(n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
(2) Granny flats, designed as standardized units using panels, offer privacy yet proximity to family members.
(3) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
(4) Tinker with the tax treatment of the elderly and prepare to be accused of imposing a "granny tax" .
(5) Top 20 shows on the iPlayer – Christmas 2013 1 Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor (Christmas Day) 1.96m 2 EastEnders – (Christmas Day) 1.59m 3 EastEnders – (Boxing Day) 1.38m 4 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 1 – 1.36m 5 EastEnders – (27 December) 1.25m 6 Call the Midwife Christmas Day Special – 1.02m 7 Gangsta Granny (Boxing Day) – 1.01m 8 EastEnders - (New Year's Eve) 960,000 9 EastEnders - (30 December) 937,000 10 EastEnders – (Christmas Eve) 922,000 11 EastEnders – (23 December) 872,000 12 Still Open All Hours – (Boxing Day) 842,000 13 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 2 – 820,000 14 EastEnders – (20 December) 793,000 15 Death Comes to Pemberley (Boxing Day) – 771,000 16 Citizen Khan Series 2 Episode 7 – 751,000 17 Michael McIntyre's Showtime (Christmas Day) – 643,000 18 Strictly Come Dancing Final (December 21) – 626,000 19 Nativity!
(6) We are obviously very concerned about the wellbeing of the fund, which is heavily invested in energy stocks worldwide,” said Pete Grannis, New York State deputy comptroller, whose office is the sole trustee of the fund, which has one million members.
(7) There’s no doubt that the grannies living in houses worth £2m are beneficiaries of the property boom, as their children and grandchildren will be.
(8) My granny, who was working incredibly hard in a fish factory, was not going to take the day off.
(9) In private all three parties are negotiating to find a consensus over the issue – and the government is aware of mounting anger among campaigners already smarting from the "granny tax" in March's budget.
(10) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
(11) As Miliband sought to defend the so-called mansion tax as a principled way of raising extra funding for the NHS, Klass said the levy would hit “little grannies” living in modest homes in London rather than the super-rich Miliband claimed to be targeting.
(12) Bronwyn Wolfe, London Makes 2 glasses 6 carrots 3 apples, such as granny smith 1 red pepper A thumbnail-sized knob of ginger 1 Top and tail the carrots; there's no need to peel them.
(13) My mum, her cousin, my granny – they’ve gone for 30 or 40 years and never told anyone,” Anna says.
(14) They think it’s just looking after granny.” Apprentices at aVida spend six blocks of 10 weeks in different parts of the organisation, which can include working with schedulers to put rosters together, going out with team leaders to see clients and shadowing managers.
(15) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
(16) The Gastronomy of Italy by Anna del Conte (Pavilion) Crispy apple dumplings with walnut butter and anise cream Braeburn and granny smith apples bring flavour and texture.
(17) My sister and I ended up watching the royal wedding at my granny’s house.
(18) Jim Moir, the man who turned BBC Radio 2 from granny's favourite station into a service that trendy thirtysomethings are happy to be caught listening to, has agreed to continue running the network for another year.
(19) Rather a lot of 'grannies' reside there; but contrary to popular belief I do not spend all day, every day making and repairing dentures!
(20) They have seen a summer campaign demonise him as an amalgam of Stalin, Hitler and Big Brother, bent on sending America's frail grannies to their deaths in the name of a new socialism.
Nana
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Supplementation of neuraminidase-treated Lp(a) with N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) at concentrations comparable to the naturally occurring amounts of NANA in the Lp(a) protein moiety led to an increase of the lag-phase yielding values which were comparable to those observed with native Lp(a).
(2) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(3) Further investigation is needed to establish its role in the treatment of taeniasis, Hymenolepsis nana, Strongyloidiasis, Trichinosis, and Dipetalonema perstans.
(4) Hymenolepis nana (von Siebold, 1852), the dwarf tapeworm causing hymenolepiasis, has been reported to be the common intestinal cestode of rodents and man throughout the world.
(5) The quinolinehydrazones of the 1-phenyl-2,5-dimethyl-3-pyrrolcarboxaldehyde were tested in vivo against Hymenolepis nana and Taenia taeniaeformis and proved inactive.
(6) In addition to the known human pathogenic helminths H. nana and H. diminuta, localized foci of hookworms (Ancylostoma spp.)
(7) The anthelmintic effects of anti-tapeworm drugs, bithionol, paromomycin sulphate, flubendazole and mebendazole on immature and mature Hymenolepis nana in mice were compared.
(8) The only recent reports of cestode studies in these countries have been on reports of new species in animals and on prevalence rates of cestode parasites in humans; Taenia solium and cysticercosis, Taenia saginata and Hymenolepis nana, etc.
(9) values were obtained with stool samples from Taenia patients compared to Hymenolepis nana-infected or uninfected individuals.
(10) One hundred and seven 4-quinolinehydrazones were synthesized and tested in vivo against the tapeworm Hymenolepis nana.
(11) The parasites and infection rates found in the present study from 417 individuals by means of direct smear and formalin-ether sedimentation technic of stool specimens are as follows: Ascaris lumbricoides (81.3%), hookworm (30.9%), Trichuris trichiura (73.6%), Strongyloides stercoralis (0.5%), Clonorchis sinensis (2.9%), Hymenolepis diminuta (0.7%), Taenia solium (0.2%), Taenia saginata (0.2%), Entamoeba histolytica (3.1%), Entamoeba coli (8.4%), Endolimax nana (2.6%), and Giardia lamblia (4.3%).
(12) The main biochemical finding was the detection of a substantial urinary increase of a unique resorcinol-positive compound, which by thin-layer chromatography was identified as N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA-Free) and when quantified by the thiobarbituric acid method previously passed through a gel filtration column (Sephadex G-15) or through ion exchange resins, showed a NANA-Free concentration about 15 times higher than in controls of similar age (Table 2).
(13) When the oncosphere of H. nana undergoes differentiation and development into the mature tapeworm, the infected mouse first produces anti-oncosphere antibody, followed by anti-cysticercoid, anti-adult scolex and finally anti-strobila (other than scolex region) antibodies of IgG, IgM and IgA isotypes as detected by indirect immunofluorescent antibody test.
(14) The CSF free NANA can even be a prognostic criterion in management of pyogenic meningitis.
(15) During the first 2 months of lactation, milk from women delivering at term cannot be distinguished from that of women delivering significantly before term (less than 32 wks gestation) with regard to oligosaccharide and glycoprotein NANA.
(16) Non-pathologic protozoa, mainly Endolimax nana and Entamoeba coli, presented the largest incidence.
(17) The cytological structure of the tegument of H. nana corresponds in general to that of other tapeworms.
(18) 18.4%, Enterobius vermicularis 1.6%, and there was one case each of hookworm, Hymenolepis nana and H. diminuta infections.
(19) The kinetics of the lymphoblast response in mice during the course of a primary infection with Hymenolepis nana was measured by the in vivo uptake of 125IUdR.
(20) The finding that free (3H)-NANA was markedly increased relative to its major products (3H)-HexNAc is suggestive for an impaired degradation and reutilization of (3H)-NANA due to trapping in a metabolically unaccessible pool.