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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.

Wan


Definition:

  • (imp.) Won.
  • (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
  • (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
  • () of Win

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) were investigated in 200 healthy Taiwan inhabitants of Taiwanese (46 persons), Hakka (36), Tai-Ya Tribe (28) Pu-Long Tribe (30) Pai-Wan Tribe (30) and Lu-kai (30) descent.
  • (2) The results showed that the GI and PDI of the gu chi wan group decreased significantly than the control group (P less than 0.001).
  • (3) Experimental and clinical researches were done for the purpose of that to treat the hyperlipemia with Dahuang Zhechong Wan (DHZCW).
  • (4) We would love to continue to work with Gordon but it would be on a project-by-project basis.” Ramsay, said to be lining up a project for ITV , was among the C4 talent shoehorned into 2012’s reality flop Hotel GB, along with Gok Wan, Phil Spencer, Mary Portas (unlike Ramsay she remains on an exclusive C4 deal) and others.
  • (5) But Wan's decision means that those with HIV have lost another champion.
  • (6) The organisations signing the letter are: • The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press • American Society of News Editors • The Associated Press • The EW Scripps Company • The McClatchy Company • The New York Times Company • The New Yorker • Newspaper Association of America • ProPublica • The Seattle Times Company • Society of Professional Journalists • The Washington Post • World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) Updated at 2.28pm GMT 11.07am GMT You can watch the committee session here from 3pm GMT, and we'll also have a live stream at the top of this blog.
  • (7) Activists say the mine, a joint venture between China's Wan Bao mining company and a Burmese military conglomerate, causes environmental, social and health problems and should be shut down.
  • (8) A Chinese traditional patent medicine Xiaoyao Wan was analysed by three dimensional HPLC.
  • (9) and Xiaohuoluo Wan showed average recoveries of 98.5, 98.3 and 96.8% and relative standard deviations of 1.8, 2.4 and 3.5%, respectively.
  • (10) Nearly 90% of all eligible women are using some form of birth control; in Wan-Tou more than 60% are using IUDs and less than 10% have been sterilized while in Chang-Ching the proportions are reversed.
  • (11) He could also promote dialogue on family planning and the rights of people with disabilities," said Wan.
  • (12) A few weeks after our interview in Los Angeles, Idle was eating lunch in a midtown Manhattan sushi restaurant, and he looked a bit wan.
  • (13) Besides, the Good Friday agreement wan’t all it was cracked up to be.
  • (14) Was booked for game 6 in 2004 & 2007 but wan't needed!
  • (15) Wan said the priority at Copenhagen would be to establish a framework for transferring funds and money, rather than getting hung up on figures.
  • (16) Wan, a non-Communist member of the state council, said China has proved its ability to meet and often exceed its targets in the current five-year plan to improve energy efficiency by about 20%.
  • (17) Meanwhile, on Sunday, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) condemned the way the British government had threatened legal action against the Guardian newspaper unless it destroyed the copy of the Snowden files it had in London.
  • (18) This study was of a series of the evaluation of Hachimi-Jio-Gan (Rehmannia Eight Formula, pa-wei-ti-huang-wan or Bawei dihuang wan) to the various cataracts.
  • (19) The contents of the total flavones and volatile oils in huaijiao wan have been determined.
  • (20) "One rumour that keeps popping up on the fan forums is that the main character will be the long lost son or daughter of Obi Wan, though I really hope that isn't true as I don't see why everyone in the Star Wars universe has to be related."

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