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Hink


Definition:

  • (n.) A reaping hook.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday, the Guangming Daily, a leading party newspaper, said the Hinkely go-ahead had “great significance” for the advance of Chinese nuclear technology into Europe, “and even the world.” But it cautioned that the new rules on foreign investment in critical infrastructure meant it was now likely that the agreement to build Bradwell would be renegotiated.
  • (2) The pH in the bulk phase solution and at the surface of the epithelium was measured with two different types of glass pH-microelectrodes, a pointed tip (Hinke-type) and a flat membrane electrode (Dubuisson-type); both types of electrodes gave the same results.
  • (3) Then in early 2001 his grandmother, who brought Hinkes up, died.
  • (4) After Hinkes broke his arm in 2000 falling into a crevasse while climbing Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, some climbers speculated that he would call it a day.
  • (5) pH microelectrodes with pointed tip (Hinke-type) were constructed for the continuous measurement of the local pH in the perivascular space of pial arteries in the feline cerebral cortex.
  • (6) Yesterday [Labour] were caught out with dodgy statistics – I  hink they have just done it again."
  • (7) Hinkes is a dogged performer, returning again and again to mountains such as K2, waiting for conditions to be right.
  • (8) Hinkes is feeling optimistic for the first time in a couple of years.
  • (9) Surface pH was recorded on voltage-clamped snail neurons with Hinke-type glass microelectrodes.
  • (10) Sections in this review deal with following subjects: (1) two landmark contributions of Hillyard, Hink, Schwent, & Picton (1973) and Näätänen, Gaillard, & Mäntysalo (1978); (2) the endogenous, attention-related negativity ("Nd" wave), which is considered to consist of three possible components, a modalityspecific Nd, a centrally-maximal, controlled-search negativity, and a frontally-focused Nd; (3) the spatial attention effects on the exogenous components in visual and somatosensory modalities; and (4) the organizations of stimulus selection processes indicated by the latency and interrelations between those ERP components.
  • (11) · Alan Hinkes will be speaking at The Outdoors Show, which is at the Birmingham NEC, 15-17 March.
  • (12) Xinhua said Hinkely C’s approval would mean the creation of 25,000 jobs and would help “provide a vital solution to [Britain’s] electricity needs”.
  • (13) Perivascular H+ and K+ activities were measured using pH microelectrodes (Hinke type) and K+ ion exchanger microelectrodes, respectively.
  • (14) These studies are based on the finding of Hillyard Hink, Schwent and Picton (1973) that this component is selectively enhanced in response to attended stimuli when a very rapid rate of stimulus delivery is used.
  • (15) Alan Hinkes, the only Briton to have climbed all 14 mountains that are more than 8,000m high, said the icefall was probably the most dangerous part of climbing Everest but that the possibility of accidents was part of the risk of climbing any mountain.
  • (16) This may be considered as indirect evidence that the conductivity of the contractile filaments is associated with the protein counter-ions, since Hinke et al.
  • (17) Showing typical Yorkshire grit, Hinkes went back to Nanga Parbat the following year with a sponsorship deal from a chapati manufacturer in his back pocket, and climbed what he regards as the most dangerous of the 14.
  • (18) Some climbers spend time reflecting on the point of climbing, but Hinkes just gets on with the job.
  • (19) Fifteen necropsy specimens of human descending aorta and from eight patients with atheromatous vascular disease were studied by magnetic resonance imaging at 0.5 T. Images were acquired in coronal and transverse planes to localised protruding lesions and then chemical shift imaging was performed by techniques described by Dixon and by Hinks.
  • (20) It is a job we do and that means accepting the risk,” Hinkes, 59, said.

Honk


Definition:

  • (n.) The cry of a wild goose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I've danced and I still want to dance," he said over the noise of drumming and honking cars.
  • (2) After Karadzic's arrest in 2008, the streets of Bosnian cities were lined with honking cars, but after that of Ratko Mladic last year, there was no such celebration.
  • (3) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
  • (4) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
  • (5) He won’t look at you when you pull up beside him, honking about decorum and proper manners.
  • (6) Thomas Wiggins – the man urging cars to honk as they passed – dropped his face into his hands.
  • (7) His head pounds, “my chest gets heavy, stomach gets tight” and “I feel suffocated, anxious.” “I have difficulty breathing at the end of the day, my face is black with soot,” says Kumar, waiting for his next fare on a noisy corner in south Delhi, beside a road jammed with honking cars, trucks and buses.
  • (8) When one reaches glory is it hard to keep up,” said Arturo Vidal - who currently has ‘Campeón’ shaved into his hair, both an indisputable statement and a honking piece of hubris - said after the game.
  • (9) "More likely indoor fireworks under Balotelli's shirt," honks David Parkinson.
  • (10) Cars honk impatiently and refuse to give way to one other.
  • (11) There are more than 5m cars in Beijing, and they have transformed its once-generous thoroughfares into a noxious, honking mass.
  • (12) Honk if you think Washington is broken!” says a sign on her campaign bus.
  • (13) The mechanism of production of this honk is discussed.
  • (14) A systolic honk developed in a woman with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
  • (15) Three children with loud systolic honks were studied noninvasively with phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (16) Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
  • (17) Parreira had no complaints about either of the big talking points – the flight of the ball and the honk of the vuvuzela – of a so far underwhelming first round of matches: "We love them both."
  • (18) (I will not bore the boob-honking lobby with the statistics on female employment, prevalence and seniority.)
  • (19) Moscow is generally noisy with the sounds of thousands of drivers honking horns as they wait for the passing of these motorcades, which often involve a dozen cars with blue sirens wailing.
  • (20) A third study with 137 male drivers and 63 female drivers examined the interactive effects of a rifle, an aggressively connotated bumper sticker, and individual subject characteristics (sex and an exploratory index of self-perceived status) on horn honking.

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