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61Nonsense syllable — In cognitive psychology, a nonsense syllable is a word like string of letters that is not intended to have any established meaning; it is a special case of a non lexical vocable. Nonsense syllables have been extensively used in experimental… …
62nonsense verse — a form of light verse, usually for children, depicting imaginative characters in amusing situations of fantasy, whimsical in tone and with a rhythmic appeal, often employing fanciful phrases and meaningless made up words. [1790 1800] * * *… …
63nonsense verse — noun nonsensical writing (usually verse) • Syn: ↑amphigory • Hypernyms: ↑nonsense, ↑bunk, ↑nonsensicality, ↑meaninglessness, ↑hokum * * * a form of light verse, usually for children, depicting imaginative characters in amusing situations of… …
64Nonsense suppressor — A nonsense suppressor is a tRNA mutation that suppresses the protein truncation resulting from a nonsense mutation. The nonsense suppressor is a tRNA gene (from Escherichia coli) which has a mutated anticodon. The mutated anticodon recognizes the …
65Nonsense song — A nonsense song is a type of song written in fun using nonsense syllables at least in the chorus. Such a song generally has a simple melody and a quick (or fairly quick) tempo.[1] Contents 1 History 2 Examples …
66Nonsense word — A nonsense word, unlike a sememe, may have no definition. If it can be pronounced according to a language s phonotactics, it is a logatome. Nonsense words are used in literature for poetic or humorous effect. Proper names of real or fictional… …
67Nonsense-mediated Decay — Der Nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD in etwa: Durch fehlerhafte Transkripte vermittelter RNA Abbau) ist ein Kontrollmechanismus der Genexpression in eukaryotischen Zellen. NMD führt dabei zum Abbau mutierter mRNAs und verhindert so die Bildung… …
68Nonsense mutation — A mutation (a change) in a base in the DNA that prematurely stops the translation (reading) of messenger RNA (mRNA) resulting in a polypeptide chain that ends prematurely and a protein product that is truncated (abbreviated) and incomplete and… …
69Nonsense Club — The Nonsense Club was a scandalous club of 18th century British satirists centred around Westminster School. Its members included the satirists and poets Charles Churchill and Robert Lloyd, the parodist Bonnell Thornton, the nature poet William… …
70Nonsense-Codon — Als Stopcodon, auch Nonsense Codon wird in der Genetik ein Basentriplett (Codon) der Desoxyribonukleinsäure (DNA) beziehungsweise der Ribonukleinsäure (RNA) bezeichnet, für das keine zugehörige tRNA (Transfer RNA) vorliegt und somit den Abbruch… …
