(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language.
(n.) A gypsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(2) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(3) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(4) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(5) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(6) Meeting after meeting during 2011 to try to hammer out agreements about the basic shape of the Egyptian constitution – meetings that always mysteriously collapsed.
(7) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(8) The pair’s colleague, Baher Mohamed, is ineligible for deportation as he only holds an Egyptian passport.
(9) Now we need parliament to step in to fix what should have been fixed a long time ago.” In relation to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the IPT found that “email communications ... were lawfully and proportionately intercepted and accessed ...
(10) Speaking to RTL radio he added: “We are in close contact with the Egyptian authorities, both civil and military.
(11) Dot Masr reporter Mohamed Abu Asay says in the past he could never report on the budget deficit in Egypt and the Saudi-Egyptian military operation in Yemen in the same piece.
(12) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.
(13) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(14) "This is the biggest march I've ever been on," said Amira Ahmed, a 29-year-old business editor at an Egyptian newspaper.
(15) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
(16) An Egyptian court sentenced six people, including two al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Mohamed Morsi , the former president.
(17) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
(18) Canadian film director Atom Egoyan, whose parents were Armenian-Egyptians, once said: "You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's marginal for the most part.
(19) As you all know I was removed from the country on the order of the Egyptian president.
(20) ECRF will continue to fight for the truth for Giulio Regeni and in uncovering the fate of Egyptians who fall victim to forced disappearances.” Abdullah’s release comes days after Egyptian investigators visited Rome to discuss developments in the Regeni case.
Osiris
Definition:
(n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(2) At the time of the blast, Nasa’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft was just a mile away, awaiting its own launch to chase an asteroid.
(3) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
(4) Results show that OSIRIS can be calibrated against the MRE 113A for a given dust and that the calibration is maintained over the normal working range of 0-40 mg m-3.
(5) To achieve this goal, it was elected to develop a modular and portable software called OSIRIS.
(6) Once calibrated, OSIRIS would be useful in monitoring respirable dust concentrations in a wide range of industrial or laboratory situations.
(7) • Osiris Guzman (Dominican Republic) banned for 30 days, 15 days suspended for six months, fined SFr300.
(8) Its precision was investigated by studying the errors associated with patient repositioning in the apparatus using the computer controlled image scanner OSIRIS.
(9) I hope to use our friendship and excellent collaboration to ameliorate good governance.” 16) Staying humble May 2015: Feeling awkward after the Dominican Republic FA’s head Osiris Guzman (back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal) compares him to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela , Sepp provides some balance.
(10) Yet its hero is a far cry from Jesus, or Osiris, or even Superman – it's the Jade Rabbit, China's lunar rover, which has become a national obsession in recent weeks, inspiring an intense surge of interest and national pride.
(11) Latifa al-Zayyat: al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960) Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo trilogy (1956-57) Colette Khoury: Ayyam Ma'ah (1959) Enayat el-Zayyat: Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967) Layla al-Juhani: Jahiliyya (2006) You could argue that the first narrative to emerge from what has come to be called the Middle East was the first love story of all time: the story of Isis and Osiris.
(12) OSIRIS therefore needs to be calibrated against a gravimetric sampler for each dust which it will be used to monitor.
(13) I wish Concacaf unity, and solidarity.” • Among the feedback: Dominican Republic FA head Osiris Guzman , back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal , comparing Sepp to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela ; Turks and Caicos FA vice-president Olive Smith calling for delegates to vote for Sepp “ en bloc, to continue this mutually beneficial journey ”; and Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb summing up: “Concacaf is – more than ever – united by one vision.” • Also at the event: Concacaf’s executive elections, with Webb and vice-president Captain Horace Burrell re-elected unopposed.
(14) The OSIRIS trial suggests that early administration of surfactant to an estimated 32 babies, when compared with treatment of established RDS, would prevent 1 baby from dying and another from being dependent on extra oxygen long-term, but would entail the additional use of surfactant in 8 of these babies.
(15) It was the Trinidad & Tobago FA president, Raymond Tim Kee, who praised Blatter as the “father of football”, while the president of the Dominican Republic federation, Osiris Guzman, compared the 79-year-old Swiss to Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King as well as Jesus and Mandela.
(16) This annual miracle was ascribed to the tears of the goddess Isis mourning her murdered husband Osiris, and its effect was a safe prediction of what lay in store for the people of the valley: midscale meant a plentiful harvest, too much water spelled out death by flood, too little warned of famine and starvation.
(17) A short screening interview for the diagnosis of alcoholism has been developed with the assistance of the automatic interaction detector (AID) program (a multivariate sequential analysis strategy) that is part of the OSIRIS statistical package.
(18) If there are SpaceX mission delays, other cargo spacecraft will be able to meet the station’s needs, and supplies and research investigations are at good levels.” The Nasa statement said the rocket and spacecraft for its next scheduled launch with SpaceX, Osiris-Rex , were “healthy and secure” at a launch site a mile away from the site of the explosion.
(19) Eight premature infants ventilated for hyaline membrane disease and enrolled in the OSIRIS surfactant trial were studied.
(20) Isis, the mother of mankind, does not just mourn the slaying and dismembering of her husband Osiris by his evil brother, Seth; she embarks on a journey to find his 14 body parts, scattered throughout the land of Egypt.