(a.) Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.
(a.) Undistinguished; not noted or famous.
(a.) Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer.
(a.) Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has a fixation with islands (Cyprus, Sicily, The Tempest 's nameless "isle").
(2) But whereas the earlier book was set in a nameless African state, here the location is explicitly South Africa, where revolution has driven a white, liberal family out of Johannesburg into the protection of their servant, July, in a small village riven with its own conflicts which is none too happy to shelter them.
(3) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.
(4) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
(5) A 26-year-old resident of Jaffa who preferred to remain nameless said he had never voted before because it “wasn’t interesting.
(6) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
(7) The select committee said it was told by Sir Simon Jenkins "that he could remember very well a certain chancellor of the exchequer, who shall be nameless, inquiring as to what his memoirs might be worth and the answer was: 'A quarter of a million tomorrow, £100,000 next week, £10,000 two months from now.
(8) The Sun sought to have the gagging order lifted, arguing that Thomas's right to freedom of expression, covered by article 10 of the European convention on human rights, outweighed the footballer's right to remain nameless under article 8, the right to privacy.
(9) Another time, I interviewed an actor – who shall remain nameless – who made me cry because it had gone so horribly wrong.
(10) Euro 2016: the complete guide to every squad and every player in France Read more The character was unveiled in November 2014 , then nameless, at a France friendly, as the build-up to Euro 2016 began.
(11) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
(12) The nameless man is the "perennial open mic act – frustrated and angry at the world, he blames women, minorities, everything for his lack of success".
(13) Dead African bodies are the nameless placeholders for ( unwarranted , racist ) “ panic ”, a conversation topic too heavy for the dinner table yet light enough for supermarket aisles.
(14) Sometimes, being nameless becomes tedious for the musicians themselves, as it has done for Swedish metal band Ghost.
(15) And don’t blame No 10 Downing Street or nameless advisers, blame me.
(16) The Good, The Bad & The Queen, by Damon Albarn's officially nameless band, was the company's first album available in the new format, along with the band's single Green Fields.
(17) The Time Inc vet has been in the mix all along and is now one of the candidates for CEO of the nameless venture being announced this morning.
(18) ON MY LAST DAY IN CULIACAN, I WANDER into a nameless cantina near the market and order a beer.
(19) Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian On a hilltop beyond the Northamptonshire village of Culworth, I stopped to admire the valley formed by a nameless tributary of the River Cherwell.
(20) "Now this spying is a more insidious force which has a chilling effect, where people don't use facilities that they could have used because of a nameless fear of something happening to them."
Unidentified
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
(2) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
(3) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(4) Since only a few of these medium sized terminals in any one cluster degenerate after tectal lesions, and none degenerate after cortical lesions, it is suggested that the morphological arrangement of these clusters may permit the convergence of axons from several sources, some of which are unidentified, onto the same dendritic segment.
(5) The adhesion-promoting activity in the first group of fractions was associated with the family of acidic proline-rich proteins (PRPs), while that of the second group is as yet unidentified.
(6) The results indicate that both stimulant and inhibitory agents (so far unidentified) may be present in brain cytosols during protein depletion.
(7) The sequence information obtained of the unidentified proteins is sufficient for further cloning.
(8) Transplacental transmission of an unidentified pathogen with teratogenic properties was hypothesized as the probable cause.
(9) However, other unidentified factors appear to influence its presence in certain areas of the estuary.
(10) Isolation of an apparently full-length 3.0-kb cDNA from a HeLa cell library demonstrated a previously unidentified gene (ATDC) within these cosmid clones.
(11) Previously unidentified forms of suxamethonium-induced contractures have been investigated in chronically denervated rat extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle at 20 degrees C. Contractures were assigned to groups 1-6 on the basis of the peak tension (Tp1) during 0-10 min exposure to the drug (3.0 x 10(-5) M), (7.0 x 10(-6) M), and (3.5 x 10(-6) M) and the subsequent retention, increase, or decrease in tension (Tp2), during the further 10 min.
(12) Major fatty aldehydes of the phosphatidylethanolamine were 14:0 (62%), unidentified long chain forms (24%), 16:0 (7%), 18:0 (4%), 18:1 (3%).
(13) These methods are the mapping, isolation, and study of the chromosomal DNA containing a previously unidentified gene responsible for a genetic disease, beginning with its chromosomal localization.
(14) Chemically defined minimal medium also supported the growth of an unidentified moderate halophile, HX, and of Vibrio alginolyticus and Vibrio cholerae.
(15) To isolate fusion transcripts of AML1, and an as yet unidentified gene on chromosome 8 involved in the rearrangement, we used rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) and primers for AML1 exons 5 and 6.
(16) In the case of (14C-8)-N6-benzyladenosine-5'-phosphate, a total of 28% of the radioactivity was recovered in the 48-hr urine collection and the following metabolites were isolated: N6-benzyladenosine (40%), uric acid (12%), adenine (trace), and unidentified urea derivatives (30%).
(17) An unidentified chromosomal fragment has become inserted in the long arms of an autosome 12.
(18) An unidentified Moscow police official told the Interfax news agency that the group used “an internal staircase” to reach the top floor of the building and then used “special equipment” to reach its spire.
(19) Previously unidentified loci required for effective root nodule development and exopolysaccharide synthesis were also found.
(20) As predicted by the perceptual fluency hypothesis, and as has been found in previous research, the recognition judgments were more positive for identified words than for unidentified words.