(pron.) A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sperm specimens were obtained from 13 men participating in our in vitro fertilization program.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(4) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
(5) A total of five men appeared at a Moscow courtroom on Sunday.
(6) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(7) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(8) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(9) EI showed a tendency to drop from week 20 to week 40 in the men and a tendency to increase from week 20 to week 40 in the women.
(10) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(11) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(12) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
(13) The overall incidence in patients over 50 years of age was 8.5%; it was more than twice as high in women (11.5%) as in men (4.5%) and rose sharply with age.
(14) The reference cohort consisted of 1725845 men otherwise gainfully employed.
(15) In addition, in all the diagnostic groups, women were found to be older than men at first hospitalization.
(16) Three subcohorts were defined: 3212 men whose only exposure to asbestos was to amosite; 3430 exposed to crocidolite; and 675 to both amphiboles.
(17) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(18) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(19) This study examines the extent to which changes in smoking can account for the decrease in CHD mortality for men and women aged 35-64 years.
(20) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
Omen
Definition:
(n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
(v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) 7-OMEN was the major fluorescent biliary species, but, by 24 h, N-demethyl menogaril accounted for approximately 40% of biliary drug fluorescence.
(2) In this study defibrotide produced a significantly lower pressure inside the circuit compared to the control group and gave a protective effect against those pathological changes which appeared during extracorporeal circulation and that may be considered omens of a state of shock.
(3) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
(4) Myth is seen as an external representation of man's inner life; omens and the gods are viewed in this context.
(5) Maybe it was a bad omen for Los Angeles to hand out white towels to the fans in the stands.
(6) Neil Gaiman, with whom he wrote Good Omens (1991), agrees: "He's got better and better over the years – he now follows the story, not the jokes, while I think the early books followed the jokes … He makes it look easy.
(7) The opposition would be making a mistake if it refused to engage and they have got to hear what the regime has to say,” he said “The talks have to go ahead even if the omens are not good and it is unlikely there will be much progress.
(8) Some see the disintegrating Ceta deal as a bad omen for the UK, which wants to negotiate a post-Brexit free trade agreement with the EU.
(9) Multiple, sometimes bilateral FB are frequent and FB of a vegetable nature are of serious omen.
(10) It’s Godzilla versus King Kong, and the omens aren’t heartening.
(11) The Omen-syndrome is not a disease on its own, but a complication of congenital SCID.
(12) Statistical data have shown that both shock and coma are bad prognostic omens and patients presenting with these signs have less than a 50% chance leaving the hospital alive and well, even if they receive optimum emergency management.
(13) Kick off very shortly... 1.04am GMT More omens More omens - and they aren't good for NYRB: the Red Bulls haven't won any of the five games that Olave missed this season.
(14) Type I trauma includes full, detailed memories, "omens," and misperceptions.
(15) 7-OMEN and metabolites were measured by high performance liquid chromatography.
(16) 7-OMEN was the predominant fluorescent compound in urine, but four metabolites were also seen.
(17) Omen: You may or may not be aware that Uruguayan national team often refer to themselves as "Los Charruas", who were an indigenous people in South America.
(18) A good omen for the SNP's #indyref #WhitePaper launch?
(19) But the omens are not good: Britain has a grim history of divisiveness in education.
(20) It's my terrible dirty secret, a disclosure that almost always prompts an "ah, that makes sense", a stigma that brings with it a sense that somehow I am bad, a little Damien from The Omen , because I was the only one.