What's the difference between lena and scandinavian?

Lena


Definition:

  • (n.) A procuress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
  • (2) Girls star Lena Dunham confirms sixth season will be show's last Read more It’s worth noting that Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna and Jessa have aged considerably more slowly than those of us in the real world, with the trailer for Girls’ forthcoming series placing Marnie at 25.
  • (3) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
  • (4) Dunham similarly opted for a snarky introduction, invoking Trump’s derogatory comments toward women the crowd: “I’m Lena Dunham and, according to Donald Trump, I’m like a two.” Both actors were early supporters of Clinton’s and stumped for her during the Democratic primary.
  • (5) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
  • (6) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
  • (7) Lena Klimova, the founder of Children 404, a support group for LGBT teenagers in Russia.
  • (8) A letter sent to Fairhead and the BBC director general, Tony Hall, in June organised by two leading independent television producers and signed by 750 stars, including Whitehall, Olivia Colman, Daniel Radcliffe, Game of Thrones star Lena Headey and Poldark’s Aidan Turner, argued against the plans.
  • (9) Study of the morphology of 602 specimens of N. rutili (Müller, 1780) and N. crassus Van Cleave, 1919 collected in 10 species of fishes from waterbodies of the Kola Peninsular, the Ob, Yenisei, Lena, Kolyma and Chauna rivers has shown that all absolute specific characters considered (13 in female and 17 in male) have a considerable range of variations due to the modificational individual and age variability.
  • (10) It takes grit and it takes grace.” Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: “You people have made history and you’re gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she’ll be the first but she won’t be the last.” Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clinton’s breaking of glass ceilings and Trump’s dismissive comments about women.
  • (11) Lena Dunham is the creator of Girls Sharon Olds Photograph: Rex Features When I think of The Bell Jar , I see the basement of the house I grew up in – the furnace, the area behind the furnace (dust, grit, and a wall of dirt – the earth, right there in the basement).
  • (12) Lena Baker, a black maid, was executed in 1945 after being convicted in a one-day trial of killing her white employer.
  • (13) According to Lena Groznova, an activist at the HIV-prevention group Andrey Rylkov Foundation, such ignorance about HIV is common even among healthcare workers, due to the lack of public service information.
  • (14) The dismal election results should be a wake-up call for the likes of Lena Dunham and her supporters.
  • (15) Best actress in a TV comedy It's Lena Dunhan for Girls.
  • (16) Not just Planned Parenthood Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lena Dunham attends Politics, Sex and Cocktails presented by Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles earlier this year.
  • (17) With armed men roaming the streets and war closing in, Lena Nagiba decided to escape from rebel-held Donetsk in eastern Ukraine .
  • (18) Updated at 3.02am BST 3.00am BST You may have heard that Danes grew up in the same neighborhood as Lena Dunham.
  • (19) Multiple sources have confirmed Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina's presence at rehearsals in Sochi, with fans sharing photographs of the singers on stage and Volkova tweeting images of herself with Olympic athletes.
  • (20) Lena Dunham may not like our interpretation of her book, but unfortunately for her and her attorneys, she wrote that book – and the First Amendment covers a good deal of material she may not like.” Dunham tweeted at the weekend: “I wish my sister wasn’t laughing so hard” about the situation.

Scandinavian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scandinavian forensic psychiatrists, lawyers and criminologists have analyzed and discussed the present situation and have found that there is still a need and justification for forensic psychiatry.
  • (2) At the Second Scandinavian Congress on Image Analysis in 1981 Kohonen provided evidence that the map of signals has the same topological order as the map of reactions.
  • (3) We present our management protocol as well as a survey of the routine management of acute epiglottitis in children in the five Scandinavian countries.
  • (4) In Scandinavian countries a sophisticated system for rehabilitating the hearing impaired has evolved and communication aids are recommended extensively.
  • (5) My assembly report, Braking Point , showed the big advantages of making 20mph the default speed limit for urban areas and, as the previous mayor's road safety ambassador, I pressed for the adoption of the zero-casualty approach applied in Scandinavian countries.
  • (6) This investigation of 28 tumours from 22 patients of Scandinavian origin shows that at the electron microscope level there is no difference between malignant cells in the invasion nodulus of superficially spreading melanoma and nodular melanoma.
  • (7) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
  • (8) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
  • (9) Because this concept has important implications for preventive cardiology, the results of several prevention trials, including the Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study (CONSENSUS), Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD), and Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) are awaited eagerly.
  • (10) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
  • (11) These results support the Scandinavian experience that herniography has a useful role in the management of patients who may have occult hernias as the underlying cause of abdominal wall symptoms.
  • (12) In the Scandinavian countries few regulations govern hospital infection control.
  • (13) At three months, patients with moderate to severe strokes (less than 40 on the Scandinavian Stroke Scale) in the ancrod group showed average improvement by a factor of 3 over the placebo group.
  • (14) It can have Scandinavian levels of public spending while the Bank of England provides Royal Bank of Scotland with a lender of last resort guarantee.
  • (15) Since up until now no uniform recommendations regarding indication for therapeutic abortion following irradiation have been drawn up in Western Germany, it is advisable to fall back on those recommendations drawn up by Scandinavian countries on the basis of thorough radiobiological knowledge and experience.
  • (16) The results showed that average intake of NSP by a Japanese in the above years did not exceed 13 g per day, which is as low as the corresponding intake by the Scandinavians and the British whose risk of colon cancer is known to be high.
  • (17) The results obtained by the new continuous-flow system were compared with those measured by the kinetic method according to the Scandinavian recommendation (10).
  • (18) Abnormal lactose tolerance tests were found in 81% of 98 blacks, 12% of 59 whites of Scandinavian or Northwestern European extraction, and three of nine non-European whites.
  • (19) The trial comprised eight Scandinavian neurologic centres and was designed as a double-blind cross-over study with 4 weeks' run-in, four weeks washout, and 8 weeks of either treatment.
  • (20) We consider a class of Markov models, referred to by Cox (1981, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 8, 93-115) as "observation-driven" models in which the conditional means and variances given the past are explicit functions of past outcomes.

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