innovate
1. To begin or introduce something new for, or as if for, the first time.
2. To make changes in anything already established.
3. To introduce changes and new ideas.
innovation
1. The act or process of inventing or introducing something new.
2. A new invention or a new way of doing something.
innovator
1. Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
2. Anyone who introduces changes and new ideas.
3. Someone who begins or introduces something new for, or as if for, the first time.
news
1. Information about recent events or developments; "She talked to the doctor, and the news about our mother is good."
2. Information about current events or the presentation of a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on the radio or television.
3. Someone, or something, considered as being of interest to people in general.
4. Something previously unknown to a person that he or she is surprised to hear about: "His winning of the lottery was news to me."
5. Etymology: Before 1382, newes, "new things", in the Wycliffe Bible; plural of earlier new, newe, "new thing". It apparently came from French nouvelles, used in Bible translations to render Medieval Latin (Latin as written and spoken c.700-c.1500) nova as "news"; literally, "new things".
Non nova sed nove.
Not new things but in a new way.
nova
A star that suddenly increases dramatically in brightness and then fades to its original luminosity over a short period of months or years.
novel
1. New and different, often in an interesting, unusual, or inventive way.
2. Strikingly new, unusual, or different; of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
Everything at its first occurrence is considered to be new; that is, novel or which is so much out of the ordinary course of existence so as to strike people with surprise.
3. A fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
4. A fictional prose work with a relatively long and often complex plot, usually divided into chapters, in which the story traditionally develops through the thoughts and actions of its characters.
5. Etymology: "new, strange, unusual"; from Middle French
novel, "new, fresh, recent"; from French
nouveau, nouvelle; from Old French, which came from Latin
novellus, "new, young, recent"; diminutive of
novus "new".
The meaning of "fictitious narrative" came from Italian novella, "short story"; but originally it meant "new story" from Latin novella, "new things" based on Middle French novelle, then French nouvelle, a form of novellus.
novelette
1. A brief novel or a long short story.
2. A short novel.
novelist
Someone, or a person, who writes novels.
novelty
1. Something that is new, original, and different which is interesting or exciting, though often for only a short time.
2. Something new and unusual; an innovation.
3. A small inexpensive toy, ornament, piece of jewelry, or trinket.
novepithel
novice
1. Anyone who is beginning or learning an activity and has acquired little skill in it.
2. A person new to a field or activity; a beginner.
3. In competitive games, or sports, etc.; a person or animal entered in a class in which he/she or it has not won an award.
4. Someone who has joined a religious order but has not yet taken final vows.
novilunar, novilunium
A reference to the new moon.
novitiate
1. Anyone is a novice, especially in a religious order.
2. The part of a monastery, or convent, where novices live.
novobiocin
That which is highly toxic to humans and is sometimes used as an antimicrobial drug in some serious cases of staphylococcic and urinary tract infection.
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