(a.) Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.
(n.) The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
(2) On the one hand, the desire to preserve languages and their cultural heritage is a highly commendable endeavour — it is the reason why languages such as Manx, Livonian and Cornish have been brought back from the brink of extinction.
(3) In the Manx shearwater, it is found that this novel area projects visually into the binocular field below the bill.
(4) The retinal ganglion cells in five species (Manx shearwater, Puffinus puffinus, Kerguelen petrel, Pterodroma brevirostris, great shearwater, Puffinus gravis, broad-billed prion, Pachyptila vittata, and common diving petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix) were examined by Nissl staining and also by silver staining in the case of the common diving petrel.
(5) The Manx shearwater, Puffinus puffinus, is a pelagic sea bird which feeds from the surface of the sea and by shallow surface and plunge dives.
(6) Cook, who was born in Dorchester, will now fight in the European and world championships under a Manx flag, after he followed through on his promise to switch his allegiance unless the GB Taekwondo selectors responsible for his omission resigned.
(7) A progressive, apparently inherited corneal dystrophy is described in an inbred line of Manx cats.
(8) During studies on the etiology of puffinosis, a disease of the Manx shearwater, 1 to 4% of full-grown birds were found to have dry, non-pigmented lesions on the webs of the feet.
(9) Manx of these infants has additionally dermatological symptoms and some respiratory symptoms.
(10) Decreased serum and CSF chloride concentrations were documented in a 5-year-old Manx cat referred for evaluation of anorexia.
(11) This summer the Manx cyclists Mark Cavendish and Pete Kennaugh represented Team GB in London.
(12) The roads of Yorkshire are still marked with graffiti urging on the Brit favourite, Mark “Cav” Cavendish – a poignant reminder that the Manx sprinter didn’t even make it to stage two after crashing at the first finish in Harrogate.
(13) Verbs tend to ascribe benign agency to the parts of a dead animal, as with the announcement by the waiter at L'Enclume who, in Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's TV series The Trip , introduces a dish thus: "You've got some little manx queenies which are baby queen scallops.
(14) Are Manx, Jersey and Guernsey coins legal tender in the UK?
(15) News of the chancellor's tax grab on the Isle of Man was read out by the island's chief minister, Tony Brown, in front of a sombre Tynwald, the Manx parliament.
(16) Scotland data are similar to Cumbrian and Manx results and dissimilar to the Irish data.
(17) The mononuclear retinal field of the Manx shearwater eye is 148 degrees wide and is asymmetric with respect to the optic axis.
(18) In Manx shearwater eyes, the ratio of focal length:axial length and the ratio of lens refractive power:corneal refractive power may be correlated with a nocturnal life style.
(19) The Manx population has higher Esterase D 2 gene frequencies than neighbouring populations.
(20) Saliva specimens were collected from 163 Manx and 994 Cumbrian individuals and tested for secretor group.
Pawn
Definition:
(n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
(n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
(n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
(n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
(n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
(v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
(v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(2) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
(3) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(4) In his two interrogations in Belgium, Abdeslam gave the impression he was merely a pawn of Abaaoud and his own brother Brahim, who blew himself up outside a Paris cafe.
(5) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(6) Experiments were done on wild type P. caudatum and on both the wild type and a pawn mutant of P. tetraurelia.
(7) For most women born into the political world, their job description is more pawn than queen: to serve as the physical embodiment of political alliances by marrying husbands chosen by their fathers and giving birth to male heirs.
(8) If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.
(9) Mutants of Paramecium aurelia that are unable to reverse swimming direction are called pawns.
(10) We’re extremely worried that she’s being used as a political pawn.
(11) The kinetic properties of the ciliary membrane Ca2+ ATPase activity in wild type and several behavioral mutants were similar except for those in the pawn mutant, d495, and the paranoiac mutant, d490, both of which had lower specific activities.
(12) Photograph: PA Walker went on: “In stark contrast to how we were treated by the police, the CPS and court staff who were truly respectful and sensitive, I don’t think that as victims we have been treated with genuine respect, but are pawns in the BBC’s ambition to be seen to protect its reputation.
(13) But he added, repeating Putin's line, that people "should not turn into 'pawns' in the hands of those who want to destroy our country".
(14) He refers to the battle as a "different titans' game" which makes the Standard seem like a pawn.
(15) To keep up, the older generation has begun pawning heirlooms and jewellery to get through the winter.
(16) A small girl's placard proclaimed: "When the situation is as dire as this I don't mind my parents using me as a political pawn."
(17) Surrogate mothering and surrogate gestational mothering force us to redefine the age old dictum mater certa est and can render the child a helpless pawn in parental, emotional, and legal strife.
(18) The government of Nauru has said most incidents detailed in the Nauru files were “fabricated” and has accused Australian media and politicians of using refugees as political pawns.
(19) Two heat-sensitive "pawn" mutants of Paramecium aurelia are capable of avoiding reactions when grown at 23 degrees C but not at 35 degrees C. Electrophysiological analyses show that Ca activation is reduces in the mutants even when they are grown at 23 degrees C. The maximal rate of rise and the peak of the evoked action potential (Ca-spike) in the mutants are smaller than those of wild type in a K-solution.
(20) Contrary to media reports, most passengers have not become pawns in an epic industrial battle pitting the human right to free assembly against corporate self-determination.