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noon /nu:n/ noun [u] 12 o’clock in the middle of the day 4^ ETTH MIDDAY: We should be there by noon. f] M iM M Bfe 'j3 A I'J ii o 0 The conference opens at 12 noon on Saturday. IkhiX&  A ff- 42       H. 0

the noon deadline for the end of hostilities

O         I’m leaving on the noon train.

•t1 "E A ^ A o 0 the glaring light of high noon @ l$PB A see MORNING

noon-day /'nuindei/adj. [only before noun] (old-fashioned or literary) happening or appearing at noon IE 'E £.

; EE i M W: the noonday sun IEE#JAPB 1 no One On (also no-body) pron. not anyone; no person SfA; W IE M A: No one was at home, Ef A E It      0 There was no one else

around. jillS'&E^'teAo o We were told to speak to no one.         <!HU No one is

much more common than nobody in written English. EE     E, no one It nobody jgA 0

noon-tide /'nuintaid/ noun [U] (literary) around 12 o’clock in the middle of the day IEE; F noose /nu:s/ noun a circle that is tied in one end of a rope with a knot that allows the circle to get smaller as the other end of the rope is pulled MS; S^; '/S40: a hangman’s noose 0 (figurative) His debts were a noose around his neck. ||#tfcjiLSE($—■'&

nope /naup; NAmE noop/ exclamation (informal) used to say ‘no’ E; Eft; : ‘Have you seen my pen?’ ‘Nope.

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'no place adv. {informal, especially NAmE) = nowhere:

I                   have no place else to go. nor On /no:(r)/ conj., adv.

1 neither ... nor ... | not ... nor ... and not liLE: She seemed neither surprised nor worried. &

Effl.Eo O He wasn’t there on Monday. Nor on Tuesday, for that matter.          1~#,

E E o 0 (formal) Not a building nor a tree was left standing.           2 used

before a positive verb to agree with sth negative that has just been said (

iITaE#/!! ) liLE: She doesn’t like them and nor does Jeff. j&E#&ffc(TI, jfc A fg E # ft o o Tm not going. ’ ‘Nor am I.UcEHAo ” “ISl&EAo ”

Nor dic /'noidik; NAmE 'noirdik/ adj. 1 of or connected with the countries of Scandinavia, Finland and Iceland 2 typical of a member of a European race of people who are tall and have blue eyes and blonde hair AIxfcA&E Nordic 'skiing noun [U] the sport of skiing across the countryside JtUxfcAifl!; Mffftl! compare Alpine skiing

norm /no:m; NAmE norrm/ noun 1 (often the norm) [sing.] a situation or a pattern of behaviour that is usual or expected    IE# ft A EEEIRule: a departure

from the norm  0 Older parents seem to be the

norm rather than the exception nowadays. EW&B&WA ffiPFJi'm 2 norms [pi.] standards of behaviour that are typical of or accepted within a particular group or society M ?£; ft A ?f£: social/cultural norms 4t S / A IE 3 [C] a required or agreed standard, amount, etc. foM; AE$ft; detailed education norms for children of particular ages

normal On /'norml; NAmE 'norrml/ adj., noun m adj. 1 typical, usual or ordinary; what you would expect H M W ; IE # (ft ; — Wl Ej : quite/perfectly (= completely) normal 7 ^!:£IE# 0 Her tempera­ture is normal. Mlft'ffcMlEltA o It’s normal to feel tired after such a long trip.  it M It £ Js B M M $r

j| IE # o 0 Divorce is complicated enough in normal circumstances, but this situation is even worse. E —

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Under normal circumstances, I would say yes’. — $£ff ffi E ,     ft o o He should be able to lead a

perfectly normal life. 4j&i£t^M±7n£lE##jE?go o In the normal course of events I wouldn’t go to that

part of town.         ES^'J^EMIXAGE 0 We are

open during normal office hours. E IE illN‘ |'h] ft, CNfPSfto 2 not suffering from any mental disorder ft IE # W ; M1R ft ft : People who commit such crimes aren’t normal.       P W A E' S k IE # 0 PH3

ABNORMAL IT*T?1 See PER

noun [U] the usual or average state, level or standard # ^above/below normal M'MU

/ 3L~E 0 Things soon returned to normal. 'If EtS

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.normal distri bution noun (statistics g|if) the usual way in which a particular feature varies among a large number of things or people, represented on a graph by a line that rises to a high symmetrical curve in the middle       — compare bell curve

nor-mal-ity /noi’maelati; NAmE norr'm-/ (also nor-malcy /‘noimlsi; NAmE 'no:rm-/ especially in NAmE) noun [U] a situation where everything is normal or as you would expect it to be    They are hoping for a

return to normality now that the war is over.

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normal ize (BrE also -ise) /'noimalaiz; NAmE 'norrm-/ verb (formal) to fit or make sth fit a normal pattern or condition ( {£ ) IE1IHE,      [VN] a lotion

to normalize oily skin ^ -ft ^       Ik IE #         Jl£ ^ 0

The two countries agreed to normalize relations (= return to a normal, friendly relationship, for example after a disagreement or war). W0(®]lFI$cijE?f^^o 0 [V] It took time until the political situation had normal­ized. ®:^^ilT;fS-F:Btl0]^^cSlE'to normaliza­tion, -isa-tion /.normalai'zeijn; NAmE .noirmala'z-/ noun [U]: the normalization of relations normal ly (Ht /'noimali; NAmE 'no:rm-/ adv.

II                  usually; in normal circumstances M#; IE#'l#iH,T:

I’m not normally allowed to stay out late.     ,

0 It’s normally much warmer than this in July. Mlftk B ^   o o It normally

takes 20 minutes to get there.  20

III                 in the usual or ordinary way IE # Jfe;      # Afe: Her

heart is beating normally. M E' ©fc IE # „ 0 Just try to behave normally.      0

Norman /'noiman; NAmE 'norrm-/ adj. 1 used to describe the style of architecture in Britain in the llth and 12th centuries that developed from the Romanesque style      5r ^ M itt : a

Norman church/castle ilr jl^lft%(.?£/ WM 2 connected with the Normans (= the people from northern Europe who defeated the English in 1066 and then ruled the country) H A#J: the Norman Conquest

normative /'normativ; NAmE 'norrm-/ adj. (formal) describing or setting standards or rules of behaviour a normative approach

Norn /norn; NAmE norm/ noun [U] a form of Norse that used to be spoken on the islands of Orkney and Shetland to the north of Scotland (

Norse /nors; NAmE norrs/ noun [U] the Norwegian language, especially in an ancient form, or the Scandi­navian language group

north ^ /nor0; NAmEnorr0/ noun, adj., adv. m noun [U, sing.] (abbr. N, No.) 1 (usually the north) the direction that is on your left when you watch the sun rise; one of the four main points of the compass dt; ItA Which way is north? iPiiJiA? 0 cold winds coming from the north        0 Mount Kenya

is to the north of (= further north than) Nairobi. # jgM — picture o compass — compare east n.(l), south n.( 1), west n.( 1) —see also mag­netic north, TRUE north 2 the north, the North the northern part of a country, a region or the world A p|5; AoPltfeE: birds migrating from the north fkltflxt O Houses are less expensive in the North (= of England) than in the South.

IV                 the North the NE states of the US which fought against the South in the American Civil War (

H, itn 4 the North the richer and more developed countries of the world,