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• НЕ ТОТ{{}}

[AdjP; modif or subj-compl with copula (subj: any common noun)]

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1. not identical or similar to the specified or implied person or thing, or to what one or it was like at an earlier time:

- (quite) different;

- not the same;

- [in limited contexts] not the [NP]

⇒ one <it> once was; not what <like> one <it> used to be; || не те времена ≈ times have changed.

     ♦ [Маша:] Он [мой муж] казался мне тогда ужасно учёным, умным и важным. А теперь уж не то, к сожалению (Чехов 5). [М.:] In those days he [my husband] seemed to me terribly learned, clever, and important. But now, unfortunately, it is different (5a).

     ♦ ...Россия уже не та. Выдают чугун Магнитка и Кузнецк... построены первые советские блюминги (Рыбаков 2) - Russia was not the country she once was. They were already turning out cast- iron at Magnitogorsk and Kuznetsk...and the first Soviet rolling-mills had been built (2a).

2. unsuitable:

- not right;

- (all) wrong;

- not the right [NP].

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     ♦ [Таня:] Что ж... Я пойду... [Колесов:] Извините, Таня. Но сами видите - не та обстановка. Возможно, ещё увидимся... (Вампилов 3). [Т.:] Oh well... I'd better be off... [K.:] I'm sorry, Tknia. But you can see for yourself-the setting is all wrong. Maybe we'll meet again (3a).