from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- pro. No one; not one; nobody: None dared to do it.
- pro. Not any: None of my classmates survived the war.
- pro. No part; not any: none of your business.
- adv. Not at all: He is none too ill.
- adv. In no way: The jeans looked none the better for having been washed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- pro. Not any (one) of a given number or group of things. With singular or plural concord.
- pro. Not any person: no one, nobody (with singular concord); no people (with plural concord).
- Not any; no.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.
- adj. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style.
- n. Same as nones, 2.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not one; not any; not an; not a; no.
- Not one; no one; often as a plural, no persons or no things.
- Not any; not a part; not the least portion.
- In no respect or degree; to no extent; not a whit; not; no: as, none the better.
- n. A Middle English form of noon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. not any
- n. a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
- adv. not at all or in no way
- n. a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
Do we really need more then eleven thousand point of view on the stupid act of an upset man — none, *none* who witnessed it, nor talked to the involved parties?
For if the options are irreducible causation or none, one should ask whether ˜none™ might be the better choice.
III. i.7 (62,9) [I do lose a thing, That none but fools would keep] [W: would reck] The meaning seems plainly this, that _none but fools would_ wish _to keep life_; or, _none but fools would keep_ it, if choice were allowed.
"But in none of these, in _none_, was there -- realization -- of themselves, say the Three; naught but hunger driving, always driving them to still its crying.
I figured I could cash in on you round eyes by calling myself by a name none of you would ever forget—Charlie Chan.
Now I realize that probably isn't the proper medical terminology, but I am working on the patent for the term none the less. lol ...
onyx - a sternum of slippery glass some may enter her throat, unload and expect a morning of without a face or a name none will enter her heart
I love how "none" is the default answer here, even to the question about relatives.
In order to explore this, it is worth introducing the term none / 0) "I do think women are genetically wired to pursue commitment more than men -- we haven't lost that part of our monkey brains yet.
And none is providing any metrics by which to judge success.