(n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.
(n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you take a forgery to a bank will they give you a real one in return?
(2) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
(3) The French financial prosecutor is looking into whether “the calculations constitute forgeries made to justify, after the fact, the wages that were paid”, Le Monde reported .
(4) Key to the case against O’Neill is a letter, allegedly from the prime minister to senior ministers, which suggested O’Neill authorised the payments, but the prime minister dismissed it as a forgery.
(5) The free-market Heartland Institute has moved to contain the damage from explosive revelations about its efforts to discredit climate change and alter the teaching of science in schools, claiming on Wednesday it was the victim of theft and forgery.
(6) The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin."
(7) But the Bangkok Post's interview with an unnamed DSI agent quoted him as saying the country was also attractive because it is relatively easy to enter and leave; "you can negotiate with some law enforcement people"; and – importantly – some local officials have not tended to see the forgery of foreign (as opposed to Thai) passports as a particularly serious offence.
(8) Once the KGB would have spent months planting well-made forgeries.
(9) In contrast to the FBI's aggressive pursuit of Brown, no probe of the Team Themis project was launched – despite a call from 17 US House representatives to investigate a possible conspiracy to violate federal laws, including forgery, mail and wire fraud, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
(10) Moran faces 21 charges: 15 of false accounting, contrary to the Theft Act 1968, and six of forgery, in which it is alleged she submitted false invoices.
(11) "There was forgery and dishonest concealment of material facts.
(12) There is not the slightest bit of forgery in this case,” he said.
(13) The scheme – backed by Italy FA head Carlo Tavecchio, convicted five times since 1970 for forgery, tax evasion and abuse of office – aims to champion “all acts of honesty”.
(14) The Falkirk report arrives at eight conclusions in its executive summary, leaked to the press and widely interpreted as damning proof of forgery, bullying and "machine politics" by Unite , the union.
(15) Williams, a Nationals MP, expressed his support for a further inquiry, saying he had received evidence of fraud, wrongdoing and forgery.
(16) On Monday evening it emerged that a letter from the taskforce chief, Sam Koim, to the police commissioner, leaked to SBS News , claimed new evidence has emerged – including a forensic analysis of a letter previously dismissed as a forgery by O’Neill – strengthening the case against the prime minister.
(17) Iran has rejected most of the IAEA material on weaponisation as forgeries, but has admitted carrying out tests on multiple high-explosive detonations synchronised to within a microsecond.
(18) Also among the dead were an Isis executioner and a forgery specialist.
(19) A Guardian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan was offered fake Syrian passports by two separate smuggling rings, less than a week after French authorities alleged that a terrorist used a similar forgery to enter the Greek island of Leros, before taking part in an attack on the Stade de France in Paris.
(20) That’s fair enough, but you might think they practice some assumption of innocence until proven guilty of passport forgery.
Metal
Definition:
(n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.
(n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.
(n.) A mine from which ores are taken.
(n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.
(n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
(n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
(n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.
(n.) Glass in a state of fusion.
(n.) The rails of a railroad.
(v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(3) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(4) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(5) These results indicate that the inhibition of CarAc by heavy metals occurs by binding of the sulfhydryl on the enzyme by the metals.
(6) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(7) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(8) EGTA was ineffective in removing calmodulin from particulate preparations, but treatment with the tervalent metal ion La3+ resulted in a loss of up to 98% of calmodulin activity from these preparations.
(9) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(10) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(11) The radioprotective action in E. coli ATCC 9637 of ascorbate added to media containing the weak sensitizer, tetracycline (effect described by Pittillo and Lucas (1967)), was found to be dependent on the presence of metal catalysts of the autoxidation of ascorbate.
(12) This study introduces a simple in vitro arrangement to measure current densities of implant metals.
(13) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(14) Since the enzyme requires a metal ion (Co2+) we suggest that the RNA and heparin are inhibitory by virtue of their capacity to chelate the Co2+.
(15) Lesions of allergic contact type could not be induced in the oral mucosa to any of the metal salt preparations.
(16) As yet the observations demonstrate that workers exposed in their occupation to heavy metals (cadmium, lead, metalic mercury) and organic solvents should be subjected to special control for detection of renal changes.
(17) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(18) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(19) The physiologically important metal ion for catalysis is Mg2+; however, Mn2+ supports in vitro activity, though at a reduced level.
(20) We support the view that catalysis by metalloenzymes may be a reflection of the chemistry of the metal ion itself as a Lewis acid, and that perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on supposed special characteristics (such as strains, "entasis") of the enzyme-metal ion association.