(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.
Zip
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) With Bournemouth full of zest and defiance, the game zipped by.
(2) Although he didn’t personally witness the waterboarding or zipping, he had on two or three occasions witnessed asylum seekers walking out of a tent wet and coughing up water.
(3) You have to create an online account in order to get any information about plans and costs, so I went through the process of creating a username and password, and gave my date of birth and zip code.
(4) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
(5) He is chairman of SolarCity, which provides solar power to California, and this week he revealed more detail on perhaps his most intriguing business idea yet, something some consider one of history's craziest-sounding transportation fancies: the Hyperloop , an 800mph self-powered ground-based system that could zip between LA and San Francisco in half-an-hour.
(6) These results suggest a close association or overlap of the DNA binding and nuclear targeting domains of B-ZIP proteins.
(7) giant protein made in bacteria or in embryos binds in vitro to the Krüppel regulatory elements CD1 and CD2 and recognizes a sequence resembling the binding sites of other b-ZIP proteins.
(8) "7-Zip doesn't place files [inside folders] that were not specified by the user," said Pavlov.
(9) A complementary DNA that encoded a member of the basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper (bHLH-Zip) family of proteins was isolated.
(10) A monodimensional electrophoretic method for the separation of glycosaminoglycans on Titan III Zip Zone cellulose acetate plate based on their different electrophoretic mobilities in barium acetate and different solubilities in ethanol was applied to the Chemetron electrophoretic equipment.
(11) The cys-3 gene encodes a regulatory protein of 236 amino acid residues with a leucine zipper and an upstream basic region (the b-zip region) which together may constitute a DNA-binding domain.
(12) Zoster immune plasma (ZIP) was evaluated for treatment of cutaneous disseminated zoster in immunocompromised hosts.
(13) A survey of the practice styles and preferences of 1988 ASCRS members with a U.S. zip code was taken in September 1988.
(14) To determine whether emergency department complaint frequency varies with patient median household income, as approximated by patient residence zip code.
(15) Using the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System, we obtained discharge data for 1,034 patients over age 39, who were hospitalized for stroke from 1983 to 1986, using four zip code areas of the ethnically mixed community of Northern Manhattan.
(16) Suddenly, several lanes of cars and buses are zipping past, but Calvo pays no heed – we are on a smooth, green-tarmacked bike lane, separated from motor traffic by both a raised kerb and a waist-high fence.
(17) When we meet in her small, airless office in the headquarters of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, her hair is swept back in a ponytail, her clothes are fashionable but discreet: a black top with zip detailing at the shoulders, tailored beige trousers, boots with a sensible heel.
(18) Hence, in this "b-HLH-zip" class of proteins, the leucine zipper functions in concert with the HLH both to stabilize protein-protein interactions and to establish dimerization specificity.
(19) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
(20) So onwards and outwards… Get the adrenalin pumping Down the line: Zip World opens to the public in Bethesda, north Wales.