(superl.) Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion.
(superl.) Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes.
(superl.) Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.
(superl.) As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man.
(superl.) Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous.
(superl.) Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
(superl.) Fresh from anything; newly come.
(adv.) Newly; recently.
(v. t. & i.) To make new; to renew.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(4) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(5) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(6) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(7) A new balloon catheter has been developed for angioplasty.
(8) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(9) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(10) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
(11) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(12) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(13) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
(14) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(15) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(16) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(17) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(18) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(19) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(20) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
Puny
Definition:
(superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.
(n.) A youth; a novice.
Example Sentences:
(1) She puts much of the ongoing disaster down to what she calls "a severe case of management capture", the puny powers possessed by the Co-op's members to hold anyone at the top to account, and its hopelessly complicated structure.
(2) He was so puny, not like the macho pictures you see of him riding a horse bareback, or fishing barechested," she said.
(3) When they first encounter their "admirer and pupil Zola" he strikes them as a "worn-out Normalien, at once sturdy and puny" but with "a vibrant note of pungent determination and furious energy".
(4) Then again, this is the Labour party we are talking about, and the policies supposed to lead us there are, so far, distinctly puny.
(5) As for forcing people to move, the new tax would be puny compared with the rates.
(6) Ministers keep boasting of the puny £100m transitional fund, supposed to tide charities over, but to what?
(7) (I say they, not we, because the Guardian is always a puny counterweight to these massed ranks on the right).
(8) Roosevelt's programme to rebuild war-torn Europe cost around 5% of US GDP – the lofty comparison only underlines the puniness of the euro version and elicits a snort of derision from newsrooms and trading floors across Europe.
(9) Abbott said the declaration of a caliphate showed that “Islamic State wants to emulate Mohammed whose early campaigns would have looked just as puny to the great powers of his day”.
(10) Those powers are puny compared to the ones they have willingly given away.
(11) When the American Film Institute bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award upon Lean in 1990 (he made the trip to LA despite failing health), Spielberg paid tribute from the stage, saying of Lawrence...: 'It made me feel puny.
(12) Such abilities could transform our puny electronic equipment into a new generation of micro-scale devices.
(13) In ways that are measurable on a daily basis the post of mayor, directly accountable to the electorate, has improved the quality of life for Londoners, even if in its early phase it had puny powers and deserves more now.
(14) Donald Trump barely capable of squeezing wealth on to puny official form On Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump announced that he had filed a personal financial disclosure with the Federal Election Commission, the last step needed to secure his presence on stage in the first Republican presidential debate in Cleveland on 6 August.
(15) Completely untroubled by United's puny attacking efforts after the opening 15 minutes, Barcelona kept swarming forward.
(16) But in 1908 their fortunes were on the up: Sydney had just got Charlie his break with the famous Fred Karno company and despite the impressario’s doubts about the “pale, puny, sullen-looking youngster”, he was an instant hit with audiences.
(17) So, too, have regional broadcasters whose vast workforces can dwarf their puny audience shares.
(18) The team's puny total of 15 Premier League goals should alarm City [West Brom and Blackpool have both scored more] and in the long term there must be an increased verve if they are to grasp some silverware.
(19) They have resorted to denial and to aligning themselves with the puny flag-waving of the Europhobes, who were out in force in this week's rebellion against David Cameron , hardly an arch federast.
(20) It had lost most of its territory in France and, in comparison to bold and dynamic Spain, was decidedly puny.