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Bowery


Definition:

  • (a.) Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
  • (n.) A farm or plantation with its buildings.
  • (a.) Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis of the patient population of a small storefront clinic on the Bowery of New York City has revealed the emergence of a new category of Bowery residents consisting of young, generally White, schizophrenic men with little history of alcoholism.
  • (2) Frequency of visits to doctors by the Bowery men was comparable to that of the community men, and the Bowery men rated their health substantially better than did their counterparts of two decades ago.
  • (3) Baclofen is a specific agonist for GABAB receptors (Bowery et al., 1980).
  • (4) I met him briefly at a club with [mutual friend] Leigh Bowery, and then he took me to lunch at the River Cafe.
  • (5) Aston Villa: Guzan, Lowton, Baker, Vlaar, Bertrand, Westwood, Bacuna, Delph, Weimann, Bowery, Agbonlahor.
  • (6) I thought Andi was brilliant, his two goals were probably long overdue, I thought Bowery was excellent coming on and [Fabian] Delph and Westwood were outstanding.
  • (7) But it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999 and a National Historic Landmark since 2000, thus escaping the fate of the legendary CBGB on the Bowery, the “cradle of punk”, which closed in 2006, to be turned into an expensive boutique.
  • (8) Leigh Bowery and Freud had a mutually sustaining friendship that went on until just before the performance artist succumbed to an Aids-related illness at the end of 1994.
  • (9) He paid as much attention to the floorboards or the tangle of buddleia in the yard below as he would to a woman's belly, Leigh Bowery's feminine bulk, Bruce Bernard's stoic drunkard's poise, Lord Goodman's vanity, Sue the Benefits Supervisor's affected boredom.
  • (10) Tom Huddlestone lined up to shoot but instead released the unmarked Rosenior, whose low centre was diverted past Brad Guzan by the substitute Bowery.
  • (11) In this article, Norman Bowery discusses the evidence for heterogeneity of GABAB receptors, their possible physiological and pathological roles and the therapeutic potential of GABAB receptor agonists and antagonists.
  • (12) A total of 86 street-dwelling and 195 non-street-dwelling (177 flophouse-, 18 apartment-dwelling) men aged 50 and older on the Bowery in New York City were studied.
  • (13) The sample consisted of 195 nonstreet dwellers (177 residing in flophouses, 18 in apartments) and 86 street dwellers on the Bowery in New York City.
  • (14) This study utilized a homogeneous Bowery-patient population, treated in a comprehensive inpatient treatment and rehabilitation program, and attempted to assess differences among nonprofessional recovering alcoholic counselors.
  • (15) The amino acid, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), activates two different receptor types (Bowery et al., 1980; reviewed by Ogata, 1990a).
  • (16) She has put out a live album, Bowery Songs, which includes old protest numbers like Steve Earle's Christmas in Washington, and in March she will tour the UK.
  • (17) At the Bowery Ballroom over two nights, they veer from anthemic stadium rock into clipped pop into wobbling atmospherics, Healy's voice tripled through a vocoder mic to give the multi-tracked effect of the 90s R&B he loves.
  • (18) Bowery men scored worse than an aged-matched sample of community men on all physical health scales, with the greatest differences occurring in the respiratory, gastrointestinal, edema, hearing, hypertension, and ambulatory scales.
  • (19) Although Hull got back into the game when Jordan Bowery turned Liam Rosenior's cross into his own net, the visitors never looked like recovering from the double blow Weimann inflicted just before the interval.
  • (20) He said the Bowery Opportunity Fund required a minimum investment of $1m.

Dowery


Definition:

  • (n.) See Dower.

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