(n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
(2) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Parakeet and the Mermaid’ at Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition, Tate Modern.
(4) Ditto the Little Mermaid’s Ariel, whose desire not just to change her circumstances but change her physical form has made her an unlikely object of identification among some younger members of the transgender community – a girl who believes herself literally born in the wrong body.
(5) The levels of two- and three-ring aromatics ranged from very low for the site outside Mermaid Sound and for one site within the Sound, to low for the four other sites within the Sound.
(6) The human and fishman MTs displayed a stoichiometry of 12 g atoms of Cu(I) per mol, while rainbow trout and mermaid MTs bound only 10.
(7) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
(8) Sirenomelia, or the mermaid syndrome, is the most extreme example of the caudal regression syndrome.
(9) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
(10) Samples from sites within Mermaid Sound closest to the town and port of Dampier showed noticeably higher levels than those from outside; the present study does not allow the source of the PAHs to be determined.
(11) As the perceptive sports writer Jerry Izenberg once said: “If they trawl the Ohio river for a thousand years, they are more likely to find a mermaid than an Olympic gold medal.” It is a rebuttal that Ali himself would have found heartbreakingly funny – and true.
(12) And that, increasingly, people aren’t prepared to go to all the trouble of going out to eat at their favourite restaurant – not when they can have the same food while sprawling on the sofa in a novelty mermaid blanket watching Homeland .
(13) A family of synthetic genes was constructed encoding a rainbow trout metallothionein (MT), a human MT, and two chimeric molecules which contained respectively (i) the N-terminal (or head) domain of human MT followed by the C-terminal (or tail) domain of a fish MT (termed mermaid MT) and (ii) the head domain of fish MT fused with the tail domain of human MT (denoted fishman MT).
(14) I just shot the Mermaid Parade in New York and it killed me,” he says.
(15) But," he Hanks-ishly adds, "shop can be good, too …" After college, he was cast in the TV show Bosom Buddies and caught the eye of Ron Howard, who cast him in his breakthrough role in Splash, a ridiculous but, thanks to Hanks, charming modern-day update on The Little Mermaid.
(16) Medical intervention is very important, especially for teenagers who are already in puberty,” says Susie Green, chair of Mermaids and mother of a trans daughter.
(17) A five-year-old with a fascination for butterflies and caterpillars and mermaids who began talking about suicide … Our child lives as a girl now and her school describes her as "calm, mature, bright-eyed and intelligent".
(18) The English singer has since recorded many of these with US band Wilco as The Mermaid Avenue Sessions .
(19) The Mermaids website is quite negative,” she says.
(20) Coral-rock oysters were collected in September 1982 from six locations in the area of Mermaid Sound in North-Western Australia.
Woman
Definition:
(n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
(n.) The female part of the human race; womankind.
(n.) A female attendant or servant.
(v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
(v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish.
(v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(3) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(4) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(6) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(7) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(8) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
(9) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(10) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(11) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(12) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(13) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
(14) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(15) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
(16) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(17) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(18) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(20) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.