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NONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("none" is a kind of...):
divine service; religious service; service (the act of public worship following prescribed rules)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("none" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not any
Example:
thou shalt have none other gods before me
Classified under:
Similar:
no ((quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not at all or in no way
Example:
the passage is none too clear
Classified under:
Context examples:
One or more mucosal breaks no longer than 5 mm, none of which extends between the tops of the mucosal folds.
(LA Grade A, NCI Thesaurus)
I dropped upon the thwart again, none too soon, for I was near overboard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The speech had a sinister sound, but I followed him none the less into the house.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These were all factors which had to be taken into consideration, and yet none of them got quite to the heart of the matter.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One or more mucosal breaks more than 5 mm long, none of which extends between the tops of two mucosal folds.
(LA Grade B, NCI Thesaurus)
There is a lot of activity near Jupiter's poles but none near the equator.
(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)
Each item is rated on a scale from 0 to 3 with 0 being none and 3 being severe.
(Clinical Dementia Rating Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
"Indeed, my dear Mrs Smith, I want none," cried Anne.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The ingredients thought to be in Cantron have been tested, and none of them have been shown to be effective in treating any form of cancer.
(Cantron, NCI Dictionary)
