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nether | nother |

As adjectives the difference between nether and nother

is that nether is lower; under while nother is neither or nother can be different, other.

As adverbs the difference between nether and nother

is that nether is down; downward while nother is (label) nor.

As a verb nether

is to bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

As a noun nether

is oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

As a pronoun nother is

neither or nother can be (obsolete) another.

nether

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) nether, nethere, nithere, from (etyl) .

Adjective

  • Lower; under.
    • The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
  • Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
    • The nether regions.
  • * 1873 , Mark Twain, The Gilded Age , page187:
    • When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
    Synonyms
    * (lower) bottom, lower * (sense, beneath the Earth's surface) subsurface, subterranean
    Derived terms
    * netherdom * nether region * Netherlands * nethermore * nethermost * netherness * netherty * netherward * netherworld

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Down; downward.
  • Low; low down.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of earlier nither, from (etyl) nitheren, from (etyl) . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  • To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  • To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  • To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  • To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  • (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

    • Anagrams

    *

    nother

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) . Compare (neither), (nauther).

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Neither.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Neither.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) Nor.
  • *, Bk.VII:
  • *:Than the quene seydeshe wyst nat how, nother in what manere.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of , (m), influenced by re-analysis as a nother .

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (obsolete) Another.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Different, other.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2009-10-01 , year= , first= , last= , author=Automotive Editors , authorlink= , title=Long-Term Test Cars , site=Poplar Mechanics citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-03-14 , passage=Executing it all well, with the feel, look and operation of a real luxury car, is a whole nother ball of wax. }}
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    • , year=2015 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=LT Wolf , title=The World King , chapter= , url= , genre=fiction , publisher= , isbn=978-1-312-37454-6 , page= , passage=He has said elfsheen four nother ways — elfsheen, elfshine, elfshone, elfshyne. }}

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