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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.

Wink


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
  • (v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
  • (v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
  • (v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
  • (v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
  • (v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
  • (v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.
  • (n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
  • (n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
  • (2) His wink-wink, nod-nod racist slogan, “Make America great again,” together with his apocalyptic dirge of a convention, left exposed and unguarded a flank that is usually the Republicans’ specialty.
  • (3) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (4) The first case was characterised by a bilateral jaw-winking phenomenon along with an asymmetric bilateral congenital ptosis, whereas the second case had bizarre spontaneous movements of the affected lid, deficient abduction and pseudoptosis in association with jaw-winking.
  • (5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
  • (6) On the way into the ministerial press conference room – the blue room – Abbott gave his characteristic wink.
  • (7) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
  • (8) In England you have the big games but you don’t have el clásico, ” he offered with a wink.
  • (9) This method eliminates the jaw winking phenomenon as well as lifting the lid.
  • (10) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
  • (11) Without nudging and winking, the impression given to the US seems clear enough.
  • (12) I’m so tortured with guilt and remorse, I haven’t slept a wink in the last 13 years.” 2007.
  • (13) He laughs and winks: “And we gave up sitting in pubs for three or four hours a day!
  • (14) And it may be the sunshine, but he appears to be winking.
  • (15) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
  • (16) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
  • (17) That’s a specialised form of garden work they’re wanting,” he told me with a wink, and when I still didn’t twig, he explained that Garberville is the capital of Californian marijuana culture.
  • (18) In a wink to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Whaledump lists as its contact address “Flat 3b, 3 Hans Crescent”, site of the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
  • (19) In patients with severe Marcus Gunn jaw-winking, ablation of the synkinetic eyelid movement requires surgical removal of a significant portion of the levator complex (muscle and aponeurosis).
  • (20) Asked who collects these objects, Darrow winks: "People who have money."

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