(n.) A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
(n.) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
(n.) The smew.
(n.) The European blue titmouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The working women lost their elasticity more rapidly than the nuns, and the male blue collar workers lost their elasticity more rapidly than the male white collar workers.
(2) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(3) At least 14 At least 14 monks, nuns and former monks are believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year, mostly in traditionally Tibetan areas of Sichuan that have been focal points of opposition to central government control.
(4) It’s an issue highlighted in the 2013 film Philomena, starring Judi Dench, which tells the true-story of an Irish woman searching for her son after being pressured to give him up for adoption by nuns when she was a teenager.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
(6) On Monday, a nun became the first woman to set fire to herself , dying as a result.
(7) There are clearly lots of nice, benign, kind nuns who'd be a bit miffed to be lumped in with all the others."
(8) Mass graves containing hundreds of men, women and children were found close by and not far down the road, stood a convent with blood-stained walls where nuns were gang-raped and massacred .
(9) Sister Cristina's moment of metamorphosis from singing nun into global internet sensation involves four judges listening to her with their backs turned, as the Voice format demands, then spinning around when the cheering of the audience becomes hysterical and they've heard enough to know they want this mystery singer on their team.
(10) I can't spell them in French but they are basically little nuns full of cream.
(11) The present study describes relationships between TMJD and selected health parameters in a population of 75- to 94-year-old Roman Catholic sisters (nuns).
(12) Base substitutions in boxA and the proximal portion of boxB impaired Nun termination, while base substitutions between boxA and boxB, in the distal portion of boxB, and immediately downstream from boxB had no appreciable effect.
(13) The nuns who were supposed to care for him were "bordering on the psychotic" in the way they maltreated him and other children, the witness said.
(14) If you are lucky, one of the few resident nuns will show you around.
(15) Despite these similarities, Nun is required neither for the lytic nor the lysogenic pathway of phage development.
(16) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
(17) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
(18) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
(19) The termination defect of all of the base substitution mutations was relieved by increasing the level of Nun protein; in contrast, the deletions and a multiple-base substitution did not regain full Nun responsiveness at elevated Nun concentrations.
(20) The Nun protein of the lambdoid phage HK022 blocks lambda growth by terminating transcription at (or near) the lambda nut sites.
Tun
Definition:
(n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
(n.) A fermenting vat.
(n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
(n.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
(n.) An indefinite large quantity.
(n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
(n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
(v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tun Lwin, the retired director general of Myanmar's meteorology department told the Associated Press: "We are out of danger and the impact of the cyclone is almost over.
(2) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) " @MAS have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development."
(3) Wu Tun 吴吞 (@wu_tun) @aiww use mine, more than happy to make it.
(4) Photograph: Oval Partnership In the early 2000s, when enclosed malls were the standard, architect Chris Law of the Oval Partnership proposed an “open city” concept for San Li Tun, an area in Beijing’s central business district.
(5) Patients who appear to respond best to high branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) solutions have been previously described by objective measurements such as total urinary nitrogen (TUN) excretion, oxygen consumption index (O2Cl), plasma lactate, plasma pyruvate, plasma glucose (PG) and urinary 3-methylhistidine.
(6) This dramatically reduces labor and overall costs for TUN determinations, while providing a more accurate and economical assessment of nitrogen excretion than UUN in a clinical setting.
(7) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort,they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path."
(8) Communities are not getting enough of a say in the process when the pubs they treasure are threatened by closure or change of use.” John Harrison, who lives in the south Cambridgeshire village of Guilden Morden, is among the leaders of an ongoing campaign to save the village’s Three Tuns pub and agrees that ACV status has yielded mixed results.
(9) The prevalence of mottled enamel (dental fluorosis) was investigated among children, aged 6 to 15 years, in Chung-hsing New Village and in Tsao-tun Village.
(10) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) I will be making a statement on #MH370 at 10pm Malaysian time tonight at PWTC.
(11) An unusual B-cell proliferation was noted in an individual (Tun) which was characterized by the presence of two separate populations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cell staining on the surface and in the cytoplasm for either IgG(k) or IgA(k).
(12) For both normal and hospitalized populations, nitrogen balance calculated from UUN data exceeded that calculated from TUN data.
(13) With only one exception in Tsao-tun, none of the children in the two groups showed mottling in the "moderate" or "severe" classes.
(14) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "We share this information out of a commitment to openness & respect for the families, two principles guiding this investigation."
(15) Triggering of effectors, as monitored either by incorporation of 32P into phosphatidylinositol or by transmethylation of phosphatidylcholine, was similar for the positive control YAC-1, STC, TUN, and LTC, whereas ASC appeared to be defective in triggering effectors.
(16) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Inmarsat, that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern & southern corridors,has performed further calculations" March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat & the AAIB concluded that the last position of #MH370 was in the middle of the Indian Ocean."
(17) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "With deep sadness and regret I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight #MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean."
(18) Total urinary nitrogen (TUN) and urinary urea nitrogen (UUN) in a 24-hour urine collection were measured under a variety of clinical and nutritional conditions in 81 patients for 564 study days.
(19) The efficiency of measuring 24-hr urine urea-nitrogen (UUN) and total urine nitrogen (TUN) in patients on general wards was measured.
(20) TUN determined by chemiluminescence evidently provides a simple means of calculating nitrogen balance more nearly accurately.