(n.) The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second.
Example Sentences:
(1) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(2) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
(3) And despite the initial scepticism, now completely gone says Henry, DCA's transparency and accountability systems and mechanisms are now "some of the most convincing tools to fundraising, credibility and brand recognition" and is used by face-to-face fundraisers, volunteers and PR to promote the organisation.
(4) Henry IV Phyllida Lloyd follows her all-female production of Julius Caesar with another single-sex take on a conflated version of the two parts of Shakespeare’s greatest history play.
(5) If that's what's happening here, we might soon be in a position to learn if Henry Ford was right.
(6) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
(7) We wish Thierry all the best for his future.” New England Revolution ended the Red Bulls’ playoff run on Saturday , and Henry said he had decided not to return for another season.
(8) David McMillen QC said in court on Thursday: “Northern Ireland stands out as effectively a blot on the map … It’s nothing less than state discrimination of a class of people who have been marginalised for many years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Henry Kane (right) and Chris Flanagan celebrate their civil partnership in Belfast in December 2005.
(9) It's said to be highly artificial – Henry James remarked, on its first publication, that he had never read a novel "so intensely written, so little seen, known, or felt".
(10) If Henry VIII belonged to the rare Kell positive blood group , he would have found difficulty in fathering more than one child with any Kell-negative woman.
(11) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(12) Henry and A.D. Milner (British Medical Journal 1983, 287, 260-261) and 5 were new questions--was presented to 118 specialists of asthma selected among the members of the European Academy of Allergology.
(13) Formerly Communications secretary to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Henry of Wales.
(14) Henry had hinted during a recent interview with French newspaper L’Equipe he could be interested in a future coaching role with the Gunners, and Wenger insisted on Tuesday that Henry’s return is a certainty when asked about a reunion with the former France striker.
(15) Not since Eleanor of Aquitaine became first the queen of France, then queen of England, married to Henry II, has one woman occupied such a position.
(16) As ever in children's books, when things get too complicated, animal characters can provide a useful way out, but even then, attempts to represent same-sex parenting can attract censure - as revealed by Justin Richardson's And Tango Makes Three , illustrated by Henry Cole.
(17) One person staying exactly where he is is Thierry Henry .
(18) Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the legislation is its so-called “Henry VIII powers” that grant the government executive power to amend existing legislation without further recourse to parliament.
(19) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(20) Four years earlier, Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberals had evicted the Conservatives (referred to most often then as Unionists) by what seemed a decisive margin.
Ounce
Definition:
(n.) A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains.
(n.) The twelfth part of a troy pound.
(n.) Fig.: A small portion; a bit.
(n.) A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, / uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the police stop me they will have no right to ask me where I got my stuff provided it's not more than an ounce.
(2) The spot price of gold fell by $34 an ounce to $1,442.
(3) HDL2 levels were only significantly different between nondrinkers and those who consumed more than 3 ounces per week.
(4) The mothers of 127 adolescents living in Muscatine, Iowa were asked at the time of a clinic examination to recall their child's birthweight in pounds and ounces.
(5) It was in 1999 that the then chancellor, Gordon Brown, dumped half of Britain's gold reserves at an average selling price of $248 an ounce.
(6) The 12-hour ordeal for Stephanie – who did not wish to speak on the record or use her real name for fear of jeopardizing her job prospects – took place after police found one ounce of marijuana in her car.
(7) Calcium tablets, like almost all drugs, should be taken with 8 ounces of water or other liquid.
(8) Life-style characteristics associated with HDL-C in women were exogenous hormone use, average number of cigarettes smoked per day, average ounces of alcohol consumed per week, body mass index, and use of beta-blockers.
(9) The hypothesis that a cholesterol challenge to the breast fed infant would enable the adult to more efficiently metabolize the sterol does not seem to be supported by available evidence, primarily, because the cholesterol content of human milks varies so markedly; 26 to 52 mg per 8 ounces.
(10) The metaphor has now moved back closer to its slave plantation origins, imagining modern masses sapped of every ounce of living labour.
(11) The other airport boss sympathises: "Is it them being greedy, or airlines wanting every ounce of capacity when they can?
(12) Forty male undergraduates over 21 years of age were provoked following their ingestion of either 1.5 ounces (.045 1) or .5 ounces (.015 1) of 100 proof bourbon or vodka per 40 (18 kg) of body weight.
(13) Investors bet on gold as a safe haven driving prices to a record $1,663.40 an ounce.
(14) Average daily consumption of alcohol declined significantly from 1.4 ounces in 1982 to 1.2 ounces in 1985, but the patterns of use remained relatively constant.
(15) Risk for anatomic abnormalities in the offspring was clearly defined among the 5.6% of infants whose mothers drank more than three ounces of absolute alcohol, that is, more than six drinks, per day.
(16) After that grandstanding, no one about whom there was an ounce of homosexual suspicion wanted to be seen with me, much less date me.
(17) While the terms "light" and "heavy" are relative, forces ranging from 6 to 24 ounces were variants great enough in the areas treated to have elicited movement if movement were possible.
(18) Spraying of malathion at a dosage of 4.5 fluid ounces per acre reduced populations of adult Anopheles albimanus to less than 1% of prespray levels and interrupted epidemic transmission of P. falciparum malaria.
(19) Worldwide, weak property prices and volatile stock markets have sent investors hurrying to buy gold as a safe haven, pushing gold prices to a record $1,895 an ounce on the London PM fix on 5 September 2011.
(20) Compared to the control periods, the mean maximal ischemic ST-segment depression after angina was not changed after Fresca but was increased after 2 ounces of ethanol (P less than 0.01) and after 5 ounces of ethanol (P less than 0.001).