Nose vs None - What's the difference?
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A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A snout, the nose of an animal.
The tip of an object.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
The power of smelling.
* Collier
Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
The skill in recognising bouquet.
(by extension) Skill at finding information.
To move cautiously.
To snoop.
To detect by smell or as if by smell.
* , Hamlet , act 4, sc. 3,
To push with one's nose.
* Tennyson
To nuzzle.
To win by a narrow margin.
To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
Not any (one) (of) a given number or group of things. With singular or plural concord.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
* 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 :
As nouns the difference between nose and none
is that nose is a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell while none is an interval of 13 (kleine none'') or 14 (''große none ) half-tones.As a verb nose
is to move cautiously.nose
English
(wikipedia nose)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.
- We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
- We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* aquiline nose * bignose * bloody nose * blow one's nose * bottlenose * button nose * cut off one's nose to spite one's face * e-nose * * get up someone's nose * hawknose * in front of one's nose * I've got your nose * keep one's nose clean * look down one's nose * nasal * no skin off one's nose * nose candy * nose cap * nose cone * nose count * nose flute * nose job * nose out of joint * nose pad * nose-pick * nose poke * nose ring * nose test * nose to tail * nose to the grindstone * nosebag * noseband * nosebleed * nosed * nosedive * noseful * noseguard * noseless * noselike * nosepiece * noseplug * nosering * noseshot * noseweight * nosewheel * on the nose * parson's nose * pay through the nose * pick one's nose * plain as the nose on one's face * pope's nose * powder one's nose * pug nose * Red Nose Day * Roman nose * runny nose * snub-nose * socked on the nose * stick one's nose into * the nose knows * thumb one's nose * turn up one's nose * under one's nose * wax-nose * white nose syndromeSee also
* rhino-Verb
(nos)- The ship nosed through the minefield.
- She was nosing around other people’s business.
- If you find him not within
- this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
- stairs into the lobby.
- lambs nosing the mother's udder
- to nose a prayer
- (Cowley)
Derived terms
* brown-nose * nosey * nose outAnagrams
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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.
External links
* * (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 .