NE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NE mean? 

• NE (noun)
  The noun NE has 3 senses:

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

2. the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees

3. a midwestern state on the Great Plains

  Familiarity information: NE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 10; Ne; neon

Hypernyms ("Ne" is a kind of...):

chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)

argonon; inert gas; noble gas (any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table)

Holonyms ("Ne" is a substance of...):

air (a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

NE; nor'-east; northeast; northeastward

Hypernyms ("NE" is a kind of...):

compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A midwestern state on the Great Plains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "NE"):

Bad Lands; Badlands (an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska)

Grand Island (a town in south central Nebraska)

capital of Nebraska; Lincoln (capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska)

North Platte (a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River)

Omaha (largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest)

North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)

Platte; Platte River (a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River)

Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)

South Platte; South Platte River (a tributary of the Platte River)

Holonyms ("NE" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

The adrenergic tissue uptake and storage of I-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (I-123 MIBG) mimics that of norepinephrine (NE).

(Iobenguane Sulfate I-123, NCI Thesaurus)

You! you horse-racing, cock-fighting ne’er-do-weel!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This agent also increases acetylcholine (Ach), norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine levels in the central nervous system (CNS).

(Citicoline, NCI Thesaurus)

Duloxetine selectively prevents the reuptake of 5-HT and NE via transporter complexes on the pre-synaptic membrane, thereby increasing the level of these neurotransmitters within the synaptic cleft.

(Duloxetine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

“He is the parent of my children! He is the father of my twins! He is the husband of my affections,” cried Mrs. Micawber, struggling; “and I ne—ver—will—desert Mr. Micawber!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Negore, the Coward," he heard Illiha, a young woman, laugh, and Sun-ne, his sister's daughter, laughed with her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was a well-known ne’er-do-well among the Italian colony.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Morphologically identical/similar to small cell carcinoma of human lung, prostate; less cytoplasm with more pronounced nuclear hyperchromasia and molding than in NE carcinoma.

(Invasive Small Cell Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A synthetic, aralkylguanidine analogue of the adrenergic neurotransmitter norepinephrine (NE) and adrenergic neuron blocking agent with potential diagnostic imaging or antineoplastic activity when radiolabeled.

(Iobenguane, NCI Thesaurus)

Including solid and rosetting, with scant to moderate cytoplasm, nuclear features of NE carcinoma or with immunophenotypic documentation

(Invasive Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)