(n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
(n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
(n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
(v. i.) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
(v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(2) The elution curves of the individual honeys were very similar.
(3) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
(4) Skin tests to seasonal outdoor aeroallergens were negative, as were inhalation challenges with two insecticides used inside the building during the honey pack.
(5) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(6) The Refugee Council expressed “grave concerns” as the Home Office minister James Brokenshire defended plans to remove automatic benefits from families who did not win asylum as a way of signalling that the UK was not “a land of milk and honey”.
(7) Domestic and imported honey samples (115) contained 2.00% maltose and 0.71% isomaltose.
(8) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(9) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(10) Unilateral microinjections of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acetylcholine (ACh) and related substances into central parts of the brain of the honey bee elicit a quantifiable circling behavior.
(11) At present, the sweetening carbohydrates have a share of about 49% of the total-carbohydrate-consumption, from which 24% is sugar in its conventional form; a further 3% comes from fruits and vegetables; 5% of the carbohydrates are lactose, 15.5% are monosaccharides, from which 12% are derived from vegetable foodstuffs and honey.
(12) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
(13) The British foreign secretary flatly admits that it was Jolie's film, Land of Blood and Honey , that inspired his commitment to the cause.
(14) These monoclonal antibodies were more suitable than polyclonal rabbit anti-human IgG antibody in Phadebas RAST for honey bee venom-specific IgG antibody.
(15) A publisher has claimed that Apple has removed Salwa Al Neimi's erotic novel The Proof of the Honey from the iTunes store because its cover – which features part of a woman's naked back and bottom – is "inappropriate".
(16) while hydrated colocynithin was more toxic to housefly than honey bee, cotton leafworm was less affected with both toxicants.
(17) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
(18) It is concluded that: 1) honey and bread produce similar degrees of hyperglycemia in type II diabetics.
(19) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(20) In addition, the procedure detects the presence in honey of all starch-derived sugar sirups tested thus far, regardless of the plant source.
Hun
Definition:
(n.) One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's party won the July polls with 68 seats to the CNRP's 55, a vastly reduced majority but one that the opposition alleges was still biased in the CPP's favour.
(2) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
(3) The theory is put forward that the Mongolian people living north of China and having constant fights with the Chinese have learnt the horseshoes with nails from the Chinese and that the Huns on their travel westwards have brought this type of horseshoe to Europa.
(4) It was hours before the selfie mob questioned what they had actually taken part in beyond a mass exercise in narcissism greeted by adoring comments saying "you still look hot hun".
(5) • Boris Johnson finally loses patience with being asked to keep a low profile and organises a publicity stunt to launch an attack on the Greek embassy and hold the ambassador personally responsible for all the money his government owes the Hun as well as a few unpaid congestion charge fines.
(6) Notably, Cambodian strongman Hun Sen has described the Republican candidate as “very talented”.
(7) No cases of symptomatic early or late HUN were observed in this series.
(8) These asymptomatic complications contrast with the symptomatic cases of early or late HUN reported in the literature which necessitated urologic and vascular investigations.
(9) "Where I come from they see me as somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun," he jokes.
(10) You mean the moment's finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a good old British-style thrashing, six of the best, trousers down?
(11) Largely unfancied, they'd edged past Belgium and Cameroon to make the semi in which the beastly Hun went ahead from a deflected free kick.
(12) South Korea pop Kim Jae-sung into midfield in place of Yeom Ki-hun: Jung, Cha, Cho, Jung-Soo Lee, Young-Pyo Lee, Ki, Jung-Woo Kim, Jae-Sung Kim, Ji-Sung Park, Chung-Yong Lee, Chu-Young Park.
(13) Meanwhile Ki Sung-Yeung is replaced by Yeom Ki-Hun.
(14) While young people have been heavily involved in the protests, many of the first to flood the capital were middle-aged and elderly people, often bearing specific grievances against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled for 29 years.
(15) Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, welcomed the ruling, saying it "gives the frontier between the two countries a clear borderline".
(16) The results announced on state television on Sunday morning handed 68 National Assembly seats to Hun Sen's Cambodian People's party and 55 to the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party.
(17) The talks lasted about 20 minutes, and Hun Sen left without commenting.
(18) I don’t think any of them have expressed any desire to go.” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, and who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
(19) All that allows to draw the cautious conclusion that a small split off migrating group of gypsies, who in the 6th century A.D. on their move in flight before the rage of the Huns had immigrated to Iran, halted during their migration in Mesopotamia at the latest in about the 8th century.
(20) "If Hun Sen agreed to an outside investigation at this stage, that would be tantamount to conceding that the elections were rigged," he said.