(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.
Souter
Definition:
(n.) A shoemaker; a cobbler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ann Gloag, who is listed along with her brother, Sir Brian Souter, as being worth £1bn, is the only businesswoman on the list, with the rest either inheriting or gaining billionaire status through marriage.
(2) Take the farce that is the rail industry, where taxpayers stump up billions for the infrastructure and the upgrades, while tycoons such as Richard Branson and Brian Souter put in hardly any investment , and always have the option in hard times of walking away.
(3) Thirty-three patients had thirty-four consecutive primary arthroplasties, with use of the Souter-Strathclyde cemented unconstrained prosthesis, for severe rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow.
(4) The Opinion was written by Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter.
(5) The Souter zonal radiographic assessment system for identification of radiolucencies at the bone-cement interface was utilized; there was no significant difference in radiolucencies between ulnar components backed with metal and those that were not backed with metal.
(6) The Stagecoach chief executive, Brian Souter, has accused the department of being "either dysfunctional or deceitful" in its handling of a contractual dispute over its South West Trains franchise.
(7) So can Virgin's Richard Branson and Stagecoach's Brian Souter.
(8) Scots managers have become the models for rationalisation: Adam Crozier is shaking up the Royal Mail, Brian Souter runs South West Trains.
(9) Carole Souter Chief executive, Heritage Lottery Fund • So Jeremy Hunt "promised to get rid of audience development targets in the arts".
(10) Sir Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, the siblings who founded the Stagecoach transport empire, share a fortune of £1bn – an increase of £270m on last year.
(11) Its chairman, Brian Souter, notoriously said he would rather "drink poison" than enter into such an agreement.
(12) That is what GNER did with the East coast mainline that the public had to step in and save – and which the government has just awarded to Branson and Souter .
(13) Ginsburg has said the two justices are “not as effective” at keeping her awake as former justice David Souter – “at the first sign, he’d give me a solid pinch”, she said in 2010 .
(14) It backed the right of Catholic adoption agencies to snub gay couples, and took funds from the evangelical businessman, Brian Souter , who made such a noise about clause 2A (Scotland's section 28).
(15) Although the SNP and Salmond's nationalist government have won public and political endorsements from senior and wealthy business figures in Scotland, including the Stagecoach owner, Sir Brian Souter, and the multimillionaire and entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter, the launch focused on proving its centre-left credentials in order to attract Labour , republicans and Green party supporters.
(16) It is not known whether they were involved in any of the shootings, but their unofficial blog, ShinyCapstar, describes the atmosphere that October at Camp Souter in Kabul: "The overriding threat is that of suicide bombers of which there have been a number in the recent past."
(17) 13 Souter-Strathclyde unconstrained elbow prostheses for rheumatoid arthritis were followed for 5 (1-9) years.
(18) Electorally it suits Alex Salmond for the SNP to be perceived as centre-left or social democratic while he avidly courts rich men such as Donald Trump and bus tycoon Sir Brian Souter.
(19) In their opinion on the case, Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter eloquently defend constitutional protection of the right to make intimate decisions like continuing or ending a pregnancy.
(20) Twenty-three elbows in 17 rheumatoid arthritis patients have undergone unconstrained Souter-Strathclyde elbow replacements since March 1984.