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How to pronounce not in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms non


he does not speak French.
she is not going.
they are not friends.
not many.
not much.
not at all.

Examples of not

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During an interview Thursday, Stockstill did not name candidates for either job.
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You are not going to want someone with two years of dental education doing that.
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Exactly when Bryan will move her office to the historic courthouse is not clear.
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He also maintains that the elections board was not made up of the proper people.
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He was rescued as a larger kitten and slowly learned that humans are not so bad.
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No, not anything to do with his winning an Olympic gold medal in figure skating.
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Defense attorney Ed Edens said the facts were not as simple as Dalkin described.
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This was not the first time Elgin has been featured in a well-known publication.
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Not only do students respect their teachers, we form close bonds with them, too.
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  • Negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all"
  • Not! is a grammatical construction in the English language that became a sarcastic catchphrase in North America in the 1990s. A declarative statement is made, followed by a pause and then an emphatic "not!" is postfixed. The result is a negation of the original declarative statement. ...
  • In logic and mathematics, negation, also called logical complement, is an operation on propositions, truth values, or semantic values more generally. Intuitively, the negation of a proposition is true when that proposition is false, and vice versa. ...
  • (NOTS) The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is a United States Navy (USN) organization that controls most of the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. ...
  • (NOTs) In Scientology, the state of Operating Thetan (OT) is a spiritual state above Clear. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, defined it as "knowing and willing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time (MEST)". According to religious scholar J. ...
  • Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function; Negates the meaning of the modified verb; To no degree; And not; Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically
  • (notness) The state of not being; nonexistence
  • (NOTs) an acronym for New Era Dianetics for OTs. See New Era Dianetics for OTs (NOTs) in this glossary.
  • (NOTS) Nominal Operating Tensile Strength. The tension that can be applied for 48 hours to optical fibre cable in suspension with a greater than 95% fibre survival probability.