(a.) Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
(a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(2) Don’t they have work?” Julie Wanie, a 50-year-old healthcare professional who works in Milwaukee, said she simply didn’t visit the Sherman Park neighborhood at all.
(3) The trigger for the unrest was the death in July of Burhan Muzaffar Wani , the most prominent of a new breed of homegrown, millennial militants, whose brand-building on social media, and demands for a caliphate, owe more to groups such as Islamic State than the masked Kashmiri insurgents of the 1990s.
(4) Photograph: Africa ELI The private school is run by Wani Kenneth Evans, a South Sudanese engineer who started as a bricklayer at another school project, and progressed up the ranks.
(5) Anybody that lives around here and goes to Milwaukee just knows that’s a certain area you stay out of.” Asked what she thought may have contributed to the rising tensions in the neighbourhood, Wanie replied: “I think Obama has done a lot to incite race wars.” In an earlier interview with Fox News, Trump had indicated he believed the shooting of Smith on Saturday was a justified response by law enforcement despite no body camera footage of the incident being released.
(6) We have to do jihad with Pakistan as well.” Before his death, Wani had appeared to drift towards the rhetoric of global Islamist movements such as al-Qaida, calling in 2015 for a “caliphate [to be] established in Kashmir”.
(7) Pakistan’s criticism of India for its security forces’ killing of Burhan Wani, a Kashmiri separatist commander whose death on 8 July has sparked months of civilian protests , has further poisoned relations.
(8) The death of Burhan Wani, a commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen group, tipped Kashmir into one of its worst crises in years.
(9) Wani’s death last July in a clash with Indian soldiers triggered weeks of protests that paralysed the valley.
(10) Wani, thought to be 21, was shot dead by Indian police.
(11) The protests erupted after Burhan Wani , chief of operations of Hizbul Mujahideen, Kashmir’s largest rebel group, was killed in fighting with Indian troops on Friday.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Young Kashmiris pelt Indian police officers with stones in protest at the killing of Burhan Wani.
(13) Photograph: Handout He succeeded another militant, Burhan Wani , as the commander of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen.
(14) He fought for a noble cause,” the 16-year-old, from Pulwama district, said of Wani.
(15) For example, the unique damage reversal mechanism by transferase, specific for the repair of O6-alkylGua, results in the restoration of intact guanine base in both bacteria and mammalian cells (Olsson and Lindahl, 1980; D'Ambrosio and Wani, 1989).
(16) Wani, who was in his early 20s, had become the face of militancy in Kashmir over the last five years.
(17) The conformation described here is very similar to that found for the related drug carminomycin I (Wani, M.C., Taylor, H.L., Wall, M.E., McPhaill, A.T. and Onan, K.D.
(18) The current vice-president, James Wani Igga, will remain in his post, but rank below Machar.
(19) Translating for him was midfielder Justin Wani, who casually mentioned that his father was killed during the war with the north.
(20) Through Nick's relationship with the super-rich Wani Ouradi, and the rising and falling fortunes of the Fedden family, the novel examines the wider political context of a greedy, ruthless decade – there is even a cameo for Margaret Thatcher herself – and the dark spectre of the AIDS epidemic looms over the latter stages of the novel.
Waxy
Definition:
(a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(3) The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses are clinical disorders associated with the accumulation of autofluorescent waxy pigments within cells of several different tissues.
(4) However, the cloned rice waxy gene contained base substitution mutations.
(5) The development of new heterowaxy or waxy sorghum hybrids may further increase sorghum feed efficiency.
(6) In the presence of both intact and disrupted amyloplasts an artificial preprotein (TP30), consisting of the waxy transit peptide plus the first 34 amino acids of the mature waxy protein fused in-frame to the beta-glucuronidase of Escherichia coli, is processed to the size expected when the transit peptide is cleaved off.
(7) The waxy exudates decreased in 11 patients (39.29%) and increased in 8 patients (28.57%).
(8) Based on these findings a hypothesis for the development of waxy degeneration is proposed: locally defects of the plasmamembrane cause segmental contracture, glycogen granules and water soluble enzymes are lost through holes in the plasma membrane, and finally the affected fibre segment becomes necrotic.
(9) Acid hydrolyzates of waxy-maize starch were separated to give Fractions I, II, and III [T. Watanabe, and D. French, Carbohydr.
(10) To study the effect of the degree of chain branching, waxy starch, containing 98% amylopectin, was compared with high amylose starch, containing 30% amylopectin, and normal crystalline starch, containing 74% amylopectin.
(11) Homology between the previously cloned maize waxy gene and the rice gene has facilitated our cloning of a 15-kb HindIII fragment that contains the entire rice gene.
(12) We report, however, the presence of maltose in waxy extracts, a disaccharide otherwise supposed to be absent in this genotype.
(13) In 3 cases additionally appeared: waxy pallor of optic disc, vascular narrowing, reflexless hypoplastic macula, pigmentless periphery, acquired blue-yellow blindness, concentric limitation of the visual field, reduced darkadaptation, abolished electroretinogram and myopic astigmatism.
(14) During oviposition, the inner cuticular layer unfolds and inflates into a pair of balloonlike structures that evert through the organ external aperture to receive and manipulate each egg as it is laid, coating it with a waxy layer that prevents desiccation.
(15) SDS-PAGE analysis of proteins bound to endosperm starch granules in the normal plants revealed a single band with a Mr of 60 kd, whereas waxy plants did not exhibit a similar band.
(16) The molecular basis for the unusual phenotype conditioned by the waxy(Wx)-m5 Ds allele has been elucidated.
(17) We demonstrate that these gene products are altered in rice strains containing mutant waxy genes.
(18) This tradition of what academics call "dark tourism" endures today: there is something morbid about peering at Amy Winehouse's skinny but healthily waxy arms.
(19) Eight patients developed a syndrome marked by features of catatonia (including posturing, waxy flexibility, withdrawal and regression) and parkinsonism (including bradykinesia and rigidity) while receiving high-potency neuroleptic drugs.
(20) Advanced cheiroarthropathy with shining waxy skin was diagnosed in 41 patients (group I).