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Sean


Definition:

  • (n.) A seine. See Seine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My colleague Sean Farrell reported last night that the Scottish government had been looking for a buyer for the site .
  • (2) "The performance of Italy and France kind of puts Ireland's heroic non-qualification in context," suggests Sean DeLoughry, giving everyone pause for thought.
  • (3) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
  • (4) SJ Burnley Ins Michael Keane (Man Utd, £2m) Outs None Sean Dyche’s aim was to retain Danny Ings at all costs and secure more Premier League experience.
  • (5) 1.25pm: Hello again from Sean Ingle from Johannesburg.
  • (6) An officer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police, Sean Collier, 26, was identified as the victim of a shooting at the university amid a manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects.
  • (7) Margaret Finch and Sean Mcloughlin Directors, TRP solicitors, Birmingham
  • (8) Labor party top 10 The Labor party benefited from a $150,000 donation from tech entrepreneur Sean Tomlinson.
  • (9) In that speech, Wright suggested that Manning was “overwhelmed” that the Sean MacBride award had recognized “her actions as actions for peace.” Yet the former soldier insists that she has never perceived her actions in transmitting more than 700,000 classified US classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010-11 as an act for peace.
  • (10) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
  • (11) Should such negotiations founder, Burnley’s Sean Dyche also has his admirers in the Stadium of Light’s boardroom.
  • (12) He absolutely can win,” says Sean Lavelle, who has brought a battered American flag bandanna and two T-shirts to the party.
  • (13) During the hearing, Gutiérrez was cross-examined by the football club’s lawyer, Sean Jones, who alleged that he was “just in it for the money”.
  • (14) The 16 people named in the charges are: Patricia Quinn; Sean Quinn Junior; Collete Marie Quinn; Aoife Quinn; Brenda Quinn; Ciara Quinn; Paddy McKillen; Séamus Ross; Brian O'Farrell; John McCabe; Gerard Maguire; Patrick Kearney; Gerard Conlon; Gerard Gannon; Seán Reilly and Joseph O'Reilly.
  • (15) "They found Sean's body and pulled it out but he was no longer responsive.
  • (16) Sean Ingle Wimbledon No one has broken Roger Federer’s serve at these championships, let alone taken a set, and the appreciative midsummer murmurs from No1 Court as the seven-times Wimbledon champion elegantly dissected Tommy Robredo suggested they believe he retains the game to win a record eighth title.
  • (17) In Virginia, County Cavan, on Monday a forklift truck in the town's main street held up a giant poster saying: "Welcome home, Sean Quinn."
  • (18) This is the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in my whole time in the United States Senate … I think they ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots.” Sean Spicer , the White House press secretary, branded the Democrats’ actions “embarrassing”.
  • (19) Finally, Guardian sports reporter turned ace observationalist Josh Widdicombe has the ability to find the sparkle in the mundane that puts him in line to become the next Sean Lock.
  • (20) Photograph: Guardian The US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that its civil rights division and the FBI would review the case for potential federal charges against Sean Williams, the police officer who shot Crawford in the Beavercreek store on the evening of 5 August.

Wean


Definition:

  • (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
  • (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
  • (n.) A weanling; a young child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
  • (2) The number of gastrin-immunoreactive cells actually decreases just prior to weaning but then increases at and after, weaning.
  • (3) The patient and ventilator work ratios, and the work of breathing quantify factors which may be directly useful to the clinician and to future systems to automate weaning.
  • (4) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
  • (5) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
  • (6) Although the reeler, an autosomal recessive mutant mouse with the abnormality of lamination in the central nervous system, died about 3 weeks of age when fed ordinary laboratory chow, this mouse could grow up normally and prolong its destined, short lifespan to 50 weeks and more when given assistance in taking paste food and water from the weaning period.
  • (7) During the weaning period after 18 h of mechanical ventilation following open-heart surgery, central haemodynamics, systemic oxygen transport and total oxygen consumption were assessed in a total of 11 patients receiving continuous positive pressure ventilation.
  • (8) Piglets from litters with post-weaning diarrhoea had reduced weight gains after weaning and were 2.3 days older at 25 kg bodyweight than piglets from non-diarrhoeic litters.
  • (9) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
  • (10) In trial with adult wethers and weaned lambs the effect of enzymatic preparation Pektofoetidin G3x (mostly pectinase and cellulase) on rumen fermentation was studied.
  • (11) To study this further, 86 BB rats were divided into 2 groups during the weaning period (days 13-25): Group A received rat chow without CMP; Group B, rat chow with 1% CMP added.
  • (12) Thorough knowledge of the modes of ventilatory support and criteria for weaning are essential for the critical care nurse to anticipate patient needs.
  • (13) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
  • (14) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
  • (15) A ten-year review of ventilator-dependent quadriplegic patients at Craig Rehabilitation Hospital was undertaken to determine the number of patients who could be weaned from mechanical ventilation and their long-term survival rate.
  • (16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
  • (17) It is our belief that the reproductive and maternal capabilities of the colony-born females were adversely affected by the practice of removing neonates from their mothers at weaning and raising them with age-mates.
  • (18) Because nitrofen causes both malformations that are compatible with survival to weaning and a high incidence of perinatal (but not of fetal) mortality, emphasis was placed on postnatal parameters of bifenox toxicity.
  • (19) Cannon bone circumference at weaning was increased (P less than .05) by growth implants.
  • (20) There was an increase in both serum potassium concentration and erythrocyte count from five (weaning) to six weeks of age.

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