(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 .
Ren
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) See Renne.
(n.) A run.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the 10 tissues examined, endogenous renin transcripts were identified in and restricted to kidney, submandibular gland, testes and ovary consistent with the expression pattern of the Ren-1c gene.
(2) Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
(3) FH is assigned to the U1 synteny group together with PGD, ENO1, AT3, and REN, while PEPC is found to belong to the U17 group (chromosome 8), like FN1, CRYG, and VIL1.
(4) Transgenic rats [TGR; strain name TGR(mRen2)27] harboring the mouse Ren-2 renin gene have been recently generated as a model for the study of primary hypertension that offers the advantage of a clearly-defined genetic alteration.
(5) The results indicate that the basic amino acid at the COOH-side but not at the NH2-side of the basic pair of Ren 2 prorenin is essential for processing directed by prorenin converting enzyme, and that the Arg residue at the COOH-side is more preferable for processing than the Lys.
(6) This provides a useful bridging polymorphic marker on lq and establishes significant linkage of LAMB2 to FY (theta = 3.23, z = 3.85) and REN (theta = 0.17, z = 4.88).
(7) I guess it is revenge,” Ren’s lawyer, Chang Boyang, said on Monday after visiting the attorney at a detention centre in the city of Zhengzhou.
(8) His brother, Chen Guangfu, said Yinan county prosecutors had questioned his wife, Ren Zongju, 59, on Wednesday for an hour and a half and then notified her that they planned to indict her on the charge of harbouring a suspect.
(9) "The most important points of control are governors and regional legislatures … The money is all at the level of governor," he told Ren-TV.
(10) During one cycle with 3-day EAT on acupoints Ren 3, 4, Extra 16 and Sp 6, ovulation resulted in 5 patients (ovulatory group) and among the 5 cases, 3 of 4 infertile cases became pregnant.
(11) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
(12) This phenomenon conforms to the theory in traditional Chinese medicine that the Du channel is the "sea of Yang channels", while the Ren channel is the "sea of Yin channels".
(13) We report here the results of linkage studies using five chromosome 1 markers--Duffy (Fy), antithrombin III (AT3), renin (REN), beta-nerve growth factor (NGFB), and salivary amylase (AMY1)--in 16 CMT1 pedigrees.
(14) Finn and Rey take on Kylo Ren together April’s teaser showed us a worried-looking Finn taking on the much larger Ren in a forest landscape.
(15) Moreover, the data indicate similar relative positions of human and mouse complement receptor-related genes REN, CD45, LAMB2, AT3, APOA2, and SPTA.
(16) Between January, 1976 and April 1988, 1279 patients underwent open-heart operation in Ren Ji Hospital.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Supreme Leader Snoke finally has his answer Andy Serkis’s First Order bad guy No 1 was the first voice we heard in the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens a year ago, asking: “There has been an awakening ... have you felt it?” Twelve months on we discover he’s addressing hooded Vader fanboy Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) who responds simply: “Yes.” This dynamic pitches the pair as the Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader of the new movie, and yet continues to raise further questions.
(18) PSG’s official account tweeted a Vine on Tuesday afternoon with the supporting video flicking through various masked movie characters and superheroes, from Batman to Zorro, Spider-Man to Darth Vader, Iron Man to Kylo Ren.
(19) Results indicated that both Ren-1 and Ren-2 responded to cAMP treatment in identical fashion.
(20) Most mouse inbred strains carry two renin genes, Ren-1 and Ren-2, Renin-2, the product of the Ren-2 gene, is highly expressed in the submaxillary gland.