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Meaning of "nisus" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NISUS

From Latin: effort, from nītī to strive.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NISUS

nisus  [ˈnaɪsəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NISUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nisus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NISUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nisus in the English dictionary

The definition of nisus in the dictionary is an impulse towards or striving after a goal.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NISUS


abomasus
ˌæbəʊˈmeɪsəs
bonasus
bəˈneɪsəs
byssus
ˈbɪsəs
cissus
ˈsɪsəs
cytisus
ˈsɪtɪsəs
Dionysos
ˌdaɪəˈnaɪsəs
Dionysus
ˌdaɪəˈnaɪsəs
Ephesus
ˈɛfɪsəs
Issus
ˈɪsəs
narcissus
nɑːˈsɪsəs
rhoicissus
ˌrəʊɪˈsɪsəs
risus
ˈraɪsəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NISUS

nis
Nisan
Nisei
nisgul
nish
Nishapur
Nishinomiya
nisi
nisi prius
Nissen hut
nit
nit-pick
nit-picker
nit-picking
nit-picky
nitchie
nite
niter
niterie
nitery

WORDS THAT END LIKE NISUS

Amisus
baby Jesus
casus
Caucasus
census
colossus
consensus
cupressus
cursus
Jesus
lapsus
lupus erythematosus
missus
Pegasus
resus
Rhesus
sus
tarsus
the Caucasus
versus

Synonyms and antonyms of nisus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nisus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NISUS

Find out the translation of nisus to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nisus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nisus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

南翔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nisus
570 millions of speakers

English

nisus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Nisus
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نزو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Нис
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Niso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nisus
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nisus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nisus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nisus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

のNisus
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

나이 서스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nisus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Nisus
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nisus
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निसान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nisus
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nisus
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nisus
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Ніс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nisus
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

nisus
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Nisus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nisus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nisus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nisus

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NISUS»

The term «nisus» is normally little used and occupies the 118.033 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NISUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nisus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nisus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nisus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NISUS»

Discover the use of nisus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nisus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mac Life
When Mac OS X came along, Nisus floundered and was eventually rebuilt from the ground up to emerge as the excellent Nisus Writer Express. Remarkably flexible, it was nonetheless very much a personal word processor designed for ...
2
Dryden's Aeneid: The English Virgil
5 NISUS AND EURYALUS At the end of his essay on Dryden's Aeneid, Robert Fitzgerald declares that "no one else, with no matter how much leisure, has yet achieved a version so variously interesting and as true to the best style of a later  ...
Taylor Corse, 1991
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Virgil: The Aeneid (continued)
129-50. The night expedition of Nisus and Euryalus in Aeneid, IX, 176-449, is one of the great tragic stories of Vergil's epic. It has been called "a dramatic episode of friendship,"1 the glorification of heroism and friendship,2 "one of the crowning ...
Philip R. Hardie, 1999
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Vergil's Aeneid: A Poem of Grief and Love
Even if the Rutulians had been aroused, in their condition they could not have caught fast runners like Nisus and Euryalus. Finally, they must stop the slaughter because lux inimica propinquat (355). It is the light, not the sleeping Rutulians, that ...
Steven Farron, 1993
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend
Nisus was king of Megara, and Scylla was his daughter. The siege had now lasted six months and the city still held out, for it was decreed by fate that it should not be taken so long as a certain purple lock, which glittered among the hair of King ...
Thomas Bulfinch, 1993
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DNA barcoding: a practical tool for fundamental and applied ...
... nisus nisus ZMA58243 skin Malden 51.47N, 5.52E KF946553 Accipiter nisus nisus ZMA58245 skin Helden 51.21N, 5.55E KF946554 Accipiter nisus nisus ZMA58246 skin Reuver 51.17N, 6.04E KF946555 Accipiter nisus nisus ZMA58247 ...
Zoltan T Nagy, Thierry Backeljau, Marc De Meyer, 2013
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Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature
When Nisus and Euryalus next appear, after the war has begun, Virgil describes them differently: 'Nisus erat portae custos, acerrimus armis' (Nisus was the guardian of a gate, very fierce in fighting; IX.176); and 'comes Euryalus, quo pulchrior ...
Stephen Guy-Bray, 2002
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CJKV Information Processing
The latest versions of Nisus Writer embraces Unicode and runs on Mac OS X. A trial version of Nisus Writer is available, and I encourage you to try it out. Looking back to its earlier days, when it ran on Mac OS, Nisus Writer was one of the very ...
Ken Lunde, 2009
9
Studies in Romance Philology and French Literature
forces peuvent produire deux sortes de nisus ; la premiere, un nisus qui cesse ; la seconde un nisus qui ne cesse jamais.... La quantite de force est constante dans la nature ; mais la somme des nisus et la somme des translations sont ...
‎1953
10
A treatise on the will: containing i. A review of [J.] ...
We observe phenomena, and by the law of our intelligence we assign them to cause. But how do we conceive of cause as producing phenomena ? By a nisus, an effort, or energy. Is this nisus itself a phenomenon 1 It is when it is observed.
Henry Philip Tappan, Jonathan Edwards, 1857

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NISUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nisus is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jackson National Life CEO returns to Nashville roots
... Health Worldwide for AIG Life Companies; president and CEO of Nisus, a subsidiary of Pan-American Life; spent 12 years at Willis Corroon. «The Tennessean, Jul 15»
2
SummerFest 2015 Sale on Artisanal Software
For working with editors and polishing your final draft (plus any imaginable text manipulation need), Nisus Writer Pro is unparalleled. And, of ... «TidBITS, Jun 15»
3
Jackson Announces New Senior Leadership
Before joining Nisus, he spent 12 years at Willis Corroon. From 2008 to 2011, Stowe was a director of the Life Insurance Marketing Research ... «MarketWatch, Jun 15»
4
Dropbox Adds File Comments
... folder of commonly used assets (such as our Nisus Writer Pro macros), but, alas, comments can be attached only to specific files, not folders. «TidBITS, May 15»
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Nisus Writer Pro 2.1.1
Nisus Software has issued Nisus Writer Pro 2.1.1, a maintenance update that addresses several issues that were discovered after the previous ... «TidBITS, Apr 15»
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Control of Small Flies
Plant personnel are the eyes of the PMP as they are there each day, said Nisus Vice President of Technical Services and Regulatory Affairs ... «Quality Assurance & Food Safety, Apr 15»
7
Did you see that Nisus Writer Pro 2.1 is now available?
Nisus Writer Pro logo Nisus Writer Pro—my go-to word processor for when I want to keep the bloat out of my writing projects—has been ... «TechnologyTell, Mar 15»
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Nisus Writer Pro 2.1
Nisus Software has released Nisus Writer Pro 2.1 with added support for OS X's Auto Save and Versions. The word processor now saves ... «TidBITS, Mar 15»
9
Nisus Software, Inc. Releases Nisus Writer Pro 2.1
[prMac.com] Solana Beach, California - Nisus Software today is proud to announce the release of Nisus Writer Pro 2.1, the latest release of their ... «prMac, Mar 15»
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Nisus Adds Ipser as Director of Technical Services
Dr. Reid Ipser has joined Nisus Corporation as Director of Technical Services. Ipser's broad background includes a formal education in ... «PCT Magazine, Mar 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Nisus [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nisus>. Apr 2024 ».
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