(n. pl.) Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
(n. pl.) Effects, in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(2) We evaluated the ability of the screening tests to detect drug use disorder (DUD) according to the research diagnostic criteria.
(3) A dud mutant, strain FA660, lacked DNA-binding activity at the 11-kDa protein in BI.
(4) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(5) Sam Tree, 68, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, claimed the dud devices, which he made in his shed, could track down explosives, drugs and people.
(6) We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud.
(7) And he will touch on private training colleges, suggesting “too many institutions have been allowed to chase profits and dud students – at taxpayer expense” in a reference to the VET fee rorts – though the fees system was expanded by the former Labor government and allowed to flourish in the first years of the Abbott government.
(8) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
(9) Normal copulators (Studs) exhibited significantly less WDS than did noncopulators (Duds).
(10) It should be a good series, at least I hope so after yesterday's playoff game duds .
(11) I even got the requisite clench of nostalgia at the new trailer , seeing Harrison Ford in his old duds and the Millenium Falcon jumping to hyper space with new clunky special effects mimicking the old clunky special effects.
(12) That was a great night's football, rounded off by a penalty shoot-out of epically comical proportions, with Sergio Ramos's horrendous effort being the pick of the many duds.
(13) The pilin mRNA sequence changes that accompanied pilus transitions in these nontransformable dud and P- gonococci represent insertion of pilS stretches into their respective pilE, apparently via intragenomic recombination.
(14) The best thing about the age of the DVR and the internet is on Sunday afternoon you could fast forward through the duds (and the seemingly endless commercial breaks) to get to the good stuff or, better yet, wait for the one or two good sketches of the night to be posted on Hulu and let various blogs curate them for you.
(15) Almost as quickly as the lens cap is removed and the cameras roll, everything can change, making a film look like a square dud to it's target teen audience.
(16) Both sides are kitted out in the duds with which they are most readily associated.
(17) IDU was degraded to 2'-deoxyuridine (dUd) in control experiments, but during corneal penetration experiments IDU was degraded to a mixture of dUd and iodouracil (IU).
(18) There’s also a free box of Milk Duds (chocolate caramels) at your table and Route 66 memorabilia on the wall.
(19) A decision to flood the EU’s carbon market with dud credits “was partly because of hurt feelings from having had no proper compensation,” the UN source said.
(20) (1965), an interesting comedy that never lived up to all its starry contributors; How to Steal a Million (1966), a dud with Audrey Hepburn – viewers asked which star was thinner and more wide-eyed; The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) – as several angels – for John Huston; The Night of the Generals (1967); Great Catherine (1968); Murphy's War (1971); Under Milk Wood (1972) – with Burton and Taylor; Man of La Mancha (1972); Rosebud (1975); Man Friday (1975).
Suds
Definition:
(n. pl.) Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The condition of the blood-brain barrier and changes in intracranial pressure were studied in cats with surgical brain wounds and after sudded decompression.
(2) Physiological concentrations of vinblastine sulfate elicited ribosomal helices in large numbers in growing cultures of the osmotically sensitive mutant sud 24 and, after treatment with ethylenediaminetetraacetate, also in the K-12 strain.
(3) Moreover, the positive and negative predictive values were 84.9 and 99.2%, respectively, when results of the SUDS assay and IFA were compared.
(4) Compared with hospital laboratory culture, the sensitivity of office SUDS (73.8%) was superior to that of office culture (66.6%) at P = 0.05.
(5) By using Miettinen's matched analysis for comparison of SUD cases and matched controls, the relative risks for the accepted coronary heart disease risk factors of ever smoking and hypertension were 8.6 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.3 to 57.3) and 5.7 (95% CI, 1.2 to 26.9), respectively.
(6) Over 70 days of age, the combined presence of viral infection and wrapping in excess of 10 togs produced an odds ratio of SUD of 51.5 (95% CI 5.64 to 471.48) compared with wrapping of less than 6 togs.
(7) "We have already learnt a great deal but new results could emerge in certain situations – only we don't yet know which ones," said Mark Goerbig, another CNRS researcher, who works in the solid physics department at Paris-Sud Orsay University.
(8) The number of cases on IHD, CVD and SUD was 36, 60, and 52, respectively.
(9) The sensitivity of the SUDS Rubella was 99.5%, and the specificity was 100%, when compared with Rubascan.
(10) The influenza A associated SUD cases had a significantly higher rate of pathological and histological findings previously described for cases of primary viral pneumonia than did SUD cases without recent influenza A infection and NON-SUD cases.
(11) In this article we review and compare studies on SUDS in the United States and South-east Asia.
(12) The verified SUDS victims were all men wth a mean age of 35.9 years (SD 7.8).
(13) Out of the 4 initial serum specimens tested, all were positive by PA, 2 by SUDS, Wellcome and Pasteur, 1 by SeroCard and DB, and none by Organon.
(14) All newly diagnosed cases of CHD (sudden unexpected death [SUD], N = 18; myocardial infarction [MI], N = 90; and angina, N = 133) among female Rochester residents 40 to 59 years of age during the years 1960 through 1982 were identified, and two community control subjects were matched for age and duration of community medical record.
(15) Acute vascular accidents within the critical centers of cardiac impulse formation and conduction deserve more frequent consideration in the explanation of unusual cases of "epilepsy", of seizure disorders of the elderly, of neurologic manifestations (which may be secondary as well as primary) of systemic diseases such as lupus erythematosus or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and indeed of every case of otherwise unexplanined syncope or sudded death at any age.
(16) The SUD union complained that free tickets for VIPs were scandalous at a time when the airline is telling staff its financial situation is "catastrophic".
(17) The call – signed by Alliance Sud, Les Amis de la Terre, Christian Aid, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Counter Balance, Oxfam, the Centre for Trade Policy and Development, Sherpa, Déclaration de Berne, Tax Justice Network Africa and Eurodad – concludes: "We cannot conceive of anything that would justify such secrecy and we therefore urge the bank to reveal the truth by publishing the report as a matter of urgency."
(18) We investigated 44 cases of SUDS for details of seizure history, treatment, medical and psychological history, events at the time of death, and postmortem findings.
(19) When SUDS was compared with IHA, sensitivity (96.4%), specificity (97.9%), and negative predictive value (99.4%) indicated that there were similar reactivities between the two tests.
(20) When these tests were employed on sera from 16 immigrant Thai construction workers who died of sudden unexplained death syndrome (SUDS) and 73 healthy Thai fellow workers, 93.8% and 68.8% of SUDS cases had IHA titre of greater than or equal to 4 and IgM-IFA titre of greater than or equal to 10 respectively, in contrast to 39.7% and 12.3% found among healthy Thai workers.