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Definition: NON-

NON-

1. A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definitions: NON-

DomainDefinitions

Satire

NON-:COMBATANT:, n. A dead Quaker. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: NON-

English words defined with "NON-": In-PrivativeUn-. (references)
Specialty definitions using "NON-": follicular large cell lymphomaRCL. (references)
Etymologies containing "NON-": Nonchalant, Non-feasance, Nonsense. (references)
Non-English Usage: "NON-" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (non-, un-), Romanian (non-).

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Commercial Usage: NON-

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Santosha Avatara Gita: (The Revelation of the Great Means of the Divine Heart-Way of No-Seeking and Non- Separateness) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: NON-

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

This image shows the height of the dam at Parker River before restoration. Anadromous fish were forced to jump past this dam or use an outdated non- functioning dam to negotiate to their spawning grounds before the Alaskan Steep Pass fish ladder was installed.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: NON-

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The articles are the results which are the most accessible to non- professionals and often listed under the heading "Citations." (references)

Also, some patients will strongly prefer non- biological interventions, and others will not be suitable for biological treatment because of side effects, interactions between drugs, and comorbid medical conditions. (references)

Business

Preliminary figures from the DANE (National Department of Statistics), which has just been revealed, indicate that the economy may grew around 3 percent in the 2000. The most favorable indicator is that of non- traditional exports, that increased 22 percent in dollars and favored the performance of the manufacturing industry. (references)

Economic History

Eritrea

Open account and collection shipments of goods is non- existent. (references)

Kuwait

Non- performance penalties equivalent to six percent of the value of the contract can be levied. (references)

India

Rather than borrow from banks, even at sub-prime lending rates, Indian companies are raising money at lower rates from commercial papers and non- convertible debentures. (references)

Women

Barbados

However, Barbadian women married to non- Barbadian men were unable to confer citizenship on their children. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: NON-

"NON-" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.51% of the time. "NON-" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)96.51%8336,350
Noun (singular)3.49%3202,518
                    Total100.00%86N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: NON-

Language Translations for "NON-"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pa- (un-), mos- (mis-, un-), jo- (in-, un-). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عدم (beggary, mis-, negation, nil, nothingness, nought). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

който няма, който не може да е, който не е, обратно на (contrary to, unlike), несвързан с (unconnected with, unrelated to), не- (mis-, un-). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(not-, un-). (various references)

   

French

  

???. (various references)

   

German

  

??? (cutthroat, ex-, France, horseshoe, ok, shamefaced, sightseeing, stocktaking, teasel, thumbnail, un-). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ωσ-. (various references)

   

Italian

  

non- (un-). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(faulty-). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

(blaze, consort, cost, day, expense, faulty-, fire, flame, hail, ice, light, negation, no, princess, proportion, ratio, rook, spoon, sun, sunlight, sunshine, the noes, wicked person). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Biting, Non, Radish, snapping). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neu- (prefix causing lenition non-, un-). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

on-nay

   

Romanian

  

non-, ne- (in-). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

не- (un-). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ne- (un-). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

no- (un-), in- (mal-, un-), des- (mal-, un-). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

icke-. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

-siz (devoid of, ex, guiltless, in-, innocent of, lacking, out of, sans, sine, un-, void of, wanting, with no, without), olmayan (un-), karşıtı (phobe), gayri. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

не- (mal-, mis-, un-). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

di- (not, un-, without). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: NON-

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

non. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

non. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: NON-

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "n-n-o"

-1 letter: no, on.

 Words containing the letters "n-n-o"
 

+1 letter: anon, conn, neon, nona, none, noon, noun.

 

+2 letters: ancon, anion, annoy, bonne, bonny, canon, conin, conns, donna, donne, fanon, honan, inion, known, neons, ninon, niton, nomen, nonas, nonce, nones, nonet, nonyl, noons, nouns, nylon, onion, pinon, sonny, tenon, tonne, union, unwon, xenon.

 

+3 letters: adnoun, amnion, ancone, anions, annoys, anoint, anonym, anyone, bonbon, boning, bonnes, bonnet, bonnie, bunion, cannon, cannot, canons, canton, canyon, conine, coning, conins, conned, conner, donjon, donnas, donned, donnee, enjoin, eonian, fanion, fanons, gnomon, goanna, gonion, guenon, honans, honing, inborn, incony, inions, intone, intown, intron, ionone, johnny, knowns, kronen, longan, mignon, minion, minnow, nasion, nation, natron, nekton, nelson, neoned, neuron, newton, ninons, nitons, nocent, noggin, nomina, nonage, nonart, nonces, noncom, nonego, nonets, nonfan, nonfat, nongay, nonman, nonmen, nonpar, nontax, nonuse, nonwar, nonyls, nosing, noting, notion, nounal, novena, nuncio, nylons, onions, oniony, online, owning, pennon, phonon, pinion, pinons, pinyon, ponent, ponton, renown, ronion, ronnel, ronyon, sannop, sonant, sonnet, tendon, tenons, toning, tonner, tonnes, turnon, unborn, undone, unfond, unions, unison, unknot, unmown, unopen, unsown, untorn, unworn, wanion, wanton, winnow, wonned, wonner, wonton, xenons, zoning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NON-


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4F 4E 2D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001111 01001110 00101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#78 &#45

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 004E 002D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48494815

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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