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Wag


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
  • (v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
  • (v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  • (v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft.
  • (v.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
  • (v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In cell-free protein-synthesizing systems containing an S30 extract from liver and brain cortex tissues of 22-day-old fetuses and of male WAG rats (1-900 days old), the minimal rate of protein synthesis was observed in the fetuses, while the maximal one - in 7-day-old animals.
  • (2) And yet, when it comes to the Wag obsession, we seem to have regressed many decades.
  • (3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
  • (4) Afterwards, the scourge of corrupt politicians wagged his own clean finger in front of the cameras.
  • (5) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
  • (6) The long-term surviving AUG rats from both the CsA alone group and the CsA plus 250 rads pretreated islets group were challenged with WAG dendritic cells (DC).
  • (7) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (8) It is the media that has chosen to describe them as Wags and define them by their marital status.
  • (9) (There was the ­notorious Manchester United Christmas party in 2007, when the Wags were apparently told to stay at home, 100 handpicked women were brought in to party with the players, and the night ended with a rape allegation that was later dropped.)
  • (10) In her speech, Morgan conceded: “I’m a firm believer that, alongside ensuring the rigour of our assessments, we must never let the assessment tail wag the dog of what is taught in school.” Glenys Stacey, Ofqual’s chief regulator, has argued that practical work would not be ignored.
  • (11) Tempting though it is to lecture President Hu on human rights (and it is right to keep the spotlight on the persecution of the pro‑democracy group Charter 08 and the imprisonment of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo), the wagging finger rarely works in diplomacy.
  • (12) – or, as it's known among production wags, The Eggs Factor .
  • (13) Using rats of the inbred BN and WAG strain, we tested the hypothesis that chronic dietary choline supplementation would especially affect the timing behavior of BN rats because of their lower cholinergic activity and their poor performance in aversively motivated learning and memory tasks.
  • (14) The coupling constant between the C11H and C12H wags as well as the C12H wag force constant are unusually low compared to those of retinal model compounds.
  • (15) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
  • (16) infusion) to WAG rats bearing hind limb solid colonic adenocarcinoma implants.
  • (17) At 30 to 40 minutes after injection, tail wagging was the only adverse reaction (EEG artifact) observed.
  • (18) Examination by use of WAG syngeneic female rats was made on 4 rat rhabdomyosarcoma sublines expressing different metastatic potentials for their abilities to degrade proteoglycans and glycoproteins of the extracellular matrix (ECM), deposited by corneal endothelial cells and metabolically labeled with [3H]glycosamine and [35S]sulfate.
  • (19) The low-wavenumber lines are enhanced in the resonance Raman spectrum by conformational distortion, and the uncoupling of the 11- and 12-hydrogen wags is caused by additional protein perturbations.
  • (20) "They're going into this world of glamour ­modelling ­because it's the only route they can see to wealth and success, and the Wag culture is bound up with that.

Was


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Be
  • (v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.

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