(n.) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
(n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.
(n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.
Example Sentences:
(1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(2) While Discovery has not made a major acquisition in the UK, aside from a relatively small investment to takeover Betty, the independent producer that makes shows including The Undateables , Zaslav is not afraid to make big bets when the opportunity presents itself.
(3) Betty was put in charge of health education and community medicine.
(4) Betty Williams , Mairead Corrigan and John Hume deserve consideration.
(5) I am sure that Catherine Shoard realises that Betty is probably a very friendly pony ( Opinion , 4 February).
(6) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
(7) Channel 4's Ugly Betty had 500,000 viewers, a 5% share, between 10.35pm and 11.35, with another 42,000 on Channel 4 +1.
(8) They are up against Sarah Lancashire (Betty Blue Eyes), Scarlett Strallen ( Singin' in the Rain ) and Kate Fleetwood (London Road).
(9) Next month marks the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique , Betty Friedan's hugely influential study that helped to spark that pervasive second wave of feminism that – for all its faults and stuttering incompleteness – shaped the western world as most of us know it today.
(10) "[However], it becomes logical that if your ideas sell well it would be silly not to look at the footprint [of Betty]."
(11) Cited author searches were conducted in Nursing Citation Index to determine its utility in locating clinical studies that apply the conceptual frameworks of Dorothea Orem, Callista Roy, Martha Rogers, Betty Neuman, and Dorothy Johnson.
(12) Born to a white Dublin girl, Betty McGrath, and a Nigerian father who disappeared soon after his conception, Paul was given up by his traumatised mother when he was only four weeks old.
(13) When Public Enemy were starting out, he consulted Black Power veterans such as Huey Newton, Malcolm X’s widow Betty Shabazz and the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan.
(14) Taylor was probably the most famous star to be treated for alcohol and drug abuse problems at the Betty Ford clinic in California.
(15) The show was left with a final cast of Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden, plus a genuine BBC announcer, Douglas Smith, who had somehow become an essential part of the series.
(16) The report charges Mr Clinton with lying about his conversations with his friend Vernon Jordan concerning Ms Lewinsky, and with trying to obstruct justice by attempting to influence the grand jury testimony of his secretary Betty Currie.
(17) And it used to be where young, middle-class Detroiters like Betty Booth, wearing their Sunday best, would come for weekend outings.
(18) You know, sweet little British labels such as Mulberry, Betty Jackson, Whistles – labels that pretty much bellow, "Nothing to fear her!
(19) This paper describes the introduction of the Betty Neuman Systems Model to fourth year baccalaureate students at the University of Ottawa School of Nursing, Canada.
(20) The family moved to the Crank with their three daughters, Betty then eight, Petra seven, and Joan, the youngest, three.
Pear
Definition:
(n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
Example Sentences:
(1) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
(2) This protein was not present in extracts from pears or apples.
(3) The pearly skin of these subjects becomes more translucent and the detail extra-perfect.
(4) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(5) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
(6) Computer taxonomic studies using the nucleotide and inferred amino acid sequence of the MOMP of C. pneumoniae IOL-207 and all known chlamydial MOMP sequences supported the designation of C. pneumoniae as a new species, but electron microscope studies suggested that the presence of pear-shaped elementary bodies (EBs) may not be a reliable taxonomic criterion.
(7) On admission, she had an asymmetrical pear-shaped tumor in the right supraclavicular region and severe hypercalcemia.
(8) Adsorption with extracts from apples and pears had no such effect.
(9) Boiling of spinach, pears, grapes, tomatoes, and wheat, treated with different EBDCs, resulted in 3-30% conversion to ETU.
(10) The stenosis appeared to be caused by a specific change in the pattern of growth leading up to an anterior narrowing ('pear'-like) of the cricoid ring and a conspicuous thickening of the subepithelial layer.
(11) The "startle response" ap peared earlier in the experimental ani mals, as did the development and re sponse of the electroencephalogram to novel stimuli.
(12) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
(13) I was a dancing Fury; I'm told that Peter Pears came but I never saw him."
(14) Such a pear-like geometrical figure is, in fact, formed spontaneously by DNA collapsed under certain conditions in vitro (Eickbush & Moudrianakis, 1978).
(15) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
(16) They were amacrine cells with a pear-shaped soma and dendrites distributed in 3 sublayers within the inner plexiform layer.
(17) We are talking about apples and pears when we compare the two.
(18) Children's author Allan Ahlberg, the mind behind much-loved titles Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum, has turned down a lifetime achievement award because it is sponsored by Amazon and the idea that his success "should have the Amazon tag attached to it is unacceptable".
(19) These axon endings are supposed to belong to afferent climbing fibers of cerebellum stimulating differentiation of pear-shaped neurons, localization of these fibers causing a certain succession in the development of perisomatic processes.
(20) The trichorhinopharyngeal (TRP) syndrome type I (Giedion, 1966) is characterized clinically by craniofacial dysmorphism with sparse hair, pear-shaped nose and long philtrum, and abnormalities of the extremities (disabling deformities of the hands and feet).