nor

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nor"

Translingual

Symbol

nor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.

English

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nor

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• (General American) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /noɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: gnaw (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. By surface analysis, not +‎ or.

Conjunction

nor

1. (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).

   Nor did I stop to think, but ran.

   They are happy, nor need we worry.

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman:

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXV, page 54:

     The cheeks drop in; the body bows;
     Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]

2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.

   I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     But neither breath of Morn when she ascends / With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun / On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, / Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; / Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent Night / With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

3. (archaic) Neither.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:

     Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

4. Used to introduce a further negative statement.

   The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

5. (UK, dialect) Than.

   He's no better nor you.

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:

     'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 92:

     I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

Derived terms

• buff nor stye
• common sense is neither common nor sensical
• for love nor money
• gentle nor simple
• hide nor hair
• make head nor tail of
• make neither head nor tail of
• meddle nor make
• neither a borrower nor a lender be
• neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
• neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring; neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• neither fish nor flesh
• neither fish nor fowl
• neither here nor there
• neither use nor ornament
• neither … nor
• rhyme nor reason
• tide nor time tarrieth no man

Translations

nor

Albanian: as Arabic: وَلَا (walā) Belarusian: ні (ni) Bulgarian: нито (nito) Catalan: ni (ca) Czech: ani (cs) Dutch: noch (nl) Esperanto: nek (eo) Finnish: -kä (fi) French: ni (fr) Galician: nin (gl) Georgian: არც (arc) German: noch (de) Hungarian: sem (hu), se (hu) Icelandic: né Italian: né (it) Latin: nec (la) Latvian: arī ne Luxembourgish: nach (lb) Middle English: ne Norwegian: eller (no), heller ikke Persian: نه (fa) (na), و نه (va na) (formally) Polish: ani (pl) Portuguese: nem (pt) Romanian: nici (ro) Russian: ни (ru) (ni) Scottish Gaelic: no, neo, air neo, cha mhò Serbo-Croatian: Roman: niti (sh), ni (sh) Slovak: ani Slovene: niti, ne (sl) Spanish: ni (es) Swedish: eller (sv) Turkish: ne (tr) Ukrainian: ні (uk) (ni), ніт (nit) (literally)

See also

• neither

Etymology 2

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.

Noun

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Logical NOR

Wikipedia

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

Coordinate terms

• and
• nand
• or
• xor

Anagrams

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

Aromanian

Noun

nor

1. Alternative form of norã