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Funge


Definition:

  • (n.) A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful," Fung wrote on his blog.
  • (2) Ho-fung Hung, of Johns Hopkins University in the US, grew up in Hong Kong and follows its politics.
  • (3) 262, 10839-10847) reported that mAb 4A interacts with T alpha at the carboxyl-terminal peptide, whereas Fung and co-workers (Navon, S. E., and Fung, B. K.-k. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (4) Paul Oakenfold: In 1987, two friends of mine, Ian St Paul and Trevor Fung, were working out in Ibiza, so I decided to have my 24th birthday there and invite some other friends - Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker.
  • (5) The move comes just ahead of a formal court battle which Isohunt, set up by Gary Fung of Canada, was certain to lose.
  • (6) 250, 246; Perutz, M.F., Sanders, J.K.M., Chenery, D.H., Noble, R.W., Penelly, R.R., Fung, L.W.-M., Ho, C., Giannini, I., Porschke, D. and Winkler, H. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 3640).
  • (7) But I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful," Fung wrote on his blog before the shutdown.
  • (8) (Y. K. Fung, A. L. Murphree, A. Tang, J. Qian, S. H. Hinrichs, and W. F. Benedict, Science 236:1657-1661, 1987) but did confirm the presence of a truncated transcript in the RB cell line Y79.
  • (9) Temperature-sensitive mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that are defective in the biosynthesis of 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate are known to accumulate disaccharide precursor(s) of lipid A at 42 degrees C (Rick, P. D., Fung, L. W.-M., Ho, C., and Osborn, M. J.
  • (10) U.S.A. 87, 5873-5877; Yamane, H. K., Farnsworth, C. C., Xie, H., Howald, W., Fung, B. K-K., Clarke, S., Gelb, M. H., and Glomset, J.
  • (11) A US court had ruled against a defence offered by Fung in March, using the same finding that had led to the closure of the peer-to-peer music- and film-sharing system Grokster.
  • (12) There was a record-breaking amount of people casting their ballots this year,” the Electoral Affairs Commission chairman, Barnabus Fung, told reporters on Monday.
  • (13) On the first night of the holiday we bumped into Trevor Fung, a London DJ working out in Ibiza, who told us about Amnesia and this new drug called ecstasy.
  • (14) Zhang Dejiang, who heads the leading group on Hong Kong affairs, said that copying a foreign electoral system could "become a democracy trap … and possibly bring a disastrous result", Ma Fung-kwok, a delegate at Thursday's closed-door meeting, told Reuters .
  • (15) The alveolar septa capillaries in control rats were shown to form a network the parameters ow which rather correspond to the "sheet-blow" model (Fung and Sobin, 1969).
  • (16) The polynomial description of Evans and Fung and strain energy expressions introduced by Zarda et al.
  • (17) 262, 10839-10847) and the amino terminus (Navon, S.E., and Fung, B.K.-K. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (18) The mathematical aspects of the problem of the interpretation of the experimental data on the viscoelastic behaviour of materials by making use of the linear and quasi-linear relaxation model proposed by Fung, are considered.
  • (19) Previous high resolution proton NMR data on human erythrocyte spectrin molecules has indicated the existence of regions exhibiting rapid internal motions within the intact molecules [L. W.-M. Fung, H.-Z.
  • (20) 43, 1585] and the partial sequence deduced by Van Dop and co-workers from cDNA [Van Dop, C., Medynski, D., Sullivan, K., Wu, A. M., Fung, B. K.-K. & Bourne, H. R. (1984) Biochem.

Simpleton


Definition:

  • (n.) A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reading your post I couldn't help but think tonight's simpletons had undergone a similar experience."
  • (2) But these simpletons are absolutely determined to find their seat.
  • (3) There’s a really big willingness to help here in Germany and a mind-boggling number of people that are doing lots for refugees, who are not racist, and I think it’s their voice that should be dominant rather than a handful of simpletons who think they should stir up hatred.” This article was amended on 7 August 2015 to correct the name of the news programme on which Reschke made her comments
  • (4) Maybe because I am a simpleton and sometimes can only process what I can see – the actual sky, rather than invisible cyberspace in which data blips through fibre-optic cables.
  • (5) George W. Bush was a Texan simpleton who took more time playing golf on his computer than deciding on executions while governor.
  • (6) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
  • (7) Which is also to say, for younger visitors, that the exhibition could even be seen to reduce Diana to the big-spending simpleton who was castigated in Anthony O’Hear’s revisionist essay of 1998, as shallow and self-obsessed.
  • (8) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
  • (9) And Navracsics’ hastily put together statement from yesterday seems to only repeat the same category error, a simpleton bureaucrat mantra trying to dodge the absurdity of the EU apparently having no responsibility to give any support to the EU’s own youth orchestra.
  • (10) These use the character of Lennie, the gentle simpleton who doesn't know his own strength from Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men, as a benchmark, with the court writing: "Texas citizens might agree that Steinbeck's Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and adaptive skills, be exempt" .
  • (11) "I was a simpleton last Saturday evening at Melbourne Park."
  • (12) My husband is pointing out, veeerrryy slowly, as if to a simpleton, that this would involve us trebling our current mortgage.
  • (13) A dverts for insurance comparison websites have long treated the British public like a shower of infantilised simpletons.
  • (14) Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson rapped over "special needs" joke This time it's media regulator Ofcom tut-tutting after Clarkson describes the Ferrari F430 Speciale as "a bit wrong ... that smiling front end ... it looked like a simpleton ... [it] should have been called the 430 Speciale Needs".
  • (15) I liked the idea of an island with a vocation – all islands should have one, surely – and Tico took great pleasure in instructing me in the difference between primary and secondary Atlantic rainforest (simpleton that I am, I thought all forest was good, but Tico tut-tutted every time we passed a coconut palm), and even more pleasure in skipping up the 990m Pico do Papagaio while I lumbered behind.

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