(n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
(v. i.) To dawn.
(v. t.) To rouse.
(v. t.) To daunt; to terrify.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heavy chain of a pathological immunoglobulin G (Daw) of type L, subclass gamma(2b) (We) and Gm(a+)(f-), has been cleaved with cyanogen bromide.
(2) Daw Suu has her critics, and not only among ex-generals.
(3) But Dawe said that Ofqual's proposals to retain GCSE maths exams split into two tiers – with an easier "foundation" level paper and a harder "higher" paper – were likely to be counterproductive.
(4) Mark Dawe, head of the OCR exam board, said the proposals for maths were "nothing short of a quantum leap for teachers".
(5) Julie Dawes, interim chief executive of Southern Health said : “ I express again our apologies to the patient involved, and the patient’s family.
(6) Burma's most renowned female writer, Ludu Daw Ahmar, is also outspoken against the regime.
(7) Daw Suu Kyi is the leader and is the one with the primary responsibility to lead, and lead with courage, humanity and compassion.” ‘It will blow up’: fears Myanmar's deadly crackdown on Muslims will spiral out of control Read more Nobel peace laureates who signed the letter include Jose Ramos-Horta , former president of East Timor, and Yemeni opposition activist Tawakul Karman .
(8) Mark Dawe, chief executive of the OCR exam board, said universities had made it clear they wanted students with qualifications in science and maths.
(9) Dawes (1986) has stated that, "The difference between high and low voltage activity depends solely on the presence in the latter of higher amplitude oscillations with relatively low frequency superimposed on the low voltage components as shown by spectral analysis".
(10) The standard scores of the Chinese children averaged 118 in the DAM and 112 in the DAW tests.
(11) The patches were spotted last summer, but the conclusions have just been detailed in a report by Daw and other English Heritage staff published in the latest edition of the journal Antiquity .
(12) Numerous articles and newspaper editorials had, excitedly, touched on the fairytale of a Burmese Mandela moment: the country’s most popular politician, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, assuming the highest office after years of relentless persecution, heroic perseverance and noble reconciliation.
(13) Mark Dawe, a former chief executive of the OCR examination board, disagreed with the committee’s conclusion.
(14) Last year, 41 patients with rabies were sent to Yangon General Hospital, the biggest in the city, according to its deputy medical superintendent Daw Khin Than Mon.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It’s a complete cultural cross section of Yangon in one building.’ Daw Khin May Lin’s family of 13 live in one room in Turquoise Mountain.
(16) Tim Daw, who helps to maintain the site, noticed that the patches matched spots where missing stones may have stood, making Stonehenge a full circle.
(17) Daw Suu can convince them,” he said, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with an honorific.
(18) These values were about half the values of those parameters in adults (Lagerlöf and Dawes, 1985), and insertion in the computer program (Dawes, 1983) of these values suggested that sugar clearance in the five-year-old children would be slightly faster than in adults.
(19) With every new building bidding for the best view of the Shwedagon Pagoda, we’re not going to have any views left,” says Daw Moe Moe Lwin, director of the Yangon Heritage Trust (YHT), a campaign group founded in 2012 by architects and historians keen to save south-east Asia’s last surviving colonial core.
(20) The amino acid composition of SpA-binding protein did not show structural homology with that of human IgG1 heavy chain (Daw), which also binds SpA.
Simpleton
Definition:
(n.) A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reading your post I couldn't help but think tonight's simpletons had undergone a similar experience."
(2) But these simpletons are absolutely determined to find their seat.
(3) There’s a really big willingness to help here in Germany and a mind-boggling number of people that are doing lots for refugees, who are not racist, and I think it’s their voice that should be dominant rather than a handful of simpletons who think they should stir up hatred.” This article was amended on 7 August 2015 to correct the name of the news programme on which Reschke made her comments
(4) Maybe because I am a simpleton and sometimes can only process what I can see – the actual sky, rather than invisible cyberspace in which data blips through fibre-optic cables.
(5) George W. Bush was a Texan simpleton who took more time playing golf on his computer than deciding on executions while governor.
(6) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
(7) Which is also to say, for younger visitors, that the exhibition could even be seen to reduce Diana to the big-spending simpleton who was castigated in Anthony O’Hear’s revisionist essay of 1998, as shallow and self-obsessed.
(8) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
(9) And Navracsics’ hastily put together statement from yesterday seems to only repeat the same category error, a simpleton bureaucrat mantra trying to dodge the absurdity of the EU apparently having no responsibility to give any support to the EU’s own youth orchestra.
(10) These use the character of Lennie, the gentle simpleton who doesn't know his own strength from Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men, as a benchmark, with the court writing: "Texas citizens might agree that Steinbeck's Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and adaptive skills, be exempt" .
(11) "I was a simpleton last Saturday evening at Melbourne Park."
(12) My husband is pointing out, veeerrryy slowly, as if to a simpleton, that this would involve us trebling our current mortgage.
(13) A dverts for insurance comparison websites have long treated the British public like a shower of infantilised simpletons.
(14) Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson rapped over "special needs" joke This time it's media regulator Ofcom tut-tutting after Clarkson describes the Ferrari F430 Speciale as "a bit wrong ... that smiling front end ... it looked like a simpleton ... [it] should have been called the 430 Speciale Needs".
(15) I liked the idea of an island with a vocation – all islands should have one, surely – and Tico took great pleasure in instructing me in the difference between primary and secondary Atlantic rainforest (simpleton that I am, I thought all forest was good, but Tico tut-tutted every time we passed a coconut palm), and even more pleasure in skipping up the 990m Pico do Papagaio while I lumbered behind.