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noone | cannot |

As a proper noun noone

is .

As a verb cannot is

not (am/is/are unable to).

As a noun cannot is

something that cannot be done.

noone

English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
    • Usage notes
    *Noone is formed in parallel to the formation of (nobody), (anyone), and (everyone), but it is often considered incorrect because of the doubled vowels creating a temptation to read and pronounce it as "noon" (). *American users (COCA) prefer the spelling (no one) to either noone'' or ''no-one by more than 500 to 1. *UK users (BNC) prefer (no-one) to noone'' 50 to 1 and ''no one'' to ''noone 12 to 1.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • English words with vowel pseudo-digraphs

    cannot

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • not (am/is/are unable to).
  • Am/are/is forbidden or not permitted to
  • * 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
    • The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Karen McVeigh
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= US rules human genes can't be patented , passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
    Usage notes
    Both the one-word form cannot' and the two-word form '''can not''' are acceptable, but '''cannot''' is more common (in the , three times as common). The two-word form is better only in a construction in which '''not is part of a set phrase, such as 'not only... but (also)': ''Paul can not only sing well, but also paint brilliantly .

    Synonyms

    * can't

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be done.
    • the cans and cannots

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    Anagrams

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