(adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
(adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
() An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.
(n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
Example Sentences:
(1) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
(2) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(3) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
(4) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(5) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(6) First, contact your school, even if you are no longer a student there, recommends Ben Morse, head of Year 13 at the Piggott school, Reading.
(7) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
(8) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(9) The culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, added: "If [the digital economy bill] gets on to the statute books it will be with the co-operation of the opposition party and hopefully the Liberal Democrats and others too.
(10) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(11) Netanyahu 'told New Zealand backing UN vote would be declaration of war' Read more “What secretary Kerry will be doing is he will give a speech in which he lays out a comprehensive vision for how we see the conflict being resolved – where we see things in 2016 as we unfortunately conclude our term in office without there being significant progress toward peace,” the deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, told Israel’s Channel 2 television.
(12) Nor is Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, like Ben Ali.
(13) "Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dali," Obama's campaign spokesman, Ben LaBolt, emailed reporters.
(14) Ben Arfa does everything right again, apart from his finish.
(15) Aiyenugba duly saved Ben Frej's effort as Enyimba prevailed 5-3 and retained their crown.
(16) "A good game will have the expected progression at the end of each level, but it will also provide surprise rewards halfway through," says Ben Weedon, a consultant at PlayableGames, a company that carries out usability testing on new titles before they're released.
(17) Among more than 10,000 patients presenting to the Ben Taub Emergency Center over an 11-year period with thoracic injuries, 100 had clinical or radiographic clues suggestive of blunt trauma decelerative injury to the great vessels.
(18) Hunt joined culture secretary Ben Bradshaw in criticising the BBC Trust, the corporation's regulatory and governance body, saying viewers and listeners needed something that would better represent them.
(19) On the day Fahmy met the Guardian, one of the committee's working groups had just decided to alter the "start date" of their enquiries – moving it from 14 January, the day the Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from office, back to June 2010 when the Alexandrian youth Khaled Said was killed in broad daylight by two police officers, an incident that mobilised many Egyptians against the Mubarak regime.
(20) BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, issued a statement announcing that Benny Johnson, the viral politics editor, had been sacked, and apologising to users of the site.
Setting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Set
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
(n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
(n.) Something set in, or inserted.
(n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(5) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(6) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(7) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(8) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(9) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(10) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(11) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(12) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(13) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(14) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(15) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
(16) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(18) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(19) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(20) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.