What's the difference between moon and nom?

Moon


Definition:

  • (n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
  • (n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
  • (n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
  • (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.
  • (v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A second operation, total adrenalectomy, resulted in an improvement of the clinical and laboratory findings such as hypokalemia, high blood pressure, muscle atrophy and moon face.
  • (2) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
  • (3) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
  • (4) Nevertheless, moonlight does not seem to have any effect on the composition of adult mosquito population since the difference in the parous rate of females collected during full moon and during no moon was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
  • (5) They are traditionally consumed on the first full moon of the new year; in our family we always like to have them right after the new year countdown.
  • (6) The HLP submitted its report (pdf) to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, in May, proposing 12 goals.
  • (7) By October the Chronicle's editors had announced a new series of articles, aimed at providing "a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England", and Mayhew was to be the Metropolitan Correspondent, filing regular reports from areas of London that might as well have been on the moon for all the notice most people took of them.
  • (8) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
  • (9) On the eve of the latest suicide data for the UK, Madeleine Moon, chair of the all-party parliamentary group for suicide and self-harm prevention (APPG), said a third of local authorities in England had no suicide action plan.
  • (10) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
  • (11) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
  • (12) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
  • (13) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
  • (14) A statement by the spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon demanded that both sides "immediately translate these commitments into action on the ground".
  • (15) World leaders will assemble at the UN general assembly this month to hear Ban Ki-moon set out his vision for what should replace the millennium development goals (MDGs).
  • (16) Ending marginalisation and exclusion of LGBT people is a human rights priority – and a development imperative,” said Ban Ki-moon at the UN general assembly last September , despite the fact there is no mention of LGBT rights in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) announced at the conference.
  • (17) Speaking from a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is promoting her novel, she said: "I'm over the moon.
  • (18) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon,has promised a separate UN investigation.
  • (19) Accusing Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur on housing, of having an agenda, Shapps said he had written to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, demanding an apology and an explanation of Rolnik's findings.
  • (20) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.

Nom


Definition:

  • (n.) Name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1)  Spurr joined the Prison Service as a prison officer in 1983 and worked his way up to become chief executive of Noms in 2010.
  • (2) Acute NOM suppressed muricide in 55% and chronic NOM suppressed it in 60 80% of OB rats.
  • (3) In October 2007, under the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki (the American) he gave an interview to al-Jazeera in which he implored other Muslim Americans to join him in Somalia.
  • (4) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
  • (5) Strikingly, the protection of the free 17 alpha-hydroxyl group of NOM by an acetate led to a potent progestin with high affinity for PgR.
  • (6) The possible relation between the changes of 3H-IMP binding, exhibition of muricide by OB rats and the antimuricidal activity of NOM are discussed.
  • (7) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
  • (8) This suggested that L-arginine was synthesized endogenously because there are no other known natural substrates for NOM.
  • (9) NOM increased the basal efflux of endogenous DA and inhibited electrically evoked [3H]ACh release but these effects were quantitatively much less than those produced by AMPH.
  • (10) Qualitative and quantitative examinations of the cultivable bacterial flora in biopsies from recurrent aphthous ulcerations (RAU), experimental oral ulcerations (EOU), and normal oral mucosa (NOM) were carried out under aerobic and continuous anaerobic conditions.
  • (11) There was no statistically significant difference between groups 2 and 3 in the suppression with Nom.
  • (12) contrarily, NOM decreased the duration of ethanol narcosis, potentiated PCPA and antagonized the influence of AMPT.
  • (13) The type strain of Candida polymorpha Ohara et Nonomura, nom.
  • (14) Among 55 patients treated over a 10 years period for BHT, NOM.
  • (15) The 50% effective doses in reducing estrogen receptor levels and the corresponding potencies relative to P showed NOM-Ac to be 2.4-fold more active than P and to present, when compared to the other progestins, the highest antiestrogenic capacity.
  • (16) In 10 patients with an intrasellar tumour (group I), Prl had a positive response to TRH, metoclopramide (MCP), and nomifensine (NOM), both pre- and postoperatively.
  • (17) But noms de guerre given to the new arrivals had left their trails cold.
  • (18) One of the suicide bombers was an Australian teenager , with the nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al Australi.
  • (19) "We destroyed a checkpoint of the fascist Ukrainian army deployed on the land of the Donetsk Republic," said the commander, who wore a balaclava and identified himself by his nom de guerre, Bes – Russian for demon.
  • (20) I retired as chief executive of the National Offender Management Service (Noms) and director general of the Prison Service in June 2010, at which point the service was performing strongly.

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