thing+of+no+importance

  • 61nonentity — non•en•ti•ty [[t]nɒnˈɛn tɪ ti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) a person or thing of no importance 2) something that does not exist or exists only in imagination …

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  • 62nonentity — /nɒnˈɛntəti / (say non entuhtee) noun (plural nonentities) 1. a person or thing of no importance: *a middle aged woman, wiping her hands on her dark apron – a good natured nonentity. –lesbia harford, 1924. 2. something which does not exist, or… …

  • 63blip — [blip] 1. n. an intermittently appearing light on a radar screen. □ A blip caught the controller’s eye for an instant. □ Did you see that blip, Freddy? 2. n. anything quick and insignificant; a onetime thing of little importance. □ It was nothing …

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  • 64cipher — [sī′fər] n. [ME cifre < OFr cyfre < ML cifra < Ar ṣifr, ṣefr, a cipher, nothing < ṣafara, to be empty] 1. the symbol 0, indicating a value of zero 2. a person or thing of no importance or value 3. a) a system of secret writing based… …

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  • 65pisher — [pēsh′ər] n. [Yiddish] [also in roman type] Slang 1. a young, inexperienced, presumptuous person 2. a person or thing of no importance; a nobody or nothing …

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  • 66small beer — n. 1. [Brit. Archaic] weak or inferior beer 2. Informal a person or thing of little importance …

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  • 67abba-dabba — /ab euh dab euh/, n. Slang. a person or thing of little importance. [perh. taken from the nonsensical refrain of a popular song Aba Daba Honeymoon (1904)] …

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  • 68bag|a|telle — «BAG uh TEHL», noun. 1. a mere trifle; thing of no importance. 2. a short piece of music, usually in a light style. 3. a game somewhat like billiards, played on a table having a semicircular end with nine holes to hit balls into with a cue.… …

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  • 69ci´pher|a|ble — ci|pher «SY fuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. secret writing or code. A cipher transposes the letters of a message according to a set pattern, or replaces the proper letters with substitutes called for in the system used, or combines both methods. »Part… …

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  • 70ci|pher — «SY fuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. secret writing or code. A cipher transposes the letters of a message according to a set pattern, or replaces the proper letters with substitutes called for in the system used, or combines both methods. »Part of the… …

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