(n.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(2) @neopeo : Dude at work took 7 hours to get in to work this morning.
(3) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
(4) How does it stop?” And a dude in his early thirties who looks like a 6ft-3in brick wall says, “Everyone on my block did that.
(5) But it was in westerns that Peck's dour integrity showed itself best: unshaven and tough in Yellow Sky (1948); a dude learning to adapt to the west in The Big Country (1958); and obsessively after the men who raped and killed his wife in The Bravados (1958).
(6) He's 27 today, and shares his birthday with [frantic googling] Stuart Broad, Vernon Philander, the dude who played RoboCop, fellow football genius Kevin Nolan.
(7) He's a man of many names: The Walking Dude, The Ageless Stranger, He Who Walks Behind The Rows, The Man In Black, Walter O'Dim, The Dark Man.
(8) In other tweets she wrote: "I was on the balcony, dude with machine gun came up and told us to go in and locked it … we asked if they had a search warrant, they said the person who issues warrants is in building & doesn't need to issue one for himself.
(9) The comedian, who calls President Obama "dude" to his face and gets away with it , has promised nothing more than "fun" for the tens of thousands he hopes to draw to the National Mall in Washington DC.
(10) A lot of bad ‘dudes’ out there!” Taken at his infantile word, Trump literally makes no sense: having campaigned on a Muslim ban, Trump now believes he has taken all those bad dudes by surprise with the same ban.
(11) I know what you’re thinking; this Duterte dude sounds like a sophisticate on the world stage, but he isn’t the only person to have strayed near the edges of acceptable diplomatic language.
(12) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(13) 1 | The Dude ... from The Big Lebowski Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeff Bridges as the Dude.
(14) Maybe it’s because all these dudes were not the first choice of the women of their youths […] But they can make it in tinseltown and perpetuate the desperate delusion that they are powerful.” She says she has no real hope of a comeback.
(15) American sanctions against Rosneft, which have frozen the Russian firm out of US capital markets, had not had any impact on BP, Dudely said.
(16) As I was introduced, my husband heard a dude say to his mates, “Oh, look, a chick.
(17) In a break from filming, Pratt described his character as a "roguish space dude who's socially stunted and essentially still very much a child".
(18) It’s the infectious daftness of the whole thing; the claret-hurling ultraviolence; the inability of Jessica Lange to be anything other than an absolute dude even when spouting some truly preposterous nonsense, the reset system at the end of every season – meaning each is its own standalone tale with the cast in different roles.
(19) Italy are going out in the first round, a dude has just won a tennis match at Wimbledon 70-68 in the fifth set and New Zealand are just one kick of a football away from making it through to the last 16 of the World Cup.
(20) You wanted your own person, I know this because you virtually told me Gordon, so just chill out dude, we are not going anywhere.
Homo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Conversely, beta-L-homo analogues of fuconojirimycin can also be regarded as derivatives of deoxymannojirimycin.
(2) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(3) Monodispersed N- and C-protected linear homo-oligomethionines (n = 2- -7) are studied by measurements of circular dichroism in the vacuum ultraviolet region.
(4) The assay of homo- and heteroduplexes with the S1 endonuclease permits an accurate, reproducible and rapid determination of polynucleotide sequence relationships and may be seriously considered as a method of choice for survey work and for investigations which require a large number of DNA-DNA hybridization assays.
(5) The conformations of the cyclic hexapeptides in DMSO-d6 solution were determined by a number of homo- and heteronuclear two-dimensional n.m.r.-techniques including 2D rotating frame NOE-spectroscopy.
(6) A commentator in one of the political weeklies would describe him as "the only known example of that rare species homo Wilsonicus ".
(7) Administration of the antidiuretic hormone at physiological doses was followed by the same increase in the enzymatic activity in renal papilla of homo- and heterozygotes, while certain correlation between the urine osmolality and the degree of the enzymes activation was observed.
(8) No satisfying physiological explanation of these events is retained despite data obtained with monaural homo and heterolateral stimulations and with variation of tone of sound stimulation.
(9) Although most studies emphasise the similarity of the australopithecines to modern man, and suggest, therefore, that these creatures were bipedal tool-makers at least one form of which (Australopithecus africanus--"Homo habilis", "Homo africanus") was almost directly ancestral to man, a series of multivariate statistical studies of various postcranial fragments suggests other conclusions.
(10) to the HOMO energies resulted in a marginally significant relationship; addition of the Log P's resulted in no significant improvement.
(11) The enzyme consists of two components; component A in the presence of Mg2+ catalyzes the synthesis of homo- and heteropolymers using ATP, CTP and UTP but not GTP as substrates.
(12) Besides poly (A) and poly (G), most of synthetic homo- and heteropolynucleotides were also susceptible to RC-RNase.
(13) Following homogenization and shaking at 22 degrees C for 30 min, media were extracted by XAD-2, treated with sodium hydroxide in order to convert PGE compounds into PGB compounds, purified by thin-layer chromatography, and analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography with homo-PGE1 as an internal standard.
(14) The authors report on an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody (HCV Ab) prevalence (6.9%) in 622 homo-bisexual males from Northern Italy, voluntarily attending an HIV and STDs screening program in the period 1984-89.
(15) For instance, the substitution of one C:G with one A:T base pair in the stem helix of d(CG)7 diminishes the stability of the hairpin by 9 degrees C. It is found that the stability of the stem helix, in hairpins of defined sequence and with the same loop length, decreases in the order alternating-CG greater than homo-CG greater than AC(GT) greater than alternating-AT, i.e.
(16) In the LADS analysis, homo- or heterozygosity of a mutation was easily distinguished by the appearance of a single- or double-lane band in the sequencing gel.
(17) The data obtained suggested that the 'Indis' translocation has homo(eo)logy to the Lr19 translocation and homoeology to 7DL of common wheat.
(18) They appeared to be lethals, as judged from viability of homo- or hemizygous females.
(19) Symptoms of bleeding, almost always harmless skin or mucosal bleeding, were found in 45% of patients with a history of intravenous drug abuse and in 18% of the homo- or bisexual men.
(20) But by including a final chapter, 30 pages out of almost 600, on the ultimate social animal, homo sapiens, Wilson was lighting the blue touch-paper.