(n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Displacement isotherms for amidephrine, benoxathian, oxymetazoline, phentolamine and WB 4101 were biphasic and were consistent with the presence of both alpha 1A- and alpha 1B-adrenoceptor subtypes as described by Morrow & Creese (1986) and Han et al.
(2) How to get there: “The larger roles will typically require a combination of experience and a relevant degree,” says Jos Creese, president of BCS, the Chartered Institute of IT.
(3) With fast (bolus) application of Cch this discrepancy is due to the speed of diffusion, while equilibration with continuous application is considerably impaired by cellular uptake of Cch (Creese and Taylor, 1967).
(4) On the basis of experiments made on striatal membranes, Leff and Creese [Molec.
(5) While focused stereotyped behavior produced by high doses of indirect sympathomimetics is blocked by removal of dopamine terminals in the corpus striatum (Creese and Iversen 1975), the locomotor activation produced by low doses of indirect sympathomimetics is blocked by removal of dopamine terminals in the region of the nucleus accumbens (Kelly et al.
Kris
Definition:
(n.) A Malay dagger. See Creese.
Example Sentences:
(1) What are they trying to hide?” On Thursday, commission vice-chair Kris Kobach sent a letter to states, asking for information on voters including names, addresses, voting histories, party affiliation and the last four digits of social security numbers.
(2) Still, sitting across a desk from Kris Hammond, in his office overlooking the lake shore in Chicago, it is hard not to at least have a sense of the inevitable.
(3) Over the course of this series, themes of unemployment, poor grooming and sloth emerge, all of which are qualities found in our first loser, Kris.
(4) Even the introduction of Kris Commons at the interval failed to spark their attack into life.
(5) 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.
(6) 5.17pm GMT Attorney David Boies, plaintiffs Sandy Stier and her partner Kris Perry, plaintiffs Jeff Zarrillo and his partner Paul Katami, and attorney Ted Olson walk out of the US supreme court after arguing to overturn Proposition 8.
(7) Kris Engskov's first job was as a gopher in a busy office with punishing hours and he would often nip out to grab the coffees if there was a crisis and the boss had to work late.
(8) To conquer his fear of women, Kris is introduced to a room full of glimmering bikini models and instructed to give them oil massages while keeping up scintillating conversation.
(9) October 8, 2013 • Downing Street dismissed claims that housing is being downgraded because the new housing minister, Kris Hopkins, is a junior minister, not a minister of state like his predecessor.
(10) Kris Hopkins, the housing minister, said that 10,000 people had bought their own property after David Cameron introduced changes to Margaret Thatcher's flagship scheme in April 2012.
(11) "It's exciting," Kris Barrie told me, "and it endows every fan with a sense of hope that our next superstar is just a walk to the stage away from taking us to the next level."
(12) In the 80th minute Kris Commons replaced Mikael Lustig for Deila’s last throw of the dice but it was Gadzhalov who somehow missed the goal from six yards from a Stewart corner.
(13) The states and their top election officials — secretaries of state Kris Kobach of Kansas and Ken Bennett of Arizona — sued the agency to force the action.
(14) John Culver, president of Starbucks Coffee International, said: "Kris brings a great deal of operational and public affairs experience to the role, and is an ideal candidate to continue the momentum Starbucks has achieved in this region.
(15) Mike Minor, Julio Teheran and Kris Medlen, the NL pitcher of September who will face Kershaw in Game One, are a trio of above average starters, and the bullpen, anchored by Craig Kimbrel is absolutely air tight.
(16) Responding to Forbes’s claims, Kris Hopkins, a Conservative local government minister, said: “Every bit of the public sector needs to do their bit to tackle the deficit left by the Labour government, including local government, which accounts for a quarter of all public spending.
(17) Several writers (Fenichel 1941, Glover 1955, Kris 1951, Ornstein and Ornstein 1975) have raised the possibility that what the patient receives and absorbs of the analyst's communications is not only a function of what is said but, on a more subtle level, how it is said.
(18) Kris Meeke of Northern Ireland had looked set for a challenge but skidded into a ditch on Sunday morning, which damaged the tyres on his Citroën DS3 and he slipped to sixth place.
(19) Also during the 1980s, Cash teamed up with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson to form the successful recording and touring outfit, the Highwaymen.
(20) Kris McConkey, cybersecurity partner at PwC, is on the frontline of the war against cybercrime.