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(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles (defdate)
Of a number: less than zero
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Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
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(label) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
''Often preceded by'' (l), (l), (l), or (l): to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Christopher Johns|title=Becoming a Reflective Practitioner|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uvNiZvYpsu4C&pg=PA15&dq=positive+energy&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5FH9T5fGH-KdmQWWoZ2YBQ&ved=0CGkQ6AEwCTgKv=onepage&q=positive%20energy&f=false|page=15|publisher=John Wiley & Sons
2011, Joe Vitale, ''The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want'', Body, Mind & Spirit, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false
- The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Anne Jones|title=Healing Negative Energies|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mHSjDZTPLmQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0v=onepage&q=salt%20bath&f=false|page=118|publisher=Hachette
Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
quoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, ''HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS'' (page 145)
- We certainly told him at that time that I was negative. We talked about transmission. We told him we don't do anything that would cause me to become positive.
COVID-19 negative.
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Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto (defdate)
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones) There is indeed in perfect beauty a power which none almost can withstand; for my landlady, though she was not pleased at the negative given to the supper, declared she had never seen so lovely a creature.
(RQ:Carlyle Past and Present)
An unfavorable point or characteristic.
A right of veto.
1787, Martin|Luther Martin, cited in ''The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America's Founding'' (2005), Volume 1, page 391
- And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.
1788, Alexander Hamilton, s:The Federalist (Dawson)/68|''The Federalist'', no. 68
- The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; (..)
1983, v. Chadha|INS v. Chadha, v. Chadha/Opinion of the Court|Opinion of the Court
- In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.
An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. (defdate)
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A negative quantity.
A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
''You can’t prove a negative.''
{{quote-text|en|year=1887|author=L. T. Meade|title=The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15149/15149-h/15149-h.htm|chapter=XVIII
{{quote-book|en|year=1924|author=Herman Melville|title=Billy Budd|location=London|publisher=Constable & Co.|chapter=12|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html
To contradict.
{{quote-text|en|year=1892|author=Thomas Hardy|title=Tess of the d'Urbervilles|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm|chapter=XXXIII
To disprove.
{{quote-book|en|year=1882|author=Riddell|J. H. Riddell|chapter=Old Mrs Jones|title=The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs. J. H. Riddell|publisher=Dover|year_published=1977|page=192|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=RFsqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+boastings+of+various+servants+who+declared%22&dq=%22the+boastings+of+various+servants+who+declared%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip9tP38KPNAhVQ7WMKHTavDbwQ6AEIIDAA
To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.
(RQ:Strachey Eminent Victorians)
{{quote-text|en|year=1959|translator=G. A. Williamson|author=Flavius Josephus|title=The Jewish War|chapter=5|page=98|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1970
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