(n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(2) I mean, he's hooked us up to see you in the flesh – it feels a bit like Madame Tussauds right now!"
(3) Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
(4) Every now and then some rich Oga or Madam comes along in their bulletproof cars and wailing sirens, and distorts the delicate equilibrium of this body of traffic.
(5) The operator of attractions such as Madame Tussauds, Sea Life Centres and London Eye, had already warned in July that lost theme park revenues would push group profit below forecasts to around the £249m posted in 2014, and the firm reiterated that expectation on Thursday.
(6) By the end of the month – barring a physical or political earthquake – Paris will have its first Madame le Maire.
(7) She was now under the control of a “madam”, a Nigerian woman who worked for the trafficking rings, controlling the women and their debt.
(8) The ubiquity of Madame Tussauds, found everywhere from Bangkok to Berlin, may reflect the globalisation of Hollywood but each city gets the waxworks it deserves.
(9) Madam Ambassador, [Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf] says this is something that has been in the planning stages for months.
(10) Kimmel provoked ire on social media when he joked about the ethnic names of some tourists who were led into the ceremony from their tour bus, apparently thinking they were entering Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.
(11) "They give up their time for nothing but the privilege and honour of having their figure done," says Liz Edwards, spokeswoman for Madame Tussauds.
(12) Madame Tussauds museum in Amsterdam, owned by Merlin Entertainments.
(13) Madam Speaker, Mr Vice-President, distinguished members of Congress, I come to this great capital of this great nation, an America renewed under a new president to say that America's faith in the future has been, is and always will be an inspiration to the whole world.
(14) The slight and dignified Madame Bong drew confidence from the correspondent who used his physical presence to inspire calm rather than threat.
(15) We are all going to die, madame,” he told me cheerily one morning, while chopping vegetables.
(16) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
(17) I’m bored Some of London’s most popular attractions are also its most expensive – looking at you Madame Tussauds (from £107 for a family of four), London Zoo (£84.60), London Sealife Aquarium (£136).
(18) At Madame Tussauds, changes in popularity mean the collection is always mutating, and some dummies go the way of all wax.
(19) She pursued her madam through the courts and eventually saw her sent to jail for four years.
(20) Those who leave Nigeria are told they will need to pay back €15,000 and when they reach Italy the madam tells them their debt is €45,000,” says Princess.
Mam
Definition:
(n.) Mamma.
Example Sentences:
(1) PFP-MAM is separated by capillary GC and identified mass spectrometrically by selected ion monitoring (SIM).
(2) In this study the morphology of the lateral geniculate nucleus and occipital cortex in rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM Ac)-induced micrencephaly was examined.
(3) The use of monoclonal antibodies and alpha MAM-6 indicated that the majority of TEC were of medullary origin.
(4) The results suggest that rats exposed to MAM in varying doses would be useful for evaluating the developmental process of neurons and its unification.
(5) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(6) Liver microsomes isolated from rats fed the 3 diets metabolized MAM to formic acid and methanol in vitro, but liver microsomes from rats fed the continuous ethanol diet were 12 to 15 times more active than liver microsomes from rats fed the control diet.
(7) Too proud to ask for help, the alarm bells rang in the week before his death when he accepted a tenner from his mam.
(8) A quantitative sandwich radioimmunoassay, using 115D8 as catcher and as tracer antibody, has been developed to detect MAM-6 in serum.
(9) To further analyze the apparent colocalization of ricin and MAM-6 in the perinuclear Golgi region, immunogold cytochemistry on ultracryosections was performed.
(10) The brain weights in the MNU- and MAM-treated pups on postnatal day 22 were significantly less than those in the control pups.
(11) MAM-6 might be considered as a marker of severe (premalignant) dysplasia in adenomas of the large intestine.
(12) Microradiographical and histological investigations showed that the cranial base lordosis was more pronounced in the MAM rats than in the controls, and that the width of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis was reduced mainly due to reduction in the central zone.
(13) These results suggest that working memory disorders of MAM rats on radial maze tasks may be due to the lowering of cholinergic functions in their hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
(14) Cumulative properties indicate that MAM is the guinea pig analogue of human Mo1 and mouse Mac-1.
(15) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
(16) One of the antigens, MAM-6, appeared to be an important epithelial marker, present in all normal and neoplastic breast tissue samples, in about 80% of non-mammary normal tissues and in more than 90% of non-mammary epithelial tumours.
(17) Pretreatment with CCl4 caused not only early death from chemical toxicity of MAM but also an increase in small-bowel tumors.
(18) Unlike paramagnetic material, MAM appears effective as a small-bowel contrast material.
(19) 5HT-immunoreactive neurons in the MAM-rats were reduced in number and irregularly distributed in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei compared with those in the control.
(20) Treatment with MAM, 3 to 6 hr after Con A addition, partially blocks the enhancement.