(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.
Wake
Definition:
(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
(n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(2) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(3) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
(4) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
(5) In this study, at first, the states of sleep and wakefulness in newborn infants (measured simultaneously by EEG, EOG, respiration and body movement) were compared with their heart rate patterns in rest, active, awake and unclassified phases.
(6) Polygraphic and videotape recordings, carried out for several nights, showed that after nearly each REM period, he would wake up briefly, presenting eye blinking followed by a burst of generalized hypersynchronous theta to start his seizures.
(7) Compared to the waking state, sleep was found to be associated with significantly lower levels of acid secretion.
(8) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
(9) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(10) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
(11) The aim of this study was determine if functional adaptation of NHP and HB position to these detrimental conditions could be observed, using Bonferonni probabilities, in a cephalometric comparison of 38 SAS adults in the wakeful state and a control group of 38 healthy adults.
(12) The pound was also down more than 1% against the US dollar to $1.2835, not far off a 31-year low hit in the wake of June’s shock referendum result.
(13) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
(14) In a large proportion of these (29 out of 76), blood was noted to be present on waking, menstruation thus having begun at some time during the hours of sleep.
(15) In ANA rats, sleep recordings showed that prenatal alcohol exposure increased the percentage of waking but decreased the percentage of active sleep.
(16) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
(17) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(18) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(19) Our results indicated that sleep architecture differed from controls in that wakefulness, slow-wave sleep [SWS-stage 3 and 4 nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep] and stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more evenly dispersed throughout the night.
(20) In order to quantitate the reequency characteristics of the EEG obtained from these subcortical sites (nucleus raphé dorsalis, area postrema, as well as anatomical controls adjacent to these regions) during the different vigilance states (waking, slow-wave sleep, REM sleep) in the cat, power spectral analyses techniques were employed.