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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nice
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/fair/nice size (=fairly big)
▪ The garden is a good size.
a good/nice Christmas
▪ Did you have a good Christmas?
a nice gesture
▪ It would be a nice gesture if we gave them something to say 'thank you'.
a nice talk
▪ We all had lunch together and a nice talk.
a nice touch
▪ There was a vase of flowers in the room, which was a nice touch.
a nice try (=a good try that is not successful)
▪ Nice try, Claudia, but not good enough, I’m afraid.
a nice/good guy
▪ People say he’s a nice guy.
a nice/lovely/happy day (=enjoyable)
▪ We’ve had a lovely day at the beach.
a nice/pleasant/lovely surprise
▪ It’s a lovely surprise to see you.
good/nice/lovely (=not wet)
▪ We’ll go out if the weather is good.
have a good/nice etc birthday
▪ Did you have a nice birthday?
have a nice/good day!spoken (= used when saying goodbye to someone in a friendly way)
▪ Bye Sam! Have a good day!
have a nice/pleasant etc stay
▪ We hope you have a pleasant stay.
how much better/nicer/easier etc
▪ I was surprised to see how much better she was looking.
▪ How much better life would be if we returned to the values of the past!
(it was) nice meeting you (=used to say goodbye politely to someone you have just met for the first time)
nice and clean (=clean)
▪ Their job is to keep the streets nice and clean.
nice and quiet
▪ I’d love to go on holiday somewhere where it’s nice and quiet.
nice little
▪ It could be a nice little business.
nice manners (=good manners)
▪ She has such nice manners.
nice neat
▪ She arranged the books in a nice neat pile.
nice/pleasant/lovely
▪ There was a lovely smell of fresh coffee.
nice/pleased to meet you (=used to greet someone politely when you have just met them for the first time)
▪ ‘This is my niece, Sarah.’ ‘Pleased to meet you.’
smell good/nice etc
▪ The food smelled good.
taste good/nice/delicious/great
▪ The apples weren’t very big but they tasted good.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
▪ The watchman looked at me expectantly so of course I had to say how nice it was and also donate five rupees.
▪ You know, I never realized until now just how nice it was.
▪ Instead, I just told him how nice his property was.
▪ When a child is compassionate, say how nice it is to see that.
▪ Selfridges opening Sunday HOW nice it was to see Selfridges open on Sunday.
▪ Had my father at last come to realize how nice it was to have our own place?
▪ Come in, Mr Willoughby. How nice.
▪ She had forgotten how nice it was, after so long an interval.
much
▪ He had thought about sending her to the oculist and he was much nicer to Gran.
▪ This is a much nicer schedule.
▪ It'd be much nicer if we were in the position where we could write love songs.
▪ Delays of a couple of months in the schedule, but made it up by mid-August. Much nicer quarters and location.
▪ Everywhere, too, customers were finding much nicer things to eat.
▪ He looked a different person then, and Mary thought how much nicer people looked when they smiled.
▪ It was so much nicer than having to wait in line.
quite
▪ It's quite nice because the people at the classes come to hear the music as well as to keep fit.
▪ And Main Street really has gotten quite nice.
▪ He is quite nice, really.
▪ The Chief Constable had been quite nice, Kate conceded.
▪ And you've got quite nice hair.
▪ Insufficient support is provided for both keyboard and keypad which sag under pressure but the key actions are quite nice.
▪ Girls are horrid, girls are quite nice, I like myself best.
▪ The trem arm is all of an inch longer than those of late, which is actually quite nice.
rather
▪ A rather nice house on the outskirts; just mention my name.
▪ It was rather nice being ill - he could get away with not clearing up his dishes.
▪ It was rather nice to have a woman crying over him.
▪ But after slaving over something for ten years, it is rather nice to show it off a bit.
▪ There's also a few backgrounds thrown in too and some rather nice fonts.
▪ All her furniture is second-hand and rather nice.
▪ In fact it was rather nice.
▪ And she was rather nice to me in her glittery at-home sort of way.
really
▪ It sounds really nice, the music they're making - it's all loud and echoey.
▪ Michael Coles is a really nice guy.
▪ He was really nice when we met him, he lives a life of total pleasure.
▪ It gives me a really nice sleep.
▪ I had one really nice job, playing with a kid called Mike.
▪ He has moved into a new office in the Rayburn Building, one of the really nice second-floor ones overlooking the Capitol.
▪ It was nice - oooh, really nice.
▪ That was really nice of you to come see me at the hospital.
so
▪ I mean Micky just seemed so nice, so friendly and, in a strange way, so lonely.
▪ But last night, after he returned, he was so nice to me!
▪ I remember cos it looked so nice.
▪ It was so nice to have that sort of freedom, which is basically what happened.
▪ The owner's so nice, another widow.
▪ She smiled so nice at him, waiting.
▪ And he looked so nice in his parka.
too
▪ She thought it was all getting too nice and intimate.
▪ William F.. Weld, insiders worry that Payne may be too nice.
▪ They were both too nice for their own good.
▪ I guess he saw me as too nice a guy, with too much money.
▪ He was nice, Emily decided, too nice by far for a hussy like Sarah.
▪ It was too nice a day to be burying a young life.
▪ That Tom was too nice for his own good.
▪ His father was too nice and too charitable.
very
▪ He had white hair and looked very nice, and soon they were waving to him every morning.
▪ Catera is a very nice package.
▪ U is under the tree, in the shade, under which it is very nice to sit.
▪ This kid had, at fifteen, two girlfriends, four children, a Mercedes-Benz, and some very nice clothes.
▪ I shall vote Tory because Mr Major is a very, very nice man.
▪ Still, she was very nice.
▪ There was a very nice housemaid when I first went.
■ NOUN
cup
▪ She'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea.
▪ The memories crowded in around me as I sat with a nice cup of steaming hot water, writing in longhand.
▪ You could drink a nice cup of tea, couldn't you?
▪ Or, at least to serve you a yogurt fruit shake and a nice cup of cinnamon-spice tea.
▪ I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up.
day
▪ Timothy Gedge smiled at the men and said it was a nice day.
▪ You may want to do this outside on a nice day.
▪ It was in fact rather a nice day and my spirits were starting to rise.
▪ Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money.
girl
▪ There are some nice girls out there, but I don't know what she was called.
▪ He needed some nice girl of Anthony's age to prove his point.
▪ She was a nice girl, but she was involved in gangs.
▪ Some nice girls do, some nice girls don't.
▪ I asked the information desk - a nice girl, pretty, very helpful - if the train to Oxford was modernized.
▪ But the message is that there must be a better way of choosing a nice girl than this.
guy
▪ Andrew is a nice guy, but he has the brain of a husk.
▪ Michael Coles is a really nice guy.
▪ It seems pretty convincing that nice guys do well in this game.
▪ I was in a soap opera for a while where I was the nicest guy in the world.
▪ He's such a nice guy.
▪ There would be nothing remaining but a bunch of nice guys.
▪ Marry Will-he's a really nice guy and then we can be sisters.
▪ Bob Dole and Jack Kemp seem like nice guys.
house
▪ A rather nice house on the outskirts; just mention my name.
▪ And nice houses, if I remember rightly.
▪ Had a nice house by a lake and had matching cars and everything?
▪ For their freedom, their nice houses.
▪ You going to a nice house.
▪ I have an estate in Arizona outside Phoenix with forty acres of land and a nice house.
▪ I get up every day thankful that I have a job and kids and a nice house.
idea
▪ We thought it would be a nice idea.
▪ It was a nice idea and had some basis in reality, however wrong it proved to be in the end.
▪ These are nice ideas, sure enough.
▪ Also, identification of tunes is a nice idea for such a concert.
▪ Price £2.85 3D Interior backgrounds A nice idea that really needs some fishkeeping skill to get the best out of.
▪ Mr Zed is a nice idea in need of material.
man
▪ I shall vote Tory because Mr Major is a very, very nice man.
▪ They were nice men but incomplete, or too complete.
▪ He was such a nice man, very quiet and reserved.
▪ Fox was a nice man, much liked among a wide circle of his fellow-clergy.
▪ Actually he was a very nice man, cheerful and good-natured, but the other side of him blotted it all out.
▪ He's a nicer man than Malcolm - stupid Malcolm whom I'd hoped to marry before he became besotted with Doreen.
▪ He's such a nice man, I could imagine him getting unwittingly manipulated into a situation like that.
▪ I expect he's a perfectly nice man.
people
▪ It's not our business if the people who hire us aren't nice people.
▪ Now Lute has suffered a loss beyond words and Tucson is diminished by the passing of one of its nicer people.
▪ Pop stars are far nicer people than rock stars.
▪ Some of them were nice people but few had any kind of apparent qualification.
▪ He looked a different person then, and Mary thought how much nicer people looked when they smiled.
▪ They were nice people and all, but you know what I mean.
▪ All these nice people wanting you to join things.
▪ I was not aware I would meet such nice people.
person
▪ They might be the nicest person, but prison has made me that way.
▪ But in being assertive, she is no less a nice person.
▪ She has a good sense of humour, and very sporting: in other words a very nice person.
▪ Sophia Loren is a nice person.
▪ It works because companies would sooner pay a nice person they know than a computer.
▪ But Angel, though not viciously evil, is not a nice person.
▪ I am a good citizen, a nice person.
▪ He was probably the most likable, nice person in the world.
place
▪ It is the nicest place in the house, thirty feet above the garden.
▪ Is it a nice place, can I come visit?
▪ A lot of people consider London to be big and ugly, and not a very nice place to live.
▪ Despite these frustrations, San Diego still is second on Anders' list of nice places to live.
▪ The group is made up of residents determined to make Heighington a nicer place to live.
▪ This would be a nice place to come if we just wanted to have a one-on-one chat.
▪ There's a nice place down the road.
surprise
▪ On the other, it's full of not so nice surprises.
▪ What followed was a nice surprise.
▪ It was not the best car I've driven this year, but it was the biggest and nicest surprise.
▪ That would be a nice surprise.
▪ I might just do that; it would give him a nice surprise.
thing
▪ That was the nice thing about the horses' strange stable: its cathedral-like aloofness from the weather.
▪ I can not say enough nice things about Chandra.
▪ Everywhere, too, customers were finding much nicer things to eat.
▪ After that, Simon did not try to think of any more nice things about Tony Angotti.
▪ That was another nice thing about friendship, wasn't it?
▪ All those nice things you sent me.
▪ The nice thing about volatility is that it leaves hope for all the candidates going into Iowa on Feb. 12.
▪ Besides, loving children says nice things about you, too, as a caring and decent person.
things
▪ Everywhere, too, customers were finding much nicer things to eat.
▪ And Paterno is already getting nervous about all the nice things that people are saying about his football team.
▪ What Amis has also acknowledged as a writer is that nice things aren't necessarily as funny as nasty things.
▪ I can not say enough nice things about Chandra.
▪ Me: I could eat anything, but I keep thinking of nice things.
▪ After that, Simon did not try to think of any more nice things about Tony Angotti.
▪ He said nice things about the children - how brave and clever they were - and then he sat down.
▪ A.. One of the nice things about running for chairman is the people who ran against me were fine people.
time
▪ He said he hoped we were having a nice time and could we leave the keys with Mrs Stewart please.
▪ He wanted to stay; he was having a nice time.
▪ Had quite a nice time, I gather.
▪ It was not a nice time.
touch
▪ One nice touch lets you italicize and embolden text simply by highlighting it and clicking on one of the toolbox icons.
▪ A little maple syrup, however, adds a nice touch.
▪ I always think it was a nice touch.
▪ This aesthetic presentation is a very nice touch in a meal already replete with interesting tastes dancing merrily across your palate.
▪ A nice touch is that when you make a new entry in the database, it's saved automatically.
▪ Pros: Ducking in and out of ice caves adds a nice touch to what could have been a typical roller coaster.
▪ Leeds began brightly and there were some nice touches.
▪ He had a nice touch, a good sense of how to execute his shots.
way
▪ He'd fallen in love with a pretty girl who had nice ways and was sweet to kiss and cuddle.
▪ I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit.
▪ His nice way with words made me open my mouth.
▪ Stick your men on to these youngsters in a nice way, old fellow.
▪ She says that it's a nice way to view Cheltenham.
▪ He meant this in a nice way, but I felt weird.
▪ The country was in a mess; that's a nice way of putting some really bad news.
▪ Despite my first impression, Gus had a nice way about him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I couldn't wish for a nicer/better etc ...
a nice little earner
▪ Bethlehem will always be a nice little earner.
▪ However worthy his motives, the good doctor is on a nice little earner.
▪ It has become, let's face it, a nice little earner.
▪ Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.
▪ That would be a nice little earner for us.
▪ With an eye for a nice little earner, Del Trotter dictated his letter of application to chief sports writer Roy Collins.
as nice/as stupid etc as they come
ever so cold/wet/nice etc
nice work/quick work
no more Mr Nice Guy!
sb doesn't do nice/funny/sensible etc
the biggest/best/nicest etc sth going
▪ A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore.
▪ Are the best bargains going to petrol buyers?
▪ But in those years, they were always the team with the best record going into the playoffs.
▪ Its got to be the best ticket office going.
▪ Perhaps the biggest thing going was the harp played by JoAnn Turovsky, sounding positively, well, huge.
▪ There was a wide range of scores with the best individual score going to George McCallum of Douglas Reyburn with 37 points.
▪ This, so I was led to believe, was the best it was going to get.
▪ What is the best way of going forward? - Ideas from within I hear you say!
too nice/clever etc for your own good
▪ According to her, he was too clever for his own good.
▪ That Tom was too nice for his own good.
▪ They were both too nice for their own good.
▪ You might be just a wee bit too clever for your own good now.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Let's take a picnic lunch with us." "Yeah, that'd be nice."
▪ "She offered to pay for everything." "That was a nice gesture."
▪ All Brad's friends were very nice to me, but I was too shy to join in their chat.
▪ Claire's really nice, isn't she?
▪ Come over on Saturday. It would be nice to see you.
▪ Did you have a nice time?
▪ Feel this material. It's so nice and soft.
▪ Have a nice day.
▪ He's one of the nicest people I know.
▪ He had a lot of nice things to say about you.
▪ I've got a nice boss, and the pay's good.
▪ I got a nice long letter from Andreas this morning.
▪ I hope you have a nice vacation.
▪ I sometimes think she's only nice to me when she wants something.
▪ I want a nice hot shower.
▪ It's so nice to see you again.
▪ It's the kind of place nice people don't go to.
▪ It was nice of them to invite us.
▪ Morning, Bill. Nice weather, isn't it?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice.
▪ I cleaned up the house as best I could, and hired a couple of nice ladies to handle the heavy lifting.
▪ It would be nice to think that it was a very prosperous affair.
▪ Maybe Henry would realize she was not as nice as she pretended to be.
▪ Moza was making nice, asking about dinner.
▪ No, it's not nice.
▪ There's this one with candles on the table in these little glass bowls, and it all looks cosy and nice.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nice

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.

    But say that we ben wise and nothing nice.
    --Chaucer.

  2. Of trifling moment; unimportant; 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 day; a nice sauce, etc. [Loosely & Colloquially]

  8. Pleasant; kind; as, a nice person.

  9. Hence: Well-mannered; well-behaved; as, nice children.

    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.

    Syn: Dainty; delicate; exquisite; fine; accurate; exact; correct; precise; particular; pleasant; kind; scrupulous; punctilious; fastidious; squeamish; finical; effeminate; silly; well-mannered; well-behaved.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nice

late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c.1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830).\n\nIn many examples from the 16th and 17th centuries it is difficult to say in what particular sense the writer intended it to be taken.

[OED]

\nBy 1926, it was pronounced "too great a favorite with the ladies, who have charmed out of it all its individuality and converted it into a mere diffuser of vague and mild agreeableness." [Fowler] "I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should I not call it so?"\n
"Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk; and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything." [Jane Austen, "Northanger Abbey," 1803]
Wiktionary
nice

Etymology 1

  1. 1 (context obsolete English) silly, ignorant; foolish. (14th-17th c.) 2 (context now rare English) particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy. (from 14th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) particular as regards rules or qualities; strict. (16th-19th c.) 4 show or require great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. (from 16th c.) 5 (context obsolete English) doubtful, as to the outcome; risky. (16th-19th c.) 6 respectable; virtuous. (from 18th c.) 7 pleasant, satisfactory. (from 18th c.) 8 Of a person: friendly, attractive. (from 18th c.) 9 With "and", having intensive effect: extremely. (from 18th c.) adv. (context colloquial English) nicely. interj. 1 Used to signify a job well done. 2 Used to signify approval. Etymology 2

    v

  2. (context transitive computing Unix English) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

WordNet
nice
  1. adj. 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]

Gazetteer
Nice, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 2509
Housing Units (2000): 1672
Land area (2000): 2.211844 sq. miles (5.728649 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.211844 sq. miles (5.728649 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51294
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 39.126774 N, 122.850256 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 95464
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Nice, CA
Nice
Wikipedia
Nice (disambiguation)

Nice is a city located in the south of France.

Nice may also refer to:

Nice (Unix)

'''nice''' is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. nice is used to invoke a utility or shell script with a particular priority, thus giving the process more or less CPU time than other processes. A niceness of −20 is the highest priority and 19 is the lowest priority. The default niceness for processes is inherited from its parent process and is usually 0.

Nice (song)

"Nice" is the 34th single by British pop band Duran Duran. Released in 2005 to radio in Europe and as download only, it was the third single to be lifted from the group's Astronaut album.

Nice (Rollins Band album)

Nice is the seventh and final full-length studio album by the American rock band Rollins Band, released in 2001. It is their first album released on Sanctuary Records. The band line-up was Henry Rollins fronting the blues rock band Mother Superior, whilst retaining the Rollins Band name.

The track "What's the Matter Man" appears in the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.

Nice

Nice (, ; Niçard , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; ; ; ) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes Maritimes département. The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of about 1 million on an area of . Located in the Côte d'Azur area on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille. Nice is about 13 kilometres (8 miles) from the principality of Monaco, and its airport is a gateway to the principality as well.

The city is nicknamed Nice la Belle ( Nissa La Bella in Niçard), which means Nice the Beautiful, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912.

The area of today's Nice contains Terra Amata, an archaeological site which displays evidence of a very early use of fire. Around 350 BC, Greeks of Marseille founded a permanent settlement and called it Nikaia, after Nike, the goddess of victory. Through the ages, the town has changed hands many times. Its strategic location and port significantly contributed to its maritime strength. For centuries it was a dominion of Savoy, and was then part of France between 1792 and 1815, when it was returned to Piedmont-Sardinia until its re-annexation by France in 1860.

The natural beauty of the Nice area and its mild Mediterranean climate came to the attention of the English upper classes in the second half of the 18th century, when an increasing number of aristocratic families took to spending their winters there. The city's main seaside promenade, the Promenade des Anglais ("Walkway of the English') owes its name to visitors to the resort. For decades now, the picturesque Nicean surroundings have attracted not only those in search of relaxation, but also those seeking inspiration. The clear air and soft light have particularly appealed to some of Western culture's most outstanding painters, such as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Arman. Their work is commemorated in many of the city's museums, including Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse and Musée des Beaux-Arts. Nice has the second largest hotel capacity in the country and it is one of its most visited cities, receiving 4 million tourists every year. It also has the third busiest airport in France, after the two main Parisian ones. It is the historical capital city of the County of Nice (Comté de Nice).

Nice (programming language)

Nice is an object-oriented programming language released under the GNU General Public License.

It features a powerful type system which can help eliminate many common bugs, such as null pointer dereferences and invalid casts, by detecting potential runtime errors at compile-time; the goal of the designers was to provide safety features comparable to those found in languages such as ML and Haskell, but using a more conventional syntax.

Nice aims to be feature-rich, and as such, in addition to the common features of modern object-oriented programming languages, it implements contracts in the style of Eiffel, class extensibility through multimethods, and many concepts drawn from functional programming such as anonymous functions, tuples, pattern matching (“value dispatch”), and parametric polymorphism.

Source programs are compiled to Java bytecode, and can therefore interact with libraries written in Java and other programming languages targeting the Java Virtual Machine.

Work on the Nice language appears to have slowed since early 2006.

Nice (The Nice album)

Nice was the third album by The Nice; it was titled Everything As Nice As Mother Makes It in the US after Immediate's distribution changed from Columbia to Capitol. Nice had been initially released in the US with a slightly longer version of Rondo 69 not available on the UK or on the Capitol distributed US versions. The first US version of Nice was briefly reissued in 1973 by Columbia Special Products.

Continuing The Nice's fusion of jazz, blues, and rock, this album consists of studio (1–4) and live (5–6) tracks, the latter having become firm favourites in the band's live performances.

The album reached number 3 in the UK Album charts.

Nice (Nice album)

Nice is a 1992 studio album by the Australian band of the same name.

The songs "Theme from Nice" and "Circuit Diagram" were featured in the 1990s Nickelodeon television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete.

Nice (band)

Nice was an Australian indie rock band which formed in 1991. The band was fronted by Randall Lee formerly of The Cannanes and later of Ashtray Boy on vocals and guitar; Susannah Stewart-Lindsay, previously a member of the Adelaide-based band, Rewind on the Paranoid Side, on guitar; and Jo Packer on drums. Francesca Bussey, later a member of The Cannanes, was a member of Nice on bass guitar during the recording sessions for their first album, Nice (1992), but left during production and was credited only as a guest. Bussey was replaced on bass guitar by Mark King.

Allmusic's Nitsuh Abebe felt that Nice, which was issued by United States label, Feel Good All Over, showed that "Lee's dark jangle sounds absolutely stunning, and while the record's songwriting isn't as consistent as one might hope, the majority of it works incredibly well, with unconventional time signatures and progressions keeping things from falling into strummy banality". "Dear John", which was the lead track on Nice, was covered by the band Aden. The band's songs "Theme from Nice" and "Circuit Diagram" from their 1993 album, Apple Pie, were included in the popular 1990s Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Adebe described Apple Pie as "a step toward the more varied pop sound" of Lee's future work with Ashtray Boy.

Nice (surname)

Nice is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Geoffrey Nice (born 1945), British barrister and activist
  • Harry Nice (1877–1941), governor of Maryland, USA
  • Hellé Nice (1900–1984), name assumed by Mariette Hélène Delangle, a French racing driver
  • Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974), American ornithologist

Usage examples of "nice".

Well, now she knew why Kinaveral Admin had put such a nice bonus on this job--and now she knew better than to take another flight to Banth.

Like mine, it was Agami larken woodwork, each side made of hundreds of smaller pieces carefully fit together, but this was not nearly as nice a piece of work as mine.

Deborah was a little 254 ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL smasher all right, and she looked nice, too, but no no .

They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you.

I mean, how are we going to snare her a nice androsphinx if she stays stuck inside with her books all day every day?

He prefers a comfortable hotel on the Promenade des Anglais at Nice, where he recovers health and renovates his nervous system by taking daily excursions along the coast to the Casino.

The money that Astel had provided us proved to be more than sufficient to get us quite nice lodgings.

He was a very rich, and very nice, really, young Marine Aviator, and he told me he was in love with me.

It will be very nice to try to drown the priests of Heu-Heu, Baas, but we shall be no better off, nor will the Lady Sabeela if we leave her tied to that post.

Sal Simmons kept a little shop, An bacca seld, an spice, An traitle drink, an ginger pop, An other things as nice.

She was soft, and warm, and smelled nice, too, notwithstanding their bathless night on the boat.

I should have, I was still trying to be nice to the poor bereaved crazy woman.

All the same, when Bev is out in the boat, she fantasizes about the Mississippi, about riverboat cruises and casinos, about fruity cocktails and beer in frozen glasses and maybe watching Mardi Gras from the window of a nice air-conditioned hotel.

I made a real pest out of myself back on the beach the other day and you were nice to let me off the hook with all those bicoastal excuses.

And it would be all the nicer because if she had a daughter the daughter would not be a Bishopess unless indeed she were to marry a Bishop too, which would not be likely.