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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nais \Na"is\ (n[=a]"[i^]s), n. [L., a naiad.] (Zo["o]l.) See Naiad.
Wikipedia
NAIS can mean:
- National Animal Identification System in the USA to assist tracking of animals in the food chain
- National Association of Independent Schools in the USA
- Nord Anglia International School Dubai, also known as NAS Dubai, an international school located in Dubai.
- Nord Anglia International School Pudong
- Centre for Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software in the UK
- NGO and Academic ICANN Study concerning public representation in domain name management
- National Agency of Information Society(Albania)
- upper sideband, an amplitude modulation transmission method by radio
- NASA Acquisition Internet Service, web access to current acquisition information
- Nais (film), a 1945 French film directed by Raymond Leboursier
Naïs is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 22 April 1749 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in three acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac, in the fourth collaboration between him and Rameau. The work bears the subtitle Opéra pour La Paix, which refers to the fact that Rameau composed the opera on the occasion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, at the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession. Its original title was Le triomphe de la paix, but criticism of the terms of the treaty led to a change in the title.
The story concerns the god Neptune, who is in love with the nymph Naïs and disguises himself as a mortal to try to win her over. This takes place at the Isthmian Games at Corinth, coincidentally a festival dedicated to Neptune. The god's rivals for the affections of Naïs are the Corinthian chief Télénus and the leader of the Isthmian shepherds, Astérion. Naïs's father, the blind soothsayer, Tiresias warns Télémus and Asterion to be wary of the sea god, and they interpret it to mean they should sacrifice their rival. They are about to attack the disguised Neptune when he drowns them by summoning huge waves. Neptune reveals his identity to Naïs and takes her to his underwater palace, where he turns her into a goddess.
Nais may refer to:
- Naïs, an eighteenth-century opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Nais Timova, a spirit or angel across central Asia
Nais is a 1945 French film directed by Raymond Leboursier and starring Fernandel. It is based on the story by Émile Zola.
It was one of the most popular movies in France in 1945 with admissions of 3,467,792.
Usage examples of "nais".
In reply to your affectionate solicitude I must tell you that in that terrible moment Nais was marvellously calm and self-possessed.
The man who, on some glorious day, will render me happy is my Armand, my Rene, my Nais, three angels for whom I have hitherto lived--there can never be for me, I feel it deeply, another passion!
My husband and Nais gave a cry of admiration at the wonderful likeness they had before their eyes.
He, with Nais, were taking an inventory to prove the fidelity of the likeness --yes, it was really my attitude, really my eyes, really my mouth, really those two little dimples in my cheeks!
I was angry with Nais, and also with my husband, and felt much inclined to make him a scene, which he would certainly not have understood.
While I was reading the note, my husband, Lucas, Rene, and Nais had eagerly extracted me from my swathings, and then, in truth, I appeared no longer a saint, but a woman of the world.
In fact, he occupied himself much more with Nais than with me, cutting out silhouettes in black paper for her during nearly the whole evening.
But Nais, on the contrary, still under the spell of its marvels gave a lively recital of the scene, which showed how much her imagination was capable of being stirred.
With the character we have already seen in Nais, it may be said that no one was better fitted than she for the duties that devolved upon her by the abdication of her mother.
Seeing her change color, Sallenauve, Nais, and Madame Octave de Camps ran to her to know if she were ill.
While Nais struggles to get at me, making the passage from her cradle to my bed on all fours or with staggering steps, Armand climbs up with the agility of a monkey, and has his arms round me.
How could I leave to any one else the privilege and delight, as well as the responsibility, of blowing on the spoonful of soup which is too hot for my little Nais, my nursling of seven months ago, who still remembers my breast?
To mince a chop for Nais, who has just cut her last teeth, and mix the meat, cooked to a turn, with potatoes, is a work of patience, and there are times, indeed, when none but a mother could succeed in making an impatient child go through with its meal.
As the price of a few minutes in which I write you these half-dozen pages, I have had to let them cut pictures out of my novels, build castles with books, chessmen, or mother-of-pearl counters, and give Nais my silks and wools to arrange in her own fashion, which, I assure you, is so complicated, that she is entirely absorbed in it, and has not uttered a word.
I still have Nais and the baby--two restless little mortals--but I am quite as much a child as they are.