(n.) A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.
(n.) One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.
(n.) A patron deity or presiding genius.
(n.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.
(a.) Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(3) Its investments have included the airline Monarch, which has returned to profit after nearly collapsing a year ago, Morrisons convenience stores , and the now defunct Comet electrical goods chain.
(4) However the NCPO did prosecute 56 people for the crime of criticising the monarch, with one man sentenced to 60 years – which was later halved – for Facebook posts.
(5) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
(6) In June, Chen Feng, the founder of Hainan, appeared to confirm his interest in Monarch.
(7) Indeed, the word establishment is testament to its one-time importance: the term is likely to derive from the fact that the Church of England is the country's "established church", or state religion, with the monarch serving as its head.
(8) If implemented, the ESM will reverse the greatest 19th-century political achievement in Europe: the transfer of the power to determine taxation and expenditure from unaccountable monarchical governments to formally accountable parliaments.
(9) Under a convention dating back to 1728, the monarch must consent to any parliamentary bill affecting the crown.
(10) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
(11) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(12) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(13) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(14) If that means you have to build strong relationships sometimes with regimes that you don’t always agree with, that I think is part of the job and that’s the way I do it and that’s the best way I can explain it.” Government buildings flew the union flag at half mast for 12 hours on the day of the death of the king last month on the instructions of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which said it was acting in line with protocol for the death of a foreign monarch.
(15) During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
(16) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
(17) "We will share a monarch, we will share a currency and, under our proposals, we will share a social union, but we won't have diktats from Westminster for Scotland and we won't have Scottish MPs poking their nose into English business in the House of Commons," said Salmond.
(18) Grieve said it was crucial that, under the British constitution, the monarch was not seen to be biased towards any political party, or to become entangled in political controversies.
(19) Monarch would be turning around its planes at Sharm at a quieter period of the day, later on Friday afternoon.
(20) Since then, the crown estate has run the royal lands and paid all its revenue surpluses to the Treasury (a record £230m last year), although every new monarch has to decide whether to confirm this arrangement.
Rep
Definition:
(n.) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
(a.) Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sequence of the rep control region was determined, and putative regulatory sequences were identified; no evidence for autoregulation of expression was obtained.
(2) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(3) The results add support for the general significance of AAV-2 and specifically the rep gene as tools for down-regulating heterologous gene expression.
(4) Deletions between -94 and -153 bp relative to the p19 cap site reduced Rep induction of both the p19 and p40 promoters coordinately.
(5) Specific binding with 125I-rEp showed that 60% of the binding was inhibited by excess pure erythropoietin (Ep), but not by albumin, fetal calf serum, and a variety of growth factors or glycoproteins.
(6) The rep gene proteins of AAV type 2 (AAV2) inhibited the trans-activating ability of HIV-1.
(7) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(8) Nine out of 10 private sector workplaces have never seen a union rep, let alone a picket line; the number of days lost to strike action in recent years have been, barring a relatively small spike in 2011, at historic lows.
(9) Thom Majka, a sales rep who keeps his Indians cap on through every game for good luck, said: “These fans couldn’t care less about the election.
(10) The law’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin of Indian Springs, said the measure would make the clinics safer, while clinic operators said it was an attempt to shut them down through a regulation they could not meet.
(11) Reps are asked to sign a contract that includes the clause: “I will not promote the singing of abusive, offensive, crude or intimidating chants and songs.” The contract also asks reps to confirm that they are “the first representative of the University of Nottingham that new students will meet and therefore recognise that [they are] a role model”.
(12) Light responses (ReP) and pre-stimulus membrane potential (PMP) and conductance of photoreceptors of Astacus leptodactylus and Limulus polyphemus (lateral eye) were recorded and changes were observed when the photoreceptor was depolarized by the action of external ouabain of high potassium concentration application.
(13) We propose that REP sequences may be a prokaryotic equivalent of 'selfish DNA' and that gene conversion may play a role in the evolution and maintenance of REP sequences.
(14) Diffraction-limited 1064-nanometer light pulses from a high rep rate Q-switched Nd-YAG laser were coupled through novel means into a probe with index-matched optical contact with the cornea.
(15) And the most jaw-dropping part is that Rep. Sensenbrenner is the same guy who fathered The Patriot Act !
(16) One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber wanted to rep BlackBerry .
(17) The crude extract (fraction II) prepared from E. coli could replicate plasmid pKYM, only when the extract contained the rep protein which was produced by the plasmid and essential for its multiplication in vivo.
(18) These results have been used to calculate the geometrical contribution to the error in the measurement of relative effective renal plasma flow (REP) by 131-I-Hippuran renography.
(19) Rep, which makes a sequence-specific single-stranded nick to form a covalent Rep-ori replication intermediate.
(20) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.