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Bane


Definition:

  • (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.

Vane


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
  • (n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
  • (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
  • (n.) One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One significant concern involves the rotary vane aspirators used to provide the suction required for the procedure.
  • (2) Indicators for use of variable-width multi-vane electron arc collimators include the following: (1) Mechanical constraints of the therapy equipment may limit the placement of isocenter to an inadequate depth which causes large variation in the SSD around the arc; (2) Out of the central plane, the shape of the chest wall may change dramatically across the limits of the arc, creating large variations in the dose distribution; (3) Clinical definition of the treatment surface to include surgical scars or other at-risk volume may create an irregularly shaped treatment surface, thereby changing the fraction of the arc included in the treatment surface from one plane to the next.
  • (3) The appendages consist of a delicate bilateral vane 2 mum wide on either side of the axis, composed of extremely fine overlapping or interwoven fibrils.
  • (4) As a result, they presented such symptoms as abnormality in the vane of remiges, undergrowth, anemia, and leg paralysis.
  • (5) Experimental studies also showed that the vanes of the bolt (arrow) may be a source of trace material found in the wound.
  • (6) Biologically active substances circulating in the blood after administration of noradrenaline (NA) into the left lateral brain ventricle of the dog were detected using the blood bathed organ technique of Vane.
  • (7) Innovative techniques in motion control technology have been applied to the design and implementation of a portable computer-controlled multi-vane collimator for use in electron arc therapy.
  • (8) In the first animal experiment using nonoptimized vanes, there was no thrombus at the back plane or the seal, and only a small thrombus at the transition between axle and rotor.
  • (9) Both mathematic computation of velocity distribution in the impeller and geometric illustration of the velocity triangle at the top of the vane have demonstrated that the peripheral velocity variation of blood cells in a twisted impeller will be less than that in an untwisted impeller.
  • (10) His father, Samuel, was a lay preacher and art metal worker, who designed a weather-vane for one of the civic buildings in Blackpool.
  • (11) The background was either a static homogeneous disk, a flickered homogeneous disk, a static radially-vaned disk, or a rotating vaned disk, all of equivalent space- and time-averaged luminance.
  • (12) Rabbit aortic strips were arranged in a Vane's cascade and superfused with Krebs buffer which contained phenylephrine hydrochloride (100 nM) and indomethacin (5 microM).
  • (13) The key to the question is to design a three-dimensional impeller with twisted vanes, compacted by an axial helical spiral and a radial logarithmic spiral so as to reduce the turbulent shear in the pump as the impeller changes its rotations per minute periodically to generate a physiologic pulsatile flow.
  • (14) Vane's hypothesis is supported by this study of PG induced experimental arthritis.
  • (15) With adequate dosage, there may even be a slight increase in diastolic pressure, an effect eventually vaning in chronic therapy.
  • (16) The coronary effluent was continuously bioassayed for prostaglandin-like substances (PLS) using the cascade technique of Vane.
  • (17) His weather vane politics are not in the national interest.
  • (18) To reduce the effects of backstreaming oil from the vacuum system, a turbomolecular pump backed by a two-stage rotary vane pump was connected to the drying-coating chamber.
  • (19) Vanee Vines, an NSA spokeswoman, declined to comment on Monday on the Wyden-Udall letter.
  • (20) The effect of such vanes was studied in videographic and ultrasound studies.

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