(n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
(n.) Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
(n.) Kind; bountiful; benign.
(n.) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
(n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(2) Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which organises the Oscars, has said she’s “heartbroken” by the lack of diversity and that AMPAS will be taking “dramatic steps” to adjust the balance of its membership to include more black and ethnic minority film-makers.
(3) Public disillusionment with mainstream parties following the expenses scandal could prove a boon, she claims.
(4) He was saying something I couldn’t remember what it was," Boone said.
(5) A dodgy brown pitch is a boon to England, isn't it?
(6) The awards were announced by Rush and Thor star Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
(7) Using the "paired-label" technique, described by Boone et al., approximatively 7.2.
(8) The shift out of agricultural jobs,” he writes, “while eventually a boon for virtually all of humanity, brought significant problems along the way.
(9) Representatives for the Academy didn’t immediately comment on Tuesday, but speaking to the New Yorker , Boone Isaacs said her initial feeling in the aftermath of the first best picture announcement was “horror”.
(10) The big change in Turkey has been seeing its turbulent past and physical location as a boon, rather than a bind, said Kalin.
(11) Apart from anything, there’s always been one or other or us going through major surgery.” Claire says having two new sisters has been a brilliant boon to her life.
(12) The Boon-Leigh procedure, involving condensation of a 6-chloro-5-nitropyrimidine (22) with an alpha-amino ketone (20 or 21) followed by reduction of the nitro group, cyclization, and L-glutamylation, led to the formation of 11-deazahomofolate (29) and its 10-methyl derivative (30).
(13) The molecular characterization of the first human cancer antigen recognized by CTL is now under way as outlined by Boon et al in this issue.
(14) Discussing the result, Martin Boon, of ICM Unlimited, said: “There is inevitably random variation between different polls, which generally falls within a ‘margin of error’ of plus or minus three points.
(15) But they are easy to miss amid the glut of MOR crooners – Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, Mel Torme, Frank Ifield yodeling his way through Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues – and the sound of the Joe Loss Orchestra.
(16) There is a case to be made against Trump that his populism is bullshit,” Favreau said, citing the nomination of billionaires and former Goldman Sachs executives to cabinet positions, which will be the wealthiest in US history, and moves to unravel the Dodd-Frank reform in a boon to Wall Street.
(17) In addition, community health centers create jobs and are a boon to local economies in communities that are often struggling.
(18) Disused rail lines may be reopened – or new ones commissioned – if the climate change that raises Britain's summer temperatures also proves a boon for domestic tourism.
(19) And they took him by each arm and by each leg and laid him down on the table and the fifth one strapped him in.” Neither Workman nor Boone could remember the name of the man who resisted.
(20) Clomiphene citrate has been a boon to womankind and deserves the confidence of both patient and physician: it is a drug with a record of utility and with but minor risks.
Carefree
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(2) All I wanted to know was that this was not a hereditary disease – partly, I suppose, because I was so young and carefree and optimistic.
(3) It's hard to think of a musician who better represents the " gringo " vision of carefree, swinging 1960s Rio than Jorge Ben Jor, who back then wrote a slew of jazzy, swinging sambas and bossas, many of which are now considered Brazilian standards.
(4) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
(5) Since the extravert is the more sociable, excitement-seeking, carefree individual, while the introvert is more retiring, aloof and introspective, it would be worthwhile in future research to determine whether the dominance, vs. submissive or the high vs. low status dimension is the essential correlate of these spatial differences.
(6) One way or another the hosts were under a great deal of pressure, playing at home, staging a tournament under a security alert, attempting to live up to their status among the favourites, while their opponents could afford to be relatively carefree.
(7) Inside the houses lived middle-class perfection: a carefree existence, overwhelmingly white – Beulah was an African-American maid.
(8) Don't know about you, but I hate the carefree for that.
(9) There were silly, big-salary choices, to be sure, and the press was full of merry stories about O'Toole's wildness, his drinking and his carefree attitude.
(10) Frantzesco Kangaris for The Guardian So we began clicking and snapping, to see where our thinking hands would take us, as the mood shifted from carefree play to competitive panic, with the thought that someone else might take all the corner pieces you needed before you’d completed your Mayan ziggurat of doom.
(11) I didn’t respond to the call to be a priest to have a carefree life, an easy life.
(12) They’re entitled to a carefree youth, I always thought, and I didn’t want to be spreading bitterness and hate.
(13) "I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous – in my opinion, anyway," said Hamill.
(14) He has tried very hard to look like this group that he really idolises – young, attractive, social, carefree."
(15) The PIL was shown to be a reliable and valid instrument and correlated significantly and positively with measures of the self-concept, self-esteem, internal locus of control, and two EPI scales: Plans and Organizes Things and Carefree.
(16) There in high-concept miniature are all the dilemmas of virtually every freakout comedy: married thirtysomething or carefree flirtysomething?
(17) My favourite summer memory is not from childhood, but from arguably an even happier, more carefree time – more than a decade ago, when I was a teenager.
(18) Warner went on to make a scintillating, carefree 112, which is 99 more runs than he would have made had Matt Prior not missed stumping him off Graeme Swann when 13.
(19) These new communities were meant to recreate the feel, if not the scale, of an earlier form of the American myth – the small town – where everyone is a good neighbour and lives an innocent, carefree life.
(20) The only question is, how will this couple fit in all those holidays with all the carefree fun they're having?