(1) In 1961 Selwyn Lloyd, as chancellor, announced the birth of Neddy, declaring: "I will deal first with growth in the economy.
(2) Regional planning machinery was established, "Little Neddies" set up to plan individual industries, and Macmillan's successor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, accepted the recommendations of the Robbins Report with its commitment to university expansion.
(3) Rapid eye movement latency (RL), delta max thyroid-stimulating hormone (dmTSH) and 1600 (DST16) and 2300 (DST23) post-dexamethasone cortisol values were determined in a group of 93 depressed patients who were assessed with the Newcastle Endogenous Depression Diagnostic Index (NEDDI).
(4) After the effects of age, gender and severity of illness were controlled for, stepwise multiple regression showed that depressive psychomotor activity and weight loss were the 2 NEDDI items most contributing to explain DST23 variance, as was depressive psychomotor activity for dmTSH variance.
Noddy
Definition:
(n.) A simpleton; a fool.
(n.) Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.
(n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
(n.) An old game at cards.
(n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
(n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oxygen consumption (MO2) of the semi-precocial Brown Noddy embryos at different stages of development was measured at 36 degrees C and again after 5-hr exposure to lowered ambient temperatures (30 and 32 degrees C).
(2) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
(3) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
(4) Even now, he's negotiating a treaty with Noddy Holder, the cultural attache for British Sausage Week , to establish an international standard for toad-in-the-hole.
(5) Alfie, Doodles, Lofty, Sooty (who won best individual), Noddy, Bentley, Pedro and Cracker are so well trained they walk in formation down the beach and back again without being led.
(6) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
(7) The precocial chicken and semi-precocial noddy previously studied are intermediate in their metabolic response between the duck and the pigeon.
(8) British animation has been in decline in recent years as other countries have offered generous subsidies for cartoonists to move abroad, with Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine produced in the US and Noddy made in Ireland, and the industry believes the result is British pre-schoolchildren now see largely foreign-made content.
(9) In contrast to precocial chickens, the semi-precocial Noddy had no apparent metabolic response to cooling before hatching.
(10) But theimage of electric vehicles as dowdy "Noddy" cars has begun to change, due to luxury electric sports cars such as California's Tesla Roadster and the British-designed Lightning GT.