A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
The independent variable of a function.
A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
A process of reasoning; argumentation.
The phase of a complex number.
A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
An untrue statement.
A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
Something foolish.
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Nonsensical.
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
To make nonsense of;
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
To joke around, to waste time