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NE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A midwestern state on the Great Plains
Synonyms:
Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "NE"):
Bad Lands; Badlands (an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska)
Grand Island (a town in south central Nebraska)
capital of Nebraska; Lincoln (capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska)
North Platte (a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River)
Omaha (largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest)
North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)
Platte; Platte River (a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River)
Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)
South Platte; South Platte River (a tributary of the Platte River)
Holonyms ("NE" is a part of...):
middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees
Synonyms:
NE; nor'-east; northeast; northeastward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("NE" is a kind of...):
compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
Synonyms:
atomic number 10; Ne; neon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ne" is a kind of...):
chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
argonon; inert gas; noble gas (any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table)
Holonyms ("Ne" is a substance of...):
air (a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of)
Context examples:
Morphology includes solid and rosetting, with scant to moderate cytoplasm, nuclear features of NE carcinoma or with immunophenotypic documentation
(Microinvasive Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
This agent has minimal effects on the CNS neuronal reuptake of norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA).
(Citalopram Hydrobromide, NCI Thesaurus)
Clonidine binds to and stimulates central alpha-2 adrenergic receptors, thereby reducing the amount of norepinephrine (NE) release and thus decreasing sympathetic outflow to the heart, kidneys, and peripheral vasculature.
(Clonidine, NCI Thesaurus)
Est-ce que je ne puis pas prendrie une seule de ces fleurs magnifiques, mademoiselle?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Hélène Seroussi and Erik Ivins of JPL found that the flux of energy from the mantle plume must be no more than 150 milliwatts per square meter.
(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)
She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been committed at the house of an aunt at Chêne, a village situated at about a league from Geneva.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A radioconjugate composed of the positron-emitting radioisotope iodine I 124 labeled to iobenguane, the synthetic aralkylguanidine analogue of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine (NE), with potential diagnostic imaging applications upon positron emitting tomography (PET) or computed tomography (CT).
(Iobenguane I-124, NCI Thesaurus)
Invasive malignant epithelial neoplasms that show light microscopic, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features indicative of NE differentiation, corresponding primarily to the presence of neurosecretory granules.
(Invasive Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The hydrochloride salt of duloxetine, a fluoxetine derivative belonging to the class of selective serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) reuptake inhibitors (SSNRIs) and exhibiting antidepressant activity.
(Duloxetine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Iobenguane, also known as metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG), is taken up and accumulates in the granules of adrenal medullary chromaffin cells and in the pre-synaptic granules of adrenergic neurons in a manner almost identical with that of NE.
(Iobenguane, NCI Thesaurus)
