different between nominal vs seeming

English

Etymology

From the Middle English nominalle (“of nouns”), borrowed from Latin n?min?lis (“of names”), from n?men (“name”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?m.?nl?/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?n?m.?nl?/

Adjective

nominal (not comparable)

1. Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
2. Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
3. Existing in name only.
   • 1856 February, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Oliver Goldsmith, republished in 1865, The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, page 300,

     At Edinburgh he passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures, and picked up some superficial information about chemistry and natural history.
4. (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
6. Insignificantly small.

   Synonym: trifling

7. Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.

8. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
9. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
10. (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.

11. (engineering) According to plan or design.

    Synonym: normal
12. (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.

    Antonym: real

    • 1991, Richard J. Gilbert, Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy, page 267,

      Comparisons of the costs of the Diablo Canyon plant with other nuclear power plants can be misleading because the available cost data are in nominal dollars and therefore include the toll of inflation over the construction periods.

    • 2001, Erich A. Helfert, Financial Analysis: Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers, page 467,

      This simple process allows us to convert nominal dollars into inflation-adjusted real dollars.

13. (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
14. (taxonomy) Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.

Derived terms

• binominal
• denominal
• nominalness
• nominally
• polynominal

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: nominaal

Translations

Noun

nominal (plural nominals)

2. (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.

   This sentence contains two nominals.

4. (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
6. A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)

   Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals.

8. (Britain, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.

Hyponyms

• (grammar) noun, pronoun

Translations

Further reading

• nominal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nominal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• nonmail

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /no.mi?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /nu.mi?nal/

Adjective

nominal (masculine and feminine plural nominals)

1. nominal

Derived terms

• nominalment

Related terms

• nom

Further reading

• “nominal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nominal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “nominal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nominal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.mi.nal/

Adjective

nominal (feminine singular nominale, masculine plural nominaux, feminine plural nominales)

1. nominal

Noun

nominal m (plural nominaux)

1. nominal

Related terms

• nom
• classe nominale
• locution nominale
• valeur nominale

Descendants

• ? Dutch: nominaal
  • ? Indonesian: nominal
  • ? West Frisian: nominaal
• ? Romanian: nominal

Further reading

• “nominal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nomi?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

nominal (not comparable)

1. nominal

Declension

Derived terms

• Nominaldeklination
• Nominalflexion
• Nominalklammer
• Nominalphrase

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch nominaal, from French nominal, from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [no?minal]
• Hyphenation: no?mi?nal

Adjective

nominal

1. nominal,
   1. existing in name only.
   2. insignificantly small.
   3. (grammar) of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.

Further reading

• “nominal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /nomi?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /numi?na?/
• Hyphenation: no?mi?nal

Adjective

nominal m or f (plural nominais, comparable)

1. nominal

Derived terms

• nominalmente

Related terms

• nome

Further reading

• “nominal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nominal, Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nomi?nal/

Adjective

nominal m or n (feminine singular nominal?, masculine plural nominali, feminine and neuter plural nominale)

1. nominal

Declension

Related terms

• nume
• nominalism
• nominaliza

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nomi?nal/, [no.mi?nal]
• Hyphenation: no?mi?nal

Adjective

nominal (plural nominales)

1. nominal

Derived terms

• sintagma nominal
• valor nominal

Related terms

• nombre

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?m??/
• Homophones: seaming, seming
• Rhymes: -i?m??

Verb

seeming

1. present participle of seem

Adjective

seeming (comparative more seeming, superlative most seeming)

1. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual).

   Synonyms: apparent, ostensible

   • 1671, Aphra Behn, The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband, London: Thomas Dring, Act II, Scene 5, pp. 32-33,^[1]

     I'le hide my anger in a seeming calm,
     And what I have to do, consult the while,
     And mask my vengeance underneath a smile.

   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays, London: W. Griffin, Essay 18, p. 150,^[2]

     Of all the English philosophers, I most reverence Bacon, that great and hardy genius: he it is who, undaunted by the seeming difficulties that oppose, prompts human curiosity to examine every part of nature;

   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Chapter 27,^[3]

     […] she was overcome like the thirsty one who is drawn toward the seeming water in the desert […]

   • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, Chapter 10,^[4]

     […] though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts of all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them.

Derived terms

• seemingly
• seemingness

Translations

Noun

seeming (countable and uncountable, plural seemings)

1. Outward appearance.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 162,^[7]

     I am not what I seemed to her, he thought, and doubtless she is not what she seemed to me, but it is our lot to be irrevocably condemned to seemings and to deserve them too.

2. (obsolete) Apprehension; judgement.
   • 1604, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London, Preface, p. 39,^[8]

     Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 736-738,^[9]

     […] in her ears the sound
     Yet rung of his perswasive words, impregn’d
     With Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth;

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