(fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those sanctions will put them out of the picture for much of the summer, nixing their negotiating clout with each other and with the Klitschkos.
(2) Characteristic comparisons were made on various medical and dental X-ray films such as Agfa-Gevart, Dupont, Hanshin, Kodak, Konica, Nix, Sun Dental film.
(3) The fact that Mayer – not just a woman, but a young woman with a small child – has nixed the rights of her employees to take advantage of the arguably more child-friendly and independent option of working outside the office has disappointed many .
(4) We were consequently surprised when the meeting didn't materialise on his mid-April visit to London and suspected that ANC hardliners had nixed Mandela's plans."
(5) A judge recently voided a contract between Trump Entertainment and its 1,100 unionised employees at the casino, essentially nixing their healthcare and pension benefits.
(6) If you put the blame on Nix for giving Fitzpatrick that contract, you still can't say that Gailey got the best out of the whole offense.
(7) Health insurers to nix copays for birth control and preventive care services Read more The guidance, which was issued by the Department of Labor and the US Department of Health and Human Services in a Q&A, declared that health insurance companies must offer at least one option for each of the 18 birth control methods approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
(8) The RID comb was superior to the NIX comb for nit removal.
(9) At day 14, there was no statistically significant difference in the treatments (27 of 27 NIX-treated vs 29 of 31 RID-treated subjects were lice free).
(10) One of the four Dutch military attaches who sided with the Republican forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War, Lieutenant M.J. Nix, was severely wounded during the battle at Sannaspost on 31 March 1900.
(11) Comparing the data for the reaction XM(+) leads to X(-) + M(2+) in methanol at 25 degrees for several M(2+) we find that the equilibrium constants increase in the order CoX(+) less than MnX(+) and span only a factor of 5 while the rate constants increase in the order NiX(+) less than CoX(+) less than MnX(+) and span a factor of more than 100.
(12) An observational, epidemiological study was undertaken to evaluate the safety of permethrin 1% creme rinse (Nix) for treatment of head lice infestations.
(13) China's authorities are squeamish about contraception (a condom advertisement was nixed in 1999), the Falun Gong sect (several of whom hijacked a Chinese television station in 2002, and were charged with "using an evil cult to damage law enforcement"), and - especially - the 1989 massacre of unarmed democracy activists in Tiananmen Square (in 2000, three TV news editors were fired after broadcasting two seconds of footage of the slaughter).
(14) Permethrin 1% creme rinse (NIX) was tested as a treatment for Pediculus humanus var capitis (head lice) in a placebo-controlled, double-blinded, randomized study.
(15) Obama will have to follow up with other actions like nixing the Keystone XL pipeline.
(16) We treated 53 men with the diagnosis of PP with either 1% lindane (Kwell) shampoo for four minutes or 1% permethrin (Nix) creme rinse for ten minutes, according to random assignment.
(17) The uproar over the insensitivity of blowing up people's homes as a sporting celebration drew unprecedented attention to the issue of demolition, and nixed the plan; but Red Road will still get dynamited.
(18) Plans by supporters of marijuana legalisation for "smoke ins" in Vancouver were nixed by local health officials who said they fell afoul of cigarette smoking laws and a provision on the new regulations that only permit the use of marijuana in private.
(19) That’s an industrial-size hint you hate the agreement, and you intend to nix it.
(20) In a randomized controlled trial, 58 subjects were treated for Pediculus humanus var capitis with either pyrethrins combined with piperonyl butoxide (RID, Pfizer Inc, New York) or 1% permethrin (NIX, Burroughs Wellcome Co, Research Triangle Park, NC); 31 subjects received RID and 27 subjects received NIX.
Order
Definition:
(n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
(n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.
(n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
(n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
(n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
(n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
(n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
(n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
(n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
(n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.
(n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
(n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
(n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
(n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
(n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
(n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
(n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
(n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
(n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
(n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
(n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
(v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
(3) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(5) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(6) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(7) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(9) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(10) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(11) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
(12) The metabolism of [1,3-14C]benzo[f]quinoline (BfQ) by liver microsomes from control, 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-pretreated and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats has been investigated in order to gain insights into the effect of mixed function oxidase inducers on the types and levels of specific metabolites as formed in vitro.
(13) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
(14) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(15) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(16) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(17) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(18) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
(19) Each test was examined by the frequency with which it was ordered, the frequency with which it was abnormal, and the frequency with which the abnormal result affected preoperative care.
(20) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.