(n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
(v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(2) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(3) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(4) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(5) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(6) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(7) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(8) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(9) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(10) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
(11) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(12) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
(13) In girls and boys, the mean concentration of both gonadotropins increased with advancing puberty.
(14) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(15) I’ve been at United ever since I was a little boy and I had a great time there.
(16) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(17) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(18) Boys performed better than girls, and older children were more accurate than younger ones.
(19) The crus has been elongation 8 cm by Ilizarov method in 9 years old boy and 5 cm elongation of the tibia has been achieved with the use of Bastiani method in 8 years old girl.
(20) The boy also said Waqar would call him names including “paedo”.
Las
Definition:
(n.) A lace. See Lace.
(a. & adv.) Less.
Example Sentences:
(1) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(2) "We expect LSCBs [local safeguarding children boards], LAs [local authorities] police forces and other agencies to do all they can to identify victims and abusers and we are looking at how we can improve data-sharing."
(3) Racing was heavily hit, with meetings at Ffos Las, Sandown and Wetherby cancelled.
(4) To assess the value of laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) in childhood, we prospectively compared 14 LAs with 50 open appendectomies (OA) over 6 months in a single children's hospital.
(5) The results obtained provided direct evidence for the notion that: LAs interact preferentially with inactivated Na+ channels and stabilize their inactivated conformation ("drug-induced slow inactivation": SI); and SI underlies the cumulative inhibition of INa during repetitive membrane stimulation.
(6) Moderate maternal toxicity was observed among mice treated with LAS, 0.3% and mild maternal toxicity in rats receiving LAS 3% or soap 30% and rabbits receiving LAS 0.3%.
(7) When Contostavlos wanted to stay an extra night at the luxury Las Vegas hotel, he told the court, his editors vetoed it.
(8) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
(9) With time and sufficient promotion by pH fluctuations or metal-complexing agents, DIP and LAS expand.
(10) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
(11) Moments later, Deputy Chief Tom Roberts, of Las Vegas Metro, defused the situation by delivering the announcement that Cliven Bundy's cattle would be returned within 30 minutes.
(12) The lymph nodes of patients with LAS were mostly stage I with marked follicular hyperplasia.
(13) Forty were lactose malabsorbers (LMs) and 31 were absorbers (LAs), according to a standard oral lactose tolerance test.
(14) Thirteen patients affected with unexplained lymphoadenopathy, fever, weight loss, and diarrhea (lymphoadenopathy syndrome; LAS) were evaluated for the possible appearance of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and for immunological and virological characterization.
(15) Detectable levels of both cytokines were found in 34% of ASY and LAS patients and only rarely were detectable in ARC and AIDS patients.
(16) The possibility to correlate the latter findings with a better knowledge of LAS evolution and prognosis is discussed.
(17) The purpose of the present study was to propose an alternative measurement process which addresses some of the existing problems by estimating the lost attachment surface area (LAS) and the remaining attachment surface area (RAS) from a combination of clinical measurements.
(18) Antibody titres against the viral proteins also seemed to be highest in cases with LAS.
(19) Receptor autophosphorylation determined using Triton X-100 extracts of the fibroblasts was decreased in LA1 and LA3, but normal in LA2 and LAS.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.