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NOVEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does novel mean?
• NOVEL (noun)
The noun NOVEL has 2 senses:
1. an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
2. a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Familiarity information: NOVEL used as a noun is rare.
• NOVEL (adjective)
The adjective NOVEL has 2 senses:
1. original and of a kind not seen before
2. pleasantly new or different
Familiarity information: NOVEL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("novel" is a kind of...):
fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "novel"):
manga (graphic novel that originated in Japan, usually intended for adults and characterized by highly stylized art)
detective novel; mystery novel (novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end)
dime novel; penny dreadful (a melodramatic paperback novel)
novelette; novella (a short novel)
roman a clef (a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters)
romance (a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life)
roman fleuve (a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group)
Derivation:
novelette (a short novel)
novelist (one who writes novels)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Context example:
he burned all the novels
Hypernyms ("novel" is a kind of...):
book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)
Derivation:
novelette (a short novel)
novelist (one who writes novels)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Original and of a kind not seen before
Synonyms:
Context example:
the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem
Similar:
original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pleasantly new or different
Synonyms:
novel; refreshing
Context example:
common sense of a most refreshing sort
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Context examples
G-quartet structures has been developed as novel anti-HIV agents.
(G-Quartets, NCI Thesaurus)
Flt3 ligand is a novel hematopoietic growth factor ligand for the FLT3 tyrosine kinase receptor.
(FLT3 Ligand, NCI Thesaurus)
“The end may have been so,” I answered, “but the methods I hold to have been novel and of interest.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the novel disaster quenched her courage for a time, for public opinion is a giant which has frightened stouter-hearted Jacks on bigger beanstalks than hers.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Angiogenesis is a very complex, tightly regulated, multistep process, the targeting of which may well prove useful in the creation of novel therapeutic agents.
(Angiogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Now, with this current research, they have developed a further novel application that would address the major problem of widespread electric-scooter use in cities.
(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)
Research aimed at discovery of novel nanoscale and nanostructured materials and at a comprehensive understanding of the properties of nanomaterials (ranging across length scales, and including interface interactions).
(Nanomaterials, NCI Thesaurus)
A novel pyrrolopyrimidine derivative, and an orally available inhibitor of the serine/threonine protein kinase AKT (protein kinase B) with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Akt inhibitor AZD5363, NCI Thesaurus)
The Molecular Targets Initiative will seek to discover and develop novel prevention, therapeutic, diagnostic, and imaging agents based on our understanding of these targets.
(Extraordinary Opportunity: Molecular Targets of Prevention and Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)
His idea, for which the novels were responsible, had been that only formal proposals obtained in the upper classes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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