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Smit


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Smite.
  • () 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite.
  • () of Smite
  • () of Smite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The male of Ctenoparia inopinata Rothschild 1909 is described, and for the first time, Ctenoparia jordani Smit 1955 and C. topali Smit 1963 are cited from Chile.
  • (2) 28 species or subspecies are noted; 6 are new for this country [Echidnophaga gallinacea (Westwood, 1875), Xenopsylla blanci Smit, 1957?, Ischnopsyllus intermedius (Rothschild, 1898), I. octactenus (Kolenati, 1856), Nycteridopsylla ancyluris Jordan, 1942 and N. pentactena (Kolenati, 1856)].
  • (3) Finally a normal SMIT result was associated with a significantly improved chance of conception (39 versus 10% at 12 months), particularly with artificial insemination, suggesting undisclosed coital failure as the cause of the negative PCT.
  • (4) An ambitious project to showcase the prehistory of the south coast of England, famous for its marine fossils from ammonites to giant sea reptiles, has attracted support from David Attenborough and Eden Project founder Tim Smit.
  • (5) It has a diameter of about 100A, in agreement with the results of electron microscope observations (Smit, Kamio, and Nikaido (1975) J. Bacteriol.
  • (6) Smit said Brexit could provide a boost to the UK’s food manufacturers as producers try to offset import costs by bringing raw materials and processing them here rather than buying in finished items from abroad.
  • (7) 247:3962-3972, 1972; J. Smit, Y. Kamio, and H. Nikaido, J. Bacteriol.
  • (8) The authors point out, for the first time in France, a selvatic Xenopsylla: X. cunicularis Smit, 1957, parasite on the European rabbit, well-known in Morocco and Spain until today.
  • (9) Under all conditions tested, a positive correlation was observed between the percentage of fibrillated cells and the ability of these bacteria to form caps and to adhere to glass, suggesting that fibrils play a role in the attachment of Rhizobium leguminosarum to pea root hair tips and to glass (G. Smit, J. W. Kijne, and B. J. J. Lugtenberg, J. Bacteriol.
  • (10) Tim Smit, the chief executive of the Eden Project , said it was a "pioneering" scheme.
  • (11) Smit, who was a trustee of the project, had "sort of not let me not do it".
  • (12) The attachment characteristics of these manganese-limited rhizobia were compared with those of carbon-limited rhizobia (G. Smit, J. W. Kijne, and B. J. J. Lugtenberg, J. Bacteriol.
  • (13) Allan listed and responded to eight claims isolated from the report written by researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
  • (14) The British jobs Brexit makes hard to fill Read more Harry Smit, a senior analyst at Rabobank and author of Future Food Security in the UK: the Impact of the Brexit on Food and Agribusiness in Europe and Beyond , said: “ UK consumers should brace themselves for some price rises – perhaps by as much as 8% – on those products for which Britain is almost solely reliant on the EU.” Smit’s arguments counter claims from Brexit supporters that food prices will fall as high tariffs on goods imported from outside the EU are removed.
  • (15) Five to follow Verena Smit Aldo the Band Feira Plana Os Gêmeos Amem!Amém
  • (16) Helen Smits, M.D., one of the few women to head a federal health bureaucracy, looks for ways to improve the quality, while reducing the cost, of health care.
  • (17) Its director, Alfredson, went on to make the 2011 spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , while Let the Right One In was later relocated to New Mexico and remade in 2010 as Let Me In , starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
  • (18) The human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 enhancer-promoter has been shown to be active in human fibroblasts with a deletion on the short arm of one chromosome 11 (karyotype 46,del(11)(p11.11p15.1)) but is virtually inactive in diploid human fibroblasts (Smits, Smits, Jebbink, and ter Schegget, 1990b, Virology, 176, 158-165).
  • (19) The cast combines known stars (Jimmy Smits) and newcomers such as Mamadou Athie.
  • (20) mesoides from the High Tatras the authors consider the subspecies Rhadinopsylla mesoides skuratowiczi Bartkowska, 1972 to be a synonym of Rhadinopsylla mesoides Smit, 1957.

Smite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
  • (v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
  • (v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
  • (v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
  • (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
  • (v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
  • (n.) The act of smiting; a blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has realised what he's dealing with in mankind, and thinks, without saying it to Noah: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
  • (2) George Osborne has seized on that as a stick to smite critics ( such as Vince Cable? )
  • (3) Before he was shackled to Hawley for eternity Smoot was more famous for his Mormonism and his abhorrence of bawdy books, a disgust that inspired the immortal headline “Smoot Smites Smut” after he attacked the importation of Lady’s Chatterley’s Lover, Robbie Burn’s more risqué poems and their like as “worse than opium … I would rather have a child of mine use opium than read these books.” But it was imports of another kind that secured Smoot and Hawley’s place in infamy.
  • (4) ‘Barack Obama and George W Bush rigged 2008’ Devil Smite (@redletterdave) facebook's promoting of fake news stories is getting out of hand.
  • (5) They're even less important when you've invented celestial Power Rangers which descend from the heavens and smite Sodom right up (this happens, pretty much).
  • (6) If all goes according to plan, those who have been "saved" by Jesus will rise into the air in the Rapture and look down as God smites billions of nonbelievers with a great earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet, and a bit of fire to boot.
  • (7) 'I could tell you the truth once you've taken the blow; if you smite me smartly I could spell out the facts of my house and home and my name, if it helps, then you'll pay me a visit and vouch for our pact.
  • (8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
  • (9) He distances himself rather, though he does still need a reminder not to smite Earth's entirely smite-worthy inhabitants.
  • (10) The other side of using commissions and inquiries to smite your enemies is concocting them to legitimate your own political actions.
  • (11) In short, the Contempt of Court Act is circling over the media, waiting to smite those who go too far.
  • (12) One of his favourite words is "smite", as in someone (often a sportswriter) "having a smite" at him.

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