Ne
    n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow
         in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in
         the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number
         10]
    2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45
       degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east, northeastward,
       NE]
    3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska,
       Cornhusker State, NE]

ne \ne\ (n[=e]), adv. [AS. ne. See No.]
   Not; never. [Obs.]
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         He never yet no villany ne said.         --Chaucer.
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   Note: Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of
         negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never
         (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations,
         now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad,
         nam, nil. See Negative, 2.
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ne \ne\, conj. [See Ne, adv.]
   Nor. [Obs.] --Shak.
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         No niggard ne no fool.                   --Chaucer.
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   Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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NE
       Network Element
       

NE
       Netzebene (DTAG)
       

ne

    The country code for Niger.

   (1999-01-27)

NEW. Something not known before.
     2. To be patented, an invention must be new. When an invention has been 
described in a printed book which has been publicly circulated, and 
afterwards a person takes out a patent for it, his patent is invalid, 
because the invention was not new, 7 Mann' & Gr. 818. See New and Useful 
Invention.