No_one vs Not_a_bit - What's the difference?

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Not_a_bit is likely misspelled.

Not_a_bit has no English definition.

As a pronoun no_one

is not one person, nobody.

no_one

English

Alternative forms

* no-one; noone;

Pronoun

Not one person, nobody.

*1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)

*:"The doctor was confined to the house," Poole said, "and saw no one ." On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits."

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}

The logical negation of someone.

*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one , either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

Usage notes

* (term) has a higher degree of formality than (nobody). * American users (COCA) use no one' 60% more than they use ''nobody''. UK users (BNC) use ''nobody'' 3 times more than they use '''no one'''. For the spoken BNC usage, mostly informal, ''nobody'' is used nearly 10 times more often than all spellings of ' no one . * 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 no-one'' 4 to 1 and no one to ''noone 50 to 1.

Synonyms

* nobody, none

Antonyms

* everyone

not_a_bit

Not English

Not_a_bit has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'not_a_bit':

neatfoot