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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  NICE
       
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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) : [ gazetteer ]


  Nice, CA (CDP, FIPS 51294)
    Location: 39.12528 N, 122.85051 W
    Population (1990): 2126 (1315 housing units)
    Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 95464

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Nice \Nice\ (n[imac]s), a. [Compar. Nicer (n[imac]"s[~e]r);
     superl. Nicest.] [OE., foolish, fr. OF. nice ignorant,
     fool, fr. L. nescius ignorant; ne not + scius knowing, scire
     to know. Perhaps influenced by E. nesh delicate, soft. See
     No, and Science.]
     1. Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
        [Obs.] --Gower.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              But say that we ben wise and nothing nice.
                                                    --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Of trifling moment; unimportant; trivial. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The letter was not nice, but full of charge
              Of dear import.                       --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy;
        fastidious in small matters.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Curious not knowing, not exact but nice. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              And to taste
              Think not I shall be nice.            --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Dear love, continue nice and chaste.  --Donne.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A nice and subtile happiness.         --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions;
        distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully
        discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment. ``Our author
        happy in a judge so nice.'' --Pope. ``Nice verbal
        criticism.'' --Coleridge.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite
        admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great
        skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice
        workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously
        discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice
        point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The difference is too nice
              Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     7. Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a
        nice party; a nice excursion; a nice day; a nice sauce,
        etc. [Loosely & Colloquially]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     8. Pleasant; kind; as, a nice person.
        [PJC]
  
     9. Hence: Well-mannered; well-behaved; as, nice children.
        [PJC]
  
              He's making a list, checking it twice.
              Gonna find out who's naughty or nice
              Santa Claus is coming to town.        --Song.
  
     To make nice of, to be scrupulous about. [Obs.] --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Dainty; delicate; exquisite; fine; accurate; exact;
          correct; precise; particular; pleasant; kind;
          scrupulous; punctilious; fastidious; squeamish; finical;
          effeminate; silly; well-mannered; well-behaved.
          [1913 Webster]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]


  NICE
       Network Information and Control Exchange (DECNET)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Nice \Nice\, a. [Compar. Nicer; superl. Nicest.] [OE.,
     foolish, fr. OF. nice ignorant, fool, fr. L. nescius
     ignorant; ne not + scius knowing, scire to know. perhaps
     influenced by E. nesh delicate, soft. See No, and
     Science.]
     1. Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
        [Obs.] --Gower.
  
              But say that we ben wise and nothing nice.
                                                    --Chaucer.
  
     2. Of trifling moment; nimportant; trivial. [Obs.]
  
              The letter was not nice, but full of charge Of dear
              import.                               --Shak.
  
     3. Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy;
        fastidious in small matters.
  
              Curious not knowing, not exact but nice. --Pope.
  
              And to taste Think not I shall be nice. --Milton.
  
     4. Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.
  
              Dear love, continue nice and chaste.  --Donne.
  
              A nice and subtile happiness.         --Milton.
  
     5. Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions;
        distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully
        discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment. ``Our author
        happy in a judge so nice.'' --Pope. ``Nice verbal
        criticism.'' --Coleridge.
  
     6. Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite
        admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great
        skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice
        workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously
        discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice
        point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
  
              The difference is too nice Where ends the virtue, or
              begins the vice.                      --Pope.
  
     7. Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a
        nice party; a nice excursion; a nice person; a nice day; a
        nice sauce, etc. [Loosely & Colloquially]
  
     To make nice of, to be scrupulous about. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     Syn: Dainty; delicate; exquisite; fine; accurate; exact;
          correct; precise; particular; scrupulous; punctilious;
          fastidious; squeamish; finical; effeminate; silly.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  nice
       adj 1: pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance;
              "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so
              nasty"- George Meredith; "nice manners"; "a nice
              dress"; "a nice face"; "a nice day"; "had a nice time
              at the party"; "the corn and tomatoes are nice today"
              [ant: nasty]
       2: socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous;
          "from a decent family"; "a nice girl" [syn: decent]
       3: done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job
          requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice
          shot" [syn: skillful]
       4: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about
          his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would
          only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" [syn: dainty,
           overnice, prissy, squeamish]
       5: noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior
          designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the
          argument" [syn: discriminate]
       6: exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture" [syn: courteous,
           gracious]
       n : a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the
           leading resort on the French Riviera

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 ωραίος
     2 καλός
     3 ευγενικός
     Αγγλικά adv.
     (ετικ προφορικό ανεπίσημο Αγγλικά) ωραία! καλά!, (alter nicely
  ανεπίσημη μορφή του en)

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     Γαλλικά n.
     η Νίκαια, (τόπος fr πόλη Γαλλία)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  -nice
     Czech suf.
     (n-g: nominal suffix)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     Czech n.
     (infl of cs nika  dat//loc s)
     Dutch a.
     (lb nl slang) (l en nice)
     German a.
     (lb de colloquial) good, #English
     Turkish a.
     many
     Turkish adv.
     (lb tr dialectal or poetic) how

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     n.
     1 (place en coastal city/capital dept/Alpes-Maritimes in the
  r:suf/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeast c/France).
     2 (surname: en). (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/)
     3 (place en census-designated place co/Lake County s/California
  c/USA).
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt Greek god) Nike (gloss: goddess of victory)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  NICE
     n.
     (lb en UK) {initialism of|en|(w: National Institute for Health and
  Care Excellence)}

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     a.
     (lb en chiefly informal) pleasant, satisfactory. (from 18th c.)
     adv.
     (lb en colloquial) nicely.
     interj.
     1 (n-g: Used to signify a job well done.)
     2 (n-g: Used to signify approval.)
     n.
     niceness.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive computing Unix) To run a process with a specified
  (usually lower) priority.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     n.
     1 (place en coastal city/capital dept/Alpes-Maritimes in the
  r:suf/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeast c/France).
     2 (surname: en). (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/)
     3 (place en census-designated place co/Lake County s/California
  c/USA).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  NICE
     n.
     (lb en UK) {initialism of|en|(w: National Institute for Health and
  Care Excellence)}

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  -nice
     Czech suf.
     (n-g: nominal suffix)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     Czech n.
     (infl of cs nika  dat//loc s)
     Dutch a.
     (lb nl slang) (l en nice)
     German a.
     (lb de colloquial) good, #English
     Turkish a.
     many
     Turkish adv.
     (lb tr dialectal or poetic) how

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     n.
     1 (place en coastal city/capital dept/Alpes-Maritimes in the
  r:suf/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeast c/France).
     2 (surname: en). (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/)
     3 (place en census-designated place co/Lake County s/California
  c/USA).
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt Greek god) Nike (gloss: goddess of victory)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  NICE
     n.
     (lb en UK) {initialism of|en|(w: National Institute for Health and
  Care Excellence)}

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  -nice
     Czech suf.
     (n-g: nominal suffix)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     Czech n.
     (infl of cs nika  dat//loc s)
     Dutch a.
     (lb nl slang) (l en nice)
     German a.
     (lb de colloquial) good, #English
     Turkish a.
     many
     Turkish adv.
     (lb tr dialectal or poetic) how

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     n.
     1 (place en coastal city/capital dept/Alpes-Maritimes in the
  r:suf/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeast c/France).
     2 (surname: en). (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/)
     3 (place en census-designated place co/Lake County s/California
  c/USA).
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt Greek god) Nike (gloss: goddess of victory)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  NICE
     n.
     (lb en UK) {initialism of|en|(w: National Institute for Health and
  Care Excellence)}

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     Englanti a.
     1 mukava, miellyttävä, hauska
     2 herttainen, suloinen; viehättävä
     3 hienoinen, hiuksenhieno
     4 arkaluontoinen
     5 hienovarainen
     6 (yhteys harvinainen k=en) tarkka; perusteellinen
     7 (yhteys arkikieli k=en) kiva; ystävällinen

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     Ranska n.
     Nizza (+luokka fr kaupunki)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     Engelska a.
     1 trevlig, vänlig, snäll
     2 bra, härlig, som uppfattas som positivt

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     Franska n.
     (tagg kat=städer språk=fr) #Svenska
     n.
     (tagg: kat=städer) en fransk stad nära Monaco

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  nice
     a.
     (tagg: kat=anglicism) ''anglicistisk variant av'' najs

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  Nice
     n.
     (tagg: kat=städer) en fransk stad nära Monaco

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  nice /nˈaɪs/
  1. aangenaam, behaaglik, heerlik, lekker
  2. gaaf, goed
  3. smaaklik

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Nice /nˈaɪs/
  جيد

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  Nice //niːs// 
  Ни́ца, Ница
  city in France

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  nice //naɪs// //nɑjs// //nɑɪs// //nəɪs// 
  1. краси́в, ху́бав
  attractive
  2. вкусен
  having a pleasant taste or aroma
  3. мил, любе́зен, прия́тен, симпати́чен
  pleasant
  4. точен, чувствителен
  showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment