unspecified meaning
- This famous Prussian neutrality is just a trap.
- Prussia is neutral….
- He explained how an army, ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand men was to attack the French from…
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as in: played at a neutral site Define
not favoring any side in a contest, war, disagreement, or other dispute
as in: a carbon-neutral building
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not affected by; or does not affect
as in: decorated in neutral colors
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bland (not striking in appearance or impression)
as in: Put the car in neutral.
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gears are not engaged; or (metaphorically) nothing is happening
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specialized senses typically mean that something does not belong to either of two other opposite alternatives; such as:
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- chemistry: not acidic or alkaline
- physics: not with a positive charge or with a negative charge
- electric circuitry: with no voltage or electrical charge (though that is an informal simplification that would be dangerous if assumed in fact)
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