Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 21
Nominately (adv.) By name; particularly; namely. [Obs.] -- Spelman.
Nomination (n.) 提名；任命 [C] [U]；提名權；任命權 [U] The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated. ; as, to win the nomination.
The nomination of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself. -- Clarendon.
Nomination (n.) The denomination, or name. [Obs.] -- Bp. Pearson.
Nomination (n.) The act of officially naming a candidate; "the Republican nomination for Governor".
Nomination (n.) The condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election; "there was keen competition for the nomination"; "his nomination was hotly protested".
Nomination (n.) An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election; "the nomination was brief and to the point" [syn: {nominating speech}, {nominating address}, {nomination}].
Nominatival (a.) (Gram.) 【文】主格的 Of or pertaining to the nominative case.
Nominative (a.) (Gram.) 【語】主格的；被提名的；記名的 Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
Nominative (n.) 【語】主格；主格詞 The nominative case.
Nominative (a.) Serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; "nominative noun endings"; "predicate nominative".
Nominative (a.) Named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [syn: nominative, nominal].
Nominative (a.) Appointed by nomination [syn: nominated, nominative].
Nominative (n.) The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb [syn: nominative, nominative case, subject case] [ant: oblique, oblique case].
Nominatively (adv.) In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
Nominator (n.) [L.] 提名者；任命者；推薦者 One who nominates.
Nominator (n.) Someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election.
Nominee (n.) 被提名人 [C] A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office. One remains a nominee until one has been elected or has assumed the office.
Nominee (n.) A politician who is running for public office [syn: campaigner, candidate, nominee].
Nominee (n.) A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
Nominor (n.) 提名者 A nominator. [Obs.] -- Bentham.
Compare: Nominator
Nominator (n.) 提名者；任命者；推薦者 See nominate.
‘Following a series of prestigious events, Saturday night's gala ball, attended by 350 people representing the nominators, sponsors, parents and friends of the contestants, proved yet again to be the undoubted highlight.’
Nominator (n.) [L.] One who nominates.
Nominator (n.) Someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election.
Nominate (v. t.) 提名 [（+for/ as）] [O2]；任命，指定 [（+to/as）] [O2] Propose or formally enter as a candidate for election or for an honor or award.
‘The film was nominated for several Oscars.’
Nominate (v. t.) Appoint to a job or position.
‘The company nominated her as a delegate to the convention.’
Nominate (v. t.) (Specify) (something) (formally, typically) The date or place for an event.
‘A day was nominated for the exchange of contracts.’
Nominate (a.) (Zoology, Botany) Denoting a race or subspecies that is given the same epithet as the species to which it belongs, for example, Homo sapiens sapiens.
‘The nominate race and two subspecies occur.’
Nomocracy (n.) Government in accordance with a system of law. -- Milman.
Nomography (n.) A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.
Nomology (n.) The science of law; legislation.
Nomology (n.) The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Nomopelmous (a.) (Zool.) Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.
Nomothete (n.) A lawgiver. [R.] Nomothetic
Nomothetic (a.) Alt. of Nomothetical.
Nomothetical (a.) Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power. [R.] -- Bp. Barlow.
Non (a.) No; not. See No, a. -- Chaucer.
NON- (pref.) A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.
Note: The prefix non- may be joined to the leading word by means of a hyphen, or, in most cases, the hyphen may be dispensed with. The list of words having the prefix non- could easily be lengthened.
Non (adv.) Negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non].
Non, posterity; a fish; eternal.
NON. Not. When prefixed to other words, it is used as a negative as non access, non assumpsit.
Nonability (n.) 無能 Lack of ability.
Nonability (n.) (Law) An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit. nonabsorbent
Nonacceptance (n.) A neglect or refusal to accept.
Nonacceptance (n.) The act of refusing an offer; "the turndown was polite but very firm" [syn: nonacceptance, turndown].
Nonacid (a.) (Chem.) Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic; positive; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.
Nonacquaintance (n.) Lack of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
Nonacquiescence (n.) Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.
Nonadhesive (a.) 無黏著力的 Not tending to adhere [ant: {adhesive}]
Nonadmission (n.) 不接納，不准進入 Failure to be admitted.
Nonadult (a.) Not adult; immature.
Nonaerobiotic (a.) (Biol.) Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaerobiotic.
Nonage (n.) (Eccl.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. -- Mozley & W.
Nonage (n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.
The human mind . . . was still in its nonage. -- Coleridge.
Nonage (n.) Any age prior to the legal age [syn: minority, nonage] [ant: legal age, majority].
Nonaged (a.) Having the quality of nonage; being a minor; immature. -- W. Browne.
Nonaged (a.) Not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: minor, nonaged, underage] [ant: major].
Nonagenarian (n.) A person ninety years old.
Nonagenarian (a.) Being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home".
Nonagenarian (n.) Someone whose age is in the nineties.
Nonagenarian (n.) A ninety year old person; someone whose age is in the nineties. Nonagenarian derives from Latin nonagenarius, "containing or consisting of ninety," from nonageni-, "ninety each", ultimately from novem, "nine," as in November, originally the ninth month of the old Roman calendar.
Nonagesimal (a.) (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.
Nonagesimal (n.) (Astron.) The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it is intersected by the horizon.
Nonagon (n.) (Math.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.
Nonagon (n.) A nine-sided polygon.
Nonagrian (n.) (Zool.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.
Nonalienation (n.) Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.
Nonane (n.) (Chem.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.
Nonappearance (n.) Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
Nonappearance (n.) Failure to appear (especially as at court).
Nonappointment (n.) Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.
Nonarrival (n.) Failure to arrive.
Non assumpsit, () (Law) The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
Non assumpsit, () pleading. The general issue in trespass on the case, in the species of assumpsit. Its form is, "And the said C D, by E F, his attorney, comes and defends the wrong and injury, when, &c., and says, that he did not undertake or promise in manner and form as the said A B, hath above complained. And of this he puts himself upon the country".
Non assumpsit, () Under this plea almost every matter may be given in evidence, on the ground, it is said, that as the action is founded on the contract, and the injury is the non, performance of it, evidence which disaffirms the obligation of the contract, at the time when the action was commenced, goes to the gist of the action. Gilb. C. P. 6 5; Salk. 27 9; 2 Str. 738; 1 B. & P. 481. Vide 12 Vin. Ab. 189; Com Dig. Pleader, 2 G 1.
Nonattendance (n.) A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
Nonattendance (n.) The failure to attend [ant: attendance, attending].
Nonattention (n.) Inattention.
Nonbituminous (a.) Containing no bitumen; not bituminous.
Nonce (n.) The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce, i. e. for the present time.
The miller was a stout carl for the nones. -- Chaucer.
And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce. -- Shak.
Nonce word, "a word apparently employed only for the nonce". -- Murray (New English Dict.).
Nonce (n.) The present occasion; "for the nonce" [syn: time being, nonce].
Nonchalance (n.) Indifference; carelessness; coolness.
Nonchalance (n.) The trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern [syn: nonchalance, unconcern, indifference].
Nonchalant (a.) Indifferent; careless; cool.
Nonchalant (a.) Marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner" [syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant].
Nonchalantly (adv.) In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.
Nonchalantly (adv.) In a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn: coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly].
Nonchalantly (adv.) In an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines" [syn: casually, nonchalantly].
Nonclaim (n.) A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.
Noncohesion (n.) Want of cohesion.
Noncoincidence (n.) Lack of coincidence.
Noncoincident (a.) Not coincident. noncollapsable
Noncombatant (n.) (Mil.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.
Noncombatant (n.) A person not attached to a military unit, or not participating in the military activities of a war; a civilian; as, the bomb killed twenty noncombatants.
Noncombatant (a.) Used of civilians in time of war.
Noncombatant (a.) Member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon.
Noncombatant (n.) A member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon).
Non-combatant, (n.) A dead Quaker.
Noncommissioned (a.) Not having a commission.
Noncommissioned officer (Mil.), A subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
Noncommissioned (a.) (Of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel [ant: commissioned].
Noncommittal (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.
Noncommittal (a.) 不作許諾的；不表態的；不確定的；含糊的 Refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like; "her boyfriend was noncommittal about their future together".
Noncommunion (n.) Neglect or failure of communion.
Noncompletion (n.) Lack of completion; failure to complete.
Noncompliance (n.) Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.
Noncompliance (n.) The failure to obey [syn: disobedience, noncompliance] [ant: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obeisance].
Noncomplying (a.) Neglecting or refusing to comply. Non compos
Non compos () Alt. of Non compos mentis.
Non compos mentis () [L.] Not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; hence, also, as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or from accident.
Noncon. (n.) See Noncontent.
Nonconcluding (a.) Not concluding.
Nonconcur (v. i.) To dissent or refuse to concur.
Nonconcurrence (n.) Refusal to concur.
Noncondensible (a.) Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases. [archaic]
Noncondensing (a.) (Steam Engine) Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.
Nonconducting (a.) Not conducting; nonconductive; not transmitting a fluid or force; -- used especially of electric current; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
Nonconducting (a.) Not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound [syn: nonconductive, nonconducting, non-conducting] [ant: conductive].
Nonconduction (n.) The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.
Nonconductor (n.) (Physics) A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.
Nonconductor (n.) A material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity [syn: insulator, dielectric, nonconductor] [ant: conductor].
Nonconductor (n.) (physics ) 非導體；絕緣體 A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.
Nonconforming (a.) Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.
Nonconforming (a.) Not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion [syn: nonconforming, nonconformist].
Nonconformist (n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
Nonconformist (a.) Not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought; "their rabidly nonconformist deportment has made them legendary"; "the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers" [syn: nonconformist, unconformist] [ant: conformist].
Nonconformist (a.) Not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion [syn: nonconforming, nonconformist].
Nonconformist (n.) A Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England [syn: Nonconformist, chapelgoer] [ant: Anglican].
Nonconformist (n.) Someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct [syn: nonconformist, recusant] [ant: conformist].
Nonconformity (n.) Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.
Nonconformity (n.) Lack of harmony or correspondence.
Nonconformity (n.) A lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs [syn: nonconformity, nonconformism, nonconformance] [ant: conformism, conformity].
Nonconformity (n.) Unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values.
Nonconformity (n.) Failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior [syn: nonconformity, nonconformance] [ant: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity].
Nonconstat (n.) [Law L.] It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.
Noncontagious (a.) Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact. -- Non`con*ta"gious*ness, n.
Noncontagious (a.) (Of disease) Not capable of being passed on [syn: noncommunicable, noncontagious, nontransmissible].
Noncontent (n.) (British House of Lords) One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con. Noncontributing
Noncontributing (a.) Alt. of Noncontributory.
Noncontributory (a.) Not contributing.
Nonda (n.) (Bot.) The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.
Nondecane (n.) (Chem.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.
Nondeciduate (a.) (Anat.) Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.
Nondelivery (n.) A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.
Nondeposition (n.) A failure to deposit or throw down.
Nondescript (a.) Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.
Nondescript (a.) Dull or uninteresting; undistinguished.
Nondescript (n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.
Nondescript (a.) Lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel" [syn: characterless, nondescript].
Nondescript (n.) A person is not easily classified and not very interesting.
Nondevelopment (n.) Failure or lack of development.
Nondevelopment (n.) Failure of normal development to occur [ant: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny].
Nondiscovery (n.) Want or failure of discovery. nondiscrimination
Nondo (n.) (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant ({Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.
None (a. & pron.) No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.
There is none that doeth good; no, not one. -- Ps. xiv. 3.
Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. -- Ex. xvi. 26.
Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. -- Milton.
None of their productions are extant. -- Blair.
None (a. & pron.) No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.
None of, Not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically.
"They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." -- Fuller.
None-so-pretty (Bot.), The Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.
None (n.) [F.] Same as Nones, 2.
None (adv.) Not at all or in no way; "seemed none too pleased with his dinner"; "shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in"; "none too prosperous"; "the passage is none too clear".
None (a.) Not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before me".
None (n.) A canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise.
None (n.) A service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier.
Noneffective (a.) Not effective ; ineffective.
Noneffective (a.) (Mil.) Not fit or available for duty.
Non-ego (n.) (Metaph.) The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.
Nonelastic (a.) Not having elasticity ; not able to be stretched reversibly.
Nonelect (n. sing. & pl.) (Theol.) A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.
Nonelection (n.) Failure of election. Nonelectric
Nonelectric (a.) Alt. of Nonelectrical.