(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Example Sentences:
(1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
(4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
(6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
(10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
(12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
(15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
(16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
(18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
(20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
Dak
Definition:
(n.) Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The volumetrically determined ultrafiltration showed a decrease parallel to the volume of the blood compartment -- with the same differences between the two models of the C-DAK.
(2) The manifold use of the C-DAK 4 is the cause for an increased substitution of erythrocytes.
(3) The activities of adenosine deaminase (ADA), purine nucleotide phosphorylase (PNP), adenosine kinase (AK), deoxyadenosine kinase (dAK), deoxycytidine kinase (dCK), 5'-nucleotidase (5'-N), AMP deaminase, hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HGPRT or HPRT), and adenine phosphoribosyl transferase (APRT) were measured by microassay in resting peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and in cells from long-term cultures.
(4) We describe a synthetic ligand, "DAKLI" (Dynorphin A-analogue Kappa LIgand), related to the opioid peptide dynorphin A.
(5) The activities of adenosine deaminase (ADA), purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP), adenosine kinase (AK), deoxyadenosine kinase (dAK), deoxycytidine kinase (dCK), 5'-nucleotidase (5'-N), AMP deaminase, hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HGPRT or HPRT), and adenine phosphoribosyl transferase (APRT) were measured by this microassay in lymphocytes from peripheral blood from four different breeds of horses (Arabian, Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred and Shetland Pony).
(6) The ultrafiltration, clearance and priming characteristics of six capillary dialyzers (C-DAK 2.5 D, C-DAK 1.8 D, Tri-Ex 1, CF M 1500, N16F160 and HF 150) were studied in single needle dialysis by way of the double headpump (BL 760, Bellco Ltd).
(7) The Koutango virus Dak An D 5443 isolated from rodents of the genus Tatera belongs to the genus Flavivirus of the faily Togaviridae.
(8) The larger coagulation processes in a more than once repeated use of the C-DAK 5 -- with adequate losses of blood -- are explained with the large length of the capillary and the other distribution of blood with regard to the cross section of the capillary.
(10) The fleas of wild and commensal small mammals, domestic animals (dogs, cats) and free-living flea forms in houses have been collected in plague nidi of Tay Nguyen plate, Dak-Lak province, Vietnam.
(11) 8 male patients with chronic dialysis (5 of them with binephrectomy) were thrice a week dialysed in 2 groups alternately 2 months conventionally for 6 hours with a capillary dialysator C-DAK mod.
(12) Eglin C and DAK 16 displayed a pronounced inhibition of PMN-elastase and PMN-cathepsin G. Surprisingly a higher amount of product in the elastase containing assays were found in the presence of glycosaminoglycan polysulfate and sodium pentosan polysulfate.
(13) A new, low-price, parallel-flow, plate dialyser--the LPP dialyser--has been compared with a hollow fibre dialyser--the C-DAK dialyser.
(14) 1,4-Butanediol (BAD) was administered to male and female Wistar Imp:DAK rats by oral gavage for 28 consecutive days.
(15) The ultrafiltration rate was found to be greater in the LPP dialyser than in the C-DAK dialyser.
(16) Summarizing we can say that in chronic routine dialyses -- without testing the individual exemplars -- model 5 of the C-DAK can be used twice, model 4, however, four times.
(17) 18 dialysators C-DAK 5 and 4 each were again used in the same patients with chronic dialysis under the same conditions of dialysis and regeneration (short-acting dialyses of more than 3.5 h with 1 C-DAK 5 or 2 parallel acting C-DAK 4, respectively).
(18) The in vitro effect of eglin C, glycosaminoglycan-peptide complex "DAK 16", glycosaminoglycan polysulfate and sodium pentosan polysulfate on the PMN-enzymes elastase and cathepsin G was investigated.
(19) Dak Riek Chan, 48, said he was shot in the foot when he tried to defend his village in Leer county against attacks by government forces earlier this year.
(20) The mean residual blood volume was 6.4 ml in the LPP dialyser + blood lines and 5.3 ml in the C-DAK dialyser + blood lines.