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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
neither
I.determiner
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
me neither
▪ I understood the running part, but it brought me neither honor nor status.
▪ When he turns up, he ain't going to want me neither.
neither ... nor ...
▪ I am neither a bailiff nor a tax-collector.
▪ I neither can, nor wish to, exclude the media from these proceedings.
▪ In all that time he had neither moved nor shown any interest in the rescue attempt.
▪ It is neither an obsession nor a projection of his mind, although it certainly does compel him.
▪ It was an incredible year, one in which the Suns were neither lucky nor good.
▪ Once they had got over the first shock, neither Bridget nor Tracey seemed able to take her story entirely seriously.
▪ The party and its leaders were defended neither by white nor blue-collar workers nor kolkhoz farmers.
neither fish nor fowl
▪ We were caught between two generations, neither fish nor fowl.
▪ Mr. Renton I disagree with my hon. Friend about the agencies being neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring.
▪ The hovercraft has always suffered from the fact that it is neither fish nor fowl.
▪ Yet officially we are demographically insignificant, neither fish nor fowl.
neither here nor there
▪ Art was neither here nor there; money was the issue.
▪ But that was neither here nor there.
▪ Dinner half an hour earlier or later was neither here nor there.
▪ She and Carolan had no children, but that was neither here nor there as an indication of matrimonial harmony nowadays.
▪ Start worrying when we're neither here nor there.
▪ That he was not in the category ordained by the Marketing Department for the evening was neither here nor there.
▪ The cost would be borne by Grunte Accessories, but that was neither here nor there.
▪ We are the holy ones, the voyagers, the people of the crossing, neither here nor there.
II.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
know
▪ He neither knew nor cared who had been evicted from it and left destitute.
▪ Typically, layoffs comb out the young, eager employees and leave behind the deadwood-in jobs they neither know nor want.
▪ It was a bleak farewell. Neither knew if they would ever see each other again.
▪ And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace.
▪ Woman awoke to see him coming. Neither knew what had happened.
▪ He knew neither what to write nor how to write it.
▪ Most neither know nor care, which makes it worse.
▪ I neither knew nor cared whether my distress for him was based on love for a man or love for a patient.
look
▪ The car purred on, the driver looking neither to left nor right, the picture of inscrutability.
▪ She neither looked at him nor answered him.
▪ He neither looked nor felt as awful as he deserved.
▪ Stiarkoz slowly stood up, looking neither unsettled nor surprised.
▪ In particular, we will neglect audiotex and fax-based publishing altogether since neither look like having a significant role in multimedia applications.
understand
▪ I neither understand nor share that view.
▪ Dougal almost felt he was tampering with something he could neither understand nor control.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I've never been to Australia." "No, neither have I."
▪ The Cowboys won't be playing in the Superbowl this year, and neither will the Falcons.
▪ Tom didn't believe a word she said, and neither did the police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ They may not have criticized the state, but neither did they praise it.
III.conjunction
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If politics did not interest them, neither did they see it as affecting their lives.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neither

Neither \Nei"ther\ (n[=e]"[th][~e]r or n[imac]"[th][~e]r; 277), a. [OE. neither, nother, nouther, AS. n[=a]w[eth]er, n[=a]hw[ae][eth]er; n[=a] never, not + hw[ae][eth]er whether. The word has followed the form of either. See No, and Whether, and cf. Neuter, Nor.] Not either; not the one or the other.

Which of them shall I take? Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive.
--Shak.

He neither loves, Nor either cares for him.
--Shak.

Neither

Neither \Nei"ther\, conj. Not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more co["o]rdinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.

Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king.
--1 Kings xxii. 31.

Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent, Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me.
--Milton.

When she put it on, she made me vow That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.
--Shak.

Note: Neither was formerly often used where we now use nor. ``For neither circumcision, neither uncircumcision is anything at all.''
--Tyndale. ``Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it.''
--Gen. iii. 3. Neither is sometimes used colloquially at the end of a clause to enforce a foregoing negative (nor, not, no). ``He is very tall, but not too tall neither.''
--Addison. '' `I care not for his thrust' `No, nor I neither.'''
--Shak.

Not so neither, by no means. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
neither

Old English nawþer, contraction of nahwæþer, literally "not of two," from na "no" (see no) + hwæþer "which of two" (see whether). Spelling altered c.1200 by association with either. Paired with nor from c.1300; earlier with ne. Also used in Old English as a pronoun. As an adjective, mid-14c.

Wiktionary
neither

adv. (context conjunctive English) similarly not conj. Not either (used with nor). det. Not one of two; not either. pron. not either one

WordNet
neither

adv. after a negative statement used to indicate that the next statement is similarly negative; "I was not happy and neither were they"; "just as you would not complain, neither should he"

Wikipedia
Neither (opera)

Neither is the only opera by Morton Feldman, dating from 1977. The libretto consists of a 16-line poem by Samuel Beckett. Beckett and Feldman had met in Berlin in 1976, with plans for a collaboration for Rome Opera. Beckett told Feldman that he himself did not like opera, and Feldman had agreed with Beckett's sentiment.

The work is for a soprano soloist and orchestra. It could more properly be called a monodrama, but given Feldman's own disdain for opera, it can be described as an anti-opera.

Neither (short story)

"neither" is a very short story by Samuel Beckett written in 1976 and originally published in the Journal of Beckett Studies No. 4 (Spring 1979). The title is uncapitalized, and the story is composed of only eighty-seven words, divided into ten lines, and has no punctuation except for three commas.

Though originally published with line breaks suggestive of a poem, Beckett refused to include the piece in his Collected Poems because he considered it a story. As a result the work was omitted from the 1984 collection The Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980 but later restored in The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989.

Neither

Neither is an English pronoun, adverb, and determiner signifying the absence of a choice in an either/or situation. Neither may also refer to:

  • Neither (opera), the only opera by Morton Feldman
  • "neither" (short story), a very short story by Samuel Beckett

Usage examples of "neither".

I have heard thy windy talk, and this is the answer: we will neither depart, nor come down to you, but will abide our death by your hands here on this hill-side.

In a second she was giving her own breakfast to Abo, who neither thanked her or acknowledged her presence.

So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.

The Wests clearly made sure Carol Ann Cooper could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.

But there can be no doubt that the Wests made sure she could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.

An Englishman took the bill, and after a careful examination said he neither knew the drawer, the accepter, nor the backer.

The United States was prepared neither to seize the leadership nor to acquiesce in Japanese control of China which must result from failure to seize it.

Clarke and Brander about this, neither could remember Acton actually using the machine.

When that has been done, the burden rests on the regulated company to show that this item has neither been adequately covered in the rate base nor recouped from prior earnings of the business.

Months he had wandered about the gates of the Bonnet, wondering, sighing, knocking at them, and getting neither admittance nor answer.

Our opponents after first admitting the unity go on to make our soul dependent on something else, something in which we have no longer the soul of this or that, even of the universe, but a soul of nowhere, a soul belonging neither to the kosmos, nor to anything else, and yet vested with all the function inherent to the kosmic soul and to that of every ensouled thing.

I could kiss neither of them, since one passed for my niece, and my sense of humanity would not allow me to treat Marcoline as my mistress in the presence of an unfortunate brother who adored her, and had never obtained the least favour from her.

Solitude had killed every power in her save vanity, and the form her vanity took was peculiarly irritating to her husband, and in a lesser degree to her daughter, for neither the Elder nor Loo would have founded self-esteem on adventitious advantages of upbringing.

But our Modern State has neither absorbed nor destroyed individuality, which now, accepting the necessary restrictions upon its material aggressiveness, resumes at every opportunity its freedom and enterprise upon a higher level of life.

It is probable, however, that neither side actually realized that war was inevitable, and that the other was determined to fight, until the assault on Fort Sumter presented the South as the first aggressor and roused the North to use every possible resource to maintain the government and the imperilled Union, and to vindicate the supremacy of the flag over every inch of the territory of the United States.