(n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
(n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
(n.) A female servant.
(n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).
Example Sentences:
(1) However, by day 21 after Giardia infection, mice with MAIDS failed to clear the Giardia cysts from the intestine while the control mice were completely free of cysts.
(2) Riyadh recently rejected demands from Manila for medical insurance for maids and for information on employers to be supplied before their departure.
(3) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
(4) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(5) Frequencies of prestimulation calcium-positive cells among both CD4+ and CD8+ cells in mice with MAIDS were significantly higher than those for uninfected mice.
(6) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
(7) • Where to stay: Ipanema Penthouse (three-bedroom flats from $250 a night, including maid service).
(8) In 2010 Liliane Peretz, a maid, who had worked for the couple for six years, took a case to the Israeli labour court alleging she had been humiliated and that the prime minister's wife had insisted she change her clothing during the day to remain hygienic.
(9) Recently, a murine retrovirus (LpBM5 MuLV), which induces immunodeficiency syndrome in mice, termed MAIDS, has been found to have several features similar to those seen in human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
(10) Lena Baker, a black maid, was executed in 1945 after being convicted in a one-day trial of killing her white employer.
(11) Although MAIDS and AIDS are not identical and are induced by retroviruses of different classes, the availability of such a model in an easily accessible small animal species, whose genetics is very sophisticated, may be instrumental in understanding the pathogenesis of AIDS if some of the cellular and molecular affected pathways are common in both diseases.
(12) The types of food presented were significantly associated with the nationality of the maid.
(13) One company spokesman points out that otherwise "these women would be in the fields, in ship-breaking or shrimp farming, working as maids".
(14) You need to be very careful who you let in, that's why it's very important to have a maid.
(15) When you tire of that, you can pay Candy Fruit Refresh maids to clean your ears – or even just talk to you.
(16) Penetrance of resistance to disease associated with expression of H-2Dd was markedly influenced by MHC genes mapping to the left of H-2D and by non-MHC loci such that some strains bearing this gene were highly susceptible to MAIDS.
(17) The variables with a significant coefficient of association with early termination of breast feeding were maternal education, past experience with breast feeding, help of a maid, help with housework provided by a relative, breast feeding orientation during prenatal care and encouragement from the husband.
(18) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(19) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
(20) The corporation said the third series of the show would see Robin Hood return "older and tougher" and "hellbent on revenge" following the murder of Maid Marian by Gisborne and the failure of the Sheriff of Nottingham, played by Keith Allen, to kill Prince John.
Mand
Definition:
(n.) A demand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transfer from tact to mand contingencies was investigated in two adults with severe mental retardation.
(2) Results are discussed in terms of tacting and manding.
(3) Mands for two of three utensils emerged following tact intervention.
(4) The present study investigated procedures for developing mands and tacts in three learners with severe disabilities.
(5) It was found out that this method doesn't correspond in some details to the classic de-mands of the obstetrical mitigation.
(6) Previous research has shown that topographies taught as tacts frequently fail to appear as mands unless transfer between these two response classes is explicitly programmed.
(7) An important educational objective for many persons with developmental disabilities is the acquisition of verbal operants such as the mand (e.g., requesting) and tact (e.g., labeling).
(8) The clearest differences between classes I and II openbite were the mand.
(9) Substantial transfer to untrained objects and transfer across response classes were frequently noted after both tact and mand interventions had occurred for some items.
(10) Tassos Mandelis, a former socialist transport minister, admitted he had accepted a €100,000 payment from Siemens in 1998.
(11) Nevertheless, cluster analysis disclosed the same pattern in Diola, Toucouleur and Ouolof, while the Peul were intermediary between these and the Serere and the Mande.
(12) An important issue in teaching verbal behavior to persons with severe handicaps is the transfer of stimulus control from tact (e.g., naming) to mand (e.g., requesting) relationships.
(14) Results are discussed in terms of the training technique to establish manding and the functional analysis of the resulting verbal behavior.
(15) The results suggest that responses acquired as tacts do not readily occur as mands.
(16) Substitutes: Ousmane Diarrassouba, Kolo Toure, Mathis Bolly, Daniel Akpa Akpro, Salomon Kalou, Didier Drogba, Didier Ya Konan, Ismael Diomande, Sylvain Gbohouo, Constant Djakpa, Giovanni Sio, Sayouba Mande.
(17) Distressed hipsters: from hackneyhipsterhate.tumblr.com American comedian Joe Mande began his photo-blog, Look At This Fucking Hipster in April 2009.
(18) The results suggest transfer from tact variables to the conditioned establishing operation may be facilitated by the prior development of a minimal mand repertoire.
(19) Give me--" when nonrequested objects were offered, students responded differentially to requested and nonrequested objects, suggesting control of the "Give me--" response by the requested object, a characteristic of a mand.
(20) The major pathways of the peripheral facial taste system in the carp, Cyprinus carpio, are the maxillary (Max), mandibular (Mand), palatine (Pal) and recurrent nerve rami.