(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."
Unknown
Definition:
(a.) Not known; not apprehended.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(2) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(3) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(4) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
(5) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(6) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
(7) We therefore conclude that widely spaced (and unknown) parts of the protein chain are required for the intersubunit interactions that eventually lead to functional assembly of the receptor.
(8) An atheroma is often associated with saccular aneurysms, but its effect on this pathological process is still unknown.
(9) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(10) The mechanisms responsible for changes in absorption in vitro are unknown.
(11) The pathoanatomy and factors associated with transient mitral regurgitation (MR) induced by myocardial ischemic stress are unknown.
(12) The evaluation of the data of unknown test persons of a pilot study in 96% resulted in a correct classification in patients with heart and circulatory diseases or persons with healthy heart and circulation, the classification in the above mentioned groups of diagnosis was performed on an average to 57%.
(13) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
(14) Several pedigrees have been reported in which defects of the insulin gene result in glucose intolerance or diabetes in affected members, but the role of insulin gene mutations in NIDDM is unknown.
(15) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(16) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(17) Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology with protean manifestations.
(18) Their incidence cannot be estimated--only the possibility of recoverable renal function in an unknown number of involved patients.
(19) The results indicate that the effect of EGF on the growth of cancer cells is very complicated and may involve an unknown regulatory mechanism of cancer cell growth.
(20) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.