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Dank


Definition:

  • (a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.
  • (n.) Moisture; humidity; water.
  • (n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
  • (2) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
  • (3) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
  • (4) I got quite emotional when I finished the book because I thought…" He lets the sentence hang and looks out of the window at the murky drizzle of a dank November evening.
  • (5) Come on Man City, you know you want him ..." Danke schon, dear readers, and auf wiedersehen.
  • (6) The men work on nearby construction sites, while the women spend their days in the dank, artificially lit alleys, stripping wire for copper and selling trinkets from closet-sized stalls.
  • (7) Danke!”) It rubs hard against an England fan’s sensibilities; to say nothing of an England Jewish-from-refugee-stock fan’s sensibilities.
  • (8) With the dank, fetid winds of manmade climate change blowing our way and worries over Russian military ambitions there has been much talk of Armageddon.
  • (9) Players of Philipp Lahm’s remarkable stature cannot be replaced; square pegs and round holes come to mind, but even during a period of some transition, these are the world champions – and in case anybody was forgetting, the players were greeted by a mosaic at one end of the ground reading “Danke” when they made their way on to the pitch.
  • (10) 8.00pm BST How far into the dank confines of the House Republican brain would you like to climb?
  • (11) Make no mistake about it: I was touched that 14 people would bother to come watch me in a dank, dark cave on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
  • (12) "Danke" says one in his native language in St Peter's Square.
  • (13) A severely mentally retarded girl is presented, with symptoms as described by Pitt, Rogers, and Danks (pre- and postnatal growth retardation, and unusual facies).
  • (14) She is played by Marion Bailey , and it is no exaggeration to say that when she arrives on screen, it is as if a column of soothing sunlight has fallen upon a dank meadow.
  • (15) From the look of recent production stills (grim pedestrian subways, dank council estates, McKay looking haunted): really not that easy.
  • (16) If you're a large corporation looking to wring the UK government for every penny it has and then some, these are the places you look – away from the main traffic of public discourse, in the dank side streets, where careers get lost and battles become too dirty to yield a clear victor – probation, adult social care, prisons, tagging, court interpretation.
  • (17) We showed previously that nuclear extracts from teniposide (VM-26)-resistant sublines of the human leukemic cell line, CCRF-CEM, exhibited decreased DNA topoisomerase II activity and ability to form drug-stabilized covalent protein-DNA complexes (Danks et al., Biochemistry 27:8861-8869; 1988).
  • (18) Most of the lines resemble atypical MDR cells (Danks et al., 1987; Beck et al., 1987).
  • (19) From the movies, you’d think Manhattan to be riddled with dank, dangerous, trash-strewn back-alleys, complete with rusting fire escapes and crumbling, graffiti-covered brick walls.
  • (20) European stock markets are inching higher on a dank morning in London, with traders warmed by the news that China's trade surplus swelled to its highest level in almost five years.

Deduction


Definition:

  • (n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring.
  • (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
  • (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
  • (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 2,800-molecular-weight oligosaccharide was a constituent of the hemagglutinin, and treatment of this large oligosaccharide with specific exo-glycosidases demonstrated the presence of terminal galactose and fucose and allowed the deduction of a general structure for this component.
  • (2) In addition to the image of the soft tissue and alveolar bone provided, this procedure makes the deduction of the ideal fixture site possible.
  • (3) This deduction was supported by an exploratory dose-seeking study that spanned five years in 20 patients with recurrent (non-gall stone) acute or chronic pancreatitis and confirmed by a 20-week double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial of the successful combination (daily doses of 600 micrograms organic selenium, 0.54 g vitamin C, 9000 IU B-carotene, 270 IU vitamin E and 2 g methionine) in a further 20 cases.
  • (4) Donald Trump has continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s support for election recounts in three states, claiming he won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.
  • (5) How many of those will he give before deducting a point?
  • (6) Government-funded health insurance programs that claim to provide comprehensive funding of their clients' demands have commonly adopted a purposive (deductive) approach to the problem of health care funding.
  • (7) This deduction was based on the subepithelial growth pattern and the presence of in-situ carcinoma showing a glandular or squamous pattern at the location of the esophageal gland duct.
  • (8) Review negative gearing Federal Labor and the Greens have proposed a rethink of negative gearing, the practice of property investors claiming their losses as a deduction against their taxable income.
  • (9) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
  • (10) The Swiss authorities tax these lending units as if they were required to pay large, tax-deductible interest bills – even if they have no such cost.
  • (11) Comparison of genomic and cDNA clones allowed the correct deduction of the intron boundaries and the 3'-end cleavage site of this gene.
  • (12) Both Red Star and Partizan began the next season with a six-point deduction because of the previous season's events [along with eight other clubs].
  • (13) These results with fura-2-loaded platelets indicate that mobilisation of internal Ca2+ can contribute a substantial proportion of the early peak [Ca2+]i evoked by thrombin directly confirming the deductions from previous work with different loadings of quin2.
  • (14) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
  • (15) The number of uninsured was estimated deductively from the coverages of those insurance companies doing business in the state, with an additional factor for persons with more than one policy coverage.
  • (16) Researchers have indicated that the single-case study experimental design may be of value in chiropractic clinical practice, allowing for the formulation of deductive conclusions derived from each case.
  • (17) The inheritance levy, thought to be £20,000, would be deducted from the estates of older people when they die, replacing a system that forces many pensioners to sell their family homes to fund nursing home bills.
  • (18) Final deductions, however, must be followed by careful checking of all individual histories.
  • (19) Available data do not, at present, permit deduction as to whether additional selenium intake in man, exposed to mercury vapor or mercuric mercury, will have any effect, beneficial or adverse.
  • (20) Histological observations correlate well with tensiometry deductions.