(n.) A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radial arm maze observations were made on offspring rats during a total of 30 trials, and we made the following findings: 1) The number of trials required for fulfilling learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups relative to the controls; that is, F-DEL and F-NURS were slow in learning.
(2) The number of rats which did not fulfill the learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups, relative to the controls.
(3) More cohesive than the miners, more determined than the NUR and more confident of public support even than the nurses, these are the people whose decisions shape the way money is spent in the NHS, and the way that most of us will experience it.
(4) Earlier on Sunday, the house where Nur Hassan, 30, and her daughter Rahaf lived in Gaza City was brought down as Israeli jets hit two alleged weapons sites belonging to Hamas in response to the launching of two rockets into Israel .
(5) They don’t want to release me.” Another young man who called himself Nur Ali Awale said he had been held for 15 months.
(6) Breakaway MNLF guerrillas led by its commander Nur Misuari have issued new secession threats from their remaining strongholds such as southern Jolo island, a few hours by boat from Zamboanga city.
(7) Mr Nur said he had phone contact with British Somali families who were stranded in Somalia and feared that their teenage sons might be accused of being jihadi fighters.
(8) Lt Fazel Rahman, police chief in the Guzirga i-Nur district of Baghlan province, said on Sunday that the death toll had climbed from 54 to 81 and that police and villagers were still searching for missing people after flooding hit several villages on Friday.
(9) Just hours before the announcement Atta Muhammad Nur, the Balkh provincial governor who is the most vocal and powerful of Abdullah's supporters, maintained that he considered Abdullah the rightful successor to Hamid Karzai.
(10) In beard and dark shirt, Mohamed Ahmed Nur – described more than once as mayor of the world's most dangerous city – sits at a desk full of flags, mementos and trophies.
(11) Nur wants to see more long-term foreign investment, not just aid, to deal with what he calls symptoms, like water-borne diseases.
(12) Some members of the group succeeded in reaching Syria, among them Abdi Nur, a man cited by Luger as the principal inspiration and recruiter for the Minnesota group since his arrival in the Middle East.
(13) But security remains volatile in the Somali capital and on Thursday night the deputy chief prosecutor, Ahmad Shaykh Nur Maalin, was shot dead by three masked men – the most senior official to be killed in the city since a new government took office last year.
(14) 349 women were given Depo-Provera and 304 were given Nur-Isterate immediately after delivery.
(15) Nur, a grandfather who has survived "many" assassination attempts, believes Mogadishu is ready to make that leap.
(16) The openly pro-Sisi Salafist Al-Nur party, which backed the ousting of Morsi , is the only Islamist party standing.
(17) It evoked a historical war against the Shia, he said: in the 12th century Nur al-Din set off from the mosque to defeat the Shia Fatamid caliphate in Cairo.
(18) "I have seen signs that militias want to carve the city into fiefdoms … these groups need an iron fist," Nur said.
(19) The city's mayor, Mohamed Ahmed Nur, is also concerned.
(20) Another mutation, nur, originally described as conferring sensitivity to inactivation by broad-spectrum and monochromatic NUV, also confers sensitivity to inactivation by H2O2.
Pur
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased.
(v. t.) To signify or express by purring.
(n.) The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) No correlation between PUR, platelet survival, platelet function and the clinical situation could be assessed.
(2) The sequence of markers in the corresponding segment (mel to purA; 91.5 to 93.5 min) of the E. coli linkage map was shown to be mel--aspA--mop(groE)--ampA--frdA--pur A.
(3) Two types of repetitive DNA elements are located within the PAI-1 structural gene and flanking DNAs: we have found 12 Alu elements and 5 repeats of a long poly (Pur) element.
(4) These things happen, it all comes together and a team suddenly starts purring; we hit five in about 10 minutes and, with Jimmy [Greaves] in that groove, we'd have beaten any team anywhere.
(5) Pur repressor bound specifically to purF operator DNA as determined by gel retardation and DNase I footprinting assays.
(6) It is concluded that: PUR, but not BAC, is a useful pharmacological tool for the aminopeptidase inhibition and for activation of enkephalinergic neurons; aminopeptidases are concerned with activities of opioid peptides.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron tells Michael Bloomberg ‘the Queen purred’ Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the discussions between Geidt and Heywood.
(8) Before a ferociously red crowd, in which the Australian fans, scattered throughout the stadium in little blobs of yellow, struggled to assert themselves in any meaningful way, the Chileans started with their customary disregard for defence, a line of five attackers purring forward with gushing, almost smug intent.
(9) The order of the markers was hom-1-thr-1-his-1-(gly-1 or gly-2)-pur-1-pur-2.
(10) Nicola Sturgeon could be sat in that castle now – we know she had her eye on it – it was a damn close-run thing.” Royal circles found particularly offensive Cameron’s portrayal of the Queen as having “purred down the line” when he telephoned her to tell her Scotland had voted against independence.
(11) The dominance of the referendum explains why a relieved Cameron told the former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an overheard conversation days after the referendum, that the Queen had “ purred down the line ” when he told her the result.
(12) Furthermore, Pur-1 is able to activate an intact insulin promoter in HeLa cells, where it is normally inactive.
(13) The concentration of PPRibP has been examined in the rat adrenal gland at various times after induction of diabetes with STZ, in view of the key role it plays in the synthesis of Purs and Pyrs.
(14) Mutations in this group have previously been shown to be pleiotropic, affecting not only ras but also two other genetic entities, gua 1 and pur 1, which yield auxotrophic mutations.--The eight new mutations have been characterized phenotypically in double heterozygotes with gua 1, pur 1 and ras mutations.
(15) Washington is positively purring with pleasure over Abe's tougher stance.
(16) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
(17) Puromycin aminonucleoside, an analog of PUR with no inhibitory action on protein synthesis, had no effect.
(18) Exogenously supplied histidine (that blocks conversion of AMP to guanine nucleotides) does not reduce the growth rate of the strain of pur apt genotype on adenosine as the sole purine source.
(19) The mutation, called rer, is located between arg B and pur D loci.
(20) PUR induced the dose-related analgesic effect abolished by NAL and increased the level of ENK in the striatum.