(n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
(n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
(n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
(n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
(v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(5) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(6) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(7) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(8) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(10) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(11) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(12) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(13) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(14) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
(15) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(16) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(17) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
(18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(19) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(20) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
Pygmy
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pygmean
(n.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.
(n.) Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.
Example Sentences:
(1) We measured growth hormone-binding activity in plasma from 20 pygmies and 12 control subjects (7 white Americans and 5 non-Pygmy black Africans of normal stature).
(2) We believe these intramitochondrial inclusions to be lipid which accumulates divalent cations, particularly calcium, which acts as a sodium pump allowing the pygmy mouse to conserve water and adapt to its environment.
(3) King's heirs are not the pygmy protesters who move from one fashionable campsite and cause to another.
(4) Before the pygmy politicians line up to pay tribute to this giant, I want to remember how he lived so much for so many.
(5) In human pygmies, the absence of a growth spurt at adolescence is associated with the absence of an increase in serum levels of IGF-I (Merimee et al., 1981).
(6) Ruminal mucosae of 15 pygmy goats of different age (Z1 approximately 4-5 months, Z2 approximately 1 year, Z3 approximately 1.5-5 years) and sex were investigated histologically.
(7) The value of GPX1*2 for study of the genetic admixture between Negro and Pygmy populations is suggested.
(8) The former editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, is the target of special ire for his allegedly unco-operative attitude, described as "a moral pygmy with a self-justifying streak the size of the San Andreas fault".
(9) The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control regions for common chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee and gorilla were sequenced and the lengths and termini of their D-loop DNA's characterized.
(10) 1934 Bantus and 379 Pygmies were investigated for Loa loa and Mansonella perstans filariasis in 7 villages in the Chaillu forest of the Congo.
(11) An epizootic of focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) or Morbus Heck in a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) colony is described.
(12) Blood serum of pygmy goats (both sexes, and castrated males) was analyzed to establish biochemical reference values.
(13) This was an uncommon finding in other non-pygmy populations.
(14) With the aid of x-ray ventriculography, lesions were placed in the medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamic (MP-AH) area of 5 adult male pygmy goats.
(15) These conclusions are thought to be consistent with biochemical studies showing pygmies to have low levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).
(16) Because the growth deficient mutation of the mouse, pygmy (pg), has also been mapped to Chromosome 10 (Falconer and Isaacson, 1965), we were interested in localizing Igf-1 in order to investigate the possibility that pg might be allelic to Igf-1.
(17) In an interspecies comparison of seven primate species, the expression of the erbB proto oncogene was found to be higher in fibroblasts derived from three relatively long-lived species, the human, gorilla, and chimpanzee than in cells from the orangutan, pygmy chimpanzee, squirrel monkey, or red-bellied tamarin.
(18) The older pygmy chimpanzee has begun to form requests of the form agent-verb-recipient in which he is neither the agent nor the recipient.
(19) In addition, the IGF-I gene of 64 constitutionally short subjects, five Pygmies, and 10 constitutionally tall subjects was analyzed.
(20) Thus, short stature in pygmies probably results not from an absolute deficiency of GH receptors per se, as in Laron dwarfism, but from a failure of cellular GH receptors to increase in a normal manner.