Cosa (chi) è Nonpareil - definizione
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Nonpareil (disambiguation); Non Pareil
Nonpareil
·adj Having no equal; peerless.
II. Nonpareil ·adj Any other similar bird of the same genus.
III. Nonpareil ·adj A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
IV. Nonpareil ·adj Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch;
- often used as a name.
V. Nonpareil ·adj A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.
nonpareil
I. n.
See nonesuch.
II. a.
Peerless, unequalled, unparalleled.
nonpareil
[?n?np?'re?l]
¦ adjective having no match or equal; unrivalled.
¦ noun
1. an unrivalled person or thing.
2. US a flat round chocolate sweet covered with white sugar sprinkles.
3. Printing an old type size equal to six points.
Origin
ME: from Fr., from non- 'not' + pareil 'equal'.
Wikipedia
Nonpareil
Nonpareil(s) from the French meaning 'without equal', it may also refer to:
- Nonpareil, Guyana, a village in Guyana
- Nonpareil, Nebraska, a community in the United States
- Nonpareil, Oregon, a former community in the United States
- Nonpareils, a confectionery of small sweet spheres used to decorate cakes, sweets, and pastries
- Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey (1862–1895), Irish boxer
- HMS Nonpareil, several ships
- Nonpareil, a rag composed by Scott Joplin published in 1907
- Nonpareil, an Al Cohn jazz recording from 1981
- Nonpareil, a variety of almond
- Nonpareil, a caper (caper bud) of a smaller size
- Nonpareil (apple), an apple cultivar
- nonpareil (typography), the type size between minion and agate
- Painted bunting, a type of bird also known as nonpareil
- The Nonpareil Club, a fictional club mentioned in The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Daily Nonpareil, a newspaper in Iowa, United States
Small particles:
- Sprinkles, a slightly different decorative candy
Esempi dal corpus di testo per Nonpareil
1. There is some fiction by the nonpareil doctor, philosopher and scourge of postmodernism Raymond Tallis.
2. A great sport needs a great commentator and for 40 years Mr Benaud has been nonpareil.
3. A nonpareil slugger from the mid–1'40s to the mid–1'50s, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Kiner has been a broadcaster for the New York Mets since 1'62.
4. He offers us an insider‘s look at the life of a nonpareil nonfiction writer: days, weeks, months, and years of waiting, canvassing, traveling, scribbling, working and reworking, writing and rewriting.
5. The five–time Olympic gold medallist Steve Redgrave and the nonpareil baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax are the exceptions to a rule, but it hard to think of politicians who leave gracefully rather than being pushed out the door.