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Awn


Definition:

  • (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A continuous flow of men goes past the block, while young women in black and red underwear pose on high stools behind windows with red awnings.
  • (2) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
  • (3) Gorette-Nicaise, Awn, and Dhem (1983) as well as the study by Whetten, and Johnston (1985) have shown that neither the absence of the lateral pterygoid muscle nor the physical volumetric expansion of the airway increases condylar growth.
  • (4) Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani had spent 14 years in Guantánamo, where he was held without trial and was suspected of being an al-Qaida member who “possibly” worked as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, according to his leaked prisoner file.
  • (5) A small square building with a corrugated iron awning marks the corner with East Trenton Street.
  • (6) AWN may, thus, participate in the initial events of fertilization in the pig.
  • (7) The germination of freshly harvested seed is depressed following heat stress at 7--10 days after awn emergence, but is enhanced by the same stress applied 3 weeks after awn emergence.
  • (8) Analysis of the amino acid sequence of the AWN proteins showed significant similarity only to AQN-1 and AQN-3, two other boar spermadhesins.
  • (9) Hair thickness--especially at the thickest point--ranges from 140 to 236 microns for the awn hair and from 19 to 106 microns for the fur hair.
  • (10) Some of the “client accommodation” sits right on the road behind tall mesh, asylum seekers sitting in the shade of open awnings.
  • (11) The development of the allometric equation, Y = aWn, relating species body size (W) with various morphological, physiological, biochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological characteristics, as the fundamental basis for extrapolation of biological data from laboratory animals to man is outlined.
  • (12) The awn and the fur hair of Pudu were investigated.
  • (13) AWN exists as two isoforms, AWN-1 and AWN-2, which differ in that AWN-2 is N-terminally acetylated.
  • (14) In Type III, an "awning effect" of the acromion was observed to influence active motion.
  • (15) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
  • (16) This small standing-room-only taquería, identified on its awning with the single word "HOLA", is renowned locally, a favourite of Condesa hipsters.
  • (17) A green awning offers shade to those who visit with condolences for the death of his three year-old grandchild, while the young mother leans listless against a post of the house.
  • (18) They gathered, one week on to the minute from the assault of Friday the 13th, around what seemed to be a shadow devoid of life and light – a heavy black tarpaulin draped over the entrance to the Bataclan theatre: or “ba’ta’clan café”, as the awning reads.
  • (19) AQN-1 shares extensive structural, as well as functional, similarity with two other boar sperm zona-pellucida-binding proteins, AQN-3 and AWN, which we have recently characterized.
  • (20) Underneath an awning on the pontoon, a gigantic banner proclaims "Venezuela", a gift from the young musicians of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra.

Pawn


Definition:

  • (n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
  • (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
  • (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
  • (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
  • (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
  • (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
  • (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (2) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
  • (3) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
  • (4) In his two interrogations in Belgium, Abdeslam gave the impression he was merely a pawn of Abaaoud and his own brother Brahim, who blew himself up outside a Paris cafe.
  • (5) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (6) Experiments were done on wild type P. caudatum and on both the wild type and a pawn mutant of P. tetraurelia.
  • (7) For most women born into the political world, their job description is more pawn than queen: to serve as the physical embodiment of political alliances by marrying husbands chosen by their fathers and giving birth to male heirs.
  • (8) If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.
  • (9) Mutants of Paramecium aurelia that are unable to reverse swimming direction are called pawns.
  • (10) We’re extremely worried that she’s being used as a political pawn.
  • (11) The kinetic properties of the ciliary membrane Ca2+ ATPase activity in wild type and several behavioral mutants were similar except for those in the pawn mutant, d495, and the paranoiac mutant, d490, both of which had lower specific activities.
  • (12) Photograph: PA Walker went on: “In stark contrast to how we were treated by the police, the CPS and court staff who were truly respectful and sensitive, I don’t think that as victims we have been treated with genuine respect, but are pawns in the BBC’s ambition to be seen to protect its reputation.
  • (13) But he added, repeating Putin's line, that people "should not turn into 'pawns' in the hands of those who want to destroy our country".
  • (14) He refers to the battle as a "different titans' game" which makes the Standard seem like a pawn.
  • (15) To keep up, the older generation has begun pawning heirlooms and jewellery to get through the winter.
  • (16) A small girl's placard proclaimed: "When the situation is as dire as this I don't mind my parents using me as a political pawn."
  • (17) Surrogate mothering and surrogate gestational mothering force us to redefine the age old dictum mater certa est and can render the child a helpless pawn in parental, emotional, and legal strife.
  • (18) The government of Nauru has said most incidents detailed in the Nauru files were “fabricated” and has accused Australian media and politicians of using refugees as political pawns.
  • (19) Two heat-sensitive "pawn" mutants of Paramecium aurelia are capable of avoiding reactions when grown at 23 degrees C but not at 35 degrees C. Electrophysiological analyses show that Ca activation is reduces in the mutants even when they are grown at 23 degrees C. The maximal rate of rise and the peak of the evoked action potential (Ca-spike) in the mutants are smaller than those of wild type in a K-solution.
  • (20) Contrary to media reports, most passengers have not become pawns in an epic industrial battle pitting the human right to free assembly against corporate self-determination.

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