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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.

Hunk


Definition:

  • (n.) A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an event prompted by the rule that what goes up must come down, the defunct satellite will plummet through the atmosphere, burn and break apart, and scatter hunks of steel, aluminium and titanium over a distance of hundreds of miles.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho: Manchester United ‘the perfect club’ for Paul Pogba – video Pogba, in fairness, is more than just a glamour signing who shows that United, and the Premier League, are wrestling some pulling power back from European rivals, notably Spain’s swoonsome hunks.
  • (3) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
  • (4) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
  • (5) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
  • (6) ululates one of the series' many perturbed adolescent hunks.
  • (7) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
  • (8) Troubled by his sexuality, Philip took hunks of time out from Harvard and started travelling to Europe as a means of escape.
  • (9) And so a hunk of Cheddar becomes superior to Nevermind : a universal medium of communication; or at least, for foodists, a universal solvent of the intellect.
  • (10) I think that 'hunk' of Aberdeen Angus is going to be in quite a foul mood now that his prediction of a Russia v Germany final is wheezing and coughing up bloody phlegm," suggests Richard Whittall.
  • (11) Photograph: AP If Han’s not still flying the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, I want my money back already.
  • (12) 5) The Rock may be a great big burning hunk of MAN, but he's not Oscar Wilde Or rather, whoever wrote his lame-o opening speech wasn't.
  • (13) This hunk of steel and paint is worth much more than the price tag.” The cyclist, who also buys and sells bikes as a hobby, first started returning snatched bikes to their owners in spring 2015 when he stumbled on a stolen bicycle on Craigslist.
  • (14) The result was a hunk of plastic with the circumference of a beer mat, heated to 130C, to which the labels were attached, while 50 tonnes of hydraulic pressure squashed and spread it into a disc.
  • (15) By the time we noticed our peeling skin, another hunk of our privacy is long gone."
  • (16) Only molgG2a antibodies were equally potent with rtNK and huNK.
  • (17) And sometimes you just want cows falling apart and bewildered hunks in utility slacks shouting about how we'd best stick together otherwise "We'll all be going… TO HELL!"
  • (18) I suspect the paintings Haslam is thinking of are really 17th-century Dutch still-life pictures with their hearty north European hunks of high- fat cheese, frothing ale glasses and bulging pies.
  • (19) Little seems to have changed at Simpson's in the Strand since the days when Alfred Hitchcock dined here: the wood panelling, the chandeliers, the white-robed chefs carving hunks of meat on silver trolleys.
  • (20) There are swirls of purees and jus but at its centre is a hunk of animal; one of the most bloody and intensely earthy of animals.

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