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Bum


Definition:

  • (n.) The buttock.
  • (v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.
  • (n.) A humming noise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (3) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
  • (4) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
  • (5) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (6) "All those vuvuzuelas must be interfering with Cha Bum-Kun's ability to remote control his robot creation - er, son - Cha Du-ri," suggests Angela K, a South Korean expat in the US.
  • (7) Little Baby Bum is also exploring the potential of getting its content onto connected televisions.
  • (8) Fact is they are fooling the fans fighting all these bums on the back of my name to hype his fights and profile saying I’m running scared.” Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) made but enough of the insults.
  • (9) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
  • (10) But non-gaming children’s channels are also popular: the biggest channel on YouTube in October was toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector , with nursery-rhyme channel Little Baby Bum also in the top five on YouTube that month.
  • (11) Further cleavage of Bum fragments with Hpa-1 also revealed inversions of the terminal sequences that contained unique sequences.
  • (12) If you’ve got one video that’s 50 or 60 minutes long, you can just press play and leave your child to watch it while you get something done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, he says that feedback from parents suggests Little Baby Bum is far more than just a digital distraction for their children.
  • (13) Such as the time I was walking down Oxford Street in central London and passed a man who thought it perfectly OK to pat my bum as he went by.
  • (14) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
  • (15) The flame is never extinguished.” Olympic flame extinguished by Rio protesters Seeking comfort in drivel Alexis Petridis considers Khloe Kardashian’s thoughts on vitamin E vaginal oil, topless model Katie Price’s “double-bum selfie”, or the news that Kris Jenner refused to visit Cuba with the Kardashian brood.
  • (16) So how did a former punk rocker, DJ and self-confessed party animal who became a chef almost by accident (while bumming around Europe he applied to do a cooking course in Belgium so he could get a visa), and from a country with little reputation on the world food scene, change the way people think about Brazilian food?
  • (17) Fury is short, enthusiastic and turns a memorable phrase: the south, he contends, gets a bum rap.
  • (18) And yet, against the odds, Rocky Balboa has been both a critical and commercial success in the US, precisely because it taps into what made the first Rocky film so powerful 30 years earlier: when Rocky ran the steps all those years ago his goal was not to win but to go the distance, to prove to himself that he was somebody and not "just another bum from the neighbourhood".
  • (19) The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen Roger Mann and Kevin Eldon’s “Australian clowns” dialogue in Simon Munnery’s live show Cluub Zarathustra, from 25 years ago, in which the duo described the clowning process in painful detail in stoned Australian beach-bum voices.
  • (20) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .

Poorly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.
  • (adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.
  • (adv.) Meanly; without spirit.
  • (adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.
  • (a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
  • (8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
  • (9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
  • (10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
  • (12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
  • (14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
  • (17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
  • (18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
  • (20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.

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