Monday, February 21, 2005

nonentity nonentity n. pl. nonentities 1. A person regarded as being of no importance or significance. 2. Nonexistence. 3. Something that does not exist or that exists only in the imagination. nonentity n 1: the state of not existing [syn: nonexistence] [ant: being] 2: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody] 3: a nonexistent thing [syn: nothing] From dictionary.com. 10:17:42 AM    comment []

nonpareil nonpareil adj. Having no equal; peerless: the Yankees' nonpareil center fielder. n. 1. A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon. 2. See painted bunting. 3. A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Middle English nounparalle, from Old French nonpareil : non-, non- + pareil, equal (from Vulgar Latin *pariculus, diminutive of Latin pr, equal. See per-2 in Indo-European Roots).] nonpareil - adj : eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled] n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal, paragon, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch] 2: colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies 3: a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar nonpareil - One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in ["Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, U London (1968)]. The others were Brilliant, Diamond, Pearl and Ruby. From dictionary.com. 10:15:31 AM    comment []

nonplussed nonplus tr.v. non·plused, also non·plussed non·plus·ing, non·plus·sing non·plus·es, non·plus·ses To put at a loss as to what to think, say, or do; bewilder. n. A state of perplexity, confusion, or bewilderment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [From Latin nn pls, no more  : nn, not; see non- + pls, more; see pel-1 in Indo-European Roots.] nonplussed adj : filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye" [syn: at a loss(p), nonplused, puzzled] From dictionary.com. 10:13:04 AM    comment []

crepuscule n. Twilight. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin crepusculum, from creper, dark.] crepuscule n: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscle] From dictionary.com. 10:09:38 AM    comment []