no

1. Not any.

   no one

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   There is no water left.

   No hot dogs were sold yesterday.

   I've got no wife and no children either.

   No two people are the same.

   There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)

   Synonyms: zero, not even one, not one · Antonyms: any, some, one, a few, a couple of, a handful of, multiple, various

2. Hardly any.

   We'll be finished in no time at all.

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   Fifty pounds for this is no money, really.

   Antonyms: quite, some

3. Not any possibility or allowance of (something).

   No smoking. No parking.

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   There's no stopping her once she gets going.

   No under-18s (allowed).

4. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.

   My mother's no fool.

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   Working nine to five every day is no life.

   No geese have blue beaks.

1. Not, not at all.
   1. not comparableUsed before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.

      Look no further than one's nose.

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      It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.

      I can think of no more deserving cause.

      This is no different from what we've been doing all along.

      Is your sister any better? ~ No different. Still ill.

   2. informalnot comparableUsed idiomatically before certain other adjectives.

      This thing is no good.

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      The teacher’s decision was no fair.

2. Scotlandinformalnot comparableNot.

   Can ye no help me?

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   I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.

   AS the Devil is not so Black as he is Painted, so neither does he appear in so many Shapes as we make for him; we Dress him up in more Suits of Cloaths, and more Masquerade Habits, than ever he wore; and I question much, if he was to see the Pictures and Figures which we call Devil, whether he would know himself by some of them or no.

   1725, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions

3. colloquialhumorousnot comparableusuallyNot, does not, do not, etc.

   Ug no like veggie.

1. Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.

   David, no!

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   No, you are mistaken.

   No, you may not watch television now.

   Why is it when I say 'no', you both hear 'yes'?

   2000 February 5, Douglas Watkinson et al., “Beyond the Grave”, in Midsomer Murders

   Synonyms: nay, nope · Antonyms: aye, maybe, yea, yes, affirmative, ahuh, ar, arr

2. Used to ask for confirmation.

   The legal drinking age in the States is 21, no?

   Synonyms: yes, right

3. Used to express sadness or disappointment.

   "We lost." "No!"

4. Used to express disbelief.

   I got the job! / No! Really? That's fantastic!

   Synonyms: no way

5. Used to show agreement with a negative question.

   "Don’t you like milk?" "No." (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")

   Synonyms: nah, nay, nope

6. colloquialUsed together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.

   No, totally.

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   No, yeah, that's exactly right.

   "Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!"

1. Without.

   Look Ma, no hands!

2. Like.

plural noes · plural nos

1. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.

   Q: I'll answer any ten questions that call for a yes or a no.

   1994, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episodes 25-26, John de Lancie (actor)

2. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.

   The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty yeses and two nos.

present singular third person noes · participle present noing · participle past noed · past noed

1. colloquialintransitiveTo say “no”.

   “Heaven knows why a woman ‘Noes’!” / Clarrie nodded glumly. “And why she ‘Yesses’ in the end.”

   1994, Malcolm Ross, “Part Three: The New Woman”, in Kernow & Daughter, London: BCA, →ISBN, page 293

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   She felt disquiet at these tales of Musa’s illicit activities. ‘Does your father know?’ / ‘My father always noes. He never yeses. Specially when he’s sick, then he noes all the time. I gotta get out. Can’t stick around the house with him yelling.[…]’

   1983, Sasha Moorsom, chapter 5, in In the Shadow of the Paradise Tree, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Henley-on-Thame, Oxfordshire: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 80

   There were days, entire years of his life, spent yessing and noing on the phone, picking up and hanging up and accomplishing nothing at all.

   2001, Nicholas Weinstock, “The Flowers”, in As Long As She Needs Me, New York, N.Y.: Perennial, published 2002, →ISBN, page 140

2. colloquialtransitiveTo answer with “no”; to decline, reject.

   BUDGET DIRECTOR SMITH / The President yessed his report […] SENATOR McCARRAN / He noed the President’s report

   1940 March 17, “Back of the CAA Fight: Independence or Closer Executive Control of Aviation Agency”, in David Lawrence, editor, The United States News, Washington, D.C.: United States News Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33, column 2

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   Never accustom yourself to say ‘Yes,’—practise an emphatic and decisive enunciation of the far more dignified and important monosyllable, ‘No.’ […] Believe me, it is of the utmost importance (the advice is not of recent date) that you should No the world.

   1835 April, “The Whimsey Papers.—No. II. Vague Conclusions Concerning Selfishness and Benevolence—Vivid the Casuist—Skinflint the Misanthrope—Green, the Good-Natured Man.”, in [Caroline Norton], editor, The Court Magazine, […], volume VI, number IV, London: Edward Churton, […], →OCLC, page 168, column 1

   Yet in every such instance—and there are scores of them—the Justices can do nothing but impotently point toward future action after Yessing or Noing past action by men in a position to act.

   1955, Fred Rodell, “Powerful, Irresponsible, and Human”, in Nine Men: A Political History of the Supreme Court from 1790 to 1955, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12

1. alternativearchaicnot comparableAlternative form of No.

plural nos

1. alternativeAlternative form of No.

1. abbreviationinitialismrelays; and valves; relays; and valvesbusinessInitialism of normally open.

   Antonyms: NC

1. abbreviationinitialismCatholicismInitialism of Novus Ordo.

1. alternativearchaicnot comparableAlternative form of No..

plural Nos

1. alternativeAlternative form of No..

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.

1. A lake in South Sudan.
2. A county of South Sudan.