(n.) A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.
Example Sentences:
(1) The students – Hoe-Yeong Loke, Mila Akimova and four unnamed others – complained that the university's decision to speak publicly about the undercover expedition, led by the Panorama presenter John Sweeney, had exposed them to threats from Pyongyang.
(2) These results agree with analogous studies of normal human T lymphocytes [Heikkila, R., Schwab, G., Wickstrom, E., Loke, S. L., Pluznik, D. H., Watt, R. & Neckers, L. M. (1987) Nature (London) 328, 445-449], except that only one-third as much oligomer was needed for a comparable effect.
(3) The possible role of these cells in the regulation of the trophoblast-maternal interface is discussed here by Ashley King and Yung Wai Loke.
Oke
Definition:
(n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds.
(n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Origins stories are OKed everyday, from the Chronicles of Riddick to Keeping up Appearances.
(2) Opera recording: Ades: The Tempest, Thomas Ades, Simon Keenlyside, Isabel Leonard, Audrey Luna, Alan Oke, Jay David Saks.
(3) (Yemi Oke, of Cyclotron cycle club, by email) I have been living in Lagos for 9 months.
(4) Dioxamide derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole, synthesized earlier by Oke (1986), were screened for hypoglycemic activity.
(5) The study shows that the dioxamide derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole are more potent and of longer duration of action when compared with the oxamide derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole, which were previously reported by Oke and Cherynk (1981).
(6) It was Judith Okely (Jude the Baptist), fresh from the Sorbonne, who argued the case for feminism and introduced some of us to the work of Simone de Beauvoir.