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Definitions: Nonnative |
NonnativeAdjective1. Not being or composed of aborigines; "the nonnative population of South Africa". 2. Of persons born in another area or country than that lived in; "our large nonnative population". 3. Of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: NonnativeSynonym: foreign-born (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: native (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nonnative |
| English words defined with "nonnative": foreign-born. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | Ukraine | Some nonnative and minority religious organizations have reported that, especially at the local or regional levels, officials of the State Committee delayed registration of their organizations for extended periods. (references) |
Ukraine | The law restricts the activities of nonnative, foreign-based, religious organizations ("native religions" are defined as Orthodox, Greek Catholic, and Jewish), and narrowly defines the permissible activities of members of the clergy, preachers, teachers, and other foreign citizen representatives of foreign-based religious organizations. (references) | |
Ukraine | They may preach, administer religious ordinances, or practice other canonical activities "only in those religious organizations which invited them to Ukraine and with official approval of the governmental body that registered the statutes and the articles of the pertinent religious organization." However, in practice the Government has not used the law to greatly limit the activity of nonnative religious organizations. (references) | |
Economic History | Philippines | English, the most important nonnative language, is used as a second language by many, including nearly all professionals, academics, and government workers. (references) |
Minorities | Nauru | Nonnative Pacific Island workers experience some discrimination. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Even at the university level, examinations in all subjects except English language were in the Arabic language, placing nonnative speakers of Arabic at a disadvantage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "nonnative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Fremder (alien, foreigner, stranger). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | onnativenay | ||||
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Words beginning with "nonnative": nonnatives. (additional references) | |
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"Nonnative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nenashev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nonnative" (pronounced nÄ"nā"tiv) |
| 5 | -n ā" t i v | native. |
| 4 | -ā" t i v | creative, probative, vegetative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-n-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: innovate, venation. | |
-2 letters: enation. | |
-3 letters: anoint, eonian, innate, intone, invent, nannie, nation, native, novena, tannin. | |
-4 letters: anent, anion, atone, avion, entia, envoi, inane, naevi, naive, ninon, niton, nonet, novae, oaten, ovate, ovine, tenia, tenon, tinea, tonne, venin, vitae. | |
-5 letters: aeon, anon, ante, anti, etna, into, iota, naoi, nave, neat, neon, nevi, nine, nite, nona, none. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-n-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: nondeviant, nonnatives, nonvintage. | |
+2 letters: covenanting, innervation, nondeviants, nonnegative. | |
+3 letters: contravening, conventional, innervations, nonnarrative, nonnormative. | |
+4 letters: contravention, environmental, nonequivalent, nonnarratives, nonvegetarian, reinnervation. | |
+5 letters: antigovernment, contraventions, conventionally, envenomization, innovativeness, nonachievement, nonequivalents, noninteractive, nonvegetarians, reinnervations, unconventional. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 6E 6E 61 74 69 76 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- -. -. .- - .. ...- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o n n a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 006E 006E 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488180806786758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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