Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
NG en · ADJ
Etymology
Abbreviation.
* no good: attested in The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1909) and in Students’ Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1915).
Meanings
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of no good or no go.
For instance M'Auley's down there: n. g. as position. Of course if they ran a tramline along the North Circular from the cattle market to the quays value would go up like a shot. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 4: Calypso]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 56:
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of nasogastric.
Abbreviation.
* no good: attested in The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1909) and in Students’ Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1915).
Meanings
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of natural gas.
Pharyngeal NG infections can contribute to the sustained transmission of gonorrhea as pharyngeal infections are often asymptomatic, can persists, and remain undiagnosed. 2026 April 3, Amber D. Kimble, Yukari C. Manabe, Johan H. Melendez, “Evidence-Based Assessment of the Role of Pharyngeal Gonorrhea and Commensal Neisseria Species in the Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae: Data Gaps and Future Research”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 233, number 6, Oxford University Press, →DOI, retrieved 07 Aug 2023, page 983:
Abbreviation.
* no good: attested in The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1909) and in Students’ Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1915).
Meanings
(Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Newgrounds.