nor
UK /nɔː/ · US /nɔɹ/ conjunction, noun
Forms nors
- conjunction (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one). “Nor did I stop to think, but ran.”
- conjunction A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true. “I am neither hungry nor thirsty.”
- conjunction (archaic) Neither.
- conjunction Used to introduce a further negative statement. “The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.”
- conjunction (UK, dialect) Than. “He's no better nor you.”
- noun A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR function. “0 NOR 0 is 1; 1 NOR anything is 0.”
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. By surface analysis, not + or.
From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.
From nor. Reinterpreted as NOT + OR or negation + OR (see also NAND, formed analogically).
Webster’s 1913
- conjunction A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor. Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass, in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9, 10.
Etymology [OE. nor, contr. from nother. See Neither.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “nor”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details