(n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
(v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further, the use of food as a reinforcer has been considered taboo by those who use more conventional and restrictive management approaches with Prader-Willi syndrome individuals.
(2) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
(3) Prolonged breast feeding should be encouraged, child health improved, and research conducted on the traditions, norms, customs, and taboos of target populations.
(4) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(5) It's actually very taboo to stop and say, "OK, I'm in a band and I'm really successful and my boyfriend's a pop star and he's really handsome and lots of girls fancy him, but I don't want to be with him."
(6) In explaining why its Oscar chances had all but disappeared, the Atlantic's Richard Lawson explained last month that as a result of the controversy, the film has "just become something vaguely taboo".
(7) In some ways, Sarkozy broke taboos, on what constitutes a modern family for example.
(8) "Whilst paying for NHS services is a difficult, and for many a taboo subject to debate, we really do have to think about how we move things forward."
(9) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
(10) This article proposes that a propensity for sexual selection originates in the gene system, and what becomes taboo is acquired through the learning that accompanies the experiences of the individual and culture when sexual selection occurs.
(11) The very possibility of a country leaving the single currency was so taboo as to be unmentionable as recently as a month ago.
(12) Because I feel it’s fair to say that comedy has been a thing, over and over again, that deals with a lot of taboo stuff.
(13) This cross-sex aversion may be a reflection of the incest taboo.
(14) In the thrall of social media and smartphones, we are drip-fed a steady supply of Instagram-filtered intimacy – and in this world, negative emotions and loneliness are taboo.
(15) It seemed as if there were few taboos left, but later this month cable network Showtime begins airing a show that marks another step forward.
(16) Restrictions on local news agencies and newspapers seem to have eased recently with a few going as far as breaking the taboo on reporting the plight of political prisoners or the house arrests of opposition leaders.
(17) The special epidemiology of the disease, the long incubation period, prejudice, and taboo concerning sexuality have constrained constructive and open debate on strategies and approaches.
(18) Traditional black customs, in contrast, place strong taboos on the male's involvement in birth.
(19) Yet the debate avoided a taboo at the heart of the story: the tricky matter of class.
(20) This information model, based on cancer taboo, is largely preferred by these healthy people and is followed by doctors, patients and family members.
Tabor
Definition:
(n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
(v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum.
(v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently.
(v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A method to introduce multiple mutations and to reconstruct genes, using a single oligodeoxyribonucleotide and DNA polymerase with high processivity, such as modified T7 DNA polymerase [Tabor and Richardson, Proc.
(2) Capillary gel electrophoresis is demonstrated for the four-spectral-channel sequencing technique of Smith, the two-spectral-channel sequencing technique of Prober, and the one-spectral-channel sequencing technique of Richardson and Tabor.
(3) "It's been pretty brutal to be honest with you and it's going to make it a tough year," said Tabor.
(4) The Global boss is the son of Michael Tabor, who amassed a fortune from bookmaking, horsebreeding and property, and helped bankroll the £545m double purchase of GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio that created Global's broadcasting empire.
(5) In response, Tabor was equally scathing: "It appears to us that the comments made by UTV are entirely predictable from an organisation which appears to have numerous issues with the forthcoming Digital Economy Bill.
(6) In Debre Tabor, the provincial capital 50 km away from the project site at an altitude of 2800 m., five S. mansoni cases were found among 111 school children, but they were considered to be imported cases.
(7) Good-quality content which is not commercially viable," added Tabor.
(8) He believes that the private ownership of Global, headed by former Capital whizz kid Ashley Tabor and backed by money from the Irish racing magnates JP McManus and John Magnier, will allow more space for clarity of thought.
(9) To which Tabor replied: "Statistically but not in reality.
(10) The Global Radio boss, Ashley Tabor, today said he has not had any conversations with Chris Moyles after reports last week linking the BBC Radio 1 breakfast presenter with a move to Global-owned Capital.
(11) A major degradation product is a T7 RNA polymerase that is proteolytically cleaved between amino acids 172 (lysine) and 173 (arginine) (Tabor, S., and Richardson, C.C.
(12) They are found in higher and lower eucaryotes and in procaryotes as well as in viruses (Tabor and Tabor, 1984).
(13) Job: Global Radio founder and Global group chief executive Age: 33 Industry: broadcasting Staff: 1,250 New entry Ashley Tabor is head of the most powerful commercial radio group in the country, home to Classic FM, Heart, Capital and LBC , listened to by an average of more than 18 million people a week.
(14) "Global has stepped up and said we are absolutely doing it, we have great new ideas of things we could do on digital but we are not going to do it until our listeners can hear it in decent quality and that is something that we have been clear from the start the Beeb will need to do," said Tabor, the Global Group founder and chief executive.
(15) "Lord Carter has been a huge advocate of radio and deserves praise for delivering a positive vision for our sector," said Miron, the former managing director of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online , who joined Ashley Tabor's Global Radio last year.
(16) Global, the home of Classic FM, Capital, Heart and the London talk station LBC, was born out of the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media which was masterminded by the group's youthful founder, Ashley Tabor, the son of the billionaire Michael Tabor.
(17) A modification of the enzymic method of Tabor and Wyngarden for formiminoglutamate (FIGLU) estimation in urine is described.
(18) But it is Miron, rather than Tabor, who makes the MediaGuardian 100 because he is responsible for the day-to-day strategic decisions that will see the group succeed or fail.
(19) There is no love lost between Taunton, who came to the UK in 1995 as general manager of the internet service provider DNA Internet, and Tabor, son of the billionaire Michael Tabor, who created the Global Radio empire out of nothing with the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.
(20) A 1.6-kilobase DNA fragment containing gltP was subcloned into the expression plasmids pT7-5 and pT7-6, and its product was identified by a phage T7 RNA polymerase-T7 promoter coupled system (S. Tabor and C. C. Richardson, Proc.