What's the difference between grandmother and nan?

Grandmother


Definition:

  • (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
  • (2) She said it could indicate Bernardi’s grandmother was Indigenous.
  • (3) As a mother and a grandmother I am deeply concerned about the impact that fracking will have on our environment, our water sources, air and way of life.
  • (4) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)
  • (5) "Everyone and their grandmother would have done it better, of course."
  • (6) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
  • (7) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
  • (8) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (9) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
  • (10) The authors present three cases of multiple, intra-cranial meningiomatosis with contact hyperostosis affecting the grandmother, mother and daughter, in a very stereotypic manner.
  • (11) My grandmother doesn't understand unpaid internships .
  • (12) The origin of the defect arises spontaneously in the grandmother of the proband and must be assumed to be a de novo mutation.
  • (13) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
  • (14) He survived but two days later his 13-year-old sister died, followed by his grandmother eight days later.
  • (15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
  • (16) The paternal grandmother was thought to carry the abnormal Factor X I gene, although her Factor XI level was normal, because of a significant bleeding history.
  • (17) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
  • (18) Bond yields continue to soar and it's become increasingly clear that markets read the papers like my grandmother used to: only registering the bad news.
  • (19) There has already been speculation that the baby’s birth could coincide with the 89th birthday of its great-grandmother the Queen on 21 April.
  • (20) The members of this family have since been followed-up regularly by the author, examination of the corneas of the grandmother and the grand'daughter made by electron microscopy, the morphology compared, and an attempt made to establish the progression of the lesion.

Nan


Definition:

  • (inerj.) Anan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
  • (2) NAN-190 slightly, but significantly, suppressed lordosis behavior after either intracerebral or intraperitoneal injection and substantially increased resistive behavior.
  • (3) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
  • (4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
  • (5) The flow of NAN into the duodenum and through the ileum, and total N in the faeces was significantly influenced by the form of N supplementation.
  • (6) Proestrous rats were infused intracerebrally with 50-1000 ng 8-OH-DPAT, 500 or 2000 ng buspirone or 125-500 ng NAN-190.
  • (7) In contrast, NAN-190 blocked the rate-increasing effects of 8-OH-DPAT on punished responding and also reversed the rate-decreasing effects of 8-OH-DPAT on responding that was not punished.
  • (8) In the present experiments NaN(3) did not affect the processes of somatic crossing over as induced by caffeine or mitomycin C. The effect was additive.
  • (9) d-Fructose uptake activity was stimulated by Na(+) or Li(+), but was inhibited by KCN, NaN(3), 2,4-dinitrophenol, and p-chloromercuribenzoate.
  • (10) Thus, NAN-190 and BMY 7378 are partial agonists in the rat dorsal raphe nucleus.
  • (11) The purported serotonin (5-HT)1A antagonists BMY-7378 and NAN-190 were examined in pigeons for their potential to block the effects of the prototypical 5-HT1A agonist 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) on punished ("conflict") and unpunished behavior and for their binding affinity at the 5-HT1A receptor site labeled by [3H]-8-OH-DPAT.
  • (12) It was necessary to prolong the neuraminidase-assay reaction time to 24 h and to monitor for the presence of NAN-aldolase (EC 4.1.3.3) to define true negatives.
  • (13) Net NH3 transfer to the blood was 30.4%, NH3 flow from the rumen was 6.6% and rumen NAN output was 63% of N intake.
  • (14) Feeding fat and different amounts of forage to cows did not alter the flows of NAN and microbial N to the duodenum or efficiency of microbial growth.
  • (15) The effects of the 5-HT1A receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT (8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin) could be antagonized when concentrations of NAN-190 or BMY 7378 were used that were too low to produce a marked inhibition.
  • (16) In addition, methiothepin, pindolol, NAN 190 and SDZ 216-525 (Seiler et al.
  • (17) This effect is antagonized by the putative 5-HT1A-selective antagonist NAN 190.
  • (18) Our histological grading system combined with structure atypsim--SAT and nuclear anaplasia--NAN allowed for more accurate prognosis of prostatic cancer patients.
  • (19) The lack of effect of NAN-190 on the hypothermic or corticosterone response to 8-OH-DPAT most probably results from its own action which mimics the effects of 8-OH-DPAT.
  • (20) The effects of the putative 5-HT1A receptor antagonist NAN-190 on feeding and spontaneous locomotor activity in rats were examined.

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