world - shook our heads and rubbed our eyes in bewilderment when he got into the White House four years ago. They have invited - nay, commanded - the public to evaluate his qualification for the presidency based on that. This means astonished, nay furious, taxpayers will see expensive full-time staff working adjacent to cheaper county sub contract workers. By refusing to keep her emotional problems to herself and instead parading them in front of the nation, she implied - nay, screamed - that such behaviour was not merely permissible but required. The fact is universal: the life stream of blood links all men and women, nay the entire human race, irrespective of colour, creed, culture and religion. My window is over the desk, and provides plenty of light and an ample, nay unparalleled, view of the neighbour's shambolic back yard and the train tracks in the mid-distance. For I believe that it is the right, nay, the duty of the music critic to contribute to the seemingly endless and certainly redundant lists of ‘Best and Worst’ music for the year. As the site says: ‘This country, nay this planet, is going to the dogs.’ I was angered, nay, infuriated, by your review of the movie. It is all told in his ornate, nay, bombastic prose. What better chance to re-employ the hordes of laid-off middle-aged workers from State-owned companies and all for free, nay, even a substantial profit could result. Good teaching, nay great teaching, may yet be the salvation of the university in society in our day. This is indicative of an official willingness - nay, an active eagerness - here in Ireland to embrace the change that is undoubtedly on the way in this entire area. Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose. I'm willing to write to my local MP and MPP and join the picket line if necessary to make sure that this highly valuable nay essential service is maintained. After all, do they think that we have forgotten that for months - nay, years - they have time and again denied being on the Army Council? Synonyms or rather, and more than that, (and) indeed, and even, in fact, in point of fact, actually, in truth 2British dialect, archaic No. nay, I must not think thus Example sentencesExamples Nay nay, they wrote him off in the '80s as a dinosaur, but he's back big time. noun neɪneɪ A negative answer. the cabinet sits to give the final yea or nay to policies Example sentencesExamples As this is our first formal review of products of this type, we think it best to postpone giving a formal yea or nay until we've had a chance to try out the competition's offerings. However, once Joint Defence Facility and Housing Commission households are subtracted from the results, the nays have it.’ Voting can be accomplished by raising hands, by paper ballots, by calling for the ayes and nays, by marching before an official counter, or by installing computer terminals for each legislator on which votes are registered. He then announced with solemn formality, ‘On this vote, there are 65 yeas and 32 nays.’ As you know, he's on the Judiciary Committee, which must vote yea or nay on sending her nomination to the full Senate. Sam's one aye was drowned out by the roomful of nays. For example, the Challenge Round, while receiving more ayes than nays from fans, will definitely be modified to provide greater drama for the audience. In the end, I think the nays had it - this was pretty self-indulgent. He probably was taking the counsel of his senior ministers, but not giving an aye or a nay - at least not in public. So I have until next week to give the final yea or nay. By a roll call vote of 12 yeas to 19 nays, the amendment was defeated. As I say, regardless of what was contained in the Revised Criminal Code, as usual, the yeas would easily outnumber the nays at the end of the day. But do not forget that at the end of the day it will be a Plans Panel of councillors (not including me) who say either yea or nay, so the more people who write to protest the better. Come up with details to support your yea or nay verdict. No one at the garage door company seemed able to tell me yea or nay. It's all a judgment call at the end of the day, and one person usually will step in and say yea or nay. According to Reuters, the nays won the day with 55.7 per cent of the vote. But, I repeat, no one doubted that he who controlled the Conan Doyle copyright could also say yea or nay to the further use of the character Sherlock Holmes. Has the Court of Criminal Appeal, by its disposition of those cases, indicated yea or nay whether immediate incarceration can ordinarily be expected to be the punishment imposed? The two brave souls who voted for the act, despite the overwhelming 402 nays, were democrats. Origin Middle English (in sense 2 of the adverb): from Old Norse nei, from ne 'not' + ei 'ever' (compare with aye²). Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea Definition of nay in US English: nay adverbnāneɪ 1Or rather; and more than that (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used) it will take months, nay years Example sentencesExamples This means astonished, nay furious, taxpayers will see expensive full-time staff working adjacent to cheaper county sub contract workers. I was angered, nay, infuriated, by your review of the movie. It is all told in his ornate, nay, bombastic prose. As the site says: ‘This country, nay this planet, is going to the dogs.’ Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend. Which is partly why I and so many other Brits - nay, the rest of the world - shook our heads and rubbed our eyes in bewilderment when he got into the White House four years ago. They have invited - nay, commanded - the public to evaluate his qualification for the presidency based on that. It is upsetting, nay distressing, to read that Leeds United Football Club may be forced into administration with debts totalling eighty-one million pounds. For I believe that it is the right, nay, the duty of the music critic to contribute to the seemingly endless and certainly redundant lists of ‘Best and Worst’ music for the year. By refusing to keep her emotional problems to herself and instead parading them in front of the nation, she implied - nay, screamed - that such behaviour was not merely permissible but required. The events of the last few weeks - nay the last 18 months - have led me to ask some questions. I'm willing to write to my local MP and MPP and join the picket line if necessary to make sure that this highly valuable nay essential service is maintained. This is indicative of an official willingness - nay, an active eagerness - here in Ireland to embrace the change that is undoubtedly on the way in this entire area. The fact is universal: the life stream of blood links all men and women, nay the entire human race, irrespective of colour, creed, culture and religion. What better chance to re-employ the hordes of laid-off middle-aged workers from State-owned companies and all for free, nay, even a substantial profit could result. It will be spent, nay squandered, on unnecessary digital radio stations. My window is over the desk, and provides plenty of light and an ample, nay unparalleled, view of the neighbour's shambolic back yard and the train tracks in the mid-distance. After all, do they think that we have forgotten that for months - nay, years - they have time and again denied being on the Army Council? Good teaching, nay great teaching, may yet be the salvation of the university in society in our day. Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose. Synonyms or rather, and more than that, indeed, and indeed, and even, in fact, in point of fact, actually, in truth 2British dialect, archaic No. nay, I must not think thus Example sentencesExamples Nay nay, they wrote him off in the '80s as a dinosaur, but he's back big time. nounnāneɪ A negative answer or vote. the cabinet sits to give the final yea or nay to policies Example sentencesExamples As you know, he's on the Judiciary Committee, which must vote yea or nay on sending her nomination to the full Senate. He then announced with solemn formality, ‘On this vote, there are 65 yeas and 32 nays.’ Come up with details to support your yea or nay verdict. He probably was taking the counsel of his senior ministers, but not giving an aye or a nay - at least not in public. Sam's one aye was drowned out by the roomful of nays. However, once Joint Defence Facility and Housing Commission households are subtracted from the results, the nays have it.’ But, I repeat, no one doubted that he who controlled the Conan Doyle copyright could also say yea or nay to the further use of the character Sherlock Holmes. But do not forget that at the end of the day it will be a Plans Panel of councillors (not including me) who say either yea or nay, so the more people who write to protest the better. According to Reuters, the nays won the day with 55.7 per cent of the vote. No one at the garage door company seemed able to tell me yea or nay. For example, the Challenge Round, while receiving more ayes than nays from fans, will definitely be modified to provide greater drama for the audience. So I have until next week to give the final yea or nay. Has the Court of Criminal Appeal, by its disposition of those cases, indicated yea or nay whether immediate incarceration can ordinarily be expected to be the punishment imposed? As I say, regardless of what was contained in the Revised Criminal Code, as usual, the yeas would easily outnumber the nays at the end of the day. It's all a judgment call at the end of the day, and one person usually will step in and say yea or nay. The two brave souls who voted for the act, despite the overwhelming 402 nays, were democrats. Voting can be accomplished by raising hands, by paper ballots, by calling for the ayes and nays, by marching before an official counter, or by installing computer terminals for each legislator on which votes are registered. By a roll call vote of 12 yeas to 19 nays, the amendment was defeated. As this is our first formal review of products of this type, we think it best to postpone giving a formal yea or nay until we've had a chance to try out the competition's offerings. In the end, I think the nays had it - this was pretty self-indulgent. Origin Middle English (in nay (sense 2 of the adverb)): from Old Norse nei, from ne ‘not’ + ei ‘ever’ (compare with aye).
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