(n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
(n.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
(n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(2) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.
(3) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
(4) These small aggregates, termed mora, are found principally in a layer within the central region of the cupula, but are also found outside this layer.
(5) Deadline's Lisa De Moraes was roundly in agreement.
(6) José Tomás, a bullfighter loved by artists and leftwing intellectuals, was the star of a bill that included Marín and Juan Mora.
(7) The government sent the only bone fragments found that it said could still contain traces of DNA to a specialised laboratory in Austria, that later identified one of them as belonging to Alexander Mora .
(8) The Portuguese ambassador, José Filipe Moraes Cabral, who is the security council president, suggested that it was in no hurry to get to a vote.
(9) Mora has suggested a new method which takes into consideration whole height distribution of observed and reference populations, false positives, and false negatives.
(10) Considering published and unpublished research on isometric strength and the irrelevance of many studies that found no difference in isokinetic strength, it is concluded that it is most probable that isometric strength is increased by the K-MORA in mixed populations.
(11) The following methods are discussed in detail: regulation thermography, Lüscher's test, homeopathy, homeopathy autoblood therapy, nosoden therapy, acupuncture, magnetic field therapy, ozone therapy, Mora therapy, lymph drainage, management of symbiosis, and anthroposophical medicine.
(12) Gallardo made a double substitution at half-time, bringing on Lucho González and Gonzalo Martínez for the booked Leonardo Ponzio and ineffective Mora.
(13) Eduardo Medina Mora, the Mexican ambassador to the US, said in a letter to Kerry last September that the failure to provide Avena reviews "has become and could continue to be a significant irritant in the relations between our two countries".
(14) "The process of impoverishment is spreading all the time," said Sebastian Mora, secretary general of Caritas, the Roman Catholic relief organisation.
(15) Claude Moraes, the chair of the European parliament’s justice and home affairs committee, described the report as “an alarm bell being rung” about the failures of EU states.
(16) The patients received a single dose of the 5 mg per K of body weight, and laboratorial controls were made in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th after the treatment and consisting of Berman-Moraes method.
(17) Moraes was handed the ball by a clumsy pass from Gaël Clichy and the ensuing Kyiv attack ended with Yarmolenko firing a shot at Hart that was a warning to City to refocus.
(18) Judge Juan Carlos Urrutia said Patricio Ahumada Garay, Alejandro Angulo Tapia, Raul Lopez Fuentes and Fabian Mora Mora were guilty of a crime of "extreme cruelty" and "total disrespect for human life".
(19) The Ruiz-Mora procedure has been advocated for the correction of hammertoe deformities and congenital overlapping of the fifth toe, primarily on empirical grounds.
(20) The committee was established to oversee the implementation of the embargo and is chaired by José Filipe Moraes Cabral, Portugal's ambassador to the UN.
Moray
Definition:
(n.) A muraena.
Example Sentences:
(1) Viscera (48.3 kg) from moray eels (Lycodontis javanicus) collected in a ciguatera endemic area were extracted and the ciguatoxins characterized.
(2) More are dotted about the isle and were used by the Romans in the past to breed moray eels.
(3) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
(4) Changes in abundance at haul-out sites were followed, and data on the number of deaths collected, to describe the pattern and extent of mortality resulting from the 1988 phocine distemper virus outbreak in the Moray Firth common seal population.
(5) The other is closely similar to (or identical with) ciguatoxin from the moray eel Gymnothorax javanicus.
(6) moray eel burger – crispy, umami and rich, it’s the bacon of the sea.
(7) Ciguatoxin, the agent responsible for ciguatera, a disease produced in humans from ingestion of certain fishes, has been isolated from specimens of the moray eel, Gymnothorax javanicus.
(8) The Earl of Moray is thought to get about £2m a year in rent from a 49-turbine windfarm on his Doune estate in Perthshire, while the Duke of Roxburghe stands to make more than £1.5m a year from his 48-turbine Fallago Rig development in Lammermuir Hills.
(9) 1.7m, and the 664MW Beatrice windfarm in the Outer Moray Firth in Scotland.
(10) It was just: get out and make a difference.” Moray: 'We are fed up with the SNP.
(11) I’m dismayed, frankly, because, with all the hard work that we put into trying to reform the fisheries industry and trying to get sustainable fishing back on the agenda, and trying to save fish stocks from their inevitable collapse they were heading towards, all that work is being traduced.” Richard Lochhead, the former Scottish fisheries minister who represents Moray, north-east Scotland, said: “Our fishermen will be gobsmacked by the irony of [Michael] Gove’s belated concerns for the fishing industry, given it was the Tories that negotiated such a poor deal for our fishermen in the first place while other nations got better deals.
(12) Central Edinburgh will be awash with the blue and white St Andrew's cross, the dramatic yellow and red of the erect lion rampant and Yes Scotland placards from the Highlands, urban Glasgow and the prosperous farmlands of Moray and Aberdeenshire.
(13) Ciguatoxin, as characterized from moray eels, was not detected in any of the strains examined.
(14) While many parts of Scotland voted heavily in favour of the EU, Moray came within 122 votes of backing leave at the referendum.
(15) She wanted to be a journalist, and, after leaving school, worked for the now-defunct magazine, Scotland, but soon discovered a passion for social work, and decided to study for a degree on the subject at Moray House School of Education, now part of Edinburgh University.
(16) We conclude that moray eel bites can be managed successfully with aggressive, local wound care and antibiotic coverage that targets Vibrio and Pseudomonas species.
(17) A Tesco spokesman, Michael Kissman, admitted: "Having asked for confirmation from our lawyers, the covenants affecting the titles in Trowbridge [Wiltshire], Leytonstone [east London] and Elgin [Moray] have been released as per our instructions.
(18) I know it’s going to be hard and will take a long time to get established in the EU again, but I totally believe that eventually an independent Scotland will thrive.” Lazenby is equally adamant that immigration was not an issue for voters in Moray.
(19) They include the Queen, the Duke of Westminster, the Duke of Northumberland, Sir Richard Sutton, the Earl of Moray, Baron Phillimore and family, and the Earl of Plymouth.
(20) A spokesman for the rail company said: “For safety reasons it will be necessary for Network Rail to inspect rail lines across the network for damage this morning before allowing passengers to travel on routes.” Meanwhile, Aberdeen police said a number of trees were down on Aberdeenshire and Moray roads.