(n.) A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
(n. t.) To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.
(n. t.) To recognize; to descry; to discern.
(v. i.) To look around.
(n.) Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
(2) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(3) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(4) The thing about Ken is that he just cannot help but say what he thinks.
(5) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
(6) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(7) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(8) Ken was arrested for the first time by Nigeria's military regime in 1992 and spent several months in prison without trial.
(9) The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt , has ruled out introducing a new privacy law to deal with issues around superinjunctions and gagging orders, following a meeting with the justice secretary, Ken Clarke.
(10) Ken Livingstone is a very experienced member of Labour’s national executive committee and he should lead by example.
(11) Ken Livingstone has delivered a rare public display of contrition, following a backlash over leaked remarks made by him in a private meeting which were interpreted as saying that Jewish voters would not vote for him because they were rich.
(12) Ken Livingstone has beaten Oona King to the Labour nomination for London mayor, setting him up for a political rematch in the capital with his old rival Boris Johnson in 2012.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Pigott-Smith as the avuncular businessman Ken Lay in Lucy Prebble’s Enron at the Minerva theatre, Chichester, in 2009.
(14) The original Wednesday Play, succeeded by the long-running Play for Today, is fondly remembered by many of today's best-known writers and directors as the experimental breeding ground for the likes of Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Mike Leigh and Alan Bleasdale.
(15) 3.06pm BST More scientific reaction Ken Collins, a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, said there was no justification for using lethal methods for researching whales.
(16) The three were meeting later today with the White House, the energy secretary, Stephen Chu, and the interior secretary, Ken Salazar, to craft a bill that would pass in the Senate — and have the support of the Obama administration.
(17) Ken Livingstone's campaign said: "It stinks of the abuse of public resources for the Conservative party to appropriate the official social media of the mayor.
(18) Among the finance directors on it were: Ken Hanna of Cadbury Schweppes, which was locked in a battle at the European court over its use of a Dublin subsidiary; Richard Lapthorne of Cable & Wireless; and AstraZeneca's Jon Symonds, embroiled in a multibillion pound "transfer pricing" dispute.
(19) But there was much applause for Ken Loach , another surprise victor, this year of the Jury Prize (which ranks just below the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix).
(20) The oil giant Shell has agreed to pay $15.5m (£9.6m) in settlement of a legal action in which it was accused of having collaborated in the execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders of the Ogoni tribe of southern Nigeria .
Ket
Definition:
(n.) Carrion; any filth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Otherwise, a positive relationship was found between antihypertensive effects of Ket and BPV.
(2) Moreover, MCTP-induced right ventricular hypertrophy was not attenuated by KET.
(3) The effect of ketanserin (KET), a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine2 (5-HT2) receptor blockade, on pressor response to vasoactive substances was examined in rats with one-kidney, one clip renal artery stenosis of 2 days' duration (2-day clipped rat) and in rabbits with renal artery stenosis of 3 days' duration (3-day clipped rabbits).
(4) KET alone also induced an up-regulation of cell surface beta adrenergic receptors.
(5) Pretreatment with Ket, similar to sulpiride (Sulp), a dopamine antagonist, potentiated the TRH-induced prolactin secretion.
(6) Ketanserin (Ket), a new serotonergic (5-HT2) antagonist, has recently been shown to block the estrogen-induced afternoon PRL surge (Endocrinology 120: 2070-2077, 1987).
(7) A horizontal flow-through coil planet centrifuge equipped with a rotatory frame holding three sets of composite column assemblies was used for purification of an endogenous ligand (ketanserin binding inhibitor) for the [3H]-ketanserin (3H-KET) recognition site.
(8) In ducks of the KET group, pHa, PaCO2, and PaO2, remained unchanged after administration of the drug.
(9) The combination of KET + HCTZ in the acute study reduced significantly systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures for up to 10 hrs.
(10) In the absence of estrogen, morphine inhibited LH release, and the response was delayed by METH or abolished by KET, suggesting mediation by serotonin2 (5HT2) receptors.
(11) (KET-IV group) or intracerebroventricular (KET-IC group) administration of 100 micrograms of ketanserin, 10 micrograms of CRF was given i.c.v.
(12) The purpose of this investigation was to determine in 17 stroke patients the correlation between two independent variables (knee extensor muscle torque [KET] and spasticity on the paretic side) and one dependent variable (gait speed).
(13) And now it’s been brought to a head.” The announcement came on the same day that Crystal Palace confirmed the signing of Martin Kelly from Liverpool, their fourth new arrival of the summer after Fraizer Campbell’s £900,000 move from Cardiff City and the free transfers of Brede Hangeland and Chris Kettings, formerly of Fulham and Blackpool respectively.
(14) Our study demonstrated that Ket is a powerful blood pressure lowering agent with no relevant side effects and no variations of heart rate.
(15) "I suppose the thing is that we like to be polite," says Joe, "and you can't do that when you've just done a fat line of ket before an interview."
(16) This approach was applied to microvascular networks represented by the Bra-Ket operator technique and accurately predicted the number of vessel segments in both tree-branched and loop-branched (arcade) networks.
(17) It permits the fitting of the Bateman equation C equals const [e-KEt -- e-KAt] or the equation C equals Be-KEt -- Ae-KAt to the observed plasma or serum concentration data after single extravascular administration of a drug.
(18) Computerized analysis of blood pressure (BP) was used to study for the effects of ketanserin (Ket) on BP and blood pressure variability (BPV).
(19) The effects of ketanserin (Ket), a serotonin (5-HT2) receptor antagonist, on DOI- and mCPP-, two 5-HT agonists, and TRH-induced PRL secretion were studied.
(20) Both demethyl KET and PMB had good affinity for such sites.