What's the difference between nancy and nonce?

Nancy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
  • (2) Earlier this month, a private funeral took place for Nancy Lanza, the gunman's mother and the first of his 27 victims.
  • (3) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
  • (4) The Democratic committee leader Diane Feinstein joined the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, in defending the much-needed infrastructure project as a “good deal for taxpayers”.
  • (5) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
  • (6) Nancy Reagan was totally devoted to President Reagan, and we take comfort that they will be reunited once more,” said Barbara Bush, wife of Reagan’s vice-president and successor, in a statement.
  • (7) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
  • (8) This paper describes the food behavior of 495 adolescents (15-19 years old) sample living in Nancy (France).
  • (9) Fewer candidates are at present generally available for the role of NANCI transmitter(s), with VIP and ATP being leading contenders.
  • (10) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
  • (11) The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said a Tobin tax was "not a priority" but she did not rule it out, saying simply that the US could not act single-handedly: "We couldn't do it alone, we'd have to do it as an international initiative."
  • (12) There was no way I could have known things would play out like they did.” There was a time, Nancy admits, when living at Foxcatcher was: “wonderful, beautiful.
  • (13) Secretory ameloblasts synthesize the organic matrix of enamel and secrete it at two distinct "putative secretory sites" characterized by membrane infoldings (Nanci and Warshawsky, 1984a).
  • (14) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
  • (15) 5.38pm GMT Here's video of Nancy Pelosi taking down jejune Luke Russert on the question of her age earlier today.
  • (16) I go, I have no wish to make a scene, but disloyalty, much, Govey will never forgive you, you do know we have replaced your neon with one of Nancy's pastels?
  • (17) Twenty years on, such directness may have lost some of its shock value, but Nancy Carroll, who plays Anna in the new production, doesn’t see this as a bad thing: “[The internet scene and a strip club scene] at the time took people’s breath away.
  • (18) Nancy Whiskin has managed a hugely successful effort to engage local people in volunteering.
  • (19) On Wednesday, Republicans such as Mike Rogers and Michele Bachmann joined House Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Republican Speaker John Boehner in voting with President Obama that we should be governed by our fears, rather than our values.
  • (20) Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management, said: “Our view that the US is recovering but not strong enough to trigger a reassessment of still benign monetary policy.

Nonce


Definition:

  • (n.) The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That same summer, controversy raged over the Brass Eye paedophile special, Chris Morris's dark masterpiece that talked Nonce Sense about tabloid witch-hunts.
  • (2) Meanwhile I'm missing EastEnders, where Phil Mitchell is probably clouting some nonce over the head with a lead pipe.
  • (3) The means of chronologic age and dental age were counted separately for the cleft subgroups and the non-cleft (NONC) group.
  • (4) The NONC group included 300 children with one or more congenitally absent permanent teeth, excluding the third molars, and 79 children with isolated cleft palate without accessory anomalies.
  • (5) The dental age was advanced in the CL twins and in the NONC twins, and was the same as chronologic age in the CP twins, but it was delayed in the CLP twins.
  • (6) Asymmetric formation of the 14 mandibular teeth (mostly the second premolars) was encountered in 3 of 8 CLP, in 3 of 18 CP, in 1 of 16 NONC, and in none of 5 CL children.
  • (7) The mean of all width and depth dimensions in the cleft lip group were close to the NONC controls, whereas the dimensions of the cleft palate group were 8-9 per cent smaller in the maxilla and 5-7 per cent smaller in the mandible than were those in the NONC group.
  • (8) Fifty non-cleft (NONC) and 104 cleft-affected subjects including different cleft groups were compared.
  • (9) Correlations between body size and the size of the dental arches were generally low (r less than 0.20) both in CP and NONC children.
  • (10) Although responsible for the deaths of six children, he is not a sex offender, or "nonce".
  • (11) For the N-trimethyl quaternary ions related to AcCh, tetramethylammonium ion, choline and choline ethyl ether, noncompetitive inhibition (Ki(nonc) is more favorable with the slower substrates than with AcCh, i.e., when E.S greater than EA, and is attributed to formation of enzyme-substrate-inhibitor complexes, E.S.I'.
  • (12) In the unilateral complete cleft group, the maxillary dimensions were 11-19 per cent smaller, but in the mandible only 0-4 per cent smaller than in the NONC group.
  • (13) Development of the dental arches and height and weight at the ages of 3 yr and 6 yr were studied longitudinally in 60 children with isolated cleft palate (CP) and in 50 noncleft (NONC) children.
  • (14) He's woken up to find the word "Nonce" scrawled on his kitchen window.
  • (15) Some tertiary dimethylamonio ions have more favorable Ki(nonc) values with AcCh, decreasing deacylation more than acylation.
  • (16) In the bilateral complete cleft group, the maxillary arch was only 6 per cent shorter but 30 per cent narrower at the canines than in the NONC group.
  • (17) Bilateral agenesis increased with increasing number of absent teeth per child, and it was more frequent in the maxillary teeth of the NONC group and in the mandibular teeth of the CP group.
  • (18) Symmetry and combinations of hypodontia was studied and compared in non-cleft (NONC) and cleft palate (CP) groups with different prevalences of hypodontia.
  • (19) Forty per cent of the cleft palate subjects had a crowded maxillary arch compared with 6 per cent of the NONC controls.