someone who gives formal notice
<noun.person>

noticer

someone who takes notice
<noun.person>

noticer

sample sentences

"a careful noticer of details"

requiring that official notification be given
<adj.all>

notifiable

sample sentences

"a notifiable disease"

an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
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notification

presentment

a request for payment
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

notice

notification

sample sentences

"the notification stated the grace period and the penalties for defaulting"

informing by words
<noun.communication>

apprisal

notification

telling

inform (somebody) of something
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advise

apprise

apprize

give notice

notify

send word

sample sentences

"I advised him that the rent was due"

a general inclusive concept
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 14

notion

a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
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belief

feeling

impression

notion

opinion

sample sentences

"his impression of her was favorable"
"what are your feelings about the crisis?"
"it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"
"I had a feeling that she was lying"

an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

notion

whim

whimsey

whimsy

sample sentences

"the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"
"he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"
"whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

(usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items
<noun.artifact>

notion

sample sentences

"buttons and needles are notions"

being of the nature of a notion or concept
<adj.all>

conceptional

ideational

notional

sample sentences

"a plan abstract and conceptional"
"to improve notional comprehension"
"a notional response to the question"

indulging in or influenced by fancy
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fanciful

notional

sample sentences

"a fanciful mind"
"all the notional vagaries of childhood"

not based on fact or investigation
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

notional

speculative

sample sentences

"a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"
"speculative knowledge"

not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
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fanciful

imaginary

notional

sample sentences

"the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt
"a small child's imaginary friends"
"to create a notional world for oneself"

counter where notions are sold
<noun.artifact>

notions counter

a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates
<noun.animal>

notochord

the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
<noun.state>

ill fame

notoriety

known widely and usually unfavorably
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ill-famed

infamous

notorious

sample sentences

"a notorious gangster"
"the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
"the infamous Benedict Arnold"

to a notorious degree
<adv.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

notoriously

sample sentences

"European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets"

flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules
<noun.animal>

Notornis mantelli

notornis

takahe

a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
<noun.communication>

nocturne

notturno

despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
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all the same

at the same time

even so

however

nevertheless

nonetheless

notwithstanding

still

withal

yet

sample sentences

"although I'm a little afraid, however I'd like to try it"
"while we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed"
"he was a stern yet fair master"
"granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"

nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
<noun.food>

nougat

a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate
<noun.food>

nougat bar

a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
<noun.quantity>   freq. cnt.: 23 freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 3

0

cipher

cypher

nought

zero

a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
<noun.act>

noughts and crosses

tic-tac-toe

tick-tack-toe

ticktacktoe

ticktacktoo

tit-tat-toe

the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
<noun.cognition>

noumenon

thing-in-itself

the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
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noun

a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

noun

a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
<noun.communication>

nominal

nominal phrase

noun phrase

provide with nourishment
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nourish

nurture

sustain

sample sentences

"We sustained ourselves on bread and water"
"This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

give nourishment to
<verb.consumption>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

aliment

nourish

nutrify

being provided with adequate nourishment
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

nourished

of or providing nourishment
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

alimental

alimentary

nourishing

nutrient

nutritious

nutritive

sample sentences

"good nourishing stew"

a source of materials to nourish the body
<noun.food>   freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

aliment

alimentation

nourishment

nutriment

nutrition

sustenance

victuals

the act of nourishing
<noun.act>

nourishment

sample sentences

"her nourishment of the orphans saved many lives"

that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 134 freq. cnt.: 120 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 2

brain

head

mind

nous

psyche

sample sentences

"his mind wandered"
"I couldn't get his words out of my head"

common sense
<noun.cognition>

nous

sample sentences

"she has great social nous"

characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
<adj.all>   (a)

nouveau-riche

parvenu

parvenue

upstart

a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
<noun.person>

arriviste

nouveau-riche

parvenu

upstart

a school of French cooking that uses light sauces and tries to bring out the natural flavors of foods instead of making heavy use of butter and cream
<noun.food>

nouvelle cuisine

a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more luminous in the process
<noun.object>

nova