(a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is what enabled them to break the taboo, to break the silence.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An exhibition depicting the years Chad was ruled by Habré, at the Douta Secke Cultural Centre in Dakar.
(2) Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Senegal's health minister, told the Women Deliver conference on Wednesday that her country had committed to providing family planning services nationwide in an effort to increase coverage from 12%.
(3) They were identified as Freddy Budiman, an Indonesian citizen; Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke and Michael Titus Igweh, from Nigeria; and Seck Osmane, from Senegal.
(4) Senegal’s minister of health, Awa Marie Coll Seck, said: “The world community must realise that to make progress faster, countries need to follow their own plans, which may be different from plans drawn by donors; the one-size-fits-all does not work.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, speaks at the opening of the international conference on family planning in Bali.
(5) We have involved religious leaders, who are now saying, 'We need to protect women'; this is very important," Coll-Seck said.
(6) The most important proposed direct microscopic method for the detection of moulds were critically compared in 9 different nonfluid foods, of which 7 were naturally and 2 were artifically moulded.--Neither the Rot fragment test, nor the Howard Mould count or the NaOH treatment method proposed by Mossel (1975) were satisfying with non-fluid foods.--A significant improvement of the direct microscopic detection in the Breed-smear could be achieved by selective product specific staining of the fungi elements.--For low protein foods, a modified Pianese staining, and for low polysaccharide foods the Perjod-Schiff reaction proved to be appropriate and easy to carry out.--The slides of the selectively stained Breed-smears also allow a microscopic examination with high magnifications, so that a differenciation of fungus spores and hyphaes is possible.--Fungus spores, yeast cells and hyphal fragments can be counted by the method of Seck (1976).
Sneck
Definition:
(v. t.) To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.