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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.

Think


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
  • (v. t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
  • (v. t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
  • (v. t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
  • (v. t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
  • (v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
  • (v. t.) To presume; to venture.
  • (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
  • (v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
  • (v. t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (2) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (3) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (4) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (5) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
  • (6) Well I think [that’s] because we’ve made changes in the game,” said Goodell.
  • (7) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
  • (8) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
  • (9) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
  • (10) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
  • (11) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
  • (12) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
  • (13) This new way of thinking is reflected in the 1992 AAMR definition of what mental retardation is (Luckasson et al., 1992).
  • (14) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
  • (15) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
  • (16) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (17) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
  • (18) The prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We think this can be done in line with EU and international law and it is important it is introduced and set up in the right way.
  • (19) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
  • (20) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.

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