Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ne

3 senses of ne

Sense 1
neon, Ne, atomic number 10 -- (a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts)
       => chemical element, element -- (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
       => noble gas, inert gas, argonon -- (any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table)

Sense 2
northeast, nor'-east, northeastward, NE -- (the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees)
       => compass point, point -- (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass")

Sense 3
Nebraska, Cornhusker State, NE -- (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)
       INSTANCE OF=> American state -- (one of the 50 states of the United States)