(v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
(v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
(n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
(n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
(2) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(4) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
(5) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(6) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(7) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(8) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(9) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
(10) North American box office estimates, 8-10 April The Boss: $23.48m - NEW Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $23.435m.
(11) As far as I recall, getting up at dawn is not easy when you're 17.
(12) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(13) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
(14) Dawn, 43, a former journalist has left the life she had behind.
(15) Timing of insulin injections will frequently need to be adjusted to blunt the dawn phenomenon.
(16) Only now is the full effect of the NHS act dawning on its strongest advocates.
(17) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
(18) Plasma cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels increased and growth hormone (GH) decreased significantly during the dawn period.
(19) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
(20) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.
Wand
Definition:
(n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
(n.) A staff of authority.
(n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
(2) You can fill the spaces around clinics with unscientific anti-abortion hectoring of women patients while literally filling space by violating women with a trans-vaginal ultrasound wand.
(3) The authors examined the relationship between the number of colonies picked with the Prompt Inoculation Wand and the hemacytometer and viable colony counts for each of six test organisms, including Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida krusei, Candida parapsilosis, Candida glabrata, and Cryptococcus neoformans.
(4) For the past nine years, Iraq ’s security forces have tried to stop car bombs with a British-made bomb detector wand that was long ago proven to be fake.
(5) He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
(6) Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, said there was no "magic wand" that could be waved to break down trade barriers.
(7) Using a telemetry signal through a handheld programming wand, nine tracings were completely and clearly recorded for analysis.
(8) Now wave your own wand and grant them the living monthly wage – the £136 the Asia Floor Wage Alliance calculates is needed to support a family in India today (and bear in mind that the women are often the sole earners).
(9) The pump is noninvasively programmed using a hand-held telemetry wand to administer the drug in a continuous infusion, bolus, or bolus-delay mode.
(10) But I think it would be wrong to think that Bob will come in and work with Dan, James and Kyle and wave the magic wand.
(11) There's no magic wand - creating jobs won't simply solve the world's problems Read more It will, however, be subject to a performance agreement, the first of its kind, which will see Britain monitor the fund’s work and withhold 10% of the money if targets are not met.
(12) "There is no single magic wand, but the focus at the summit from the eurozone countries was what particularly the German government could secure.
(13) Light-wand-guided intubation has been reported to be an easily learned, atraumatic alternative to laryngoscopic or blind nasal intubation [6, 9].
(14) Everything here takes three times longer to do than it should and unless you have a magic wand you will have to be patient.
(15) The complete 1H-NMR assignments for horse ferrocytochrome c have been reported by Wand and colleagues and by our group at Oxford.
(16) "They look like wands and they are supposed to bend when they spot a bomb.
(17) It is an ultrasonic wand that, when activated inside any glass of beer – even from a bottle or can – froths up a draught-like head as if pumped from the guts of a country pub.
(18) Hogwarts Castle will sit at the apex of each attraction, and visitors can also dine at the Three Broomsticks pub, pick up a wand at Ollivander's store or snack on sweets from Hogsmead's famous Honeyduke's sweet shop.
(19) Rally organiser Justin Wand will be riding his 1926 Brough SS100: "It was designed in 1925 and guaranteed to have a top speed of 100 mph, an absolute phenomenom at a time when most cars pootled along at about 35 mph."
(20) Reforming the system can only be done if we work together, there are no magic wands.