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Gump


Definition:

  • (n.) A dolt; a dunce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
  • (2) That might sometimes be true – Forrest Gump , I'm looking at you – but there's also a difference in the way a film is consumed.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The film team review Jurassic World At Bubba Gump, he recognised a customer: Rae Dawn Chong, an actor who had appeared in 80s hits Commando and The Color Purple.
  • (4) In the oral cavity, a "flail" mandible, an "Andy Gump" deformity, and a sublingual hematoma may occur.
  • (5) It paid $400,000 over the past year to a Washington lobby group, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to work on Capitol Hill to work for the removal of the MEK from the list of foreign terrorist organisations.
  • (6) In an interview with CNBC, Ma said he believed that his customers and employees should come before shareholders, but added: “I am very honoured and so excited … the responsibility I’ve been thinking about the next five to 10 years is: how can I make sure these shareholders are happy?” Ma told CNBC that he had got the idea for his business when he visited the US, and looks to Forrest Gump for inspiration.
  • (7) July 12, 2015 Pop culture mashups And in that last recourse for the commentator searching desperately for a joke, the internet opened the pop culture vault and hastily cut up everything from Forrest Gump – “ run, Chapo, run ” – to Frozen – “ I’m free, I’m free!
  • (8) Are you stupid, Mr Gruber?” the committee chairman Darryl Issa asked Jonathan Gruber, before comparing the professor to the film character Forrest Gump.
  • (9) Not even seven Oscar nominations could help it compete with the success of hits such as Speed, Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump.
  • (10) As a youth he dabbled in stand-up comedy and did a spot of stripping (once for a friend’s grandmother) before – at the age of 19 – moving to Maui for a year, living in a van and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
  • (11) Gump n Hell gave it an Indonesian spin, featuring Piko Taro using an apple and a banana to create the shape of the communist icon, the hammer and sickle.
  • (12) The major finding in these patients was rib resorption and deteriorating cosmetic appearance and development of "Andy Gump" deformity.
  • (13) We will hope for our best but it is like Forrest Gump and his box of chocolates.
  • (14) And he was, at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company franchise in Hawaii, by actor Rae Dawn Chong, which at least has the ring of Lana Turner at the counter of Schwab’s Pharmacy.
  • (15) The end result was a consensus that, like Forrest Gump, Slahi popped up around significant events by coincidence, not design.
  • (16) Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more “I’m a little bit like Forrest Gump, like this,” Flores says, miming the style of the movie character and laughing loudly.
  • (17) Boundary-pushing satire, in the form of comics such as Gump n Hell , are also starting to emerge.
  • (18) Alibaba was founded by Jack Ma, a former English teacher who counts Forrest Gump as his inspiration.
  • (19) Even though Hanks achieved his greatest career success appearing in dramas in the 90s, such as Apollo 13 and winning his Oscars for (in typical Oscars style) his two worst films, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump , as well as appearing in romcoms ( Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail ) written and directed by Nora Ephron ("She was a taskmaster, but gentle – I wish I was making a movie with Nora tomorrow"), I personally will always have a soft spot for his 80s comedic performances.
  • (20) Our techniques in reconstruction of the oral cavity, hypopharynx, esophagus, nose, Andy-Gump deformities (anterior jaw complex resection), pharyngo-orocutaneous fistulas, and radionecrosis of the mandible are presented.

Pump


Definition:

  • (n.) A low shoe with a thin sole.
  • (n.) An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
  • (v. t.) To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
  • (v. t.) To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
  • (v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
  • (2) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.
  • (3) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (4) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.
  • (5) All conventional injection and insulin pump regimens are supported.
  • (6) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
  • (7) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
  • (8) The larger accumulation of Mn2+ than of Sr2+ in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is ascribed to the operation of a specific extrusion pump, presumably a Ca2+ pump, which has a higher affinity for Sr2+ than for Mn2+.
  • (9) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
  • (10) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
  • (11) and respirated with a pneumatic respiration pump and the parameters blood pressure, pH and blood gases (pO2, pCO2) were continuously recorded.
  • (12) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
  • (13) To investigate endogenous cardiac glycoside-like compounds in plasma and their ability to inhibit the sodium pump, digoxin-like immunoreactivity [digoxin-like immunoreactive substance(s), DLIS] and 86Rb uptake by erythrocytes were measured in plasma extracts from normal adults, hypertensive adults and neonates.
  • (14) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
  • (15) Interpreted in term of compartmental analysis, these observations suggest that a) the frog skin epithelium contains 2 separated but communicating compartments having different degrees of accessibility from outside; b) only that compartment filling at a fast rate (0.5 min) is involved in the transepithelial Na transport; c) the other one, filling at a rate of 4 to 7 min, is resplenished only under conditions where the basal pump system has a reduced activity.
  • (16) Despite numerous attempts there have been only a few chemicals identified that stimulate the fluid pump, but the level of stimulation has been relatively small and short-lived.
  • (17) The insulin-induced activation of the Na+-K+ pump leads to decreased intracellular Na+ concentration and hyperpolarization, but none of these events can account for the concomitant activation of the glucose transport system.
  • (18) A pressure sensor in the patient line prevents excessive inflow and outflow pressures by stopping the inflow or outflow pump respectively.
  • (19) This was overcome by using a continuous subcutaneous infusion pump which also enabled the effective daily dosage to be reduced and thereby adverse reactions to be avoided.
  • (20) A new centrifugal pump (Sarns), originally designed for ventricular assist, was successfully used in two patients during repair of traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta.

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