(n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
(n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
(n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
(n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
(2) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(3) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
(4) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(5) Applications of [D-Ala2,Met5]enkephalinamide (DAME), [D-Ala2,D-Leu5]enkephalin (DADL), Leu5 enkephalin, Met5 enkephalin, Dynorphin 1-9 and normorphine produced dose-dependent depressions of the dorsal root potential.
(6) Twitter has hired the former Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino to be the first woman on its board, after critics rounded on its all-male lineup.
(7) It was not clear what would happen to other high-profile publishing executives, not least Dame Gail Rebuck, the chairman and chief executive of Random House.
(8) Dame Julie Mellor has accused the boards of hospitals of adding to patients' pain and letting poor care continue unchallenged by doing too little to spot and stop serious failings.
(9) Sands will be the second woman to edit the agenda-setting programme after Dame Jenny Abramsky, the chair of the Royal Academy of Music.
(10) So as Dame Quentin and the soon to be Sir Peter amble off, who is in for a gong at our next round of knighthoods?
(11) She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in February 2014.
(12) Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said at the time however that e-cigarettes should only be used a means to help smokers quit.
(13) Not on the basis of things they can't do anything about' Dame Marjorie Scardino, outgoing chief executive of Financial Times owner Pearson 'I think it is probably wrong on balance to force companies to take women on' Karren Brady, West Ham Utd vice chairman, Kerrang!
(14) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(15) Microinjections (1 microliter) of D- Ala2-Met-enkephalinamide (DAME) (3.4-27.2 nM) into normovolemic unanesthetized monkeys reduced SBP by 10-65 mm Hg in a dose-related fashion.
(16) In a statement, the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: "Severe winter flu and its complications can make people really ill and can kill, particularly those who are weak and frail which is why we already offer vaccinations to the most at risk groups.
(17) Dame Vivienne said the couple's son, Joe Corre, co-founder of the lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, and Ben Westwood, her son from her first marriage, were with McLaren when he died.
(18) In recent days, a former head of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, acknowledged her old agency needed to be more transparent.
(19) Wasn’t it for exactly that kind of incompetence she had been made a dame?
(20) Abramovich said little and spoke only in Russian, with the judge, Dame Elizabeth Gloster, and a packed courtroom of barristers, security guards and supporters listening to a translation via headphones.
Eame
Definition:
(n.) Uncle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cochlear summating potential (SP) preceding the auditory nerve compound action potential (AP) was elicited by broadband alternating condensation and rarefaction clicks and recorded by noninvasive electrodes from the external auditory meatus (EAM) of 60 volunteers of both sexes, 12 to 67 years old, who had normal hearing for age.
(2) To obtain information on the occurrence of accelerated nodulosis during methotrexate (MTX) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), localization, size and presence in heart and lungs of these nodules, predisposing factors, relationship with other extraarticular manifestations (EAM) and their histological features.
(3) Two tympanograms were routinely recorded from each ear by altering the pressure in the external auditory meatus (EAM), first in the decreasing direction (Forward Tracing: TG-F) and next in the increasing direction (Backward Tracing: TG-B).
(4) Passive transfer of experimental autoimmune myasthenia (EAM) was performed with lymph node cells from donor guinea pigs immunized with purified acetylcholine receptor (AChR) from Torpedo californica.
(5) When examined by LM, sporozoites exposed to all FM and EAM preparations exhibited greater motility and excystation from sporocysts.
(6) The presence of a receptor for the Fc of IgM (muFcR) was demonstrated on the pathological B cells of all of sixteen patients with hairy-cell leukaemia and most, but not all, of twenty-four cases of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, by a rosette method employing ox erythrocytes sensitized with purified IgM (EAm).
(7) "[The actions against Law are] politically motivated, designed to have the decisions overturned by a new magistrate and amounted to an abuse of the rule of law," Eames said.
(8) Although the degree of perivascular mononuclear cell infiltration around the blood vessels in the papillary dermis was related to the patients' clinical state at the initial assessment, it did not correlate with the later changes in the activity of the joint disease or the occurrence of EAM.
(9) Vasodepression was found ex vivo in the isolated perfused hind legs of rats, mice and guinea-pigs with paw inflammation using maximum pressure amplitude, EAm, pD2-value and intrinsic sensitivity (i.s.)
(10) Immune FM and EAM caused agglutination of sporozoites and sporocysts and oocyst walls of E. falciformis, but did not agglutinate those of E. ferrisi.
(11) In fact, high values of EAM-RFC could be found on cell suspensions cultured overnight in either IgM-free or IgM-containing media.
(12) After the binding of EAG to the receptor for IgG, a process of rapid dissociation of rosettes occurred, whereas the incubation with EAM did not induce an irreversible loss of the receptor for IgM.
(13) By immunoelectron microscopy, the EAM were continuous with the cytoplasm of endothelial cells showing an immature phenotype as seen in regeneration.
(14) Extreme weather conditions are hampering attempts by a t eam of three British explorers to survey the Arctic sea ice around the North Pole.
(15) Moreover, the disappearance of IgM deposits from the skin correlated with the disappearance of EAM and improvement of joint disease.
(16) We conclude that preoperative CT scans accurately stage EAM squamous cell carcinoma.
(17) For this purpose a mineral mixture (EAM) was designed to permit changing the levels of sodium and potassium while maintaining other components of the mixture.
(18) In contrast, a striking staining of endothelial abluminal microprocesses (EAM) was found in the tumor stroma.
(19) The sera of 80 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA)--30 of them with extraarticular manifestations (EAM) and 50 patients with articular disease only--of 25 patients with other joint diseases and of 30 normal healthy subjects, were analyzed for the presence of 1) IgE rheumatoid factors (IgE RF) by means of a solid phase radioimmunoassay and an ELISA, 2) IgM rheumatoid factors by using solid phase radioimmune techniques, and 3) circulating immune complexes (CIC) with the C1q binding test (C1q BT) and the solid phase conglutinin binding test (SPCBT).
(20) Law was reportedly deported on the grounds of misconduct but Eames said Laws denied the accusations and they were not consistent with his experience of him.