(n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
(n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
(v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
(n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
(n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
(n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
(n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
(n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
(n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
(n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
(n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
(n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
(v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
(v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
(v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(2) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(3) But I feel I'm being true to myself in the way my career has panned out and I'm making the correct decision here.
(4) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(5) Effects of anti-human pan-T-specific monoclonal antibodies of the Second International Workshop on Human Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens were investigated in a number of lymphocyte functional tests.
(6) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(7) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(8) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
(9) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
(10) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
(11) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
(12) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
(13) These are pan-European issues requiring pan-European responses.
(14) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
(15) Lipoproteins isolated by 'Pan B' antibody were comparable in size and shape to the lipoproteins in native plasma and to the lipoproteins isolated by polyclonal antibodies or ultracentrifugation.
(16) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
(17) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
(18) A patient at the Wallington Family Practice in Surrey wrote: "Getting an appointment is like trying to pan for gold.
(19) In the normal bone marrow enriched by panning for CFU-E (8%) and depleted in progenitors of other lineages, blast cells showing characteristics similar to leukemic erythroid blasts were seen.
(20) Many other autoimmune diseases and autoantibodies were found in other family members not corresponding to HLA phenotypes, suggesting other non-HLA-linked genetic influences may be operative in predisposition to PAN.
Pawn
Definition:
(n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
(n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
(n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
(n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
(n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
(v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
(v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(2) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
(3) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(4) In his two interrogations in Belgium, Abdeslam gave the impression he was merely a pawn of Abaaoud and his own brother Brahim, who blew himself up outside a Paris cafe.
(5) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(6) Experiments were done on wild type P. caudatum and on both the wild type and a pawn mutant of P. tetraurelia.
(7) For most women born into the political world, their job description is more pawn than queen: to serve as the physical embodiment of political alliances by marrying husbands chosen by their fathers and giving birth to male heirs.
(8) If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.
(9) Mutants of Paramecium aurelia that are unable to reverse swimming direction are called pawns.
(10) We’re extremely worried that she’s being used as a political pawn.
(11) The kinetic properties of the ciliary membrane Ca2+ ATPase activity in wild type and several behavioral mutants were similar except for those in the pawn mutant, d495, and the paranoiac mutant, d490, both of which had lower specific activities.
(12) Photograph: PA Walker went on: “In stark contrast to how we were treated by the police, the CPS and court staff who were truly respectful and sensitive, I don’t think that as victims we have been treated with genuine respect, but are pawns in the BBC’s ambition to be seen to protect its reputation.
(13) But he added, repeating Putin's line, that people "should not turn into 'pawns' in the hands of those who want to destroy our country".
(14) He refers to the battle as a "different titans' game" which makes the Standard seem like a pawn.
(15) To keep up, the older generation has begun pawning heirlooms and jewellery to get through the winter.
(16) A small girl's placard proclaimed: "When the situation is as dire as this I don't mind my parents using me as a political pawn."
(17) Surrogate mothering and surrogate gestational mothering force us to redefine the age old dictum mater certa est and can render the child a helpless pawn in parental, emotional, and legal strife.
(18) The government of Nauru has said most incidents detailed in the Nauru files were “fabricated” and has accused Australian media and politicians of using refugees as political pawns.
(19) Two heat-sensitive "pawn" mutants of Paramecium aurelia are capable of avoiding reactions when grown at 23 degrees C but not at 35 degrees C. Electrophysiological analyses show that Ca activation is reduces in the mutants even when they are grown at 23 degrees C. The maximal rate of rise and the peak of the evoked action potential (Ca-spike) in the mutants are smaller than those of wild type in a K-solution.
(20) Contrary to media reports, most passengers have not become pawns in an epic industrial battle pitting the human right to free assembly against corporate self-determination.