(v.) An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.
(n.) A maiden.
(n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
(n.) The early part or springtime of life.
(n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
(n.) The merrymaking of May Day.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(3) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(4) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(5) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(6) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(7) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(8) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(9) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
(10) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(11) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(12) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(13) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(14) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(15) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(16) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(17) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(18) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(19) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(20) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
Yay
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a gentler symbolism than: ‘Yay, we’ve all left the BBC!’ Because we all love the BBC.” At an estimated cost of £160m for three series, the Grand Tour is also symbolic of the changes in the global TV industry.
(2) The iconic show that gave Americans Chico Escuela (“baseball’s been berry berry good to me”) in the 1970s (yay, stereotypes!)
(3) Yay me, I cheered, only for my cheer to catch in my throat and turn into a scream of horror when someone innocently showed me a magazine feature about Ms Deschanel’s style.
(4) When asked by the Hollywood Reporter how the Chinese film industry had reacted to that speech, Feng said: "Within the Guild everyone was like, 'Yay!
(5) In these and all other species for which there are data, 5' termini map to sequences that contain the trinucleotide YAY.
(6) As Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor who has been a formative voice on gun controls , put it this week: "Everyone is going to have to stand up and say yay or nay.
(7) Out of the many stories in this collection my top two would HAVE to be The World’s Greatest Teen Detective by Derek Landy (Yay Skulduggery Pleasant!)
(8) • As brilliant as the Channel 4 presentation of Die Hard will be, for me the definitive version is the first version I saw, on ITV in the early 1990s – the one where Bruce Willis says "Yippee-ki-yay, kimosabe."
(9) Just yay!” tweeted Douglas Carswell , the Ukip MP when news of Corbyn’s polling result broke, while rightwing commentators urged Conservatives to register as Labour supporters to get him elected, under the banner #ToriesforCorbyn.