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Luke


Definition:

  • (a.) Moderately warm; not hot; tepid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (2) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (3) She described Luke as being “open, honest and assertive” during the interview.
  • (4) We have to improve our playing style and beat our opponents more easily.” Van Gaal was also careful to provide an exact statement on the England full-back Luke Shaw, who suffered an ankle injury against Arsenal.
  • (5) Ervin Santana is in Atlanta, meaning the rotation is thinner and with reliever Luke Hochevar is out with Tommy John surgery , that’s not a great start.
  • (6) When I decided Baines might be my No1, I decided the next one would be Luke Shaw.
  • (7) Other high-profile absentees include Danny Welbeck, Jack Wilshere, Luke Shaw and Jordan Henderson.
  • (8) Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren have all moved to Liverpool while Luke Shaw has signed for Manchester United and Arsenal have taken Calum Chambers to the Emirates Stadium, with Southampton raking in more than £88m for the combined deals.
  • (9) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
  • (10) The pathologic and clinical significance of the modified Lukes and Collins classification is discussed.
  • (11) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
  • (12) Advocates for victims of domestic violence say they hope the inquest into the death of 11-year-old Luke Batty, who was assaulted and killed by his father, will identify the systemic failures that led to his death and expose a culture that too often blames victims.
  • (13) They are small-state Conservatives who believe the commercial world should provide.” Bryant, whose campaign against phone hacking won an award and who has a cartoon of himself as Luke Skywalker slaying the Sith lords Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on his office wall, said the rumoured return of Brooks to News UK, if it happened, would be a “massive two fingers to the British public”.
  • (14) "Andrew does help me, as did [Observer dance critic] Luke Jennings.
  • (15) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
  • (16) This was true of the judicial system too, with Anderson frequently challenging intervention orders so he could see Luke more frequently, but then not showing up to court and leaving Batty on her own to deal with the aftermath.
  • (17) Once, the inquest heard, he threatened Luke’s football coach, telling him: “I have a knife with your name on it.” When Anderson killed Luke there were four warrants out for his arrest including one related to his possession of child sex abuse images.
  • (18) Luke Sibieta, the thinktank’s education programme director, said: “The schools budget was ringfenced in the 2010 spending review and the 2013 spending round.
  • (19) Luke loved spending time with his dad.” But Anderson became increasingly unstable, she said, and began showing concerning behaviour towards Luke, who also noticed a change in his father.
  • (20) In Frankston magistrates court last April, Goldsbrough heard an application by Rosie Batty to have the conditions on an intervention order further tightened to prevent Anderson, her ex-partner, from seeing Luke.

Luxe


Definition:

  • (n.) Luxury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity was localized at the surface membrane of the mouse C-1300 neuroblastoma by incubation of a confluent tissue culture monolayer grown on Lux-Permanox cultureware with 6-chloropurine ribonucleoside (CPR).
  • (2) Strains with transposon-generated lux::lacZ gene fusions were used to analyze control of the transcription of these regions.
  • (3) For 1-4 weeks after surgery they were exposed to either 1000 lux for 24 hr or 80 lux for 48 hr.
  • (4) Flash stimuli with the maximum illuminance, 30,000 lux, were given at increasing levels of illuminance in 0.6 log U steps for 13 levels of intensity.
  • (5) The lux genes required for expression of luminescence have been cloned from a terrestrial bacterium, Xenorhabdus luminescens, and the nucleotide sequences of the luxA and luxB genes coding for the alpha and beta subunits of luciferase determined.
  • (6) To assess whether developmental state, as opposed to species, was a factor determining the differences in vulnerability to injury, hearts from immature rats and adult rabbits were perfused with various concentrations of rose bengal (250-2500 nmol.litre-1) with the intensity of illumination (1400-6600 Lux) adjusted to account for the size of the heart.
  • (7) A simple method based upon the use of a Tn5 derivative, Tn5-Lux, has been devised for the introduction and stable expression of the character of bioluminescence in a variety of gram-negative bacteria.
  • (8) In humans, the light intensity must probably exceed 2000 lux to be optimal.
  • (9) Ethylenediamine-di(o-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid) did not affect luciferase induction in E. coli strains with wild-type iron assimilation (ED8654) or impaired iron assimilation (RW193) bearing pJE202 (a plasmid with functional V. fischeri lux genes), suggesting that the genes responsible for the iron effect are missing or substituted in these clones.
  • (10) Bromohydrins (12, 13, and 14), which were oxidatively damaged products of thymidine nucleotides, were repaired by the action of sunlight (2700 lux) or heat via a radical mechanism to regenerate the original nucleotides (8,9, and 10).
  • (11) In humans only bright light (2500 lux) appears to be an effective circadian zeitgeber.
  • (12) In the second part, caries was simulated by grooves of increasing depth in aluminum blocks of a thickness equivalent in radiopacity to enamel and the detectability assessed beneath differing thicknesses of three representative composite resins, P-30, Brilliant Lux and Occlusin.
  • (13) The rightward operon contains luxI, which together with luxR and the 218 base pairs separating the two operons comprises the primary regulatory circuit, and the five structural genes, luxC, luxD, luxA, luxB and luxE, which are required for the bioluminescence activity.
  • (14) The genes required for bioluminescence (the lux genes) are organized in two divergently transcribed operons (luxR-luxICDABEG).
  • (15) The tests were performed between 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., with light (700-1400 lux) and in the dark (1.4-2.8 lux) and behavior was recorded by the time sampling technique.
  • (16) The protocol consisted of a baseline control night (customary sleep schedule) followed by three shortened nights with a rising at 05.00 and a 2 h exposure to either dim light (50 lux; one week) or bright light (2000 lux; other week).
  • (17) Up to 12-14 weeks of age, the .11 lux intensity was superior to the other treatments.
  • (18) Under LD 20:4, the intensity of L was decreased to 1 lux for 1 hr (D pulse).
  • (19) At low levels of illumination (30 lux), this effect was similar to that seen in anesthetized animals but was diminished under higher ambient lighting conditions.
  • (20) The transcription of the V. fischeri lux genes also requires a regulatory protein, (luxR), cAMP and CRP.

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