The abandonment of an unwanted child.
An exhibition, especially of goods, artwork or cultural displays to the public.
The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe the setting, characters and other non-plot elements.
An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
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
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.
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.
An untrue statement.
A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.