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   not

   /nɒt/

   adverb

   • 1. used with an auxiliary verb or ‘be’ to form the negative: "he would not say"
   • ▪ used in some constructions with other verbs: "he has been warned not to touch"
   • 2. used as a short substitute for a negative clause: "maybe I'll regret it, but I hope not"
   • 3. used to express the negative of other words: "not a single attempt was made"
   • ▪ used with a quantifier to exclude a person or part of a group: "not all the poems are serious"
   • ▪ no more than (used to indicate a surprisingly small quantity): "the brakes went on not ten feet from him"
   • 4. used in understatements to suggest that the opposite of a following word or phrase is true: "the not too distant future"
   • ▪ following and emphatically negating a statement: informal, humorous "that sounds like quality entertainment—not"

   noun

   • 1. a Boolean operator with only one variable that has the value one when the variable is zero and vice versa.
   • ▪ a circuit which produces an output signal only when there is not a signal on its input.

   adjective

   • 1. (of paper) not hot-pressed, and having a slightly textured surface.

   Word Origin Middle English: contraction of the adverb nought.

   Scrabble Points: 3

   • N

     1

   • O

     1

   • T

     1

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