(n.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anil Bairwal, one of the authors of the thinktank report, said the true number of state and national parliamentarians and candidates facing charges of sexual violence could be far higher, as most attacks were registered without reference to gender.
(2) Anil Cherukupalli is the media and communications manager of WaterAid India.
(3) As a result of condensation of methyl ester I with various aromatic aldehydes in boiling benzene solution, the Schiff-bases (anils) II--VIII were obtained.
(4) No anil was formed if p-hydroxybenzoate was the growth substrate.
(5) "But of all the children Anil was the one you would worry about, where he was going in life, that sort of thing.
(6) "My team's Argentina," said Delhi gym trainer Anil Chikara.
(7) Photos will allow users to index and find images of “people, places and things that matter the most in my life”, as the company’s Anil Sabharwal put it.
(8) Others charged were Anil Kumar, 51, a director of the management consultancy firm McKinsey, and two executives from a fund management firm, New Castle Funds, named as Danielle Chiesi, 43, and Mark Kurland, 60.
(9) It has the support of a wide swath individuals such as internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Ellsberg, Gabriella Coleman, Xeni Jardin, the actor Wil Wheaton, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, and Anil Dash.
(10) One woman, who asked not to be named, said Anil had often played in the street with other children when he was younger.
(11) Anil Dash (@anildash) I used to take circuit boards & electronics to school, even as the only brown kid.
(12) Last month, Vedanta's chairman, Anil Agarwal, had told a shareholder meeting in London that the episode at Korba was an "unfortunate accident".
(13) "The lineup will be the same next year and it's a meltdown for Congress," Anil Padmanabhan, an analyst who writes for local newspaper Mint .
(14) Hard Brexit will cost Treasury up to £66bn a year, ministers are told Read more Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed figure at the Bank, said the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of the capital as a result of a hard Brexit.
(15) Anil Dash, a prolific blogger and founder of Think-up , quoted Barack Obama saying “Together, let us unleash the imagination of our people, affirm that we are a Nation of makers, and ensure that the next great technological revolution happens right here in America.” Dash added that “many of us have been moved to offer support to Ahmed and his creativity,” and has started to crowdsource a list of ideas “that can help change the culture of Irving to be more welcoming to innovators of all kinds”.
(16) Locals said they thought Anil was studying mechanical engineering at a north-western university.
(17) The London-listed but India-focused miner, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, had so far concentrated on metals such as zinc, copper, aluminium and iron ore.
(18) The shock has been tremendous and widely spread,” says Anil Bhardwaj, the secretary general of the Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises.
(19) Sixteen N-piperidino-(morpholino)-methylisatin-3-anils have been synthesised and evaluated for their antimicrobial activity.
(20) Another senior Bank of England figure, Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed independent policymaker, said this week that the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of London as a result of a hard Brexit.
Nail
Definition:
(n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
(n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
(n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
(n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
(a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
(n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
(n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
(n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
(n.) To spike, as a cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
(6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
(7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
(9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
(10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
(11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
(13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
(15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
(16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
(17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.