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Elve


Definition:

  • (n.) An old form of Elf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ratio of ELV values for BSP and dBSP appeared to be related to overall hepatic function, with ratios greater than 1 in the normal dogs and less than 1 in the patients.
  • (2) In the present study, we have determined whether or not left adrenal products are important to the changes induced by ELV and whether or not reflux of left renal vein content occurs in the ELV rat.
  • (3) Additionally, when 85Sr-labelled microspheres were infused into the left renal vein, they did not appear in either left or right testes of ELV animals.
  • (4) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
  • (5) Maximally (ED100) and half-maximally (ED50) stimulating doses of LH and LHRH were selected from these studies and administered to sham-operated and ELV rats 30 days after the operation to induce ELV.
  • (6) The amino acid sequences of the VPs of ELV and four other tymoviruses align unequivocally and their relationships, as assessed from the percentage of identical residues, correlate well with previously reported serological tests which have shown ELV to be distant from other tymoviruses.
  • (7) On the other hand the equivalent liver volume (ELV) and storage capacity were lower with dBSP.
  • (8) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
  • (9) The examinations consisted of clinical and laboratory assessment, resting ECG, 24-hour ECG monitoring, X-ray evaluation of cardiac volume (CV), and evaluation of echocardiographic left ventricular shortening (ELVS) and of isotopic ejection fraction (EF).
  • (10) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
  • (11) We love our elves.” We’d said we’d quite like to try cross-country skiing so Björn simply pulls up by the side of the road, straps us into our skis and we set off.
  • (12) It is possible that the previously determined ELV-associated decrease in intratesticular testosterone concentrations is subsequent to a wash-out phenomenon that follows the increased testicular blood flow that also is known to be associated with ELV.
  • (13) These values were similar for right control testicles and left and right testicles of ELV animals.
  • (14) The nucleotide sequence of the genome of erysimum latent tymovirus (ELV) has been determined.
  • (15) ELV was transmissible by Aphis frangulae gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Myzus persicae neither in short nor in long feeding times.
  • (16) Although its pressure dependence has been recognized, its temporal relationship to ventricular elastance (Elv(t)) has not been established.
  • (17) Elv(t) was derived using an elastance-resistance model of the left ventricle assuming an ejection fraction of 0.50 and a dead volume (Vd) of 3.0 mL.
  • (18) In the first study, testicular blood flow and temperature were studied in control animals and those with ELV, left adrenalectomy (LAX), or ELV + LAX.
  • (19) The results demonstrate that ELV does not alter the blood-testis barrier (BTB) to 3H-inulin (MW 5000), it being largely excluded from entry into the tubule lumen in both control and ELV animals.
  • (20) Back in the 90s, a group of conservative lawyers called “the elves” secretly worked to keep the Paula Jones case alive.

Pixie


Definition:

  • (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
  • (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I resented my own parents on far flimsier grounds (unwillingness to buy me purple suede pixie boots, for instance).
  • (2) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
  • (3) • Black Francis speaks of Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies
  • (4) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
  • (5) Aside from asking Essex to "put a ring on it", she'll debut that new pixie cut in the UK.
  • (6) The rights of women and of minority populations and vulnerable and low-income people are under threat and we must do everything we can to protect these rights and fight for true equality.” Musician Pixie Geldof, writer Stella Duffy, activist Jack Monroe and US rock musician Thurston Moore are supporting the London march, while in the US organisers claim that many of the musicians who have refused to play at Trump’s inauguration will join them.
  • (7) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
  • (8) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
  • (9) The inhibition by PIXI of factor XIa-catalyzed activation of factor IX and its capacity to prevent factor XIa inactivation by alpha 1-protease inhibitor, combined with the specificity of PIXI for factor XIa among serine proteases found in blood, suggest a role for PIXI in the regulation of intrinsic coagulation.
  • (10) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
  • (11) But unlike, say, Duran Duran or the Pixies, they've never really been away, so there's no opportunity to key into the nostalgia circuit.
  • (12) pIXY 321 may offer significant clinical advantages over the individual cytokines.
  • (13) Pixies made me forget I was dressed in a bin-liner I wasn't expecting too much from the Pixies before their second from top slot on the Other stage .
  • (14) Clockwise from top left: Grimshaw with Kelly Osborne; Sara Cox and Annie Mac at the Brit awards; Queens of Noize DJ Tabitha Denholm; dressed as Lily Allen, off to Mark Ronson’s birthday party; at Amy Winehouse’s funeral; with Henry Holland; Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the NME awards afterparty; predecessor Chris Moyles.
  • (15) Look, Pixie Geldof has found a big conker made of twigs, and it might have something to do with River Island, and she looks quite pleased .
  • (16) The full title of this event is the artistic gymnastics, and for 2012 the event seems to want to place the emphasis on art; thus the competitors were played in with a curious acoustic set from singer Pixie Lott, standing in the middle of the floor mat, surrounded by feline acrobats in latex body stockings.
  • (17) The festival in question, Summer in the City, has officially announced some of its July performers: Pixies and Royal Blood on 10 July, and James with Starsailor on 11 July.
  • (18) Double dissolution is a 'live option' as Morrison rules out 'pixie horse' tax cuts Read more The Coalition government kept the option of calling a double-dissolution election up its sleeve, he said, and could pull the trigger if the Senate “becomes inoperable”.
  • (19) Widely read, with a quick wit and sharp intelligence, she was also a devoted partner and mother to her and Geldof's extravagantly-named daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
  • (20) "Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama's presidency is gone."

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