(n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
(n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Example Sentences:
(1) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(2) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(3) When I heard it, I thought of Sherpa as a first name, like the Edmund in Edmund Hillary, rather than as a description, like the Desperate in Desperate Dan.
(4) Lyft co-Founder and president John Zimmer and GM president Dan Ammann say the two companies began serious discussions about three months ago.
(5) Mungkin lebih baik untuk meletakkan harapan pada prakarsa dari bawah ke atas yang dilakukan oleh berbagai individu dan komunitas.
(6) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(7) Dan Biers, the first secretary at the US embassy, said it was disappointed by the verdict.
(8) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
(9) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak reshuffle.
(10) Liberal MP Dan Tehan, the head of parliament’s intelligence and security committee, last week called on Australia to expand its operations in Iraq to Syria .
(11) However, moderate Labour MPs, including prominent voices such as Dan Jarvis and Chuka Umunna, both made strong cases last week for more controlled immigration.
(12) The anionic MMC-D was synthesized using 6-bromohexanoic acid as a spacer and dextran with a molecular weight of 70,000 [MMC(C6)Dan].
(13) Dan should have been allowed to die at home surrounded by the people who loved him."
(14) Dan Jarvis, MP for Barnsley Central, said: “Given that the Conservatives are in disarray and Labour has a reinvigorated membership … these elections are an excellent opportunity to significantly increase our political representation right across the country.
(15) Robinson has said that he held talks with Cerberus executives including former US vice-president Dan Quayle to discuss the selloff.
(16) John Plunkett is joined by columnist Maggie Brown , Guardian head of media and technology Dan Sabbagh and Andy Harries , chief executive of Left Bank Pictures, who has some big news of his own to share.
(17) The health minister Dr Dan Poulter, who is also an obstetrician, welcomed the improvements in the survey but said: "In some cases new mums are not getting enough care."
(18) 12.06pm BST Our own Dan Lucas was first to answer the refereeing quandary of the day, pointing out that Fifa's Law 17 says this: A goalkeeper who is injured while kicks are being taken from the penalty mark and is unable to continue as goalkeeper may be replaced by a named substitute provided his team has not used the maximum number of substitutes permitted under the competition rules.
(19) Four cistrons of HSV-1 and three cistrons of HSV-2 with defects in viral DNA and DAN polymerase synthesis were identified.
(20) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
Nickname
Definition:
(n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
(v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(2) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(4) Now 7, Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.
(5) In the original exchange, Scudamore warned Nick West, a City lawyer who works with the Premier League on broadcasting deals, to keep a female colleague they nicknamed Edna “off your shaft”.
(6) The Tories will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'.
(7) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(8) Nicknamed Mr 10 Percent, Zardari spent several years in prison under previous administrations.
(9) But as Brigitte goes on to explain, Bordeaux laboured for decades under the nickname La Belle Endormie – sleeping beauty.
(10) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
(11) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
(12) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
(13) Burns' ability to ride out a storm earned him the nickname "Teflon Terry".
(14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
(15) The best-known editions are the military versions covered in red plastic and shrunk to fit the pocket of an army uniform – hence the book's nickname in the west.
(16) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(17) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
(18) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
(19) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
(20) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.