| not |
| 1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
| Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
| Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
| 2. adv. To no degree. | |
| That is not red; it's orange. | |
| 3. conj. And not. | |
| I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
| He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
| 4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
| I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
| Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
| 5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
| You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
| 6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
| neat |
| 1. n. (archaic) A bull or cow. | |
| 2. n. (archaic) Cattle collectively. | |
| 3. adj. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities. | |
| My room is neat because I tidied it this morning. She has very neat hair. | |
| 4. adj. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below. | |
| I like my whisky neat. | |
| 5. adj. (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent. | |
| The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat. The molecular beam was neat acetylene. | |
| 6. adj. (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net. | |
| 7. adj. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful. | |
| The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests. | |
| 8. adj. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise. | |
| Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch. | |
| 9. adj. (North American, colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable. | |
| Hey, neat convertible, man. | |
| 10. n. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| regular |
| 1. adj. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). | |
| regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy | |
| 2. adj. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. | |
| 3. adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size | |
| 4. adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other. | |
| 5. adj. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence. | |
| 6. adj. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.). | |
| 7. adj. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. | |
| He made regular visits to go see his mother. | |
| 8. adj. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. | |
| The verb "to walk" is regular. | |
| 9. adj. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. | |
| 10. adj. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops. | |
| 11. adj. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way. | |
| Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular. | |
| 12. adj. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright. | |
| a regular genius; a regular John Bull | |
| 13. adj. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape. | |
| a regular flower; a regular sea urchin | |
| 14. adj. (crystallography) isometric | |
| 15. adj. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward. | |
| 16. adj. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular. | |
| 17. adv. (archaic, UK, dialect) Regularly, on a regular basis. | |
| 18. n. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve). | |
| 19. n. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment. | |
| Bartenders usually know their regulars by name. | |
| 20. n. A frequent customer, client or business partner. | |
| This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars. | |
| 21. n. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar. | |
| 22. n. Anything that is normal or standard. | |
| 23. n. A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows. | |
| 24. n. A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls. | |
| 25. n. A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month. | |
| irregular |
| 1. adj. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations. | |
| 2. adj. Of a surface, rough. | |
| 3. adj. Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity. | |
| 4. adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal. | |
| 5. adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other). | |
| 6. n. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics. | |
| 7. n. One who does not regularly attend a venue. | |
| uneven |
| 1. adj. Not even | |
| 2. adj. Not level or smooth | |
| 3. adj. Not uniform | |
| 4. adj. Varying in quality | |
| 5. adj. (mathematics, rare) Odd | |
