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Dern


Definition:

  • (n.) A gatepost or doorpost.
  • (a.) Hidden; concealed; secret.
  • (a.) Solitary; sad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good starting point is 1972's The Cowboys, in which Dern became the first man to kill John Wayne in a movie.
  • (2) It is not known which actors will make the final cast, though agents for Madsen and Dern were publicly accused of leaking the script by its architect in January.
  • (3) Dern, all windblown white hair and stubble, is often entirely silent and withdrawn, and all the more compelling and poignant for that.
  • (4) JF: Somewhere along in there, I thought, because it was becoming clear that this was becoming a love story: a triangle between a woman who was an officer's wife - and he was the kind of real gung-ho, I'm-gonna-go-I'm-gonna-be-a-hero; Bruce Dern played that part - and Jon Voight, who doesn't have the bottom part of his body.
  • (5) Starring Bruce Dern, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Kurt Russell in the story of eight 19th-century travellers trapped in a stagecoach stopover after a blizzard hits Wyoming, it is tipped to be part of the 2016 Oscars conversation.
  • (6) Dern seems to have subtracted half of his own mind and awareness for the part, and this draws the audience toward him to find out, or guess at, the things his old age incites.
  • (7) Television Best Series, Drama: Homeland, Showtime Best Series, Musical or Comedy: Modern Family, ABC Best Actor, Drama: Kelsey Grammer, Boss Best Actress, Drama: Claire Danes, Homeland Best Actress, Musical or Comedy: Laura Dern, Enlightened Best Actor, Musical or Comedy: Matt LeBlanc, Episodes Best Miniseries or Movie: Downton Abbey (Masterpiece), PBS Best Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce Best Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Idris Elba, Luther Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Morgan Freeman
  • (8) Others have Bruce Dern as their dark horse, for Nebraska , but Iā€™m not feeling any vibrations on the tracks.
  • (9) Tarantino planned a film in 70mm, an unusual and expensive format recently used by Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master , and there would have been plum roles for Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L Jackson, the site says.
  • (10) "Douglas," she tweeted, while attending HBO's after awards party, "still smarts from Dern's Cannes win."
  • (11) CAA , the agency that works for Dern, has denied suggestions it is responsible for the script's release into the public domain.
  • (12) Ejiofor is the runaway frontrunner for the best dramatic actor Globe, while 77-year-old Bruce Dern looks to have the edge in the neighbouring category thanks to his role as a desperate American dreamer in Payne's black-and-white Nebraska.
  • (13) In their place are four men, a Southern general (likely Dern), an alleged hangman, a Frenchman named Bob and a cowboy named Joe Gage.
  • (14) More pertinently, this year also marks the first Oscar nomination for British actor Sally Hawkins for her supporting role in Blue Jasmine , while Bruce Dern, nominated for best actor for Nebraska , last troubled the Oscar voters in 1979 for the Hal Ashby-directed Vietnam vet drama Coming Home.
  • (15) What an unadulterated joy it is to see Bruce Dern leading a movie for a change ā€“ and a good movie, at that.
  • (16) We have also repeated the transfusion experiment of Dern et al.
  • (17) Justified's Walton Goggins, Dexter's James Remar, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Amber Tamblyn and Bruce Dern fill out the other major roles.
  • (18) According to influential blogger Anne Thompson , Douglas also sees the Emmy as compensation for his performance being passed over at Cannes for the best actor award, in favour of Bruce Dern in Nebraska .
  • (19) Played by Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern respectively, David and Jason Staebler are the last gasp of an America that is visibly dying all around them.
  • (20) The script reading featured Walton Goggins, James Remar, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Amber Tamblyn and Bruce Dern, as well as Tarantino regular Samuel L Jackson .

Tern


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
  • (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
  • (a.) That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In group B there was a decrease (P is less than 0.01) in bone-forming and bone-resorbing surfaces after both short-tern and long-term treatment.
  • (2) Sign up with a shopping agency such as Retail Eyes , Tern or Grass Roots .
  • (3) Two strains were isolated from ticks of the species Ornithodoros capensis Neumann 1901 collected from the nests of Sooty Terns, Sterna fuscata Linnaeus 1766 on coral cays off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.
  • (4) It is concluded that the carotid sinus pressoreceptor reflex considerably alters the systemic venous capacity which in tern alters venous return and cardiac output.
  • (5) Larvae of the first species can develop into adult forms in birds (terns, gulls, ducks) and in mammals (cats, golden hamsters, white mice).
  • (6) The response to a corset was slow, but the long-tern effects were at least as good as those of the other treatments.
  • (7) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
  • (8) Whale N9 neuraminidase, like tern N9 neuraminidase, possesses high levels of hemagglutinating activity but, unlike the tern neuraminidase, failed to form large well-ordered crystals.
  • (9) The nucleoprotein (NP) genes of influenza viruses were sequenced from a variety of virus isolates derived from marine mammals: whales from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, seal and gull from the Western Atlantic, and a tern from the Caspian Sea.
  • (10) Detailed evidence has been collected from the following three groups of studies on herring gulls in the lower Great Lakes during the early 1970s; Forster's terns in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1983; and double-crested cormorants and Caspian terns in various locations in the upper Great Lakes from 1986 onwards.
  • (11) Metal levels for the tropical terns nesting in Puerto Rico and Australia generally were not lower than levels reported for temperate-nesting or mainland nesting birds (except for mercury in Australia).
  • (12) Experimental infection of golden hamsters, white mice and black terns with M. xanthosomus failed.
  • (13) Ruptured-yolk peritonitis was responsible for the death of a royal tern.
  • (14) In Puerto Rico, lead and cadmium levels were highest in bridled tern (Sterna anaethetus), and mercury levels were highest in sooty (S. fuscata) and roseate tern (S. dougallii).
  • (15) At one extreme, the Arctic tern travels up to 35,000km from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, while the bar-tailed godwit was recently discovered to fly from Alaska to New Zealand ā€“ a journey of 11,000km across the Pacific Ocean ā€“ in a single hop.
  • (16) In this paper we report concentrations of lead, cadmium, mercury, and selenium in breast feathers of common terns (Sterna hirundo) and roseate terns (S. dougallii) trapped during incubation at breeding colonies in New York and Massachusetts.
  • (17) These results suggest that terns are exposed to significantly higher levels of mercury in the northeastern United States than they are in the wintering grounds in South America.
  • (18) Twenty Forster's tern eggs were collected from separate nests at a natural colony with documented reproductive problems, situated at Green Bay, Lake Michigan, and an inland colony at Lake Poygan (control) where reproduction was documented as normal.
  • (19) However, when the neuraminidase was complexed with Fab fragments of monoclonal antibodies, which were made against the tern N9 neuraminidase, large crystals of the complexes were obtained which diffract X-rays to beyond 3 A.
  • (20) They were not found in sera from bridled terns (Sterna anaetheta) or brown gannets (Sula leucogaster) nesting on the same islands.