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Tong


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Tonge

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
  • (2) Oliver's departure followed the exit of Kenneth Tong last Thursday, which forced Channel 4 to abandon the planned eviction vote on Friday and offer a refund to viewers who had already voted.
  • (3) The prime minister of Tuvalu , Enele Sopoaga, said that Tong’s views are “strongly shared by leaders of smaller island states.” The 1.5C commitment already appears to be in trouble, however, with New Zealand indicating its opposition to the pledge.
  • (4) In this research, 74 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) were grouped in matched-pair, one group took orally Inositol and Mai Tong as the control group, the other group took orally Yi Xin Decoction as the tested group.
  • (5) The geographical impetus has also made the band think about a possible follow up, based on Tong's hometown.
  • (6) Yet even as the paper hailed Cameron's move on Friday, it did hold it in a pair of tongs, carefully putting quotes in a headline which said "Internet porn: PM steps in to 'safeguard children'".
  • (7) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
  • (8) The effects of TZT, with the serum levels of LDL-c and Apo B being lowered and the serum level of HDL-c being elevated, were more beneficial than inositol and Mai Tong.
  • (9) Tong (1976) described the polar coordinate transformation by which the sinusoidal regression problem can be treated as a linear regression problem.
  • (10) For example, 91% believed bad food and poor sanitation and hygiene were responsible for tong-sia, but only 34.4% gave this response when referring to index cases.
  • (11) In a 68-year-old man the correction was sustained by skull tong traction, while the neurologic condition was monitored.
  • (12) Everyone, 93.1%, and 67.5% mentioned flies and germs (sanitation and hygienic practices) as the cause of ahiwa, tong-sia, and bid, respectively.
  • (13) Subjects specified 12 terms for diarrhoeal illnesses that were grouped into four locally meaningful groups, namely, tong-sia, a non-specific term for diarrhoea, bid, associated with colicky abdominal pain, ahiwa, referring to severe illness, often cholera; and taae-tua, diarrhoea associated with milestones of growth and development.
  • (14) He should talk about freedom, the suspension of the newspapers and the use of the sedition law – something that is so repressive – and the welfare of the former opposition leader [Anwar].” Liew Chin Tong, a lawmaker from the opposition Democratic Action party, said Cameron must tell Najib categorically to “respect the rule of law as well as human rights”.
  • (15) Points of contact invariably produce friction and friction generates heat and may lead to a conflagration,” declared South Africa's minister of the interior, Dr T E Tonges, in 1950, when he introduced the Group Areas Act , the law that enforced the division of cities into ethnically distinct areas.
  • (16) If Tony Abbott was here, facing the situation we are facing now, what kind of an answer would he expect from me as prime minister of Australia?” Tong said that Abbott should visit Kiribati, a nation of 102,000 people living on 33 mostly pancake-flat coral atolls, to witness the potential damage that climate change will cause.
  • (17) Failure of attachment ("pull-off") of Gardner-Wells tongs from the cranium occasionally occurs, and may cause problems, especially in cases of significant cervical spinal instability.
  • (18) The EPR results are consistent with a recent X-ray crystallographic model for the p21-MgIIGDP complex (Milburn, M. V., Tong, L., DeVos, A. M., Brunger, A., Yamaizumi, Z., Nishimura, S., and Kim, S.-H., 1990, Science 247, 939-945).
  • (19) "He did it after Jenny Tonge made unacceptable comments about Palestine."
  • (20) Indications and a procedure for rapid closed reduction and decompression of cervical fracture dislocations in less than two hours by tong traction are described.

Tongue


Definition:

  • (n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
  • (n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.
  • (n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  • (n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
  • (n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
  • (n.) Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
  • (n.) A people having a distinct language.
  • (n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
  • (n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
  • (n.) The lingua of an insect.
  • (n.) Any small sole.
  • (n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
  • (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
  • (n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
  • (n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
  • (n.) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
  • (n.) The clapper of a bell.
  • (n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
  • (n.) Same as Reed, n., 5.
  • (v. t.) To speak; to utter.
  • (v. t.) To chide; to scold.
  • (v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
  • (v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
  • (v. i.) To talk; to prate.
  • (v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
  • (2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
  • (3) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
  • (4) The concentration dependences of response of frog tongue to D-fructose, D-glucose, and sucrose were almost the same, D-galactose, however, elicited a much larger response in comparison with the other sugars in the whole range of concentrations examined.
  • (5) A case of osteosarcoma of the tongue is reported, with microscopic findings.
  • (6) In the QHCl-sucrose condition components separated by the tongue's midline and those spatially mixed produced equal amounts of bitterness suppression.
  • (7) S. sanguis also adhered to human tongues better than the serum-requiring diphtheroid.
  • (8) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
  • (9) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
  • (10) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
  • (11) Application of 1 mM BT (pH 6.3) to the human tongue statistically potentiated the taste of 0.2 M NaCl and 0.2 M LiCl by 33.5% and 12.5% respectively.
  • (12) The first manifestation was often extranodular (9 patients tonsil, 8 parotid gland, 8 base of tongue, 7 nasopharynx).
  • (13) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
  • (14) We report the case of an 8-month-old female with an unusual duplication cyst in the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.
  • (15) It represents the seventh case to occur in the base of tongue and the second to be associated with pregnancy.
  • (16) CR-ir was also observed in nerve fibers surrounding neuronal cell bodies in autonomic ganglia, and in nerve endings in the lip, tongue, incisal papilla, soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
  • (17) We have examined the keratin proteins in normal human oral mucosa from 6 different regions including hard palate, buccal mucosa, tongue, gingiva and floor of the mouth.
  • (18) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
  • (19) Additional documented organ involvement included liver (two of 10), rectal (three of 10), renal (two of 10), gingiva (two of 10), and tongue (one of 10), although invasive biopsies were not performed in a majority of patients.
  • (20) Sheet preparations of the stratum granulosum from the epithelium of the ventral surface of mouse tongue permit examination of cell replacement of this maturation compartment of the tissue.