different between nor vs xnor

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /n??/
• (US) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /n???/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophone: gnaw (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.

Conjunction

nor

1. (literary) And not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
   • Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

     Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.

3. Used to introduce a further negative statement.

4. (Britain, dialect) Than.

Translations

See also

• neither

Etymology 2

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or

Noun

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

See also

• and
• nand
• or
• xor

Anagrams

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

Aromanian

Noun

nor

1. Alternative form of norã

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nor/, [nor], [no?]

Etymology 1

Pronoun

nor

1. (interrogative) who

Declension

Etymology 2

From the interrogative pronoun.

Adjective

nor (not comparable)

1. (grammatical term, used as a modifier) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nor]

Noun

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Dutch

Etymology

Unclear, perhaps onomatopoeic, cf. brommen (“to do time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?r/
• Hyphenation: nor
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)

1. (informal) Jail, prison; imprisonment

   Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevangenis, lik

Norman

Alternative forms

• nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþr? (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

Noun

nor m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) north

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?r/

Noun

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Romanian

Alternative forms

• nour (regional, Moldova)
• noor (regional, Oltenia),
• nuor, nuv?r (regional, Banat)
• nuar (archaic, obsolete)

Etymology

From older nuar, nu?r, from Latin n?bilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective n?bilus (“cloudy”), from Latin n?b?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newd?- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior,Spanish nube,Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nor]

Noun

nor m (plural nori)

1. cloud

Declension

Derived terms

• (a se) înnora
• noros

Slovene

Etymology

From German Narr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??r/

Adjective

n?r (comparative b?lj n?r, superlative n?jbolj n?r)

1. crazy, insane, mad

Inflection

Derived terms

Further reading

• “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

nor

1. narrow strait

Anagrams

• ron

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish nuora.

Noun

nor

1. string