Novel vs Nonce - What's the difference?
novel | nonce |
(obsolete) A novelty; something new.
*, II.2.4:
A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
(classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce ).
* 1857 , , chapter 6:
(lexicography) A nonce word.
denoting something occurring once.
(British, slang, pejorative) A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.
(British, slang) A stupid or worthless person.
(cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
* 1999 , Network Working Group, RFC 2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication , The Internet Society, page 22,
As a verb novel
is to increase (to make larger).As a noun nonce is
the one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce ) or nonce can be (british|slang|pejorative) a sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile or nonce can be (cryptography) a value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.As an adjective nonce is
denoting something occurring once.novel
English
(wikipedia novel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Usage notes
* Said of ideas, ways, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
In various senses from (etyl) novelle or (etyl) novella, both from (etyl) novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, from . Some senses came to English directly from the Latin. (etystub)Noun
(en noun)- merry talessuch as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels , and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione , which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.
Derived terms
* novelisation, novelization * novelistnonce
English
(wikipedia nonce)Etymology 1
From a misdivision in (etyl) of .Noun
(en noun)- That will do for the nonce , but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
- 'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.
- I had thought that the term was a nonce , but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* for the nonce * nonce word * nonce borrowingEtymology 2
, from Nancy boy. See for further discussion.Noun
(en noun)- That bloke who lives at number 53 is a nonce!
- Shut it, ya nonce!
Etymology 3
Contraction of number used once .Noun
(en noun)- In this protocol we use the serial number of the message as a nonce .
- The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce .