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Wain


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
  • (n.) A chariot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By using these data and the known structure of the combining site of protein MOPC 315 [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977), Nature (London) 266, 31-37] the mode of binding of Tnp derivatives is deduced by ring-current calculations.
  • (2) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).
  • (3) As well as The Hay Wain in the National Gallery there is The Valley Farm in the Tate collection .
  • (4) The samples studied were derived from the same man for whom a detailed analysis of the tat gene was previously described (A. Meyerhans, R. Cheynier, J. Albert, M. Seth, S. Kwok, J. Sninsky, L. Morfeldt-Manson, B. Asjö, and S. Wain-Hobson, Cell 58:901-910, 1989).
  • (5) A method of modifying a Cape-Waine Anaesthetic Ventilator is described in detail showing what parts need to be replaced or removed.
  • (6) She might have stitched the whole thing in front of her hissing gas fire, with her brass ornaments twinkling in the background, Corrie playing on the telly and The Hay Wain over the fireplace.” Perry flirts with John Major territory – “cricket on the village green” makes an appearance among Perry’s aggregation of words and phrases that seem to him to express Britishness – but it is too sly to fall for the whole warm beer and cycling spinsters schtick.
  • (7) Adenomyosis wained in the aged hybrids, apparently due to declining ovarian function.
  • (8) Hillsborough disaster: six people, including David Duckenfield, charged Read more Norman Bettison – inspector Bettison’s role included writing most of the force’s account of the disaster in the Wain report to Lord Justice Taylor.
  • (9) "Shropshire council has acknowledged that the 2,600 figure is both arbitrary and inexact," said John Waine from Hoooh.
  • (10) In protein XRPC 25 a positively charged residue was located at the entrance to the site, similarly positioned to that reported for protein MOPC 315 [Sutton, Gettins, Givol, Marsh, Wain-Hobson, Willan & Dwek (1977) Biochem.J.165, 177-197].
  • (11) The contacts expected between epsilon-2,4-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine and the site on MOPC 315 IgA, on the basis of a recent model for this site [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977) Nature (London) 266, 31--37] were not detected.
  • (12) By using a series of Dnp-spin-labelled haptens, the dimensions of the binding sites of the three myeloma proteins were compared by the method described for protein MOPC 315 [Sutton, Gettins, Givol, Marsh, Wain-Hobson, Willan & Dwek (1977) Biochem.
  • (13) On one of many evenings at Orton's home, Waine also recalls Williams's fury when the playwright revealed that he had spiked Williams's food with hashish.
  • (14) Simon Wain-Hobson , a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said that scientists working on the controversial virus studies should be less defensive.
  • (15) Known as the Babes in the Woods, Waine and Dennis became friends with Williams after Waine, an Oxford undergraduate, sent him an amusing fan letter.
  • (16) While Williams was clearly attracted to Waine, the friendship remained platonic.
  • (17) Willy Lott’s House from the Stour (The Valley Farm) is the same cottage seen from a different angle in Constable’s most famous painting, the slightly later The Hay Wain .
  • (18) Waine and Dennis helped Stevens to unravel the background to many unexplored sections of the diaries, which Williams started keeping in 1942 and famously finished with a final dark entry on 14 April 1988, the night of his death, with the words "Oh – what's the bloody point?"
  • (19) "Tom Waine and Clive Dennis feature frequently in the published extracts, but they're never fully identified," Stevens said.
  • (20) Some experts argue that fat is the wrong target and that salt, sugar and refined carbohydrates should be tackled instead, but Dr Colin Waine, former chairman of the National Obesity Forum, welcomed the move.

Wait


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To watch; to observe; to take notice.
  • (v. i.) To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
  • (v. t.) To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
  • (v. t.) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
  • (v. t.) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
  • (v. t.) To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
  • (v. i.) The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
  • (v. i.) Ambush.
  • (v. i.) One who watches; a watchman.
  • (v. i.) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
  • (v. i.) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
  • (2) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (3) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (4) It is possible that the high level of radiolabeled phospholipid found in the plasma membrane arose via the de novo pathway following the cleavage of an acyl group as we have found cytidine diphosphocholine phosphotransferase in the plasma membrane fraction (Wang, P., DeChatelet, L.R., and Waite, M. (1977) Biochim.
  • (5) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (6) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
  • (7) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (8) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (9) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
  • (10) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
  • (11) If there’s a fire in the house, you don’t sit there saying we’re going to wait until the fire commissioner comes,” she said.
  • (12) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (13) According to Nigerian government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillage sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller spills still waiting to be cleared up.
  • (14) At posttreatment, subjects in both active treatments reported significant improvement on self-report and interview measures of depression while subjects in the waiting list condition reported minimal change.
  • (15) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
  • (16) Separate calculation of changes in prolactin after the course of medical treatment, pregnancies or 'just waiting' periods showed mean PRL concentrations to be significantly lower only for 'functional' patients after pregnancy.
  • (17) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
  • (18) Would I be stupid not to wait another six months or so, to get a 90% mortgage given the cons of Help to Buy?
  • (19) A group placed on a waiting list for 3 weeks was used as a control group.
  • (20) "I don't think that people are waiting for the wrong solution."

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