Definition of "nef" []

• An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship. (noun)

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• "A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen."
• "One gene was called nef (for negative factor) because it was thought to inhibit HIV."
• "The solution according to the nef is the need to unlock the existing "sleeping architecture" of a more robust local financial infrastructure, supported by providers working on the frontline of financial exclusion in the UK."