(a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
(a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
(n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
(n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
(n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
(n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
(v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
(v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
(6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
(10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
(12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
(13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
(14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
(15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
(16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
(17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
(19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
(20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
Metis
Definition:
(n. f.) Alt. of Metisse
Example Sentences:
(1) In vitro antibacterial activity of fusidic acid (FUC) in combination with cefotaxime (CTX), imipenem (IMP), gentamicin (GEN), amikacin (AKN), rifampin (RIF), fosfomycin (FOS), vancomycin, pefloxacin (PEF) was studied against 19 presumably pathogen meti-R Staphylococcus epidermidis strains.
(2) The activity of five cephalosporins has been studied with 80 coagulase-negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus strains (SCN meti-R) isolated from hospitalized patients.
(3) The presence of two transcription terminators located downstream from metY produces a small tRNAMetf2 precursor transcript, whereas an internal promoter situated between metY and the first open reading frame directs the transcription of only the protein-coding part of the operon.
(4) Diphtheria infection of the throat, nose, ears and skin was common in the North American Indian and Metis people, but rarely caused severe symptoms.
(5) We were unable to construct mutants deficient in both tRNA(f1Met) and tRNA(f2Met) by P1 phage-mediated transduction with the metY and metZ mutations.
(6) In three years, Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated from 1238 people, consisting of 820 North American Indians or Metis, 318 people of Caucasian origin, 97 Eskimos and 3 Asiatic Indians.
(7) A number of genes encoding proteins involved in transcription and translation are clustered between 68 and 69 minutes on the Escherichia coli genome map and are transcribed clockwise as two operons: the metY operon, containing metY, P15A, nusA, infB; and about a kilobase further downstream, the rpsO and pnp operon.
(8) The bactericidal activity of daptomycin was compared with that of vancomycin and of teicoplanin with regard to 54 Gram positive strains of bacteria: (S. aureus meti S and meti R; S. epidermidis meti S and meti R; E. faecalis, E. faecium, and Corynebacterium group JK).
(9) Some other additional polymorphic sites have been found in generally constant bands giving additional allelic systems, in metis families.
(10) Results show that in all cases cefamandole has the highest activity on SCN meti-R.
(11) Serum IgE levels and the prevalence of certain atopic diseases have been studied in 819 individuals in 176 white families living in central Saskatchewan and in 275 individuals in 58 Metis families living in northern Saskatchewan.
(12) The results indicate that P15B and P35 are expressed as part of the metY operon, but that some transcriptional read through into the rpsO operon also occurs, thereby, functionally linking the expression of these two complex systems.
(13) The metY-nusA-infB operon of Escherichia coli encodes functions involved in both transcription and translation.
(14) An analysis of red blood cells resistance has been conducted by exposing red corpuscles of zebu, Baoule and metis zebu x Baoule, to different saline concentrations.
(15) We also show that the metY locus of E. coli B is transcriptionally active.
(16) Moreover, the ampicillin-resistance marker of the pUC9 plasmid carrying metZ+ was not cured at 42 degrees C in host cells with the polAts and metY-metZ double mutations.
(17) We show that the metY locus which specifies tRNA(2fMet) in Escherichia coli K-12 specifies tRNA(1fMet) in E. coli B.
(18) The public health significance of the endemic infection of the North American Indian and Metis people is discussed.
(19) Multivariate methods are used to study differences among the French, the British and Native Indian (includes Metis and Eskimos) populations of Canada over three census periods from 1951 to 1971.
(20) The germs were mainly located in the respiratory track (Staphylococcus aureus meti-S (34%) and Hemophilus (29%)).