(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.
Pluto
Definition:
(n.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those androgynous looks helped him play a resilient 1970s transvestite in Breakfast On Pluto, for example.
(2) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(3) He ushered me into the front room, told me to wait there, and shut the door, leaving me with just his whippet, Pluto, for company.
(4) Extracted from Our People by Iain Banks, from Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles, published by Pluto Press.
(5) "When I was asked to do Pluto I was a bit dubious, first because as an astrophysics amateur I was well aware that Pluto wasn't technically a planet, and second because The Planets is a perfectly satisfying whole.
(6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(7) PLUTO, ORTEP, and MMP2 input files are set up automatically.
(8) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
(9) And while there is plenty of interest in unmanned expeditions, like the New Horizons probe that sent dramatic pictures back from Pluto last year, what has always fired the public imagination is the human component.
(10) Now imagine a Justice League film with Christian Bale's tortured Batman and Henry Cavill's navel-gazing Superman suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a completely unheralded Martian Manhunter, who's nipped round for a coffee to show off holiday snaps of his recent trip to Pluto.
(11) "Solar wind, and the possible impact by a Pluto-sized body is thought to have stripped much of the initial early atmosphere from the planet, and since then the atmosphere has developed as a balance between volcanic injection and loss to space."
(12) He asked for a trade in 2007, saying he’d “go play on Pluto right now” in lieu of suiting up in the purple and gold.
(13) Holst wrote The Planets during the first world war and before the discovery of Pluto, the "ninth planet", in 1930.
(14) The ones with the yoga lessons, the constant preaching about saving the rainforest, the overly earnest attempts to paint himself as some kind of eco-warrior when his carbon footprint must be the size of Pluto?
(15) He and co-writer (and director) Robert Zemeckis started drafting in 1980 – initially the time machine was not a car but a fridge (changed in case children started clambering into them), Doc's pet Einstein was an ape, not a dog, and the title was Spaceman from Pluto.
(16) Eddie Murphy's recent career has been plagued by flops but The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) is by far the biggest – it made just $7m, a net loss of $144.1m (£93m).
(17) Robin Yassin-Kassab is the author of The Road From Damascus, a novel, and co-author with Leila Al-Shami of the forthcoming book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, January 2016)
(18) Patrick McCabe read from his novel Breakfast On Pluto.
(19) Breakfast On Pluto But he's undercut this boyish charm to brilliant effect in some bad-guy roles, such as plane thriller Red Eye, or as Batman's Scarecrow.
(20) Eddie Murphy had one in the early noughties with Showtime, The Adventures of Pluto Nash and I Spy, and then all over again with Meet Dave, Imagine That, and A Thousand Words, which seems careless.