(n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
(n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bogged down in the daily details of governing, renewing the vision after years in power seems beyond the social democrats.
(2) "I don't want to get too bogged down in it, but the thing is, I haven't taught my son a fraction of what he's taught me.
(3) Stay focused on the “why”, suggests Turner, “and don’t get bogged down in the ‘how’.
(4) He told the Question Time audience that he made a mistake by getting "bogged down" in an argument about the different types of rape, admitting that his comments about the differences between "serious, proper rapes" and others had "obviously upset a lot of people".
(5) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
(6) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
(7) "We could be forever caught up in NHS politics, get bogged down and be left with an uncertain future," said Bridge.
(8) New descriptions of three species and one subspecies of larvae of T. semenovi Ols., T. regularis Jaenn., T. laetetinctus laetetinctus Beck., and T. l. sordes Bog.
(9) But Heathrow’s new sustainability plan suggests other ways to offset the leap in emissions, including by restoring British peat bogs.
(10) Others took hold when peat bogs dried for agricultural use self-ignited, burning underground.
(11) She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions.
(12) Among the substances discovered in bog-standard foodstuffs was the pesticide Chlorpyrifos, in some cases exceeding "safe" limits; DDT in 25% of fish and burger samples, and pesticides in 96% of flour tested, meaning there are residues in bread.
(13) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(14) The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains is currently searching for another missing man , the former Belfast monk Joe Lynskey, who they believe was buried in the same Oristown bog as Megraw.
(15) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
(16) I call these bog-standard homes because you can see the toilet from the street.
(17) But I don't want to get bogged down in the issue of audiences and social content systems.
(18) Or if a former Tory politician writes a comment piece saying feminists should not get so bogged down in fights about identity, she will be told to check her privilege.
(19) A lot of the NGOs over there are doing great work and a lot of them are bogged down by the bureaucracy of a huge organisation.
(20) They were uncovered in a drainage ditch on the bog near the town of Kells.
Dunny
Definition:
(a.) Deaf; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diploid number of M. dunni is also 40, but each autosome possesses a short, heterochromatic second arm.
(2) These results are taken to indicate the presence in the genomes of P. cinereus and P. dunni of evolutionarily stable "common" repetitive sequences.
(3) Each aspect has been considered in relation to the substantial difference in genome size between P. cinereus (C = 20 pg), P. vehiculum (C = 36.8 pg) and P. dunni (C = 38.8 pg).
(4) A 25-kb region of the plasmid (designated TRA) was shown previously to determine pheromone response and conjugation functions required for transfer of pCF10 between S. faecalis cells (P. J. Christie and G. M. Dunny, Plasmid 15:230-241, 1986).
(5) sp., parasites of Malaysian Vespertilioninae, and of Allintoschius dunni n.
(6) This banded grain pattern can be seen in all Mus species observed, but in M. dunni it is most exaggerated.
(7) In situ hybridization of the same sequences to meiotic chromosomes from P. dunni gave autoradiographs after 60 d exposure in which all chromosomes were labelled.
(8) Mus dunni and M. booduga are sympatric in many localities in India, but they can be separated by karyological and subtle morphological differences.
(9) Nadine Dorries "the suspended member for Mid Bedfordshire" – titter ye not – has not yet achieved her stated aim of encouraging a discussion about abortion or the nasty Lib Dems while emptying the dunny.
(10) Mus musculus x Mus cervicolor cervicolor hybrids failed to complete more than a few cleavage divisions but both M. musculus x M. dunni and M. musculus x M. caroli hybrids completed preimplantation development.
(11) In the accompanying paper (S.-M. Kao, S. B. Olmsted, A. S. Viksnins, J.C. Gallo, G. M. Dunny, J. Bacteriol, 173:7650-7664, 1991), the sequence of the prgB gene encoding the AS molecule (Asc10) produced by pheromone-induced cells carrying plasmid pCF10 is presented.
(12) About 5% of the 125I-repetitive fraction hybridized with a large excess of DNA from P. dunni at Cot 20.
(13) The heterochromatic short arms of the autosomes in M. dunni finish DNA replication earlier than many areas in the euchromatic long arms and the heterochromatin of the sex chromosomes.
(14) The cinereus--dunni common repetitive sequences could not be detected in plethodontids belonging to different tribes, nor in more distantly related amphibians.
(15) Five of the mouse types were subspecies of Mus musculus, the others were M. cervicolor, M. dunni and M. caroli.
(16) The thymidine analog, 2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (D4T), and 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) were evaluated for activity against Friend virus complex (FV) in Mus dunni cells using a focal immunoenzyme assay.
(17) In addition, we provide evidence here and in the accompanying paper (S. B. Olmsted, S.-M. Kao, L. J. van Putte, J. C. Gallo, and G. M. Dunny, J. Bacteriol.
(18) Chromomere distribution is the same for lampbrush chromosomes from all 3 species, and since P. vehiculum and P. dunni have longer chromosomes than P. cinereus, it is clear that the former 2 species have many more chromomeres (60-70%) per haploid set of lampbrush chromosomes.
(19) The results indicated that even when barriers to viral entry were bypassed, mouse NIH 3T3 cells and Dunni cells still showed a marked reduction in number of cells expressing HIV compared with the human cells studied, although the intensity of immunostaining of individual positive mouse cells was indistinguishable from that seen on permissive human cell lines.
(20) This deleted virus was biologically cloned by limiting dilutions and single cell cloning in Mus dunni fibroblasts.