(n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
(v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
(v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
(v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
(v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(3) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(4) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(5) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(6) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(7) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(8) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(9) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
(10) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(11) Only candidacidal activity was enhanced in FCA-elicited peritoneal macrophages (median C. albicans killed 28% versus 16% for resident peritoneal macrophages, p less than 0.01).
(12) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(13) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(14) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(15) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(16) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(17) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
(18) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(19) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(20) The groups were killed at 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours, respectively, after 3MI administration.
Poop
Definition:
(n.) See 2d Poppy.
(v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
(n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.
(v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
(v. t.) To strike in the stern, as by collision.
Example Sentences:
(1) In horrible, snowy weather, these owners pick up the steaming piles of poop from city streets so that passers by don’t kick frozen poopsicles.
(2) I don't want to sound like a judgmental piece of poop.
(3) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(4) That’s on top of the poop smeared all over the house.” Most of the time the mess is concentrated to a small area, something that Becca credits to a feature that leads the Roomba to go over an area repeatedly if it thinks it has detected a particularly dirty spot.
(5) The first time it happened he came back from work to find “tread-marks of caked-in poop all over the house”.
(6) (Other options like sheep poop appear to encourage pests.)
(7) "When he didn't like somebody or something that was going on, he would pick up some poop and throw it at them," Priest said.
(8) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(9) It's probably only Bob Crow slurping cocktails and getting sunburnt on that poop deck.
(10) People are really hacked off with local things – potholes, damp in houses and dog dirt.” A team of Ukip councillors was due to come to Stoke for a poop-scooping session, he added, determinedly exuding good humour.
(11) "At least England are young and have only let in three," poops Mark Ireland.
(12) It's one step away from sending pictures of your poop."
(13) One of the other women had dogs that weren't housebroken and "many a late night or early morning we stepped in her dog's pee, or worse, poop," writes St James.
(14) As Newton explains in a graphic Facebook post , the Roomba ran over the dog feces and then continued its cleaning cycle around the house, spreading the mess over “every conceivable surface” and resulting in “a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock poop painting”.
(15) In fact, the game’s co-founder Max Temkin, as well as the game’s official Twitter account , went out of his way to inform them on Twitter that they would be receiving a box of, er, poop.
(16) David Carr, the New York Times's influential media critic, memorably assailed its style as "putting on a safari hat and looking at some poop" , while Dan Rather, one of US broadcasting's elder statesmen, recently dismissed Vice as "more Jackass than journalism".
(17) In her mission to create a waterless loo that uses no energy and turns the waste into a useable product, Gardiner has exhibited a bowl moulded from horse manure and monitored the activity of composting worms in her bathroom, turning "poop" into fertile soil, she said.
(18) Actress, comedian and professional poop joke generator Jenny Slate is what you'd call a rising star.
(19) The poop gets stuck in these tiny treads in the wheels, gets sucked inside and in all the brushes,” Becca explained.
(20) "When we used to go to see Hef on Friday morning to get our allowances, we always had to wait a few minutes as he walked around to pick up the poops .