Associations to the word «Nonsense»

NONSENSE, noun. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.

NONSENSE, noun. An untrue statement.

NONSENSE, noun. Something foolish.

NONSENSE, noun. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.

NONSENSE, noun. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

NONSENSE, verb. To make nonsense of

NONSENSE, verb. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.

NONSENSE, verb. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time

NONSENSE, adjective. Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

NONSENSE MUTATION, noun. (genetics) A point mutation that generates either a premature stop codon, or a codon that does not specify any amino acid.

NONSENSE MUTATIONS, noun. Plural of nonsense mutation

NONSENSE WORD, noun. A neologised word that does not have a given meaning.

NONSENSE, noun. A message that seems to convey no meaning.

NONSENSE, noun. Ornamental objects of no great value.

NONSENSE, adjective. Having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words".