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One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

(countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.

Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

The action of naturalizing somebody; act of granting citizenship.

A state of nature; conformity to nature.

(philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism. [from 16th c.]

naturforskerske

(philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism. [from 16th c.]

Naturally as part or consequence of something.

naturlig selektion

(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.

A reservation, a nature preserve.

A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.

A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

A hub of a wheel.

An autonomous community and province in northern Spain.

A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.

A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.

(uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.

(uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.

(anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.

A person with the same name as another.

A person with the same name as another.

A person with the same name as another.

A person with the same name as another.

(grammar, narrowly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

navnesamstilling

(grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

A person with the same name as another.

(grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

Not having a name.

The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism.

(historical) A member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP). [1930]

(historical) Of or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.

A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.

A semiaquatic monotreme from eastern Australia with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).

(transitive) To assert that something is not true.

Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, stinging nettles:

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Providing nourishment.

Closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.

(chiefly, UK) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

Providing nourishment.

A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.

(especially, military, gaming) A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

Adjacent; neighboring.

(intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.

(informal, transitive, usually in present participle) To approach; to come close to.

(often, in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition that may be (or prove to be) either true or false.

(transitive) To look at carefully and minutely.

Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.

The property of being nearsighted, myopia.

The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.

The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.

Located in the immediate vicinity.

Very close to, but not quite.

(geography) A promontory; a cape or headland. (Frequently used as a suffix in placenames.)

A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

(anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.

Haemorrhage from the nose (usually, blood flow exiting the nostrils that originates from the nasal cavity).

Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

Any large herbivorous ungulate mammal native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

Coming next, either in sequence or in time.

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. [from before 1150]

(UK, in, _, US, _, usually, formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

(UK, in, _, US, _, usually, formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.

A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

(transitive) To mention, specify.

(arithmetic) The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (such as 2 in ½).

(law) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.

When attached to certain adjectives, it forms a transitive verb whose meaning is, to make (adjective). Usually, the verb is ergative, sometimes not. The same construction could also be done to certain (fewer) nouns, as, strengthen, in which case the verb means roughly, "to give (noun) to", or "to become like (noun)".

(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.

(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.

At a lower level than before.

(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

(intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.

(informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.

The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.

The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.

Having dropped by the force of gravity.

nedfaldsprodukt

The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.

(chiefly, North America, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. [from 16th c.]

(economics) A period of major economic contraction.

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

The act of giving birth

Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.

The act of condescending; a manner of behaving in an outwardly polite way that nevertheless implies superiority to another; patronizing courtesy toward inferiors.

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

No longer in use.

To take out of service or to render unusable.

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.

The process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.

The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.

(transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.

Lessening the worth of (a person, etc); expressing derogation; insulting.

nedsættende udsagn

A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.

(transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

Sad and dispirited.

Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.

The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.

A device used to measure amounts of time.

(transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.

Sad and dispirited.

A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.

(informal) A comedown from a drug.

(transitive) To show a lack of respect to someone or something.

Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

(chiefly, historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).

To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.

The hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation.

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

(transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.

The act of neglecting.

(by extension) A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast.

Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.

(chiefly, historical, also, figuratively) A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.

(pathology) The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.

(by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice. [from 16th c.]

(uncountable, or, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

Requiring little skill or effort.

Specifically; that is to say.

A novice (recent convert); a new convert or proselyte; a new monk.

(countable) A form or sample of the element.

A country in South Asia, located between China and India. Official name: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Capital and largest city: Kathmandu.

The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.

Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system. [from 15th c.]

(cytology) A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.

A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.

Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge. [from 18th c.]

Nervous and excited.

The state or quality of being nervous.

In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.

(informal, cryptozoology) The Loch Ness monster.

(Christianity) The Christological doctrine ascribed to Nestorius, condemned as heretical by the Council of Ephesus but later also ascribed to the Church of the East, holding that within Christ there are two distinct hypostases, divine and human.

A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.

(ophthalmology) The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that contains rods and cones sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.

Moments ago, only very recently.

Remaining after expenses or deductions.

Any interconnected group or system.

The other direction

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