(n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
(n.) Destruction; death.
(n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
(n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
(v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) They want government to listen to their message, but ignore counter arguments coming from campaigners, such as environmentalists, who have long been the bane of commercial lobbyists.
(2) 1-26 August, 1.30pm, Assembly Rooms, £10 Jane Bom-Bane Musical mechanical hat woman.
(3) By the end of the 1960s he had a considerable reputation as a novelist (his first, Charade, drawing on his Crown Film Unit experience, and unrelated to the movie, appeared in 1947) and playwright, and had played an important role in the abolition of the death penalty and the passage of the Theatres Act, which saw off that bane of the British stage, the Lord Chamberlain's power of censorship – not that his own work had ever been in danger from this quarter.
(4) They argue that an elected mayor is chosen by everyone, not just the councillors from the largest political group (37 Tories in Banes’s case).
(5) On 10 March the citizens of Bath and north-east Somerset (Banes) will get to vote in a referendum on whether they should be given the chance to elect their equivalent of London’s mayor, Boris Johnson.
(6) The ruling Tory party in Banes, along with the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Greens, have all united against.
(7) Predictably perhaps, Steve Jobs was ahead of the game when he said in 2010 at the launch of the iPad: “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” It is also reasonable to conclude that performing arts will no longer be the bane of parents who have traditionally told their artistic kids to “get a proper job”.
(8) Airbnb is a website that's fast becoming the bane of the hotel industry.
(9) Microbial infection of a corneal transplant is a complication that is a bane to all corneal surgeons, the sequelae of which can be devastating.
(10) As well as Forrest Bondurant in Lawless , the 34-year-old has played a number of men not to be messed with: the eponymous scourge of the British prison system in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2008 film Bronson ; a martial arts fighter in last year's Warrior ; and most recently the bull-necked villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises .
(11) Then there's the problem of English-speaking actors doing German accents, the bane of movies about the world wars since time immemorial.
(12) Two years later, a New York Times article noted: "Get-rich-quick and gambling was the bane of our life before the smash"; they were also what caused the "smash" itself in 1929.
(13) Reduction of P(p) temporarily arrested venous outflow since P(ve) < P(vne) < P(bane) for 30 sec.
(14) These data suggest that the cardioplegic baneful effect on cardiac function might be lost in the first 24 hours after surgery.
(15) They say the role would not work in a place like Banes, which is part-urban but also very rural.
(16) You overlook this and other absurdities because Bane is an entertaining villain.
(17) MTC has been shown to bind reversibly to the colchicine binding site of tubulin and to inhibit microtubule assembly in vitro (Andreu et al: Biochemistry 23:1742-1752, 1984; Bane et al: J. Biol.
(18) There's a great bit where they imagine a studio lackey asking Tom Hardy to make his Bane voice clearer on the set of The Dark Knight Rises ("Tom?
(19) Bane Case for : The Batman super-villain has been known to cause chaos at football games.
(20) Analysis of the early post-operative mortality causes and of the various post-operative myocardic complications did not reveal any baneful influence of this myocardic protection method.
Rot
Definition:
(v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
(v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
(v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
(n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
(n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
(n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(2) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(3) The evidence suggests that this isozyme is not necessary for soft-rot pathogenesis.
(4) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
(5) Bundesliga in 1997 when his team Rot-Weiss Essen was relegated," writes Matthias Gläfke.
(6) The antibiotic is effective in control of cucumber root rot under hydroponic cultivation conditions.
(7) Partly ROT arises from aversion of healthy people to very severe decay.
(8) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(9) Yvonne Roberts: Mea culpa is journalism's dry rot You are right, Lucy, the best confessional writing has a universal truth.
(10) cereanus are also frequently recovered from the rotting tissue being utilized by the Drosophila species, the interactions described here are viewed as a possible adaptation in which the yeast provides benefits to one of its vectors by metabolism of 2-propanol in the habitat.
(11) In preparations stained by congo-rot and covered with arabic gumm amyloid deposits reveal intensive, positive bi refringement, collagen is isotrop, or shows a mild bi refringement.
(12) Extensive metabolism of AT to CO2 by the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (approximately 60% in 30 days) was also demonstrated.
(13) Liverpool still do not look convincing top-four candidates but at least the rot has been stopped.
(14) In 22 mildly deteriorated elderly patients the total score on a reality orientation questionnaire improved after 3 months ROT.
(15) Differences between the pathogen and nonpathogen suggest that regulation of pectate lyase synthesis is related to pathogenicity of soft-rot bacteria.
(16) Fetal hypothalamic-pituitary ROT does not seem to play any part in parturition.
(17) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(18) When we came the first time we found her trying to cook two slices of rotting apple in a saucepan,” said Valentina.
(19) The difference in washout-efficacy between Pap and Rot on the inhibition of 40-K induced tension was ascribed to a difference in their mitochondrial binding properties.
(20) Two hundred sheep were included in the study, 100 with detectable foot rot lesions and 100 without.