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Duo


Definition:

  • (n.) A composition for two performers; a duet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (2) We have to form a duo and I have the right feeling with him.
  • (3) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
  • (4) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
  • (5) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (6) The following commercial preparations were studied: Duo-Medihaler, Medihaler-Epi, Medihaler-Epi Medihaler-Iso, Norisodrine Aerotrol, Alupent, Metaprel, Isuprel Mistometer, Bronkometer, and Asthma-Meter.
  • (7) Balazs Dzsudzsak still has an amazing left foot, while the experienced midfielder Zoltan Gera will hopefully inspire and guide the young duo Adam Nagy and Laszlo Kleinheisler.
  • (8) Encouraged by Atkins , to whom Ike had enthused about his two talented sons, Don and Phil branched out as a duo.
  • (9) It's worth remembering that as the US and UK run around the world protesting the hacking activities of others and warning of the dangers of cyber-attacks , that duo is one of the most aggressive and malicious, if not the most aggressive and malicious, perpetrators of those attacks of anyone on the planet.
  • (10) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
  • (11) Recently, the Swedish duo Tomorrow Machine showcased a series of utopian packaging that included a container that dissolves with its contents.
  • (12) And on balance that starting duo looks about right.
  • (13) The subjects practiced the procedure described, directed toward self-care and mutual aid facilitated and supported by the duo, in a series of ten 2-hour weekly sessions.
  • (14) The n-dimensional duo-trio method model is given in this paper and previous work on the triangular method is reviewed briefly.
  • (15) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
  • (16) The performers regarded by Rolling Stone magazine as "the most important vocal duo in rock" were the children of midwestern country stars Ike and Margaret Everly and first performed as teenagers on the family radio show in Shenandoah, Iowa.
  • (17) The author is establishing a relationship between film density duo to the light of intensifying screens and lack of focus.
  • (18) Despite his lifelong interest in classical music, Warren's first professional involvement was as one half of the boy-girl pop duo, Lyme and Cybelle.
  • (19) Removal of beta 2-microglobulin (B2MG) from uremic plasma during hemofiltration in 5 patients using polysulfone (F60), acrylonitrile (AN69), polyamid (FH77), polyacrylonitrile (PAN200) and cellulose-acetate (Duo-Flux) membranes was investigated.
  • (20) In the latest example of the site being used as a conduit to try to influence Hollywood casting decisions, more than 17,000 people have joined a call for producers to remove the duo and replace them with Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel.

Dux


Definition:

  • (n.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dux said it could also reach the government: "The government is not immune in civil litigation.
  • (2) I hope those people who are still alive, who did know what was happened, feel thoroughly ashamed of themselves Solicitor Liz Dux The investigation into the scale and details of the sexual assaults on patients at the Buckinghamshire hospital was delayed after new information came to light.
  • (3) Liz Dux, of Slater and Gordon, said last year that victims who claimed to have been abused on NHS premises would initially bring claims against the NHS, while those who alleged they had been assaulted in BBC buildings would first lodge claims against the corporation.
  • (4) "To win the case against the BBC you do not have to show they knew about it, provided you can prove Savile was acting as an agent of the BBC," said Dux.
  • (5) Ca2+ has been proposed to regulate expression of the gene for the Ca2+ pump of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in developing chicken myoblasts (A. N. Martonosi, L. Dux, R. L. Terjung, and D. Roufa.
  • (6) Vanadate concentrations high enough to saturate the low-affinity binding caused two-dimensional arrays as reported by Dux and Martonosi (Dux, L. and Martonosi, A.
  • (7) I can’t be a judge or jury on anything else, none of the sadness that seems to have been going on there was I aware of.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeremy Hunt apologises to the victims of Savile in June 2014 Dux told the BBC that many of her clients had given evidence of how they reported abuse at the time, but they were told to keep quiet.
  • (8) When a publication date is known, a further update will be provided.” Liz Dux, an abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon, which is representing 174 of Savile’s victims, said: “You can’t underestimate the amount of distress Savile’s victims will have suffered if they have seen this.
  • (9) Liz Dux, a partner at Russell Jones & Walker in London and an expert in personal injury and child abuse cases, revealed on Friday that she was acting for a number of women who want to sue the BBC and Stoke Mandeville hospital on the grounds of vicarious liability.
  • (10) Conditions which were optimal for the stabilization of Ca2(+)-transporting ATPase in solubilized sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes (Pikułla, S., Mullner, N., Dux, L. and Martonosi, A.
  • (11) The Roman past appealed to Mussolini too, who assumed the title of Duce: the Latin word DUX, which translates as "leader", is tattooed on Di Canio's bicep.
  • (12) Purified SR preparations from rabbit gastrocnemius muscle atrophied by disuse showed similar protein composition (gel electrophoresis; Laemmli 1970) and similar vanadate induced crystallization (Dux and Martonosi 1983) properties of Ca2+-ATPase as those of control preparations.
  • (13) Solicitor Liz Dux said: “The victims are hopeful the review will establish a much greater level of accountability than the previous one did.
  • (14) Dux said the duty of care towards patients or guests of Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It and other programmes would be "heightened" if any managers had suspicions at the time about Savile.
  • (15) Dux, head of abuse at law firm Slater & Gordon, added: "His victims will be distressed to read that those that protected him put monetary gain and his celebrity above looking after their welfare.
  • (16) Liz Dux, a lawyer at Slater & Gordon who represents 168 survivors of Jimmy Savile’s abuse, immediately accused the £6.5m report of being an “expensive whitewash”.
  • (17) Liz Dux, abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon, who represents six of Janner’s alleged victims, says: This is devastating news for my clients.
  • (18) The observations support the suggestion [Dux, Taylor, Ting-Beall & Martonosi (1985) J. Biol.
  • (19) Based on our results and those of Dux et al., we emphasize the possibility that delayed neuronal death is, at least in part, caused by increased calcium cycling of plasma membranes and gradual calcium overload of mitochondria.
  • (20) The Ca2+- or lanthanide-induced crystals are presumed to represent the E1 conformation of the Ca2+-ATPase, and their crystal form is clearly different from the earlier described E2 crystals induced by Na3VO4 in the presence of ethylene glycol bis(beta aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (Taylor, K. A., Dux, L., and Martonosi, A.

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