(interj.) An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because it is of interest to identify new drugs able to increase the percentage of REM sleep in mentally retarded subjects, we studied the effects of butoctamide hydrogen succinate (BAHS) on nocturnal sleep in eight young institutionalized Down's syndrome subjects.
(2) I have only one commander-in-chief as we speak.” Hamat Bah, one of the party leaders in Barrow’s coalition, said he thought Buhari had the best chance of changing Jammeh’s mind, as he was a military man.
(3) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
(4) It had been expected that the government would lift the ban, imposed in 2010, when schools reopened following the end of the Ebola crisis but the education minister, Minkailu Bah, reaffirmed it .
(5) This time we’re also with the civil society activist, Coumba Bah.
(6) Measurements of blood plasma ACTH, hydrocortisone, STH, somatostatin, insulin, glucagon levels and plasma renin activity in 70 patients with borderline hypertension (BAH) and in 20 normal male subjects have revealed increased ACTH, hydrocortisone, and somatostatin levels, elevated plasma renin activity, and reduced STH and insulin levels in the patients.
(7) High systolic pressure in the pulmonary artery and predominant hyperkinetic central hemodynamics were observed in the normotensives with a family history of HD and patients with BAH.
(8) No significant differences were discovered in the central hemodynamics in persons with BAH and initial stage of essential hypertension.
(9) Of 93 patients with primary aldosteronism seen during a 20 year period, 52 had an aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) removed (five more await surgery), 14 had bilateral adrenal hyperplasia (BAH), three had glucocorticoid-suppressible hyperaldosteronism (GSH), one had adrenal carcinoma and 18 are yet to be categorized.
(10) Ba Odah’s attorney, Omar Farah of the Center for Constitutional Rights , accused the US of playing “Russian roulette” with Ba Odah’s life and called its treatment of Bah Odah “one of the most appalling chapters in Guantánamo’s sordid history”.
(11) 2.58am BST Greens say bah Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott Let's talk about raising money.
(12) One allegation that emerged from the cache was that BAH had been working with HBGary Federal "to develop software that would allow for the creation of multiple fake social media profiles to infiltrate discussion groups and manipulate opinion on the sites and discredit people, as well as to match personas online with offline identities."
(13) Gary McNair: War on Christmas Anyone who has ever felt like saying “Bah, humbug!” to the John Lewis ad will find a kindred spirit in Gary McNair, playing a Santa working in a down-at-heel Christmas grotto who decides to investigate what Christmas means if you are poor.
(14) TRI exposure decreased the in vitro metabolism of TRI, high-Km benzene aromatic hydroxylase (BAH) activity, and cytochrome P450 content in livers of PB-treated rats with severe hepatic damage.
(15) MAb 1-7-1 against P450IA inhibited EROD (79%), PROD (50%) and high-Km BAH (42%) activities in MC-microsomes.
(16) In persons with border-line arterial hypertension (BAH), the transitory process was marked by the increase of the main parameters as compared with normal persons and patients suffering from essential hypertension.
(17) As a boy growing up in Sierra Leone , Kemoh Bah prized his Michael Jackson T-shirt.
(18) During an 8-hour working day, altered central hemodynamics was shown to be detected both in healthy subjects and BAH patients only at the age of 30-39 years and reflected by higher stroke volume (SV), higher cardiac output (CO) and lower total peripheral resistance (TPR) in healthy subjects and diminished heart rate (HR), CO in BAH patients.
(19) The data obtained indicate the heterogeneity of the patients with BAH and stage I EN according to the response to water and water and salt administration.
(20) MAbs 2-66-3, 4-7-1 and 4-29-5, all against P450IIB, had no effect on 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) but inhibited the activities of high-Km BAH (greater than or equal to 58%) and 7-pentoxyresorufin O-depentylase (PROD) (greater than or equal to 96%) in PB-treated microsomes.
Wah
Definition:
(n.) The panda.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lau Kong-wah, undersecretary for constitutional affairs, said he had agreed to multiple rounds of discussions conducted on a basis of equality.
(2) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
(3) The buzz : "Skull-crushing repetition, menacing walls of nuanced guitar noise, feedback magick wah'd from hell to the sky, a sprawling kraut backbone, evil melodies" .
(4) Furthermore, the ratios of N-glycosylations at the three positions are identical in IgD WAH [Takahashi, N. et al.
(5) Even though there was a lot of politically committed music during the late 70s and early 80s, there was also New Romanticism, which was essentially people putting their fingers in their ears and going 'Wah-wah-wah-wah'.
(6) The summit activities of the WAHs (wives and one husband, the German chancellor Angela Merkel's husband, Joachim Sauer, who was absent today) are now as much a media circus as the key political meetings.
(7) The London branch, run by students Julia Gray, 23, and Bryony Beynon, 25, launched last April in conjunction with nail salon WAH (which stands for We Ain't Hoes) in Dalston.
(8) The music chosen for the event seemed poignantly appropriate – Ole Bull's piece for a solo violin entitled In Moments of Solitude, and the performance by Burmese harpist Nei Wah of Aung San Suu Ki's favourite piece, Loving Kindness and the Golden Harp.
(9) Since vitellogenins of chicken and Xenopus have been shown to be structurally similar and evolutionarily related (Nardelli, D., van het Schip, F. D., Gerber-Huber, S., Haefliger, J.-A., Gruber, M., AB, G., and Wahli, W. (1987) J. Biol.
(10) The mean increase in systemic temperature during WAH was 6.4 degrees C for the saline-infused group and 5.1 degrees C for the non-infused group.
(11) Some properties of 21 of these cloned DNAs, ranging in size from 1 to 3.7 kb, have been reported by Wahli et al.
(12) It appears that elevation of the systemic temperature to 40.5 degrees C or more can be safely achieved under conditions where the temperature in the peritoneal cavity is kept below 43.5 degrees C during WAH.
(13) The effects of whole-abdominal hyperthermia (WAH), using an 8 MHz radiofrequency capacitive-heating system, on the intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal distribution of heat and on the functions of visceral organs were studied.
(14) Lai Wah Co, the head of economic analysis at the CBI, agreed that rates were unlikely to rise in the short term, adding that "economic indicators still suggest the UK recovery is on track, although we expect it to be bumpy and slow".
(15) The coda is a total wah-wah freak-out and makes us imagine Jim Morrison in deranged preacher mode shrieking along with Faust.
(16) In one of the songs on the exercise DVD released on Kumamon’s birthday, as he leads his fans through their exertions, they grunt, “Toh-MAY-toes … straw-BEAR-ies … wah-TER-melons” – all agricultural products that are specialities of Kumamoto.
(17) "Better sales growth continued in the high street in early August, and retailers are upbeat about prospects in the coming three months," said Lai Wah Co, head of economic analysis at the CBI.
(18) The effects on the liver of WAH were very marked, as analysed by biochemical and histological techniques.
(19) Visceral organs tolerated heating to less than 43 degrees C by WAH alone.