(n.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped / banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequence of genome segment A cDNA of the STC strain of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) was determined and compared with sequences of the homologous genome segment of the 002-73 strain of IBDV and the Jasper strain of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV).
(2) Jaspers thus shows how, within the mind of every medical person, the researcher contests with the physician and the technician with the humanist.
(3) In the grounds of his house, Jasper Johns has a studio, a huge converted barn in which the 74 year old does most of his work.
(4) His invention of a new stoneware called Jasper has been described as the most important development in the history of ceramics since the Chinese discovery of porcelain nearly 1,000 years earlier.
(5) Jasper Cillessen, let it be noted, has never saved one in his career.
(6) The concept which makes a distinction between schizophrenic psychosis and manic-depressive psychosis grants the former a predominant position by applying Jasper's hierarchic rule: the presence of symptoms regarded as schizophrenic indubitably attributes the disorder to schizophrenia.
(7) Fewer infected sheep were observed annually when salt blocks were removed from Jasper National Park.
(8) Anglo-American psychiatry, in espousing Jaspers and rejecting psychoanalysis, has in consequence concentrated on the form and not the sense of delusions.
(9) Nucleic acid hybridizations using low stringency washing conditions and a synthetic DNA oligonucleotide probe (representing the 3' end of the A segment of the Jasper strain) gave positive results with the IPN virus Jasper, Ab, Sp, and N1 strains.
(10) To quote George Jasper Wherrett in The Miracle of the Empty Beds: One hundred years ago the word consumption (as tuberculosis was then called) struck horror in human hearts.
(11) The results of this investigation suggest that Jaspers' hierarchical principle, still important for many diagnostic systems, according to which the presence of delusions and hallucinations is considered to be pathognomonic for schizophrenia and takes priority over any affective ones, be abandoned.
(12) Lee Jasper has been at the centre of controversy because of his alleged involvement in the awarding of grants by the London Development Agency (LDA).
(13) The Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, who was Van Gaal’s No1 when the coach led Holland at the World Cup, is a candidate to succeed De Gea.
(14) Prolonged isolated sialorrhea of epileptic origin was described by Penfield and Jasper (1954) in a patient with a lesional epilepsy.
(15) It means that his tactical hunches, l ike taking off Jasper Cillessen and putting Tim Krul in goal for the penalty shoot-out against Costa Rica , tend to come off.
(16) If De Gea does leave, the club have a plan in place, which could mean buying the Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, who was Van Gaal’s No1 when the coach led Holland at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
(17) Lee Jasper, the former London mayoral adviser now involved in the Smiley Culture campaign, says he sees a number of parallels with 1981, including the loss of many experienced police – something highlighted by the Scarman report as a problem – job cuts, increased stop-and-search and high levels of black imprisonment.
(18) So argues Jasper Lawler of CMC Markets , who writes: The failure of the Pfizer-AstraZeneca deal has added to the bad feelings in markets today as a certain premium had been built into prices with the belief this mega-merger could bring about a new wave of M&A.
(19) Sigurdsson slap the penalty beyond Jasper Cillessen.
(20) Operation Indus hearings started and finished in November 2012 while Operation Jasper hearings also began in November 2012 but finished in March this year.
Magi
Definition:
(n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
(2) Germaine Greer; Julie Bishop; engineer and founder of Youth Without Borders, Yassmin Abdel-Magied; author, academic and Guardian US columnist Roxane Gay; and Best & Less CEO Holly Kramer.
(3) The scene is based on the account of Jesus' birth in the gospel of Matthew, though Matthew does not record a mishap whereby the magi accidentally bestow their gifts on Terry Jones in a dress.
(4) Male accessory gland infection (MAGI, epididymo-prostato-vesiculitis) with abnormal semen quality was rarely the only abnormality in infertile couples since it occurred in no more than 1.6% of 2871 couples evaluated in 7 centres during a 3-year period.
(5) It is concluded that features of MAGI in semen may regress spontaneously and are not influenced by the doxycycline treatment.
(6) And of course the authorities are incensed, affirming once again that old adage: there is only one thing more cheerless than a Magi with a severed head – a local bureaucrat armed with zoning laws.
(7) It’s not enough to point out, as Abdel-Magied did, that structural inequality is to blame for the lack of women’s progress.
(8) "It neither makes sense to get into an adoration of the magi stance of the New Labour project, nor a repudiationist stance," he says, at one point.
(9) I remember how surprised I was when one of the mothers asked me if her three children could dress up as the three magi at Epiphany, when Austrian children from each parish go from house to house collecting money for the Catholic Three Wise Kings’ mission.
(10) Updated at 12.02pm BST 11.55am BST No crib for a bed Lest there be any doubt that 19-year-old Nick Kyrgios has made his mark at Wimbledon, the old magi of Australian tennis have been lined up to pay tribute.
(11) The judge, Oscar Magi, dismissed the libel accusations but upheld the other charges.
(12) In the sculpture The Adoration of the Magi by the 13th century sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio deformities characteristic of arthritis may be seen in the hands of the central magus.
(13) 6.49pm BST But the wise Aussie magi could have told him that a break doesn't count as a break until you've backed it up with your serve.
(14) Caillebotte can make a painting out of nothing, and that’s what Heaney can do, too – that’s the lovely thing about it.” Also included in the anthology is the late Dennis O’Driscoll’s poem Memo to a Painter, inspired by the 16th-century painting The Adoration of the Magi, which depicts the nativity in elegant surroundings, without the stable or its animals.
(15) Now Wordsworth Editions has released The Drug and Other Stories , which includes five works that have never been published before: Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, The Murder in X.
(16) On the straw ground in front of Jesus is the severed head of a second Magi.
(17) These days he almost counts as one of the elderly Aussie magi.
(18) To a certain extent, the numbers created by the magi of the economy have been our beacons through the recession and the slow recovery.