Word Finder - neutral

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A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.

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A person who takes no side in a dispute.

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An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator.

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A neutral hue.

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The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.

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An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.

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Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.

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Favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.

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I am neutral regarding the issue of gay marriage.

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(grammar) Neither positive nor negative.

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Neither beneficial nor harmful.

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Having no sex; neuter.

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Having no obvious colour; gray

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Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance.

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Having a pH near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.

Instead, he gave a more neutral response.

Wishing to remain neutral in the struggle between England and France, he went to fight in Italy.

I guess I was tired of looking for gender neutral pronouns.

The acid salts have a neutral or slightly acid reaction.

It forms glancing prisms of neutral reaction slightly soluble in water.

Some of these have a neutral reaction, others react as feeble acids.

An English army under Lord Grey entered Scotland on the 29th of March 1560, and the regent received an asylum in Edinburgh castle, which was held strictly neutral by John Erskine.

Melanins obtained from tumours form black, shiny masses; they are insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, dilute acids and in the common organic solvents.

In 1866 Bennigsen used all his influence to keep Hanover neutral in the conflict between Prussia and Austria, but in vain.

The choice of Jerusalem, standing on neutral ground, may be regarded as a stroke of genius, and there is nothing to show that the king exercised that rigour which was to be the cause of his grandson's undoing.

In neutral, and still more in acid solutions, the dissociation of the indicator is practically nothing, and the liquid is colourless.

Hamilton's impracticable policy of keeping Scotland neutral for long stood in the way of Charles's consent.

It is known commercially as neutral red.

For example, positive iron combined with negative oxygen to form positive ferrous oxide; positive sulphur combined with negative oxygen to form negative sulphuric acid; positive ferrous oxide combined with negative sulphuric acid to form neutral ferrous sulphate.

He was to be neutral in all religious matters.

Of these three types WH thought that the Neutral was decidedly the best.

It seems contrary to common sense that neutral ships should be exposed to being detained, taken out of their course, and overhauled on mere suspicion of carrying contraband, when they are so far from the seat of war that there can be no presumption as to their destination.

German New Guinea was annexed on the 16th of November 1884, when the German flag was raised in Friedrich Wilhelmshafen and a trading company was established on the north-east coast, and in 1885 the two countries agreed to fix their boundaries through the then neutral areas of the country.

The French foreign minister, Delessart, believed that he would checkmate all the efforts of the emigres at the continental courts provided that he could confirm Pitt in his intention of keeping England neutral.

At first Lothair, fully occupied with the affairs of Germany, remained heedless and neutral; but in March 1131 he was visited at Liege by Innocent, to whom he promised his assistance.

The monometallic salts are strongly acid, the dimetallic are neutral or faintly alkaline, whilst the soluble trimetallic salts are strongly alkaline.

This affair prompted the Ottoman Government to close the Darda nelles and Bosporus against all shipping, a course which caused immense loss and inconvenience to neutral Powers and produced such vigorous protest, particularly from Russia, that the straits were reopened in May.

In spite of the neutral attitude taken by their government a number of the Free State Boers, living in the northern part of the country, went to the Transvaal and joined their brethren then in arms against the British.

Then the deviation y= DE of the neutral axis of the bent beam at any point D from the axis OX is given by the relation d 2 y Ml dx 2 = EI' where M is the bending moment and I the amount of inertia of the beam at D, and E is the coefficient of elasticity.

This factor was the rupture of communications with foreign countries, due in the earlier stages of the war to the limitation, and at one time the prohibition, of exports by neutral countries, the passing over of some of these countries to the enemy, and lastly the blockade by the enemy Powers, which increased in efficiency and made it more and more difficult to import the most essential commodities, until in the end it was almost impossible to obtain from abroad anything, needed either for the soldiers or the civilians.

It was next necessary to organize the purchase of goods in neutral countries.

The activity of the central boards as purchasers in neutral countries did not last long; it came quickly to an end in 1915, especially after Italy's entry into the war.

After the conclusion of the Civil War in America very large claims were preferred against Great Britain for alleged breaches of her duty as a neutral power; and after long negotiations, England and the United States agreed to arbitration.

It was not timidity or weakness which kept Erasmus neutral, but the reasonableness of his nature.

In return the duke probably agreed to aid Charles in his proposed attack on the league as soon as he could gain the consent of the Saxon estates, or at all events to remain neutral during the impending war.

The mercurous sulphate must be free from acid, and made neutral by trituration with finely divided mercury.

The text is the best example of the so-called Neutral Text, except in the Pauline epistles, where it has a strong " Western " element.

It has, in the main, a Neutral text, less mixed in the Epistles than that of B, but not so pure in the Gospels.

Bezae and in Syr C; (2) the Alexandrine text used by Cyril of Alexandria and found especially in CL 33; and (3) a text which differs from both the above mentioned and is therefore called by WH the Neutral text, found especially in rt B and the quotations of Origen.

The only exception which they allowed to this general rule was in the case of certain passages, especially in the last chapters of Luke, where the " Western " authorities omit words which are found in the Neutral and Alexandrian texts.

Their reason was that omission seems to be contrary to the genius of the Western text, and that it is therefore probable that these passages represent interpolations made in the text on the Neutral side after the division between it and the Western.

Having thus decided that the Neutral text was almost always right, it only remained for WH to choose between the various authorities which preserved this type.

He was struck by the fact that neither the Western can be shown to be derived from the Neutral, nor the Neutral from the Western.

Luke wrote the first edition of the Gospel for Theophilus from Caesarea; this is the Neutral text of the Gospel.

Finally he revised the Acts and sent a copy to Theophilus; this is the Neutral text of the Acts.

It has been approached from two sides, according as critics have considered the Western or the Neutral and Alexandrian texts.

The Old Latin, if we take the African form as the oldest, as compared with the Neutral text has a series of interpolations and a series of omissions.

The Old Syriac, if we take the Sinaitic MS. as the purest form, compared in the same way, has a similar double series of interpolations and omissions, but neither the omissions nor the interpolations are the same in the Old Latin as in the Old Syriac. Such a line of research suggests that instead of being able, as WH thought, to set the Western against the Neutral text (the Alexandrian being merely a development of the latter), we must consider the problem as the comparison of at least three texts, a Western (geographically), an Eastern and the Neutral.

More recent investigations have confirmed their view as to the relation of the Alexandrian to the Neutral text, but have thrown doubt on the age and widespread use of the latter.

Whatever view be taken of the provenance of Codex Vaticanus it is plain that its archetype had the Pauline epistles in a peculiar order which is only found in Egypt, and so far no one has been able to discover any non-Alexandrian writer who used the Neutral text.

Moreover, Barnard's researches into the Biblical text of Clement of Alexandria show that there is reason to doubt whether even in Alexandria the Neutral text was used in the earliest times.

We have no evidence earlier than Clement, and the text of the New Testament which he quotes has more in common with the Old Latin or " geographically Western " text than with the Neutral, though it definitely agrees with no known type preserved in MSS.

This discovery has put the Neutral text in a different light.

It thus seems probable that WH's theory must be modified, both as regards the " Western " text, which is seen not to be a single text at all, and as regards the " Neutral " text, which seems to be nothing more than the second stage of the development of the text in Alexandria.

Protests from other Indian missionaries led the society to determine that it could circulate only such versions as gave neutral renderings for the terms in question.