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Bourd


Definition:

  • (n.) A jest.
  • (v. i.) To jest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It may consist merely of a dull cramp, or of an "undefinable" (C. Bourde) odd, heavy leg.

Bourn


Definition:

  • (v.) Alt. of Bourne
  • (n.) Alt. of Bourne

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bourne has produced statistical evidence to show that family docotrs are astonishingly reluctant to know or remember anything about the patient who has had a stillbirth.
  • (2) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
  • (3) The new school opened nine years later with £2m from the sponsor – the late Sir Clive Bourne, a local self-made man who prospered from freight shipping – new premises designed by an award-winning architect, new pupils and teachers, nearly all young enough to be able and willing to work, albeit for enhanced pay, the punishing hours that Wilshaw demands.
  • (4) The Iowa PK Press is more versatile than the Bourne Press in terms of the potential range of diameter of corneal buttons that can be created.
  • (5) David Olley, a hospital chef who has lived his whole life in nearby Bourne, reported seeing St Peter's Pool running dry for the first time he can remember.
  • (6) Additional and more sensitive diagnostic procedures are evaluated like computer tomography, the simple Bourne-test and a radioisotopic test.
  • (7) Nevertheless, the opening of the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bourne-mouth in 1965 has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of chiropractors in Britain.
  • (8) Although Bourne says he is “confident that the programme will save money for the taxpayer” a separate evaluation concludes that it was impossible to prove that any reductions in spending on services for targeted families were attributable to the programme or other factors.
  • (9) "I just don't know anyone who is really informed who thinks this is a good idea," said Professor John Bourne, who led the decade-long trial.
  • (10) These results suggest that GTP enhances pregnenolone synthesis by promoting the movement of cholesterol to the steroidogenic pool, consistent with a recently proposed general role for GTP in some vectorial transport processes (Bourne, H. R. (1988) Cell 53, 669-671).
  • (11) (Bourne End, Buckinghamshire) Michael Gordon Williamson.
  • (12) Second, UV mutagenesis of E. coli chromosomal glyU was found to be recF independent while UV mutagenesis of M13-bourne glyU was recF dependent.
  • (13) "That's why I take my hat off to Matt, you know, going from John Bourne to this.
  • (14) Richard Bourne Senior research fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
  • (15) Watch here This leaves the McBusted lineup slightly lopsided, with Dougie Poynter, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Harry Judd repping for McFly, and only Matt Willis and James Bourne around to inject some of Busted's inimitable aesthetic.
  • (16) With increase in airway pressure from combined changes in compliance and resistance, the internal compliance of the Bournes was lowest and the internal compliance of the Emerson was highest.
  • (17) The actor will be seen next on the big screen in sci-fi outings Oblivion , for Tron's Joseph Kosinski, and All You Need Is Kill , for The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman.
  • (18) That is true in the case of the beak, in relation with the swimming system which had been already observed by Marshall and Bourne (1964).
  • (19) The contamination of semiclosed disposable circuits of Healthdyne and Bourns ventilators was studied in a newborn intensive care unit over a 2-year period.
  • (20) This has its dangers: film-maker Paul Greengrass, who directed two of the Bourne spy movies, accused Bond of being “a misogynist, an old-fashioned imperialist” – a view that has wide currency, and one that the Bond franchise itself has tried to redress by reconfiguring the Craig-era 007 as a damaged, emotionally troubled individual.

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