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Nee


Definition:

  • (p. p., fem.) Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Stael, nee Necker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His second marriage, in the mid-1950s, was to the Russian Anya Bostock (nee Anna Sisserman); they split up in 1970s.
  • (2) Adhatoda vasica Nees., Centella asciatica (L.) Urb., Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn.
  • (3) Furthermore, intraepithelial nerve fibres or NEE cells might be stretch-sensitive.
  • (4) He is survived by his second wife, Marilyn (nee Gasson), whom he married in 1979; by their children, Thomas, Elizabeth, Gabriel and Joshua; and by his daughter, Imogen, from his first marriage, to Daphne Brewer, which ended in divorce.
  • (5) Tim Pigott-Smith: a man born to play kings Read more Born in Rugby, Tim was the only child of Harry Pigott-Smith, a journalist, and his wife Margaret (nee Goodman), a keen amateur actor, and was educated at Wyggeston boys’ school in Leicester and – when his father was appointed to the editorship of the Herald in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962 – King Edward VI grammar school, where Shakespeare was a pupil.
  • (6) Pore annuli of NEI display complete lack of lanthanum binding, while those of NEE exhibit minor deposition of this cation.
  • (7) Daughter of Ebba (nee Krause) and Arthur Grasemann, she was born in South Woodford, north-east London .
  • (8) A small part of the NEE cells appeared to reach the luminal surface by means of a long slender process bearing specialized beaded microvilli on its apical pole.
  • (9) Andy Serkis As Gollum nee Smeagol, King Kong, and Caesar the chimpanzee who would rule us all, Andy Serkis has established himself as an actor so eerily good at imitation and invention that critics have called for award categories to expand just to reward his performances .
  • (10) The son of John Henry Thorpe and his wife, Ursula (nee Norton-Griffiths), Thorpe was born in Surrey into a political family.
  • (11) In addition, nerve terminals containing an aggregation of small clear vesicles are in close contact with the NEE cells.
  • (12) Electron-microscopically, the NEE cells are provided with distinctive cytoplasmic membrane-bound dense granules of variable size, which gave a positive argentaffin reaction.
  • (13) Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Nees in Wall) is one of the world's oldest spices.
  • (14) Ben was the son of Frederick, a banker, and his wife Josephine (nee De Gersdorff); 51 relatives went to Harvard , as did he himself.
  • (15) She was born in Oxford, daughter of Sidney, a tax inspector, and Dorothy (nee Hone).
  • (16) However, Nee said authorities appeared to be “using many of the same abusive tactics that they have used in other cases in order to silence [critics] such as releasing people into fake freedom ... [and] harassing and controlling family members.” Nee said he was unconvinced by Zhao’s online posts on Weibo, China’s Twitter, in which she claimed to regret her actions.
  • (17) The fact that fibrillation potentials, seen on NEE, are the most sensitive indicator of motor axon loss, is noted, as is the fact that they do not appear until some 3 weeks following nerve injury.
  • (18) Using the method of Fernandez Pascual, some NEE cells were found to be argyrophilic.
  • (19) Alpha-1 adrenoceptor-mediated renal vasoconstriction may affect the evaluation of neural NE release by NEE when high-frequency RNS is applied during inhibition of the alpha-2 adrenoceptor-mediated mechanism.
  • (20) By the time we got there, he had already been taken away.” William Nee, Amnesty International’s China researcher, said his group was monitoring the “very worrying” situation in Zhejiang.

Wee


Definition:

  • (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
  • (a.) Very small; little.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
  • (2) An alphavirus group-reactive hemagglutination (HA) site, a WEE complex-reactive HA site, and a WEE virus-specific HA site were identified.
  • (3) Paired sera from 20 humans with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections and from 17 humans with western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infections, all with previously demonstrated fourfold or greater rises or falls in hemagglutination-inhibiting, complement-fixing, or neutralizing antibody titers, were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies by an enzyme immunoassay.
  • (4) Studies were undertaken to develop an amplified ELISA for the rapid detection of WEE virus from mosquitoes.
  • (5) The SNP MP John Nicolson said of Daley’s case: “His poster sales have gone up and now there are wee girls and wee boys putting his poster up on the walls.
  • (6) He’s spat on and has wee thrown at him.” Rutherford is also concerned about the governance of the sport.
  • (7) dorsalis also demonstrated some alterations in response to WEE viral infection that were unique relative to Cx.
  • (8) Antibodies specific for three epitopes were able to passively protect mice from WEE virus challenge.
  • (9) Current monitoring systems to detect western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus in mosquitoes involve isolation in suckling mice or cell culture followed by serological identification of the isolates obtained.
  • (10) The Toon, on the other hand, are in a wee spot of temporary bother.
  • (11) These viruses are the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE), Mucambo (MUC) and Pixuna (PIX).
  • (12) 8.08pm BST 6 min: Baines goes on a wee jog down the left, and guides a cross-cum-pass into the area for Rooney, arriving late level with the left-hand post, ten yards out.
  • (13) The postoperative changes in condylar position wee assessed in terms of direction and amount.
  • (14) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
  • (15) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
  • (16) Flocks of sentinel domestic pigeons (Columbia livia) detected increases in St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) and western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus activity in southern California concurrently with flocks of sentinel chickens.
  • (17) The infection and morphogenetic events associated with the replication of Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus within the mesenterons of Aedes dorsalis and three strains of Culex tarsalis are compared and contrasted.
  • (18) Two species of ticks that are ectoparasitic on rodents in Kern County were evaluated as vectors of WEE virus.
  • (19) Plaque-neutralizing antibody responses to VEE virus in the EEE virus- and WEE virus-seropositive equids were similar in time of onset and titer to the antibody responses of nonimmunized equids.
  • (20) IgM antibody declined but persisted for at least 3 months after the onset of illness in one individual each with EEE and WEE.

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