(n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
Example Sentences:
(1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(2) Two G6PD bands, both slightly faster than normal G6PD B, were seen on electrophoresis in both the propositus as well as in his maternal grandfather.
(3) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
(4) My great-grandfather helped form the Independent Labour party; had a role in the co-operative movement.
(5) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
(6) Anita Anand, the BBC presenter, tweeted during Cameron's visit: "My grandfather was one of the lucky few who survived."
(7) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
(8) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
(9) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(10) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
(11) An Australian family that lost three children and a grandfather in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has published an emotional tribute calling for an end to the “pointless war” in eastern Ukraine.
(12) Evaluation of family members for presence of the urinary inhibitor factor for thiamine diphosphate phosphoryl transferase revealed abnormal levels in a brother, a maternal uncle, and the maternal grandfather of the patient.
(13) The last in a line of fishermen, his 87-year-old grandfather is still catching lobsters.
(14) Her grandfather, who lived a life of sexual scandal and frustrated ambition, introduced her to books.
(15) It was found that the overall fit to the Poisson distribution of the samples from grandfathers was very poor; in contrast, the samples from young fathers fit well.
(16) I believe he shared more with his psychoanalyst grandfather than he liked to admit.
(17) Back in Liverpool, however: "My great-grandfather on my mother's side was a qualified ship's captain, but was never allowed to sail out of Liverpool as such, because the crews would not take orders from a black captain.
(18) This skeletal abnormality also existed in his paternal great-grandfather.
(19) Rylance has lent his support to the Save Our Sands campaign, speaking about his ancestors who lived in Dover, including his great grandfather, who was the captain of a cross -channel ferry.
(20) "That's the farm where my grandfather was born," he says.
Papa
Definition:
(n.) A child's word for father.
(n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
(2) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
(3) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
(4) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(5) Papa Massata Diack, who is the licensed agent for negotiating sponsorship deals in developing markets, has stepped down from his position as an IAAF marketing adviser until an ethics commission investigation into the doping claims has been completed.
(6) Why not just bite the bullet and say, ‘OK, let’s do a completely different way of funding’ rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation.” Armando Iannucci interview: 'We didn't want Alpha Papa to be the equivalent of Holiday on the Buses' Read more Iannucci’s idea, outlined in his Bafta lecture, was for the BBC to aggressively market itself with paid-for subscription abroad – “prostitute itself to blue buggery” – which would help subsidise subscription services in the UK at a lower level than the current licence fee.
(7) I half expected it to end with the Houser brothers dressed as Papa Lazarou from League of Gentlemen staring into the camera and whispering seductively, "you all live in Los Santos now".
(8) Those being scrutinised include Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who resigned as a marketing executive after being accused of involvement in corruption aimed at covering up doping scandals in Russia, and Valentin Balakhnichev, a former IAAF treasurer who left his post as president of the Russian athletics federation after similar allegations were made against him.
(9) His papa, Adriano, whose father’s second cousin was Lorenzo Buffon, a goalkeeper for Milan in the 50s, had already been pushing him to try playing in goal.
(10) The product formed from pApA was shown to behave like 5'-O-pyrophosphoryladenylyl-(3'-5')-adenosine (ppApA) on hydrolysis with alkaline phosphatase, potassium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid.
(11) E. coli expressing the papA-I genes produce pili that mediate specific adhesion to mammalian cells.
(12) So, we have to be very clear that this is a very, very difficult time for our sport.” The French sports daily L’Equipe has also raised questions about meetings in Moscow hotels in 2011 between Valentin Balakhnichev, the president of the Russian athletics federation and an IAAF council member, a legal adviser to the IAAF named Habib Cisse and Massata Papa Diack – the son of Lamine Diack, president of the IAAF.
(13) The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl.
(14) Two cistrons, papB and papI, were localized upstream of the major pilus subunit gene, papA.
(15) I love the fact that whenever she sees of football she says ‘Papa’.
(16) A sequence immediately downstream of the papA coding region may serve as a stability determinant for the papA transcript and concomitantly attenuate read-through transcription into the minor pilus subunit gene papH.
(17) The French sports daily L’Equipe has also raised questions about meetings in Moscow hotels in 2011 between Balakhnichev, the IAAF legal adviser Habib Cissé and Massata Papa Diack.
(18) Infants in every condition showed recovery of head turning to a novel posttest stimulus (papa).
(19) The easiest way to get there is to ask a local fisherman if he can take you over from Papa Westray.
(20) The German broadcaster ARD claimed it had evidence a €300,000 refund to Shobukhova from the Russian federation – after she had been banned for failing a test – was channelled through a Singapore-based company called Black Tidings, which was owned by a Chinese business partner of Papa Massata Diack.