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NEITHER
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not either; not one or the other
Classified under:
Similar:
incomplete; uncomplete (not complete or total; not completed)
Context examples:
A study in which neither the subject nor the investigator nor the research team interacting with the subject or data during the trial knows what treatment a subject is receiving.
(Double Blind Study, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living nor without?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A whole cell vaccine derived neither from patient tumor cells nor tumor cell-lines.
(Non-Tumor Cell Derivative Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
She had given them neither men, nor names, nor places, that could raise a blush.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The skin texture is neither fine or thick and it neither feels dry or oily to the touch.
(Normal Skin, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes CAMPATH-1 antigen immunoprotein, plays a role in inflammatory response and carbohydrate trafficking; however, neither role has been substantiated.
(CD52 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This classification depends on the presence or absence of two major antigens: A or B. Type O occurs when neither is present and type AB when both are present.
(Blood Type, NCI Thesaurus)
Most life on Earth, specifically all aerobic, oxygen-breathing life, wants nothing to do with phosphine, neither producing it nor relying on it for survival.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Neither OIT nor omalizumab (trade name Xolair) currently is approved for the treatment of food allergy.
(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)
But these experiments never produced a mixture with a spectral signature to match to the one seen by Cassini; neither have similar experiments conducted by other groups.
(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)
