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Etymology

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. By surface analysis, not + or.

inherited from nauther

Definitions

1
And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
- Nor did I stop to think, but ran.
- They are happy, nor need we worry.
- 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…
A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
- I am neither hungry nor thirsty.
- I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
3
Neither.
- I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
- Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.
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1. 4
  Used to introduce a further negative statement.
  - The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.
  - I hardly spoke with nor listened to anybody else.
  - I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
2. 5
  Than.
  - He's no better nor you.
  - 'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'
  - I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.
3. Alternative form of NOR.
4. 7
  A binary operator composite of NOT OR
  A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR function.
  - 0 NOR 0 is 1; 1 NOR anything is 0.
  - The output state of the NOR gate will be high (1) when all the inputs are low (0). NOR gate returns the complement result of the OR gate.
5. Acronym of nucleolus organiser region.

The neighborhood

antonymOR
neighborneither

Derived

buff nor stye, common sense is neither common nor sensical, for love nor money, gentle nor simple, hide nor hair, make head nor tail of, make neither head nor tail of, meddle nor make, neither a borrower nor a lender be, neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring, neither fish nor flesh, neither fish nor fowl, neither here nor there, neither use nor ornament, neither … nor, rhyme nor reason, tide nor time tarrieth no man

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.