(n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
(2) But yesterday the Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997, despite a promise by Gordon Brown in opposition of a "bonfire of the quangos".
(3) They had a sprawling back garden on two tiers and with a steep bank down to the main road below; this was where the big bonfire used to burn.
(4) Jim Docking, Betchworth, Surrey Any answers Why is it a "bonfire", rather than plain "fire"?
(5) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
(6) It was published this week in response to freedom of information requests and immediately caused a stir with its controversial call for a bonfire of traditional employee rights.
(7) The bonfire of red tape is a surprisingly modest conflagration, which the (mainly industry-funded) potato people will survive.
(8) I said to Ben-David: ‘Enough!’ I got into the car and suddenly I saw a huge bonfire and understood the meaning.
(9) Any witness in any proceeding – proper judicial, or quasi judicial – is unlikely to throw any fuel on that particular bonfire.
(10) At least, that’s what I tell myself as I light another cigarette off the bonfire I made from burning all my daughter’s sexist toys.
(11) The " bonfire of the quangos " saw the Food Standards Agency severely cut and stripped of responsibility for food quality.
(12) It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU.
(13) Labour made him head of the Homes and Communities Agency; the Tories, evidently impressed by such a bonfire of public assets, made him their permanent secretary for communities and local government.
(14) With Halloweeen and Bonfire night behind us, the countdown to Christmas has truly started.
(15) One issue is the lack of a single voice for cycling issues in government after Cycling England was abolished in April in the "bonfire of the quangos".
(16) Chief among these, according to Labour, was Cameron's threat, if elected, to burn, in a "bonfire of quangos", Ofcom, which is conducting the review of pay television vehemently opposed by the substantially Murdoch-owned BSkyB.
(17) They have been placed on the bonfire of austerity, a necessary sacrifice, and as they burn, we warm our hands.
(18) Tories David Cameron said that the media regulator will be stripped of its policy-making functions, which will be returned to the government, as part of his "bonfire of the quangos".
(19) The leader of the Greens, Christine Milne, said she was concerned the so-called “regulation bonfire” contained some “very bitter pills” including changes to environmental protections.
(20) In fairness to Cameron, he understands this and disowns the "bonfire" phrase as simplistic.
Nul
Definition:
(a.) No; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort.
Example Sentences:
(1) recently, TALAMO discovered a subject whose serum contained no alpha-1-antitrypsin; this was the first case of total deficiency, and the patient carried a double dose of the so-called Pi--allele (Pi nul).
(2) The subunits of terminase, gpNul and gpA, are the products of genes Nul and A.
(3) In such case, the left hemisphere assumed to be dominant for awareness of body and space would receive from the right hemisphere a message interpreted as nul and would neglect information coming from the left.
(4) Pefloxacin had a sieving coefficient of 0.42 and a clearance of 6.8 ml min-1 when Qdi was nul.
(5) One note of warning: despite the historic strength of the Viking Empire bloc, Noway has finished last on 10 previous occasions, once achieving the dreaded nul points.
(6) The synthesis of genes Nul and A products is extremely efficient upon derepression.
(7) Correlation between observers was practically nul for ASP and was poor for LDC.
(8) The 11 low grade lymphomas were all of B cell origin, whereas the 14 high grade lymphomas comprised B and T cell tumours, true histiocytic proliferations, and one "nul" cell lymphoid neoplasm.
(9) Witness Jemini (the UK's first nul points), Scooch, Love City Groove etc etc.
(10) BVe of beef proved to be equal to BVp, and C was close to nul.
(11) The results from this study suggest that the large nul cell lymphocyte population seen in patients with Shigella dysentery, does contain a sub-population of cells that will respond in vitro to thymopoietin, a bovine thymic extract, by increased E-rosette formation.
(12) The results are good for 16 patients, nul for 2 patients and we observed 2 complications.
(13) The inflammatory response of the ascitic fluid in the different variants of AFI was gradual, being lower in BP and nul in BA.
(14) Statistical analysis did not allow to establish the optimal number to be taken at a single procedure but it showed that the probability of obtaining the diagnosis in sarcoidosis was 2.6% at the first specimen taken, while in fibrosis it was nul at the first and at the second specimen.
(15) The phase lead is higher for the VOR than for the CL-VCR (40 degrees and 32 degrees respectively at 0.03 Hz), but both phases also become nul around 1 Hz.
(16) The responsible mutation, ohm1, alters the 40th codon of the Nul reading frame.
(17) A unilateral verrucous lesion with clinical characteristics of nevus unius lateralis (NUL) in an 18-year-old boy, showed histopathological features of intraepidermal basaloid cell formation simulating superficial basal cell epitheliomas.
(18) The effect of Bordetella pertussis adjuvant on the immune response of protein deficient mice seems nul.
(19) The sti30 mutation causes a approximately 50-fold increase in the level of expression of a Nul-lacZ reporter gene, indicating that the sti30 mutation overcomes the gp1 inhibition by increasing the level of expression of gpNul.
(20) The much less than Quantigen T and B Cell Assay much greater than method is used to evaluate T and B lymphocyte levels, Nuls Cells and monocytes in the peripheral venous blood of patients surgically treated for breast cancer.