(n.) One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main indications for diaphragmatic pacing are paralysis of respiration following high cervical spinal traumata and the chronic central hypoventilation syndrome (sleep apnoea of Undine's curse).
(2) Among the polydisperse RNA in the renal nuclei are small amounts of 45S RNA and large amounts of 32S RNA; the latter first appear when 18S RNA is detectable in the cytoplasm 10 min after administration of undine-H(3).
Undone
Definition:
() p. p. of Undo.
(a.) Not done or performed; neglected.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(2) The Kookaburras were undone by a 7th minute goal from Alex Casasayas, who put away a cross from Marc Salles.
(3) Among the issues raised by Blatter in the interview: • An unsubstantiated claim that there was a pre-vote agreement in place that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and the USA would host the 2022 tournament – which was undone when Platini pressed for Qatar following a meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy and the crown prince of Qatar.
(4) Huxley's nightmare, set out in Brave New World, his great dystopian novel, was that we would be undone by the things that delight us.
(5) Admittedly Mourinho's side rallied after Yoan Gouffran headed Yohan Cabaye's ferociously whipped in free kick past Petr Cech but Newcastle's Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa especially were defending brilliantly and Chelsea came undone on the counter-attack as a fine cross from the underrated Vurnon Anita prefaced Loïc Rémy's wonderful finish.
(6) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
(7) The Department for International Development and the Treasury must do more to make sure that their investment in the Horn of Africa is not undone in one fell swoop.
(8) It feels like a moment of good intentions, undone by lack of planning.
(9) More than half of Afghan girls and boys suffer damage to their minds and bodies that cannot be undone because they are poorly nourished in the crucial first two years of life, doctors and other experts say.
(10) What is done cannot be undone Shinzo Abe Abe, a conservative who had hinted he would not repeat previous official apologies, said that Japan had “repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war”.
(11) Indeed, while Renzi sought to portray the reforms as a make or break moment for Italy , the economic reforms of the past five years are not about to be undone.
(12) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
(13) I thank them all.” Defeat was agonising for France, who struck the post through Andre-Pierre Gignac in the last minute of normal time only to be undone in the extra period.
(14) Mark Latham also won by a slim margin (he wasn't undone by anyone other than himself).
(15) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(16) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(17) Look closer, though, and you'll see Super Soakers pre-pumped by runners, and Daisy Dukes with their top buttons carefully, carelessly undone.
(18) While some of the Bush administration's decisions can be undone with the stroke of Barack Obama's pen, others cannot.
(19) Noah Greenwald of the Centre for Biological Diversity welcomed the move but warned: "The majority of regulations threatening our environment, health and economy, however, will need to be undone by Congress, the courts or new rule-making."
(20) As our compulsory celebrity reference-point, let us take the case of Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer , a romance undone, it is said, by the fact that while the guitarist could not find time for his lady-love, he could certainly find time to tweet.