What's the difference between laid and virgin?

Laid


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Lay.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Lay

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
  • (2) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
  • (3) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
  • (4) Special emphasis is laid on the new or unusual clinical patterns of dystonia as well as on the latest advances in its treatment.
  • (5) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
  • (6) The building blocks were laid out in a sweeping document presented by Van Rompuy and colleagues earlier this week that included sharing debt in the form of jointly issued eurobonds.
  • (7) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
  • (8) Subculturing of these cells onto substrata laid down by well differentiated (mature) colon carcinoma cells resulted in cell attachment and spreading.
  • (9) An area on top of a hill near to the spot where Sharon was laid to rest alongside his late wife, Lily, was penned off with crash barriers.
  • (10) As she was laid to rest fireworks illuminated the grey sky.
  • (11) I think rightly, people have been concerned about whether Syria will follow through on the commitments that have been laid forth, and I think there are legitimate concerns as to how technically we are going to be getting those chemical weapons out while there is still fighting going on.
  • (12) It will be the first time that governments have clearly laid out a vision of accessible usable data across the entire chain of public contracting.
  • (13) It is argued that this assumption is often made without sufficient attention to foundational principles of professional ethics; that once core principles are laid bare this assumption is revealed as largely unwarranted; and, finally, that these observations at the level of moral theory should be reflected, in various ways, in medical practice.
  • (14) In another, Underwood and his aide are monitoring police communications from his office – and laid out on their desk are no fewer than nine iPhones and iPads.
  • (15) A photo circulating among former school friends, which appears to show Abdullah dead and laid out on the ground, has been seen by the Guardian.
  • (16) The flowers were made and laid by thousands of people who had travelled to Hyde Park from around Britain for the Big IF rally.
  • (17) The best option for the west is to avoid taking sides and instead try to contain the crisis at a time when the region needs dialogue more than ever.” Officials and analysts with ties to Riyadh say it was just a timeline laid out by the judicial process.
  • (18) There are solutions to this and it is to be hoped that a more workable amendment will be laid very soon.
  • (19) Behind the mild-mannered, laid-back exterior, the extraordinary calm, is a man of great steeliness and backbone," said one adviser.
  • (20) On the basis of these observations, stress is laid on the importance of atrial rhythm disease as a cause of acute cerebral ischaemia in the elderly subject

Virgin


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
  • (n.) A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.
  • (n.) See Virgo.
  • (n.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
  • (n.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
  • (a.) Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.
  • (a.) Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold.
  • (a.) Not yet pregnant; impregnant.
  • (v. i.) To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
  • (2) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
  • (3) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
  • (4) The hepatic balance for valine, leucine and isoleucine has been measured in anaesthetized virgin controls and 9 and 12-day pregnant rats.
  • (5) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
  • (6) In the early, middle and late periods of pregnancy, axonal swelling, agglutination of axonal cytoplasm and mitochondrial breakdown were observed, but no marked degeneration appeared in virgin rat uteri.
  • (7) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
  • (8) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
  • (9) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
  • (10) These results suggest that HTB-9.3 clone represents virgin T cells and CB-11.4 clone-primed T cells at least in alloreactivity.
  • (11) Previous studies using anti-CD45R monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have shown that normal CD4+ T cells can be separated into virgin and memory cells based on their level of expression of CD45R.
  • (12) Overall, only 26% of respondents considered virginity at the time of marriage to be important.
  • (13) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
  • (14) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
  • (15) Second, female preintervention Comparison program virgins used effective contraceptive methods more consistently than those who attended the HBM-SLT program (p less than 0.01); among males, the intervention programs were equally effective.
  • (16) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
  • (17) In contrast to their inability to stimulate virgin, alloreactive CD4+ T cells, astrocytes were able to specifically stimulate an alloreactive CD4+ T cell line.
  • (18) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
  • (19) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
  • (20) The occurrence was highest, the degree most severe, and the location exclusively myocardial in C3H and C3Hf mated females, irrespective of parity, whereas virginal females of these strains were entirely free of disease even after administration of exogenous progesterone.