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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

nominate
verb put forward; nominate for appointment to an office; `The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission`

nominated
nominative adjective appointed by nomination

nominating speech
nominating address noun 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`

nomination
noun the act of officially naming a candidate; `the Republican nomination for Governor`

nominative
adjective serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; `nominative noun endings`; `predicate nominative`

nominator
noun someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election

nomogram
nomograph noun a graphic representation of numerical relations

nomothetic
adjective relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles

non compos mentis(p)
of unsound mind(p) adjective not of sound mind, memory, or understanding; in law, not competent to go to trial

non prosequitur
non pros noun a judgment entered in favor of the defendant when the plaintiff has not continued his action (e.g., has not appeared in court)

non sequitur
noun (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises

non-aromatic
adjective not aromatic

non-buoyant
adjective tending to sink in a liquid or fall in air

non-cash expense
noun an expense (such as depreciation) that is not paid for in cash

non-Catholic
noun a religious person who is not a Catholic

non-Christian priest
noun a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion

non-dedicated file server
noun (computer science) a file server that can be used simultaneously as a workstation

non-discrimination
noun fairness in treating people without prejudice

non-engagement
nonparticipation noun withdrawing from the activities of a group

non-Euclidean geometry
noun geometry based on axioms different from Euclid`s

non-finite
adjective of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a participle or gerund or infinitive); `infinite verb form`

non-flowering plant
noun a plant that does not bear flowers

non-invertible
adjective not admitting an additive or multiplicative inverse

non-market economy
noun an economy that is not a market economy

non-metric
adjective not based on the meter as a standard of measurement

non-negotiable
adjective cannot be bought or sold

non-paying
adjective paying nothing; `non-paying guests`; `non-paying bidders on eBay`

non-resistant
passive resister noun a reformer who believes in passive resistance

non-standard speech
noun speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community

non-U
adjective not characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use

non-volatile storage
nonvolatile storage noun computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off

non-zero
adjective not involving zero

Nona
noun the Fate who spins the thread of life; counterpart of Greek Clotho

nonabsorbency
noun the property of not being absorbent

nonabsorbent
nonabsorptive adjective not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids)

nonacceptance
turndown noun the act of refusing an offer; `the turndown was polite but very firm`

nonaccomplishment
nonachievement noun an act that does not achieve its intended goal

nonaddictive
adjective not causing or characterized by addiction; `for years tobacco companies have contended that tobacco is nonaddictive`

nonadhesive
adjective not tending to adhere

nonadjacent
adjective not adjacent; not next

nonadsorbent
nonadsorptive adjective lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface

nonaged
underage adjective not of legal age; `minor children`

nonagenarian
adjective being from 90 to 99 years old; `the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home`

nonaggression
noun a policy of not initiating hostilities; `they signed a nonaggression pact`

nonagon
noun a nine-sided polygon

nonalcoholic
adjective characterized by the absence of alcohol; `nonalcoholic beverages`

nonaligned
adjective not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause

nonalignment
nonalinement noun people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty

nonallele
noun genes that are not competitors at the same locus

nonappearance
noun failure to appear (especially as at court)

nonappointive
adjective filled by popular election rather than by appointment

nonarbitrable
adjective not appropriate for or subject to arbitration

nonarbitrary
unarbitrary adjective not subject to individual determination

nonarboreal
adjective not inhabiting or frequenting trees

nonassertive
adjective not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence; `she was quiet and nonassertive as she took control`

nonassociative
adjective not associative

nonastringent
adjective not astringent

nonattendance
noun the failure to attend

nonautonomous
nonsovereign adjective (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces

nonbearing
adjective (of a structural member) supporting no vertical weight other than its own; `they took out a nonbearing wall`

nonbeing
noun the state of not being

nonbelligerent
adjective not directly at war; `nonbelligerent nations`

nonbiodegradable pollution
noun pollution that accumulates in the environment and may appear in the food chain

noncallable bond
noun a bond containing a provision that the holder cannot redeem the security before a specific date (usually at maturity)

noncaloric
adjective of food have no (or few) calories; `a noncaloric drink`

noncandidate
noun someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office

noncarbonated
uncarbonated adjective not having carbonation

noncausative
noncausal adjective not causative

nonce word
hapax legomenon noun a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion

noncellular
acellular adjective not made up of or divided into cells

nonchalance
noun the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern

noncivilized
noncivilised adjective not having a high state of culture and social development

nonclassical
adjective not classical

noncollapsible
noncollapsable adjective not capable of collapsing

noncolumned
uncolumned adjective not having columns

noncombatant
noun a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon)

noncombinative
adjective not involving combination

noncombining
adjective not able to combine

noncombustible
incombustible adjective not capable of igniting and burning

noncommercial
adjective not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises

noncommissioned
adjective (of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel

noncommissioned officer
noncom noun a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel

noncommittal
adjective refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like; `her boyfriend was noncommittal about their future together`

noncommunicable
noncontagious adjective (of disease) not capable of being passed on

noncompetitive
adjective not involving competition or competitiveness; `noncompetitive positions`; `noncompetitive interest in games`

noncompetitively
adverb in a noncompetitive manner; `the scholarships will be awarded noncompetitively`

noncomprehensive
incomprehensive adjective not comprehensive

noncomprehensively
adverb in a limited way

nonconductive
nonconducting adjective not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound

nonconforming
nonconformist adjective not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion

nonconformism
noun the practice of nonconformity

nonconformist
unconformist adjective 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`

Nonconformist
noun a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England

nonconformity
nonconformism noun a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs

nonconscious
adjective relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things

noncontentious
adjective of persons; not given to controversy

noncontinuous
adjective not continuing without interruption in time or space; `discontinuous applause`; `the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas`; `he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling`

nonconvergent
nonintersecting adjective (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing

noncrucial
adjective of little importance; not decisive

noncrystalline
adjective not crystalline