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Rundle


Definition:

  • (n.) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
  • (n.) A ball.
  • (n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan.
  • (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fernandez Rundle launched an investigation into the incident, the results of which might not be known for several months, according to Ed Griffith, spokesman for the state attorney’s office.
  • (2) In this context the reduced serum uridine plus uracil levels in patients with vitamin B12 deficiency (Parry & Blackmore, 1976) and the haematological response of these patients to orotic acid therapy (Rundles & Brewer, 1958) are not readily explicable.
  • (3) That will allow millions of uninsured Americans to start shopping for health insurance ( CBS has a full explanation here ) Updated at 12.44pm BST 8.32am BST Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital , explains that the stock markets are calm because traders reckon the shutdown will be brief: Investors are taking the view that a partial shutdown, if resolved quickly, will do little damage to the overall health of the US economy.
  • (4) Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital, said: The troika holding fire on unlocking the next tranche of funds for Greece has not only pushed the euro below the 1.27 level this week, but credit default swaps for peripheral euro zone countries are on the rise.
  • (5) The observation elsewhere (Drew and Rundle, 1977) that increase frequencies of the C5 + variant of the serum cholinesterase in Down's syndrome may be due to a protective influence against adverse environmental factors has been investigated for such factors as age, sex, duration of institutionalisation, presence of the hepatitis -B antigen and maternal age.
  • (6) In a letter to Ilett, Eversheds partner Nick Rundle said he "cannot agree that Eversheds have acted improperly".
  • (7) Two genes encode Rbu-P2-carboxylase activase in barley (RcaA and RcaB): RcaA encodes polypeptides of 46 and 42 kDa, which are generated by the alternatively spliced RcaA1 and RcaA2 mRNAs, respectively; RcaB encodes a 42-kDa polypeptide (Rundle, S. J., and Zielinski, R. E. (1991) J. Biol.
  • (8) Offir Hernandez, Israel’s sister, was among the protestors at Fernandez Rundle’s office on Monday.
  • (9) Every day that goes by in which state attorney Rundle does not arrest him is a day in which justice is not served for the people of Miami.” Mercado has previously been accused of using excessive force and is mentioned in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the Miami Beach police department by Hernandez’s family in civil court.
  • (10) We’re all parents, and our hearts go out to his family and all of his friends,” Fernandez Rundle told the Miami Herald.
  • (11) Joe Rundle, head of trading, says: We expect it to be priced very attractively by the government in order to garner the demand to deem this IPO as a success given the importance surrounding it.
  • (12) Among 43 female patients aged 17-46 years with almost severe oligophrenia there were four with primary hypogonadism, one of them a case of Richards Rundle syndrome, now aged 20 years with absence of secondary sex characters, hypoplastic genitals, deafness, ataxia, wasting of muscles and reduced jerks.
  • (13) We cannot say too much because this is potentially a criminal investigation.” He said Fernandez Rundle was unable to meet with the protestors in person on Monday because the family had appointed lawyers, with whom she had already spoken.
  • (14) The friends and family of Israel Hernandez staged a rally outside the office of Miami-Dade state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, calling for criminal charges against police officer Jorge Mercado .

Rung


Definition:

  • () of Ring
  • (p. p.) of Ring
  • () imp. & p. p. of Ring.
  • (n.) A floor timber in a ship.
  • (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
  • (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
  • (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
  • (2) In other cases local numbers were reported to state agencies but then not up the next rung, to the federal government.
  • (3) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
  • (4) They usually didn’t get him the best delivery times,” Runge said.
  • (5) In the first half of 2014, UK sales of vinyl are expected to be 1.2m, more than 50% up on the same period last year Hanging over everything Runge showed me was an awkward question.
  • (6) I've just rung my boss and my workplace is under water.
  • (7) But on the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in the game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.” Pardew had rung the changes at half-time as Palace struggled to find their rhythm and looked like a team with too many players in unfamiliar roles.
  • (8) "It's no good hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing.
  • (9) are described: an analytical one, a Runge-Kutta simulation and an "asymptotic" method.
  • (10) The proposed law would only allow gay couples the right to adopt if they were married, not in a civil partnership – a distinction that has rung alarm bells among equality groups.
  • (11) The coupled equations for flow through collapsible tubes are solved using a Runge-Kutta finite difference scheme.
  • (12) For young people already struggling to reach the bottom rung of the housing ladder, it looks to be pulled up even further.
  • (13) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
  • (14) And helping borrowers move up the property chain can help free up homes lower down the chain for those borrowers looking to get on the first rung of the ladder."
  • (15) About 83.3 per cent were illiterate and belonged to the lowest rung of the socio economic scale.
  • (16) Edward M Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77, was a man who made it his life's work to, as President Obama said in the funeral that took place in the church hours later, "give a voice to those who could not be heard", and to "add a rung to the ladder of opportunity".
  • (17) Study of cardiac arrhythmia may be pursued vertically, as up the rungs of a ladder, from symptom to ECG, to EPS, to local lesion, to intracellular metabolism and to alterations of the latter and their effects on charge-transfer by ions across the cell membrane.
  • (18) For Gabriela Salinas, commercial manager of a publishing company, the gender pay gap is particularly evident on the top rungs of the corporate world.
  • (19) Hoarding isn't the privilege of a few Saudi royals; it is a feature at almost every rung of the property ladder.
  • (20) Analysis by the Guardian of 50 of the UK's most valuable companies shows that women account for only 14% of staff serving on executive committees – the management level just one rung below the boardroom and which are viewed as the pipeline of talent to fill future board vacancies.

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