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A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.

Example: consult the footnotes for more details

(by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.

Example: a mere footnote in history

A qualification to the import of something.

Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

Example: a neuter noun

(grammar) Intransitive.

Example: a neuter verb

Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N.

Example: Minnesota is in the north of the USA.

The up or positive direction.

Example: Stock prices are heading north.

The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).

Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north;northerly.

(of a wind) Blowing from the north; northerly.

Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised)

Example: Les Dawson was a famous northern comedian.

(heading) A symbol or annotation.

(heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.

(heading) A sound.

Observation; notice; heed.

That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.

The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.

(grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

(grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.