(n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.
(n.) See Myna.
Example Sentences:
(1) In October 1974, after living in Baltimore for 16 years, I went back to my home town, Belo Horizonte, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
(2) We have prepared four new oximes, 1b-e, which conform to the general structure RCH2COCH = NOH where R = CH3S, CH3SO, CH3SO2, and (CH3)2S+, respectively, and have the same E configuration as the parent 2-oxopropanal oxime 1a (R = H, MINA).
(3) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
(4) Dyer declared a state of emergency, and alongside Mina, Hopper and a local imam urged Americans to give blood and unite.
(5) These infection rates were similar to those obtained by others authors for B. tenagophila from Minas Gerais.
(6) Among the confirmed events are a debate in January, in Berlin, featuring the writers Claire Tomalin, Toby Litt, Louise Doughty, Philip Hensher, Denise Mina and David Nicholls.
(7) Cross-sectional and evolutive studies on schistosomiasis mansoni were carried out before and after mass treatment in the endemic areas of Capitão Andrade and Padre Paraiso, state of Minas Gerais, Riachuelo, state of Sergipe, Alhandra, state of Paraiba, and Aliança, Alegre and Coroatá, lowland of the state of Maranhão, Brazil, in the last eighteen years.
(8) I don’t want any more shots.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patience Carter describes being held hostage during Orlando shooting 2.06am Mina Justice was asleep at home when she woken by a text message from her 30-year-old son, Eddie.
(9) All patients were residents in Virgem da Lapa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil and their ages varied from 7 to 76 years (average 42.6 y).
(10) This confirms what Sakineh's son wrote in his public letter, that there's no justice in Iran," said Mina Ahadi, a human rights activist for Iran Committee against Stoning (ICAS), based in Germany who spoke to Mostafaei after he was interrogated.
(11) A police officer outside the club moved to confront the gunman, the Orlando police chief, John Mina, told reporters on Sunday.
(12) Mateen was holding about 15 people hostage in one club bathroom, while another 15-20 were hiding out in another of the buildings bathrooms, Mina said.
(13) At about 10.30pm last night we received multiple calls about shots being fired from inside the plaza,” police chief John Mina told reporters.
(14) The object of the investigation was the evaluation of the susceptibility to antibiotic and chemotherapeutic agents of 240 strains of Salmonella agona isolated from different sources (human, food and environment) obtained from five Brazilian states (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Sul).
(15) Sera from individuals living in 2 areas endemic for Schistosoma mansoni in Minas Gerais, Brazil were assayed for the presence of antibodies against paramyosin and glutathione-S-transferase (GST), molecules previously implicated as vaccine immunogens from studies in laboratory hosts.
(16) Nine people are now confirmed dead, and a further 19 remain unaccounted for as a slow-motion environmental catastrophe continues to unfold following the collapse of two mining dams in Brazil’s mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais.
(17) The possible carcinogenicity of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum, common name: "Broto de Samambaia") which is used as food by the population of Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and neighboring areas, was studied in rats.
(18) Dermatobiasis, a tropical furuculoid myiasis caused by the larvae of Dermatobia hominis (family Cuterebridae) was manifested in a Czech expert already within several days of field work in the state Minas Gerais, Brasil.
(19) 2.49am Mina Justice told her son the police were there and to let her know when he saw them.
(20) The gunman struck one of the officers with a bullet, but the man was saved by his Kevlar helmet, Mina said.
Mona
Definition:
(n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mona Deeley, a producer for Cinema Badila: Alternative Cinema on BBC Arabic TV , said: "The secret cinema is an interesting initiative for both subverting the ban on cinema and as a form of civil and cultural resistance."
(2) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(3) "There is a huge media campaign to distort the real image of the Iraqi revolution, by claiming that it is led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)," Salim tells Mona: ...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions.
(4) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(5) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(6) These actions targeted two demographics … most associated with ‘polluting’ Cairo’s city centre: street vendors and revolutionary activists.” Whether the wall’s lack of heritage status is a deliberate government strategy, AUC sociologist Mona Abaza, who has written extensively about the graffiti, says it certainly serves their political interests.
(7) It was compared with Duchamp drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
(8) Thursday's first US-style televised presidential debate in the Arab world will be broadcast on Egyptian TV between candidates Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abou el Fotouh, with the debate moderated by leading talkshow hosts Yosri Fouda, Mona el-Shazly and Reem Magued.
(9) Egyptian-born blogger Mona Eltahawy says that social media has given the most marginalised groups in the region a voice.
(10) The Nazis would have sought the Mona Lisa without rest, demanding it be handed to them upon their entry to Paris, and hunting it down if it were not.
(11) While the band were already fans of Monae, whose album they play in the studio, Kiesza, the Juno award-winning Canadian singer, was brought to Duran Duran by their publisher.
(12) The Savage Beauty show was wildly successful, attracting more than 660,000 visitors in 2011, making it the eighth most visited exhibition in the Met's 142-year history and putting it in a top 10 that includes the time the Mona Lisa came to Manhattan in 1963 and a Treasures of Tutankhamun show in 1978.
(13) He founded the Mukto-Mona (“free mind”) blog which supported and nurtured a community of free-thinkers, secularists, atheists and humanists in Bangladesh.
(14) When he died, the socialite Mona von Bismarck, whose loyalty to the designer was such that she had him run up her gardening clothes, took to her bed for three days in mourning.
(15) "A Sweden free of fossil fuels would give us enormous advantages, not least by reducing the impact from fluctuation in oil prices," argues Mona Sahlin, minister for sustainable development.
(16) His father, Wilfred Paradine Frost, was a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent; David reportedly more resembled his mother Mona.
(17) She tells The Guardian's Mona Mahmood ( @monamood ) about conditions for civilians in the Iraqi capital .
(18) To date, Zarathustra has adorned the Mona Lisa, which Petrova says makes her “look like a modern girl who’s taking a selfie with her cat” and US President Barack Obama’s hope poster, which came to symbolise his 2008 run for the White House.
(19) The elegance of that corporate choice is like the ambiguity of the Mona Lisa 's smile, the ruthlessness of Mike Tyson's punch and the adaptability of the malaria virus combined.
(20) The men were dragged half-naked into police trucks in the late night raid, which was filmed by a private television crew headed by presenter Mona Iraqi.