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Bung


Definition:

  • (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  • (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (2) "I said it's got nothing to do with a bung," he explained.
  • (3) The femoral medullary cavity is plugged with a bone core taken from the excised femoral head or with a polyethylene bung.
  • (4) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
  • (5) In fact, the City of London police investigation centred not on bungs but on what the force has said was alleged money-laundering.
  • (6) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
  • (7) A document showing that former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks personally authorised a cash payment for a story was not disclosed to police investigating whether staff at her paper were paying bungs to public officials for tipoffs, a jury has heard.
  • (8) (lacovitti, L., M. I. Johnson, T. H. Joh, and R. P. Bunge (1982) Neuroscience 7:2225-2239).
  • (9) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
  • (10) E. sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge, E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey., E. qrzewaskiistaqs E. monosperma Gmel.
  • (11) Stellate astrocytes might therefore represent mature astrocytes in vivo (Ard and Bunge: J. Neurosci.
  • (12) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
  • (13) For example, bonuses of 200% have become routine; but why do so many companies use such rough and ready round numbers – hardly a sign that anybody has thought carefully about what is needed to produce performance and much more like a pure bung – and then accompany them with requirements for their eligibility that are far from demanding and transparent?
  • (14) Anyway, if there is a good time to get caught paying bungs, this wasn’t it, what with US president Donald Trump already hinting that he may have pharmaceuticals companies in his sights over drug pricing.
  • (15) In addition to new impulses initiated by Paracelsus, the author emphasizes the clinical and experimental studies pursued, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, by such scientists as Thomas Sydenham, Justus von Liebig, Carl von Voit and Gustav von Bunge.
  • (16) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
  • (17) An original bank The problem with “challenger” banks, it is often said, is that they attract the most challenging customers – ie those who are happy to switch their current accounts for a year for £100, then depart in search of the next bung.
  • (18) Or are the terrestrial services bunged up with clowns like in the UK, and you're giving them the bodyswerve?
  • (19) It is not as if his windfall had come from secretly manipulating the Libor rate or getting a bung for fixing a Fifa vote.
  • (20) When these date were compared to RGC survival and axon growth on SC (Baehr and Bunge: Exp.

Bunn


Definition:

  • (n.) A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.
  • (n.) See Bun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3.51pm BST Manchester City have sent young striker Harry Bunn out on loan to Sheffield United, while Plymouth have made a Reckord signing .
  • (2) Capital One Cup: QPR lose to Carlisle and Watford lose to Preston Read more The beating of Huddersfield Town away in the first round was proof the new-look Magpies had the capacity to embarrass higher division opposition though, and a similar upset looked to be on the cards when Genaro Snijders’ long-range shot took a deflection that looped past the wrong-footed Villa goalkeeper Mark Bunn in the 16th minute.
  • (3) Subs: Whittaker, Fer, Hooper, Bunn, Elliott Bennett, Loza, Murphy.
  • (4) The process is biphasic, as reported elsewhere [Bunn, Wohl, Bradley, Cooley & Gibson (1974) J. Biol.
  • (5) Those who thought County would fold, however, were quickly disabused of the notion by Burke, who received the ball on the right touchline in the 56th minute, turned and curled a glorious left-footed shot beyond the desperately reaching Bunn .
  • (6) His injury-time shot came back off the crossbar, hit the Villa goalkeeper, Mark Bunn, and went in for an own goal instead.
  • (7) He was less adept just before the interval, running out to try and push away an underhit backpass and succeeding only in bringing down McLeod: having given the penalty, it was hard to understand why the referee, Chris Kavanagh, did not send Bunn off.
  • (8) Tottenham P22 Pts39 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Villa’s Mark Bunn saves a penalty from Mahrez.
  • (9) Rachana Bunn, who works for ActionAid Cambodia on their safe cities for women campaign, designed Safe Agent 008, a messaging system that sends women’s GPS coordinates to family and friends when they feel in danger and allows them to report violence anonymously.
  • (10) Villa keeper Mark Bunn’s save spurs the home side to a mini-revival, with Rudy Gestede scoring a deserved equaliser 15 minutes from time.
  • (11) County’s goalkeeper, 37, again thwarted Sinclair, this time with his left foot, while at the other end Bunn had to dive to his right to palm away Graham Burke’s attempted curler.
  • (12) The following commercially available nebulizers were tested: DeVilbiss Nebulizer Model 645, Hudson 1720 (Updraft) Hand Held Nebulizer, Bard Inspiron 002220 Mini-Neb Nebulizer, and Bunn Mini Mist Set model 0140-041.
  • (13) Dissociation of alpha beta and alpha gamma dimers of human hemoglobins (Hb) A and F into monomers was studied by alpha chain exchange (Shaeffer, J. R., McDonald, M. J., Turci, S. M., Dinda, D. M., and Bunn, H. F. (1984) J. Biol.
  • (14) The pathway of anaerobic acetone degradation by the denitrifying bacterial strain BunN was studied by enzyme measurements in extracts of anaerobic acetone-grown cells.
  • (15) "If dispersed by terrorists it could make a very nasty dirty bomb capable of contaminating a wide area," said Bunn, an associate professor at Harvard University's John F Kennedy school of government, who compiles an annual assessment of the nuclear terrorism threat titled Securing the Bomb.
  • (16) Told of the cable's revelation of the type of materials and the amount stored in Yemen's NAEC facility, Matthew Bunn, a former White House science adviser who specialises in nuclear threat and terrorism, said: "Holy cow.
  • (17) The visitors’ misery was compounded by the late dismissal of the substitute Reza Ghoochannejhad for two yellow cards in the space of just over a minute following reckless tackles on Davidson and Harry Bunn.
  • (18) The physiology of anaerobic acetone degradation was studied with strain BunN, which was originally enriched with butanone.
  • (19) Subs: Elmander, Snodgrass, Bunn, Hoolahan, Becchio, Olsson, Ryan Bennett.
  • (20) It appears that the Tyr replaced by Asp substitution resembles the Tyr replaced by His substitution in hemoglobin Bethesda (Bunn, H. F. et al.

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