(a.) Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.
(a.) A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
(a.) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.
(a.) Any other similar bird of the same genus.
(a.) Having no equal; peerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) After meeting him, I don't feel I'm any closer to understanding how anything in Brian Wilson's world works or worked – not the astonishing, nonpareil burst of 60s creativity, not his latterday renaissance – but I can't think of anything else to ask, or at least I can't think of anything that won't just elicit a yes or a no.
(2) After Ali’s final fight, Hugh McIlvanney, the nonpareil of boxing correspondents, described him as “the king who went out on a dustcart”.
(4) For another, I’m a journalist, and thus aware that among Prince’s panoply of talents lies a nonpareil ability to screw with journalists.
(5) He was a nonpareil orchestrator of outrage during their early career, but proved incapable of dealing with its consequences.
(6) (“Among Prince’s panoply of talents lies a nonpareil ability to screw with journalists,” Petridis wrote at the time.)
(7) Immediate-release granules (IRGs) were prepared by coating particles of Nonpareil 103 with bermoprofen.
(8) Commercially available lattices are often used to coat nonpareils or beads.
(9) Sentimentalists are already building barricades against the notion that Klose, an unspectacular penalty-box finisher, could leave South Africa as the nonpareil of strikers.
Paragon
Definition:
(n.) A companion; a match; an equal.
(n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition.
(n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence.
(n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
(v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
(v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival.
(v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass.
(v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison.
Example Sentences:
(1) We compare a "second-generation" immunoenzymometric assay (Tandem-E CKMB II) for creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) MB with its electrophoretic (Beckman Paragon system) determination.
(2) Paragon's chief executive, Nigel Terrington, said the £200m facility from Macquarie would now be used to grant new loans and then as the facility was used up, the mortgages would be packaged up and sold off in the securitisation market that dried up in the credit crunch.
(3) He said he thought government had to do more to make it easier for people to go green in their daily lives, and admitted that he was not a paragon of virtue in his personal life, even if he was trying to use his car less.
(4) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
(5) The return of Paragon was welcomed by mortgage broker Ray Boulger of John Charcol who said there was pent up demand for such lending from professional landlords, particularly since Lloyds Banking Group pulled back from the market this month.
(6) Paragon said provisions for loans at risk of non-payment more than halved to £3.5m from £7.5m a year earlier as new cases of loan arrears fell and customers made payments that were overdue.
(7) In contrast, Duncan has been praised as the paragon of selfless basketball, sacrificing his numbers for the good of the team.
(8) The overall CV was less than 20% for all methods and isoenzymes, except for LD-4 and LD-5 by the Beckman Paragon, Helena LD-VIS, Gel LDH, Gel PC, and Iso Dot, Gelman LDH Isozyme, and Sebia Hydragel assays, for which it was greater than 20%.
(9) An application of the method was demonstrated by measuring contact angles for saline-containing 0 to 2% bovine serum albumin or bovine submaxillary mucin on Silafocon-A (Polycon II), Pasifocon C (Paragon EW), and polymethyl methacrylate (generic PMMA and Paragon 18) lenses.
(10) "Told with exquisite ill-temper," was the verdict of John Osborne, not exactly a paragon of good grace himself, on How's That For Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?
(11) Paragon, one of the biggest lenders to landlords in the UK, said its “pipeline” of buy-to-let loans has more than doubled in recent months .
(12) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
(13) Paragon increased lending to private landlords by almost two-thirds in the first half of the specialist mortgage lender’s financial year as the buy-to-let boom continued.
(14) The Beckman Paragon alkaline gel electrophoresis system was evaluated for utility in identification and quantitation of glycosylated hemoglobin in the clinical laboratory setting.
(15) We could imagine this paragon of whiteness, soft-spoken and soft around the middle, as a rational actor, spending months after the shooting to carefully prepare for his grand-jury testimony, to repeat his performance in front of George Stephanopoulos for a television interview.
(16) The source of what has been called a “swell” of “circumstantial evidence” is the CIA, an agency which has been known to interfere with an election or two itself, and isn’t really a paragon of honesty.
(17) For several decades X-ray diffraction studies have been the paragon of biological structure studies at atomic resolution.
(18) Fluorosilicone-acrylate polymer lenses adsorb and release the most preservative, while polymethylmethacrylate lenses (Paragon Optical Inc, Mesa, Ariz) adsorb and release the least.
(19) Paragon said that the number of borrowers in arrears has continued to fall, and those more than three months behind represented 0.86% of the total order book.
(20) Perhaps as a result, Uber is by no means the only paragon of the sharing economy to face legal pressure.