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Dagger


Definition:

  • (n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
  • (n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
  • (n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
  • (2) Fear of the war between Blairites and Brownites breaking into open riot led to cabinet paralysis, while leadership ambitions warned that he who wields the dagger never wears the crown.
  • (3) Some daggers have already been drawn – François Rebsamen , said the revelations showed the entire idea of "première dame", was obsolete, adding that scrapping of the office of the first lady would be progress for democracy.
  • (4) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
  • (5) The magnificent bronze Beaune Dirk is a princely dagger, but could not have been intended for practical use: the blade was never sharpened, nor the end drilled to attach a wooden hilt.
  • (6) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
  • (7) Zhang, who directed House of Flying Daggers and Hero, admitted on Sunday to having had three children with his wife.
  • (8) The pressure dependence of these coefficients shows that the volume of the system decreases upon complex formation and that there is an expansion upon formation of the activated complex (DeltaVdouble dagger is positive).
  • (9) From the values of the slopes of the Arrhenius plots, the energy of activation (E(a)) for each isoenzyme and isoenzyme variant was determined, and the following thermodynamic activation parameters were calculated at 55 degrees C: the free energy of activation (DeltaG(double dagger)), the activation enthalpy (DeltaH(double dagger)) and the activation entropy (DeltaS(double dagger)).
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shakespeare Solos: Daniel Mays as Macbeth – ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’ “All those shows definitely have a place, but there are a lot of public school actors and writers about at the moment.
  • (11) Last year she narrowly escaped with her life when a female assassin tried to stab her with a traditional dagger known as a jambiya.
  • (12) They ranged from tiny dagger size to elaborate, candelabra-esque weapons with multiple ports.
  • (13) It’s time to wind down cloak-and-dagger efforts to undermine the Cuban regime and try a new approach, the pundits now suggest , presumably as incentive for the Cuban government to loosen its grip on its people.
  • (14) He's part of a Brooklyn film-making collective, Waverley (heraldic crest: dagger, beer, skull and crossbones, neon green background), with whom he has made shorts and TV shows.
  • (15) This month the Dagger Awards, run by the Crime Writers Association, celebrated the work of two French writers at its gala awards event.
  • (16) Both subject groups have difficulties in retrieving words that specify a property relationship to a late acquired stimulus word, as in 'desert-sand', while words that specify an 'is a' relationship with the stimulus word, as in 'dagger-knife', are easily retrieved.
  • (17) The blade of this dagger can be fixed at right angles to the knife-handle, ready for use just as an "American San Francisco Push-Dagger" or an Indian "katar", obviously very dangerous weapons.
  • (18) I just wait until I’ve got a character and I think, why would anybody do that, what is it in their background, what is it in their lives makes them do it?” Rendell won prizes including the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for “sustained excellence in crime writing”, and, as a Labour life peer, helped pass a law preventing girls being sent abroad for female genital mutilation.
  • (19) • This article was amended on 10 February 2016 to clarify ownership of Lawrence’s dagger and robes.
  • (20) He points out his primary school, his father's church, the house where he was brought up, the hospice where he and Sarah worked unpublicised in the summer of 2009, when the country was in recession and would-be assassins in the Labour party were agonising about whether to unsheathe their daggers.

Sax


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (2) For that purpose, cells were incubated for 3 days before reaching confluency in the presence of myo-[3H]inositol in order to label the phosphoinositide pool, and the various [3H]IPs were separated by HPLC on a SAX column with a phosphate gradient.
  • (3) We outline the use of SAXS to characterise a large conformational change of myosin.
  • (4) Physical characterization of these copolymers was by means of thermal analysis, transmission electron microscope, wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS).
  • (5) Comparing these results with those of the small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) investigation by Matsushima et al.
  • (6) Evidence for a domain structure of cellobiohydrolase II (CBH II, 58 kDa) from Trichoderma reesei (Teeri et al., 1987; Tomme et al., 1988) is corroborated by results from SAXS experiments.
  • (7) To rule out eventual artifacts due to sample preparation, four different standard preparation techniques were used and a comparison showed that the SAXS results were identical for all four methods.
  • (8) This result stands in contrast to results of x-ray crystallographic studies of hydroxyethylthiamin, which place a partial negative charge on C-2 (Pletcher, J., and Sax, M. (1974) J.
  • (9) For isocitrate dehydrogenase, delta Hax dominates; however, the net activation is substantially mitigated by the magnitude of T delta Sax.
  • (10) The use of radially compressed, prepacked cartridges filled with Partisil-10 SAX appeared to be a fast and cheap alternative for expensive stainless-steel columns.
  • (11) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (12) Molecular parameters (Rg = 13.7 A, S = 3,000 A2, V = 9,200 A3 and Dmax = 40 A) were derived from SAXS curves obtained from a solution of this protein at pH = 4.5.
  • (13) Human beta-mannosidosis urine was fractionated by gel permeation chromatography on Bio-Gel P-2 and by high performance liquid chromatography on Partisil 10 SAX.
  • (14) Inosinic acid formed from the enzyme-catalyzed reaction of hypoxanthine and PP-ribose-P using partially purified hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase is measured after chromatography on an ion-exchange column (Partisil 10 SAX).
  • (15) Lee Thompson, on sax, had the concept of The Nutty Boys.
  • (16) Solution characterization of heparin with high affinity (HA) and low affinity (LA) for antithrombin III was performed using the methods of small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), viscometry, and aqueous gel permeation chromatography (GPC).
  • (17) The SAXS data for the colloidal micellar casein, which yield only cross-sectional information related to a window of scattered intensity, were analyzed by a sum of three Gaussians with no residual function.
  • (18) The interaction between calmodulin (CaM) and two synthetic peptides, C20W and C24W, corresponding to parts of the calmodulin-binding domain of the Ca2+ pump of human erythrocytes, has been studied by using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS).
  • (19) Better, in fact, than Romney's bumbling foreign adventures , which rather than providing voters with a storyline on which they could take a practiced ideological stand, was likely to be seen as a mostly embarrassing, ultimately unrelatable foreign policy glad-hand tour, set to Yackety Sax .
  • (20) of the ELISA, when a soluble SAX I fraction is used, are statistically significant when compared with the raw, soluble, antigen, and this fraction allows discrimination between patients with intestinal and extraintestinal amebiasis.

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