norとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.

接続詞

nor

1. (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, OCLC 316392309, Act 2, scene 1:

     Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

     Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

   Nor did I stop to think, but ran.

   They are happy, nor need we worry.

2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.

3. Used to introduce a further negative statement.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     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.

   The struggle didn't end, nor was it any less diminished.

4. (Britain, dialect) Than.
   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:

     'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 92:

     I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

   He's no better nor you.

参考

• neither

語源 2

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or

名詞

nor (複数形 nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

参考

• and
• nand
• or
• xor

アナグラム

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

Usage note

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Geographical Terms: Foreign countries and regions", Table T10.3, p. 438-443.

接頭辞

nor-

1. (有機化学) a compound derived from another by removal of a radical, especially by removal of methyl or methylene

派生語

参考

• homo-

参照

1. ^ J. H. Gaddum (2 June 1956), “The Prefix ‘Nor’ in Chemical Nomenclature”, Nature, volume 177, issue 1046, DOI:10.1038/1771046b0.