None vs Noon - What's the difference?
none | noon |
Not any (one) (of) a given number or group of things. With singular or plural concord.
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* 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, page 253:
Not any person: no one, nobody (with singular concord); no people (with plural concord).
(archaic, outside, Scotland) Not any; no.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXV:
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 138:
(senseid) To no extent, in no way.
Not at all.
(obsolete) No, not.
* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Shipman's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
(obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
(obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
* 1885', When night was at its '''noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17:
(figurative) The highest point; culmination.
* Motley
To relax or sleep around midday
* 1906 , (Andy Adams), The Double Trail
*:Well, we crossed and nooned , lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around.
* 1889 , (Mark Twain), (w, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
*:Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
* 1853 , (Theodore Winthrop), The Canoe and the Saddle
*:We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning , the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
As nouns the difference between none and noon
is that none is an interval of 13 (kleine none'') or 14 (''große none ) half-tones while noon is (obsolete) the ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon or noon can be the letter in the arabic script.As a verb noon is
to relax or sleep around midday.none
English
Alternative forms
* nonPronoun
(English Pronouns)- Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.
Usage notes
Although uncountable nouns require none'' to be conjugated with a singular verb, ''e.g.'', ''None of this meat tastes right'', the pronoun can be either singular or plural in most other cases, ''e.g.'', ''Fifty people applied for the position, but none were accepted.'', and ''None was qualified . However, where the given or implied context is clearly singular or plural, then a matching verb makes better sense: : None of these men is my father. : None of those options is the best one. : None of these people are my parents.Antonyms
* some * allDerived terms
* half a loaf is better than noneDeterminer
(en determiner)- the foles toke their lampes, but toke none oyle with them.
- None lasses were in the dunces' row. If one had been there people would have looked at her and felt sorry but not boys.
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* * (wikipedia "none")Adverb
(-)- I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
- He was none too pleased with the delays in the program that was supposed to be his legacy.
- Now don't you worry none .
- And up into his contour-hous gooth he / To rekene with hymself, wel may be, / Of thilke yeer how that it with hym stood, / And how that he despended hadde his good, / And if that he encresses were or noon .
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(wikipedia noon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.Noun
(en noun)- In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Antonyms
* (middle of the night) midnightSee also
*Verb
(en verb)Chapter XX