(n.) A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radial arm maze observations were made on offspring rats during a total of 30 trials, and we made the following findings: 1) The number of trials required for fulfilling learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups relative to the controls; that is, F-DEL and F-NURS were slow in learning.
(2) The number of rats which did not fulfill the learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups, relative to the controls.
(3) More cohesive than the miners, more determined than the NUR and more confident of public support even than the nurses, these are the people whose decisions shape the way money is spent in the NHS, and the way that most of us will experience it.
(4) Earlier on Sunday, the house where Nur Hassan, 30, and her daughter Rahaf lived in Gaza City was brought down as Israeli jets hit two alleged weapons sites belonging to Hamas in response to the launching of two rockets into Israel .
(5) They don’t want to release me.” Another young man who called himself Nur Ali Awale said he had been held for 15 months.
(6) Breakaway MNLF guerrillas led by its commander Nur Misuari have issued new secession threats from their remaining strongholds such as southern Jolo island, a few hours by boat from Zamboanga city.
(7) Mr Nur said he had phone contact with British Somali families who were stranded in Somalia and feared that their teenage sons might be accused of being jihadi fighters.
(8) Lt Fazel Rahman, police chief in the Guzirga i-Nur district of Baghlan province, said on Sunday that the death toll had climbed from 54 to 81 and that police and villagers were still searching for missing people after flooding hit several villages on Friday.
(9) Just hours before the announcement Atta Muhammad Nur, the Balkh provincial governor who is the most vocal and powerful of Abdullah's supporters, maintained that he considered Abdullah the rightful successor to Hamid Karzai.
(10) In beard and dark shirt, Mohamed Ahmed Nur – described more than once as mayor of the world's most dangerous city – sits at a desk full of flags, mementos and trophies.
(11) Nur wants to see more long-term foreign investment, not just aid, to deal with what he calls symptoms, like water-borne diseases.
(12) Some members of the group succeeded in reaching Syria, among them Abdi Nur, a man cited by Luger as the principal inspiration and recruiter for the Minnesota group since his arrival in the Middle East.
(13) But security remains volatile in the Somali capital and on Thursday night the deputy chief prosecutor, Ahmad Shaykh Nur Maalin, was shot dead by three masked men – the most senior official to be killed in the city since a new government took office last year.
(14) 349 women were given Depo-Provera and 304 were given Nur-Isterate immediately after delivery.
(15) Nur, a grandfather who has survived "many" assassination attempts, believes Mogadishu is ready to make that leap.
(16) The openly pro-Sisi Salafist Al-Nur party, which backed the ousting of Morsi , is the only Islamist party standing.
(17) It evoked a historical war against the Shia, he said: in the 12th century Nur al-Din set off from the mosque to defeat the Shia Fatamid caliphate in Cairo.
(18) "I have seen signs that militias want to carve the city into fiefdoms … these groups need an iron fist," Nur said.
(19) The city's mayor, Mohamed Ahmed Nur, is also concerned.
(20) Another mutation, nur, originally described as conferring sensitivity to inactivation by broad-spectrum and monochromatic NUV, also confers sensitivity to inactivation by H2O2.