not

Etymology
From, , variant of , , from , , short for , , corresponding to + , , corresponding to  +.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare, and. More at, ,.

Adverb

 * 1) * 1973 November 17,, Orlando press conference:
 * People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
 * 1) * 1998 January 26,, White House press conference:
 * I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
 * 1) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * Oh, Pete. This is not the gym. &mdash; That’s right, Anna. This is the mailroom.
 * Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
 * 1) To no degree.
 * That day was not the best day of my life. (meaning the day was bad or awful)
 * It was not my favorite movie of all time. (meaning the speaker dislikes or strongly dislikes the movie)
 * In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.
 * Not me writing example sentences again! (≈Oh my, there I go writing example sentences again!)
 * That day was not the best day of my life. (meaning the day was bad or awful)
 * It was not my favorite movie of all time. (meaning the speaker dislikes or strongly dislikes the movie)
 * In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.
 * Not me writing example sentences again! (≈Oh my, there I go writing example sentences again!)
 * It was not my favorite movie of all time. (meaning the speaker dislikes or strongly dislikes the movie)
 * In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.
 * Not me writing example sentences again! (≈Oh my, there I go writing example sentences again!)
 * Not me writing example sentences again! (≈Oh my, there I go writing example sentences again!)
 * Not me writing example sentences again! (≈Oh my, there I go writing example sentences again!)
 * Not me writing example sentences again! (≈Oh my, there I go writing example sentences again!)

Usage notes
In modern usage, do-support requires that the form do not ... (or don’t ...) be preferred to ''... not'' for all but a short list of verbs (be, have, can, shall, will, would, may, must, need, ought):


 * They do not sow. (modern) vs. They sow not. (KJB)

American usage tends to prefer don’t have or haven’t got to have not or haven’t, except when have is used as an auxiliary (or in the idiom have-not):


 * I don’t have a clue or I haven’t got a clue. (US)
 * I haven’t a clue or I haven’t got a clue. (outside US)
 * I haven’t been to Spain. (universal)

The verb need is only directly negated when used as an auxiliary; this usage is rare in the US but common elsewhere.


 * You don’t need to trouble yourself. (common in US)
 * You needn’t trouble yourself. (common outside US)
 * I don’t need any eggs today. (universal)

The verb dare can sometimes be directly negated.


 * I daren't do that.

The verb do, as a main verb, takes do not.


 * He does not do that.

In the imperative, all verbs, including be, take do not.


 * Don't do that.
 * Don't be silly. (not *Be not silly.)

In the infinitive, verbs must be negated directly. In this case not cannot appear after the verb; some authorities recommend placing it before to to avoid a split infinitive, but for most speakers the forms not to do and to not do are more or less interchangeable, with the latter being mostly informal.


 * The objective is not to lose or The objective is to not lose.
 * I wanted not to go or I wanted to not go. (Note the difference between this and I didn't want to go, where want is the verb being negated.)

In the subjunctive mood, do-support is not used for negation; not is placed by itself, or with , immediately before the verb it modifies, even be:
 * They suggested that he (should) not do it.
 * The law requires that it (should) not be done.

Conjunction

 * 1) And not.
 * I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
 * He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.

Usage notes

 * The construction “A, not B” is synonymous with the constructions “A, and not B”; “not B, but A”; and “not B, but rather A”.

Usage notes
Boolean operators and states are commonly written in all uppercase in order to distinguish them from the ordinary uses of the words.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) swim

Etymology
Probably borrowed from.

Verb

 * 1) to

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) dry wind from the south

Verb

 * 1)  to swim

Etymology 3
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) swim, swimming

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)   A groove.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  seine net

Noun

 * 1) use

Derived terms

 * (to be of use, to be useful)

Etymology
From, from , from , from. .

Noun

 * , a character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.

Etymology 1
Reduction of (from, ).

Adverb

 * 1) not
 * 2) not
 * 1) not

Noun

 * 1) nothing,
 * 2)  nobody, no person

Etymology 2
From, first and third person singular of , equivalent to and.

Contraction

 * 1)   to.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  a net, seine

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a groove (as used in a tongue and groove joint)

Etymology 3
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a sign; mark; a mark made on an object

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) net, seine

Etymology
From, accusative of , from.

Noun

 * 1)  night

Etymology
Borrowed from. The "money" sense comes from the now-rare.

Noun

 * 1)  note
 * 2)  pound (sterling)

Etymology 1
From (noun),  (verb), both from.

Noun

 * 1)  note.
 * 2) a short message; note.
 * 3)  a formal message from a country to another country’s embassy.

Etymology 2
Related to.

Noun

 * 1) seine

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) North

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a short message; note
 * 2) grade, score
 * 1) grade, score

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  knot