What's the difference between nominal and phenomenal?

Nominal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.
  • (a.) Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.
  • (n.) A nominalist.
  • (n.) A verb formed from a noun.
  • (n.) A name; an appellation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (2) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
  • (3) In the total sample, PEI factors and negative nominations were more stable than positive nominations, and PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable than negative nominations.
  • (4) said Bengis, a Miami-based lawyer who campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton four years ago before she conceded the Democratic Party's nomination to Barack Obama.
  • (5) The nominal exposure concentrations of 1,2,4-TCB were 25.0, 50.0, and 100.0 ppm.
  • (6) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
  • (7) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
  • (8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
  • (9) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
  • (10) The Labour leadership election gained a new lease of life today as parliament's first black female MP, Diane Abbott , entered the race and the party extended the deadline for nominations, giving extra time for new candidates to emerge.
  • (11) We must end police violence so we can live and feel safe in this country,” the group stated on a new website, Campaign Zero , which also establishes an issue-by-issue system for monitoring the policy positions of candidates for the Democratic and Republican US presidential nominations.
  • (12) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
  • (13) He said the incident happened after Hookem told Woolfe it was his own fault he did not get his nomination papers in on time.
  • (14) It is thought that Burnham has more than 70 nominations in the parliamentary Labour party and the breadth of his support is beginning to make it difficult for some of the other candidates such as Tristam Hunt, the shadow education secretary, and even Liz Kendall, the shadow health minister, to gather the 35 nominations from MPs they need to get on the ballot paper.
  • (15) College students completed a 17-item scale measuring the "propensity to argue controversial topics" and 7 other nominal-scale independent variables.
  • (16) DHPR gene expression was reversibly suppressed by 0.4 nM transforming growth factor beta-1 or by transfection with a mutant c-H-ras allele, nominal inhibitors of myogenesis that block the appearance of slow channels and DHPR.
  • (17) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
  • (18) The immunity was enacted by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, with the support of leading Democrats including Barack Obama, who had promised - when seeking his party's nomination - to filibuster any bill that contained retroactive telecom immunity.
  • (19) If the Mg2+ concentration in the superfusion medium was lowered from 2 mM to nominally zero the response to NMDA was selectively increased.
  • (20) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.

Phenomenal


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
  • (2) Consider this from Forrester Research: 2bn smartphones generate raw data from built-in functions: accelerometers, cameras, and GPS chipsets – creating phenomenal insights about consumer, patient, and physician preferences.
  • (3) Walter has been speaking at events around the country, and says the feedback has been phenomenal.
  • (4) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
  • (5) An obvious comparison, made by Gensler, is with the High Line in New York, the phenomenally successful park made out of an old railway viaduct, which like the River Park is long and thin.
  • (6) The background was hotter on one side of the sky and cooler on the other: a "dipole" that meant our galaxy was moving at a phenomenal relative speed, which could only be explained if there was a huge undiscovered distant structure somewhere in space, such as a supercluster of galaxies, pulling it (this was found later and is called the "great attractor").
  • (7) This phenomen may be discussed from the 30th minute after intake.
  • (8) It was found that (a) the suppressive effect, measured by frequency of phenomenal disappearance of the probe stimulus, declined sharply in proportion to the distance from the contour of the suppressor, and it declined more sharply near the center of the visual field and (b) the same effect increased in proportion to the contrast of the suppressor, but was independent of the width of the suppressor.
  • (9) The intercellular space of the stratum basale and stratum spinosum was usually dilated, exhibiting acantholytic phenomen.
  • (10) "'This has been a phenomenal year and a great welcome back into comedy for me," he said.
  • (11) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
  • (12) There’s also the radical and phenomenally powerful face-to-face meeting, which is often ignored because it actually requires management to show their face.
  • (13) Two hypotheses are identified in applying phenomenal geometry.
  • (14) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
  • (15) "[Gaga's] rise has been phenomenally fast, and to manage such a quick climb to the top is incredibly difficult.
  • (16) Any Olympic medal is a phenomenal achievement but having had three in the past I wanted a gold one to complete the collection."
  • (17) Did Mourinho really once say that Hazard might have overtaken Cristiano Ronaldo as the most phenomenal player on the planet bar Lionel Messi?
  • (18) The consequences of the phenomene on genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis are discussed.
  • (19) 1 the threshold of the resolution distance of square gratings having the same phenomenal frequencies (as observed in a 1985 experiment by Vardabasso and Zanuttini), although different areas, was checked.
  • (20) "The density of the archaeology, the scale of the buildings and the skill that was used to construct them are simply phenomenal.