(superl.) Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
(superl.) Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.
(superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.
(n.) A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.
(n.) An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.
(n.) A European fish; the lyrie.
(v. t.) To make noble; to ennoble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
(2) The current literature, for the most part, cites the use of noble alloys as controls for trials of alternative materials.
(3) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
(4) The absolute mutant number and the induced mutant frequency quantitated from a treated culture is generally higher in BBL compared to Noble agar.
(5) Colonies plated in BBL agar tend to appear significantly earlier on the plates than those cloned in Noble agar.
(6) Ray Noble, a solar adviser at the UK-based Renewable Energy Association, said that the technology was relatively straightforward but the only reason to build floating farms would be if land was very tight.
(7) The foundation years debate focuses on what seems to be the most promising way of achieving that noble ambition.
(8) The potential was found to shift to a less noble state when the system of the chlorophyll-naphthoquinone electrode was inserted into NAD solution with illumination.
(9) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
(10) Fast migrating properdin (P) represented activated properdin and occured as a result of activation of properdin in the Noble agar medium used for electrophoresis provided sufficient cofactors, including Mg2+, were present.
(11) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
(12) Higher endpoint dilutions were obtained by the use of 1% Noble agar in immunoosmophoresis than with 1% Ionagar no.
(13) It was not just a fantastic sporting occasion but a glimpse of a more noble Britain: a country learning to be at ease with disability, and passionately, generously, committed to a vision of equality of opportunity.
(14) European elections have a noble history of delivering such temporary bloody noses.
(15) What campaigners for euthanasia often fail to realise is that, however noble it is in theory, conferring the right to die always runs the risk of diminishing the right to live.
(16) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(17) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
(18) For centuries, kings and queens had no option but to contract out courts, taxes, roads, prisons, to nobles and business folk.
(19) Stopping the boats” and avoiding people dying at sea is a noble motive if its combined with solutions that place the rights of refugees first.
(20) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
Nobly
Definition:
(adv.) Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.
(adv.) In a noble manner; with greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done.
(adv.) Splendidly; magnificently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Foxhall quoted one contemporary description of Richard as "slight in body and weak in strength … to his last breath he held himself nobly in a defending manner".
(2) Few news organisations now even have specialist labour coverage, although Alan Jones, the Press Association’s industrial correspondent, still nobly flies the flag.
(3) With drugs, oblivious, in a basement, frozen nobly on a mountain top, screaming in a car crash, or traditionally in a bed surrounded by our family and children, croaking out our last wishes?
(4) Many people have an idealised image of doctors: they work long, gruelling hours, nobly accept thanks when another life is saved, and sacrifice their own lives for the sake of other people.
(5) He concluded that there were two possible outcomes – that they would protest, and the media would label them "extremists", or that they would act "nobly" and be seen as a community united.
(6) The junior party fought nobly in 2011 to keep benefits at least tied to inflation: this bill undoes all their work.
(7) You did nobly and bravely and beautifully and I am very oh so sorry, very sorry, that it must have been much hell for you.” However, on the wish of happily remarried Olivier, the pair barely saw each other again.
(8) But don't take it from me, take it from Charlotte Brontë – who said she intensely disliked Esther for being so consistently "the cheerful woman and nobly forgetful of self".
(9) Miss Jacobs met the storm nobly, but was fairly outplayed, and Miss Round led 5-3 after some great play and a half-volley which drew special applause from the King.
(10) We stood up nobly for what a lot of the country asked for.” Mas said they would not be cowed, adding: “We did what we had to do.
(11) First, nobly casting aside obsequious talk of titles following his recent appointment as president of the Queen's Bench Division, Leveson willingly confirmed that he was his old self: "I was always Brian Leveson."
(12) A movement disconnected from our fellow citizens, detached from modernity and destructive of the national unity, which, in our party's birth, Republicans once so nobly defended.
(13) Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary, can speak directly, and he now lambasts the “green blob”, against which he nobly fought and lost .
(14) He said they lived meaningful lives, and they died nobly.
(15) Abbott declared nobly, yet in somewhat Putinesque fashion, that Russia would be best served keeping its “hands off the Ukraine” (on the basis that most people in the world thought so).
(16) At this point, if readers are familiar with the standard texts of social democracy, most likely you are bracing yourself for a long list of interventionist policies – each well-intentioned, each nobly designed, each trying to mould society in the image of a leftist template.
(17) This was even true during the actual occupation, with film-makers like Sacha Guitry, Claude Autant-Lara and Jean Cocteau making dubious compromises in order to function as artists, while some of France's great postwar film-makers – André Cayatte and Henri-Georges Clouzot, to name just two – first worked, nobly or ignobly, for Continental, the Nazi-supervised French production outfit.
(18) If science in time confirms her conviction, Thompson wants to see the king nobly buried in the cathedral, just 100 yards away.
(19) Colombia’s crestfallen James Rodríguez sobbed like a baby, but took defeat nobly: “Men can also cry but I can return to my country happy,” he said.