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Gipsy


Definition:

  • (n. a.) See Gypsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
  • (2) The results of inoculation of gipsy moth cell culture with mosquito iridovirus are presented.
  • (3) We thus add a new perspective to Corot's Gipsy Girl With Mandolin-a subject with arthritis, a painter knowledgeable about arthritis, and a painting that therefore might be understood at least in part from an appreciation of the artist's specific illness.
  • (4) The similarities in the allotype frequencies of C3 and Bf among Gipsy and Gaddis (India) populations supports the Indian origin of the former ethnic group.
  • (5) The propositus is a 25-year-old gipsy female presenting with a recessively inherited haemolytic anaemia.
  • (6) A boy aged 2 years, born prematurely to Gipsy parents, presented with hypopigmentation severe encephalopathy with athetoid movements, bilateral ocular anomalies including cloudy corneas, iris atrophy and cataracts, as well as dental defects.
  • (7) The fact that a group of the later Egyptian gipsies, who were also called Ghawãzĩ, still bear the name Barãmika can perhaps be better understood on the following grounds.
  • (8) Based on a clinical and immunogenetical study of three Gipsy and two partly Gipsy patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) it is concluded that clinically the MS of pure Gipsies resembles the Eastern form of MS and that of the partly Gipsy patients the Caucasian form of the disease.
  • (9) The high endogamy was proved by the gipsy origin of male partners in 90% of couples.
  • (10) Gipsy Kings ' Savor Flamenco tied with Ladysmith Black Mambazo 's Live: Singing For Peace Around The World.
  • (11) Executive Headteacher, Gipsy Hill Federation, London.
  • (12) The authors investigated the growth of 1208 gipsy and non-gipsy children living with their families and in childrens homes.
  • (13) By taking into account the data on the frequency of the HLA antigens in the healthy Gipsy population the genetic factors determining MS are probably only indirectly related to the B and DR loci inside the complex HLA system.
  • (14) When Sarkozy sent riot police with teargas to dismantle Roma gipsy camps in the summer of 2010 and banned Muslims from praying in the streets just weeks after Le Pen likened the sight to the Nazi occupation, it seemed clear some far-right ideas had entered mainstream policy.
  • (15) Bf*F occurred more frequently among Gipsies, while frequencies for the other three allotypes was lower in this group than in Hungarians.
  • (16) The author describes a protracted epidemic of measles in the district of Liptovský Mikulás in the Central Slovakian region where between May 5, 1988 and July 11, 1988 30 children, mosth of them not immunized against measles, mostly from the gipsy community in Vazec contracted the disease.
  • (17) Interestingly, the prevalence of IgA deficiency among Gipsies living in Hungary was significantly higher.
  • (18) "It is a stunning school," said Craig Tunstall, executive head of the Gipsy Hill federation, which runs five local authority schools in the area, all formerly judged as failing.
  • (19) Campylobacteriosis affects significantly more frequently children of gipsy origin.
  • (20) Ultrastructural findings of biopsy materials of four gipsy first cousin infants suffering from late infantile type of ceroid lipofuscinosis (Jansky-Bielschowsky) were investigated.

Gypsy


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
  • (n.) The language used by the gypsies.
  • (n.) A dark-complexioned person.
  • (n.) A cunning or crafty person
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
  • (v. i.) To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (2) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
  • (3) A third clone hybridized to at least 17 sites on the chromosomes indicating the presence of repetitive sequences in the gypsy flanking DNA.
  • (4) She also warned over increasing stigma being shown toward Gypsies, Travellers and Roma struggling to find accommodation.
  • (5) In 2012-13, 12% of prisoners at HMP Elmley, Kent, 11% at HMP Gloucester and 10% at HMP Winchester identified themselves as being Gypsy, Romany or Traveller.
  • (6) The population understudy was composed of 156 children, with ages ranging from 1 to 14 years; they were stratified in three socio-environmental groups (white-family unit, gypsy-family unit and orphanage), and also divided into subgroups according to age.
  • (7) In the other, unstable mutator strain (MS) which is derived from SS, the gypsy copy number and the frequency of its transposition are greatly increased.
  • (8) Earlier this year, I stayed in a remodelled gypsy caravan in the garden of the owner’s home while making my way back to the UK via Burgundy.
  • (9) These three uncommon features of the gypsy promoter may be characteristic of a subset of pol II promoters, exemplified by certain retrotransposons and developmental genes of Drosophila and by Tdt, the mouse terminal deoxynucleotidyl-transferase (TdT) gene.
  • (10) His own favourite among his books published was The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997), about his grandfather, John Sampson.
  • (11) We have studied the HLA-class I and class II antigen distribution in a sample of 75 Spanish Gypsies and 74 Spanish non-Gypsies by serology, restriction fragment length polymorphism, and protein chain reaction and hybridization with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes.
  • (12) The patients were assigned to one of two groups depending on their ethnic origin - Gypsy or non-Gypsy.
  • (13) Also unlike most pol II promoters, the gypsy promoter, which lacks a TATA motif, was found to have an essential sequence at the transcription initiation site, mutation of which abolishes transcription.
  • (14) Aldehyde dehydrogenase I isozyme deficiency was found in four persons including two gypsies.
  • (15) • Gîtes (sleeping 4-7 from €450 a week, 020-3603 1160, babyfriendlyboltholes.co.uk Croas Men farm, near Morlaix Accommodation options at this unusual campsite include ridge tents and a gypsy caravan but the best option for families is La Maisonnette, a simple wooden house overlooking a donkey meadow.
  • (16) The TEs that were observed generally exhibited heterogeneous distributions, with the exception of F, gypsy and 412 which were ubiquitous, and 297, G, Sancho 2, hobo and FB which were not detected.
  • (17) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
  • (18) Only by reaching a very old age no old gypsy can reach an important position in his society.
  • (19) According to Trevor Phillips , former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for Gypsies and Travellers "Great Britain is still like the American Deep South for black people in the 1950s.
  • (20) His story of a Gypsy drug dealer threatened with eviction from his caravan in a Wiltshire wood became, rather than drowning in over-ambitious "Themes", fantastically mercurial.

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