(a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
(n.) The language spoken in France.
(n.) Collectively, the people of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(3) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(4) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(5) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
(6) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
(7) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(8) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(9) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
(10) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(11) We report a case of tuberculous dactylitis--spina ventosa--in a 5 year-old girl from a French upper class family.
(12) In Belgium the proportion of adenocarcinomas is much higher than in any of the French registries.
(13) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(14) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
(16) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
(17) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
(18) A national distribution of 66 French patients, from 49 sibships, has been studied.
(19) 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.
(20) French authors call it "the syndrome of the fifth day".
Tongue
Definition:
(n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
(n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.
(n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
(n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
(n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
(n.) Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
(n.) A people having a distinct language.
(n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
(n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
(n.) The lingua of an insect.
(n.) Any small sole.
(n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
(n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
(n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
(n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
(n.) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
(n.) The clapper of a bell.
(n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
(n.) Same as Reed, n., 5.
(v. t.) To speak; to utter.
(v. t.) To chide; to scold.
(v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
(v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
(v. i.) To talk; to prate.
(v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
(2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(3) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(4) The concentration dependences of response of frog tongue to D-fructose, D-glucose, and sucrose were almost the same, D-galactose, however, elicited a much larger response in comparison with the other sugars in the whole range of concentrations examined.
(5) A case of osteosarcoma of the tongue is reported, with microscopic findings.
(6) In the QHCl-sucrose condition components separated by the tongue's midline and those spatially mixed produced equal amounts of bitterness suppression.
(7) S. sanguis also adhered to human tongues better than the serum-requiring diphtheroid.
(8) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
(9) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
(10) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
(11) Application of 1 mM BT (pH 6.3) to the human tongue statistically potentiated the taste of 0.2 M NaCl and 0.2 M LiCl by 33.5% and 12.5% respectively.
(12) The first manifestation was often extranodular (9 patients tonsil, 8 parotid gland, 8 base of tongue, 7 nasopharynx).
(13) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(14) We report the case of an 8-month-old female with an unusual duplication cyst in the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.
(15) It represents the seventh case to occur in the base of tongue and the second to be associated with pregnancy.
(16) CR-ir was also observed in nerve fibers surrounding neuronal cell bodies in autonomic ganglia, and in nerve endings in the lip, tongue, incisal papilla, soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
(17) We have examined the keratin proteins in normal human oral mucosa from 6 different regions including hard palate, buccal mucosa, tongue, gingiva and floor of the mouth.
(18) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
(19) Additional documented organ involvement included liver (two of 10), rectal (three of 10), renal (two of 10), gingiva (two of 10), and tongue (one of 10), although invasive biopsies were not performed in a majority of patients.
(20) Sheet preparations of the stratum granulosum from the epithelium of the ventral surface of mouse tongue permit examination of cell replacement of this maturation compartment of the tissue.