(n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1956, Kish found "dense granules" in the atrial walls of guinea pigs.
(2) "The beautiful seaside in Kish [Island]," the younger woman wrote.
(3) A first experiment found no lexical shifts between the categorization functions of word-final fricatives in pairs such as fish-fiss and kish-kiss.
(4) We also discuss the possibility that chromatin protein kinase occurs in stable complexes with its phosphate-accepting substrates, as has been suggested by the findings of other [Kish, V.M.
(5) The larger protein is the same size as that previously reported to be associated with poly(A)-rich sequences in HeLa heterogeneous nuclear RNA (Kish, V.M., and Pederson, T. (1975), J. Mol.
(6) This pattern of depletion parallels the previously reported loss of dopamine in these brain regions (Kish, Shannak, and Hornykiewicz, New Engl.
(7) In 1982, Kish reported that CF-therapy, the combination of cisplatin and 5-FU, had a high curative rate (about 82%).
(8) That the use of continuous-infusion drug delivery can enhance antitumor activity and limit toxicity for patients with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN was convincingly demonstrated by Kish and co-workers132 in a randomized trial of cisplatin with either bolus or continous-infusion 5-fluourouracil.
(9) Kish, who is from Benghazi, blamed the attack on hardline jihadists.
(10) Epidemiological studies were carried out among 180 randomly chosen settler and 180 non-settler households in the three resettlement schemes of Kishe, Gera and Didessa located in river valleys and highland areas of Illubabor Administrative Region in western Ethiopia.
(11) The place [consulate] is totally destroyed, the whole building is on fire," said Mohammed El Kish, a former press officer with the National Transitional Council, which handed power to an elected parliament last month.
(12) No human trypanosomiasis cases were found but high livestock mortality was reported by local populations in the lowland schemes of Kishe and Didessa.
(13) The absence of an age-related ordering in the regenerated optic nerve was demonstrated by labelling a few axon bundles intraorbitally with HRP (Easter, Rusoff & Kish, 1981) caudal to the previous cut.
(14) Using the approximate variance of the ratio mean (Kish, 1965), shown here to be a good estimator of the sample variance of the humerofemoral index, the analysis of this modern sample extrapolated to other living hominoids gives quite acceptable results.
(15) This required an extension of the approach described by Kish (Survey Sampling.
Kith
Definition:
(n.) Acquaintance; kindred.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bizarre sense of occasion that led him to choose the precise anniversary moment of the 1918 armistice to seize power on behalf of the white 5% of the Rhodesian population was nevertheless a useful reminder to his British "kith and kin" of his wartime service as an RAF fighter pilot - when "Smithy" was shot down, lost an eye and had plastic surgery for facial burns.
(2) But ex-Flight-Lieutenant Smith's appeal to his kith and kin was cunningly calculated and gave London the creeps.
(3) However, the danger is that immigration policy for businesspeople and the most highly skilled becomes based on the old “kith and kin” white Commonwealth of Australia, Canada and New Zealand by default, if not by design.
(4) I’d much rather deal with my own kith and kin.” The remain campaign accused Leave.EU of “double standards beyond parody”.
(5) The paper reviews evidence documenting the health-protective effects of the informal social support extended by kith, kin, and community gatekeepers.
(6) Turkey has repeatedly expressed concern over the attacks on the Turkmens, a Sunni Muslim minority whom many Turks regard as their kith and kin.