no

1. no (adv) — sense 1

Definition: Not, not at all.: Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.

Example: It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.

2. no (adv) — sense 2

Definition: Not, not at all.: Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.

Example: This thing is no good.

3. no (adv) — sense 3

Definition: Not.

Example: I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.

4. no (particle) — sense 4

Definition: Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.

Example: No, you are mistaken.

5. no (particle) — sense 5

Definition: Used to express sadness or disappointment.

Example: "We lost." "No!"

6. no (particle) — sense 6

Definition: Used to express disbelief.

Example: I got the job! / No! Really? That's fantastic!

7. no (prep) — sense 7

Definition: Without.

Example: Look Ma, no hands!

8. no (prep) — sense 8

Definition: Like.

9. no (noun) — sense 9

Definition: A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.

Example: Q: I'll answer any ten questions that call for a yes or a no.

10. no (noun) — sense 10

Definition: A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.

Example: The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty yeses and two nos.

11. no (verb) — sense 11

Definition: To say “no”.

Example: She felt disquiet at these tales of Musa’s illicit activities. ‘Does your father know?’ / ‘My father always noes. He never yeses. Specially when he’s sick, then he noes all the time. I gotta get out. Can’t stick around the house with him yelling.[…]’

12. no (verb) — sense 12

Definition: To answer with “no”; to decline, reject.

Example: Never accustom yourself to say ‘Yes,’—practise an emphatic and decisive enunciation of the far more dignified and important monosyllable, ‘No.’ […] Believe me, it is of the utmost importance (the advice is not of recent date) that you should No the world.