Ne

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

ne

   <networking> The {country code} for Niger.

   (1999-01-27)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

NE
       Network Element

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

NE
       Netzebene (DTAG)

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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.

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