单词 | nada |
释义 | nadan.1 Nothing; nothingness, non-existence; a state or condition as of non-existence. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > nothing nothingOE nota1425 nichila1513 nowhat1530 zeroa1703 nuffin1837 nuttin'1852 nada1867 bupkis1937 1867 G. A. Sala From Waterloo to Peninsula II. 227 It is the insubstantiation of ‘nada’—the home of nothing. There is nothing to eat, nothing to drink, nothing to wear, nothing to sit or lie upon. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. vii. 52 You'd think that there would be more somewhere about, but nada. There's fools digging holes in that mountain yet. 1933 E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 23 It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too... He knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name. 1962 Spectator 25 May 685/1 This sense of the endless nada lying beyond the phenomenological world. 1990 Videographic Apr. 23/1 The latest gizmo means nada. Now it's brains and faces, imaginations and client relations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nadan.2 Hinduism. Inchoate or elemental sound considered as the source of all sounds and as a source of creation, and thus as present within every created being. Occasionally as a count noun. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Indian or Hindu > sound of creation nada1913 1913 ‘A. Avalon’ tr. Tantra of Great Liberation p. xxiii It is Nāda..when there is a sound in which there is something like a connected or combined disposition of the letters. 1926 Indian Art & Lett. 2 79 Nāda as inchoate stressing sound is shown in the form of a crescent-moon on His [sc. Siva's] head. 1960 Swāmī Prajñānananda Hist. Devel. Indian Music ii. 25 The nāda or causal sound is the basis or ground of music, and upon this primal ground all the phenomena of Indian music are built. 1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot i. ii. 99 The last stages before samadhi: the appearance of an ‘inner light’, and of various ‘inner sounds’ or nadas. 1968 Indian Music Jrnl. 5 8 Boundless is the ocean of Nāda. 1977 It May 17/1 It is the same word, the sound, the rhythm, nada, that is at work in the formation of tiny things as of colossal objects. 1987–8 Pacific Affairs 60 692 The graphic representations she gives of such philosophical concepts as Nada (Cosmic Sound)..are fanciful images unwarranted by Hindu symbology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11867n.21913 |
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