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Nab vs Nay - What's the difference?

nab | nay |

As verbs the difference between nab and nay

is that nab is to seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive while nay is to refuse.

As nouns the difference between nab and nay

is that nab is the summit of an eminence while nay is a vote against.

As an initialism NAB

is National Australia Bank.

As an adverb nay is

no.

As a conjunction nay is

or even, or more like, or should I say. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.

As an adjective nay is

nary.

As an abbreviation NAY is

nayarit, a state of Mexico.

nab

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(nabb)
  • To seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive
  • To grab or snatch something
  • Synonyms
    * (To arrest a criminal or fugitive) nick, bust
    Derived terms
    * nabber * kidnap

    Etymology 2

    Compare knap, knop, knob.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The summit of an eminence.
  • (Halliwell)
  • The cock of a gunlock.
  • (Knight)
  • (locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
  • (Knight)

    nay

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (archaic) no
  • Derived terms

    * nay-say * naysayer

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • or even, or more like, or should I say. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
  • * His face was dirty, nay filthy.
  • * 1663 ,
  • [...] And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 18.
  • And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures,

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vote against.
  • I vote nay , even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
  • A person who voted against.
  • The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed, the nays have it.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To refuse.
  • (Holinshed)

    Adjective

  • nary
  • Anagrams

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