Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete contraction of ne was, was not.
- An obsolete contraction of ne has, has not.
GNU Webster's 1913
- obsolete Was not.
- obsolete Has not.
Examples
“According to FV, eight managers of the banks 'marketing departments receive monthly salaries of over a million krónas, which is remarkable generosity for an industry that is considered way overbloated in addition to having bankrupted a whole country.”
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“According to FV, eight managers of the banks' marketing departments receive monthly salaries of over a million krónas, which is remarkable generosity for an industry that is considered way overbloated in addition to having bankrupted a whole country.”
The Huffington Post: Iris Erlingsdottir: Crime (And Incompetence) Pays...
“In his old age he was universally called nas taticek (our little father).”
“Trade in "nas" is also banned in all trading places, regardless of their form of ownership, in public places and places of public gatherings as well as in other unspecified places, except in the live stock markets and in special places set up for trading by regional, city and district administrations.”
“The document charges the Ministry of healthcare and pharmaceutical industry of the republic with conducting explanatory work among people on the damaging impact of "nas" on human health.”
“As the Turkmen president's decree says, consumption of "nas" is to be banned in all ministries and departments, in enterprises of all forms of ownership, in organizations, in all military units and divisions, in border outposts and all educational establishments and pre-school establishments, theatres, public and private transport, in parks and markets, and trade facilities and in places of public gatherings.”
“Aug 6 00: 35: 03 s_local@hostname in. mpathd [133]: [ID 302819 daemon. error] Improved failure detection time 15335 ms on (inet bge1) fo r group "nas" Aug 6 00: 35: 04 s_local@hostname in. mpathd [133]: [ID 302819 daemon. error] Improved failure detection time 10000 ms on (inet ce1) for group "nas" Thanks Rajan”
“And, after all, chewing "nas" cause tuberculosis and cancer. ”
“Saparmurat Niyazov said: "Sometimes, walking in the streets, one can see a driver of a passing car sticking his head out of the window and spitting" nas ".”
“Niestety do jej podstawowych wad należy brak dodatków do jakich przyzwyczaił nas np. taki Firefox.”
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alexz Wikipedia has a translation of nas being 'never was'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative#Two_or_more_negatives_resolving_to_a_negative
"Historically, Chaucer made extensive use of double, triple, and even quadruple negatives in his Canterbury Tales. About the Friar, he writes "Ther nas no man no wher so vertuous" ("There never was no man nowhere so virtuous")."
that's an old definition. Feb 10, 2013