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negative englanniksi
Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
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Of a number: less than zero.
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Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles (defdate)
Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
(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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(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
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.
{{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)|title=(w)|publisher=N.S.W. Bookstall Co.|year_published=1932|location=Sydney|page=64|passage="Never mind," said Cripps, "the dinner will set you right." The curate, foreboding the worst, followed them to the Sign of the Sixpence, where he had sufficient presence of mind to negative Cripps's order of steak-and-kidney pudding for three, and substitute a humble request for roast mutton.
{{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
(quote-book)|title=The Robot Brains|location=London|volume=|publisher=Digit Books|page=62|passage="However, the fact that they need crystals negatives that idea...we must seek a material explanation."
To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.
(RQ:Strachey Eminent Victorians)
(quote-book)|publisher=Angus and Robertson|location=Sydney|page=62|passage=He was coatless and his thumbs were hooked negligently in a leather belt, thereby negativing a tendency to balance himself on an inclined plane backwards.
{{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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