(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.
Ret
Definition:
(v. t.) See Aret.
(v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rearrangement was presumed to be responsible for activation of the ret gene.
(2) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
(3) Although lidocaine and mexiletine increased RET, procainamide and disopyramide did not.
(4) With low grade astrocytomas, survival beyond 4 years was significantly worse (higher death rates) in the group receiving more than 1400 rets.
(5) Striking similarities were found between the functional pathways affected differentially by RET stimulation and well-defined cholinergic pathways which originate in the midbrain tegmentum.
(6) Oxipurinol plasma levels and plasma elimination half-life were investigated in five healthy volunteers after oral administration of 300 mg allopurinol in customary (A 300) and in slow-release preparation (A ret) in a double blind cross-over study.
(7) The nucleotide sequence indicates that the active ret transforming gene encodes a fusion protein with a carboxy-terminal domain which is 40 to 50% homologous to members of the tyrosine kinase gene family.
(8) But neither option from Dick’s report is closing down the RET, to be clear.” Abbott has previously blamed the RET for having a “significant impact” on power prices, although the Warburton report found this wasn’t the case.
(9) The remaining 6 patients suffered from prominent swallowing disturbances and their initial postoperative RETS demonstrated prolonged defective transit or the presence of gastroesophageal (GE) reflux.
(10) NBD-cholesterol linoleate (NBD-CL) and octadecyl rhodamine B (R18) were incorporated simultaneously into LDL, as a RET donor and a RET acceptor, respectively.
(11) The plan would overcome the effect of falling electricity demand on the real impact of the RET.
(12) RET-P1 and lectin binding did not always correspond in developing retina, indicating that at least part of the observed lectin label must be due to other glycoproteins or glycolipids.
(13) The review concedes this, and changed the rationale it used to argue in favour of getting rid of the RET.
(14) We have investigated the pH-dependent interaction between large unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) and membrane vesicles derived from Bacillus subtilis, utilizing a fluorescent assay based on resonance energy transfer (RET) (Struck, D. K., Hoekstra, D., and Pagano, R. E. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 4093-4099).
(15) A vigorous defence of the RET, run by the Solar Council, is targeting the 20 most marginal Coalition electorates in the country.
(16) The RET is working – it has helped triple solar and wind energy since 2009, led to some $18bn in investment and grown jobs in the sector by more than 250%” said John Connor, chief executive of the Climate Institute.
(17) The pneumonitis was more frequently noted with increasing rets dose in both age groups (n.s.)
(18) The ret proto-oncogene shows a pattern of expression restricted to neuroendocrine tissue.
(19) In all the patients included in this study, dosage had exceded 1,600 rets.
(20) Immunoprecipitation with anti-phosphotyrosine antibody followed by Western blotting revealed that p57retTPC is constitutively phosphorylated, whereas the ret proto-oncogene products are not.