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[ adverb ] not now
Synonyms Examples "she is no more" Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)An Ohio soldier who , from a comrade just returned from leave , received an unfavorable comment on the conduct of his sister , took pen in hand and delivered himself thus : `` [ Dear Sis ] Alf sed he heard that you and hardy was a runing together all_the_time and he though he wod gust quit having any thing mor to doo with you for he thought it was no_more yuse . (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)No_more . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)If a child watched its progress he whispered , `` Hay , hay , load of hay - make a wish and turn_away '' , and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses ' feet returned no_more . (Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)Perhaps the public 's present attitude toward business stems from the fact that the `` rugged capitalist entrepreneur '' no_more exists in America . (Harry Olesker, Impact....)Kitti would lie in it no_more . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present
Synonyms Examples "he was no heavier than a child" Used in print ("Editorials"...)Tanks lined_up at the border will be no_more helpful . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The work done by the analysts , the men who really know what folklore is all about , has no_more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited , learned audience . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)There is no_more `` plot '' than that ; only slightly more , perhaps , than a newspaper account of such an incident would give . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)In the over-all process , it is difficult to assign a `` pure '' role to each constituent of a built detergent formulation ; and , indeed , there is no_more reason to separate the interrelated roles of the active , builder , antiredeposition agent , etc. than there is to assign individual actions to each of the numerous isomers making_up a given commercial organic active . (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)It should be no_more difficult to deliver such devices than other weapons . |
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