(a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
(a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
(a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
(a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
(n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
(n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
(n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
(n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
(n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.
(n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
(v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.
(v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
(v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(5) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(6) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
(7) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
(8) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(9) Increases in extracellular calcium antagonized the negative inotropic effect.
(10) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
(11) Control incubations revealed an inherent difference between the two substrates; gram-positive supernatants consistently contained 5% radioactivity, whereas even at 0 h, those from the gram-negative mutant released 22%.
(12) The results obtained from these test systems were all negative.
(13) After transfection in CH4C1 cells the two isoforms are coupled with adenylate cyclase while only the shortest isoform appears negatively coupled to phospholipase C. Functional D2 dopamine receptors are present in human prolactinomas.
(14) All sera samples were tested by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test and 881 (78.5%) of those were found to be positive and 242 (21.5%) were negative.
(15) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(16) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
(17) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
(18) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(19) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(20) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
Nope
Definition:
(n.) A bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oh”, said many, “You must doing it for charity.” Nope.
(2) Nope, he let's it go and now Kelly has walked the bases loaded with one out for the Wild Horse himself, Yasiel Puig.
(3) Nope, he grounds out to you know where, and even though Carpenter bobbles it, he throws over to get the former AL MVP just in time.
(4) "Nope, nope, nope," he said this week, brushing off talk of a reunion.
(5) 49ers 6-0 Panthers, 15:00, 2nd quarter The Panthers are 10 and 13 on 4th down conversions... but nope, the San Francisco defense stuffs Newton!
(6) 3.38am BST Heat 92-93 Spurs, 1:46 remaining in the 4th quarter Nope, it stays San Antonio ball as called, but they have less than a second.
(7) #Nope June 19, 2016 On Wednesday a Facebook spokesman confirmed to the Guardian that it was not using location data, with the same statement as supplied to Fusion.
(8) Nope, says Cole, and neither do courts that grant wiretap warrants.
(10) 4.24am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, top of 8th Nope - that's a fail.
(11) #fundamentals January 5, 2014 1.57am GMT End of first quarter: Saints 0-0 Eagles Nope.
(12) Having persuaded numerous over-achieving women to keep time logs of their days, from dawn gym workouts (nope, me neither) to solving work crises at midnight, she observes that actually “their lives didn’t look that bad”.
(13) Nope, they offered this rather stark evaluation: "It was determined that on the whole these provisions indicate an interest in teaching at a research university and not at a college, like ours, that is both teaching and student centered."
(14) 1.06am BST Cardinals 9 - Pirates 1, Final Nope, just a single, his second of the night - he has half of Pittsburgh's four knocks tonight.
(15) At the last minute Robin popped in and the club owners decided, nope, we’re putting Robin on.
(16) In fact – and the letters make no mention of this – the child benefit tax charge is based on something called your "adjusted net income" (nope, I'd never heard of it either).
(17) Nope, a harmless pop out center field for the first out.
(18) That the Republicans think Rubio – and Cruz, to a lesser extent – is their Great Brown Hope instead of a Great Brown Nope despite all his negatives with Latinos ( he even introduced Mitt Romney during the 2012 Republican convention ) shows, once again, how much work the Reeps need to do to attract non-Cuban Latinos to their party.
(19) I remember watching a video of her eloquent speech at the G8 Summit in London in April – as she spoke in front of the world's leading foreign ministers, I stared at what I knew were tissue expanders and thought: "Nope, no one can tell."
(20) 6.49pm BST FULL TIME: Argentina 0-0 Switzerland Nope!