nonpareil

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.

   “He informed the clerk that he would remain three or four days, inquired concerning the sailing of European steamships, and sank into the blissful inanition of the nonpareil hotel with the contented air of a traveller in his favorite inn.”

2. isim A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.

   “My lord and master loves you. O, such love / Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd / The nonpareil of beauty!”

3. isim The blue underwing or Clifden nonpareil (Catocala fraxini), a species of moth distributed across the Palearctic; also (obsolete) any of a number of moths of other species.
4. isim In full nonpareil parrot: an eastern rosella, of species Platycercus eximius, a rosella (parrot) native to southeastern Australia.
5. isim A painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America.
6. isim In full nonpareil apple: an apple tasting both sweet and tart which ripens very late in the season; also, the tree producing this fruit.
7. isim Any of various types of small sweets.
8. isim A small pellet of white or coloured sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy.
9. isim A small, flat chocolate drop covered with such pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
10. isim A caper (“pickled edible flower bud”) of the smallest size.
11. isim A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.

    “A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress long primer, author’s footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).”