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Whit


Definition:

  • (n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whit regard to different time of normalisation of immunoglobulin values in infants with acute obstructive bronchitis associated with bronchopneumonia it was concluded that the longitudinal determination of immunoglobulin values has clinical significance since it can be found which of these two diseases is dominant.
  • (2) The first survey conducted the long 1988 Whit Sunday week-end by the National police, has reviewed 800 accidental injuries, 9% of which concerning 134 children: 23 children only were restrained, and the comparison with the others allows to estimate the value of the protection insured by various systems of child restraint.
  • (3) Black males and whit males had similar patterns of intercourse, but any males from 2-parent families had sex less frequently than from 1-parent families.
  • (4) I think we’re likely to have the largest turnout ever of Latino voters to stop Donald Trump,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who has argued that the party’s 2016 nominee would need at least 40% of the Latino vote to secure victory.
  • (5) The ultrastructure of the myoneural junctions in the body wall muscles has been studied in Branchiobdella pentodonta Whit.
  • (6) Surgery was performed with insertion of a modified type of Safian's solid silicone implant with triangular wedges that were removed on the posterior surface, and the spaces that were created were replaced with soft, pore-closed, whit silicone sponge.
  • (7) During this time the [2H]VLB in both the plasma and whit blood cell fraction of the blood declined markedly and continuously to very low levels.
  • (8) From the point of view of liberals, most of the appointments are abhorrent,” Whit Ayres, a top Republican political consultant and pollster, told the Guardian, “but they would have been with any Republican president.” Trump's cabinet picks: here are all of the appointments so far Read more Despite the eyebrows raised by his early appointment of Steve Bannon – a top adviser during the president-elect’s campaign and the former CEO of the far-right news site Breitbart – to be a close White House aide , the Trump administration’s personnel picks have stayed within the Republican mainstream.
  • (9) Nevada is a land that does not care a whit for humans.
  • (10) Based on dose response curves, Cyt and MTX dose modifications were individually adjusted to the whit blood cell counts and platelet counts over a 3-week period.
  • (11) Many will not have heard a whit about this band – named, by the way, after a pencil scrawl Healy once found in a borrowed book.
  • (12) In CD, side by side whit the maintenance treatment of the disease with anti-inflammatory drugs, the symptomatic treatments of diarrhoea play an important role and must be tailored to the responsible physiopathological mechanisms; some patients need artificial feeding.
  • (13) However, ethanolic extract of Momordica charantia Linn plant and Coccinia indica Whit and Arn root significantly lowered blood sugar in fasted model and depressed the peak value in glucose loaded model.
  • (14) Whit older children, one may add the Bernstein test and pressure and pH readings.
  • (15) The encounter promises to be contentious, with one activist Whit Jones (@whitjones) tweeting that the Occupy Wall Street movement had come to the state department.
  • (16) This turned out to be especially important for him, because it was taught by Whit Burnett, the highly regarded editor of Story, a magazine that specialised in publishing short fiction.
  • (17) Irecently discovered that the “Whit walks” I watched as a child were specific to the north of England, and to Manchester in particular.
  • (18) The results indicate diathermy to be perfectly safe in women whit copper-bearing IUDs.
  • (19) We show our experience in 12 patients treated during a year with weekly intermittent dialysis whit a rigid catheter for 36 hours a week.
  • (20) Brian Whitaker (@Brian_Whit) Ahmad Chalabi for prime minister?

Whitsunday


Definition:

  • (n.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.
  • (n.) See the Note under Term, n., 12.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) In an open letter to readers of the Whitsunday Times and Whitsunday Coast Guardian, Christensen said: “Politicians don’t often say they got it wrong, but here it is: I got it wrong.” The federal member for Dawson, an electorate which lies adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, said he “didn’t foresee the angst the dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef marine park would cause tourism operators and the residents of the Whitsundays”.
  • (3) The inquiry has heard that Roberts may have joined Hartcher as a guest on Nabil Gazal's yacht, and in 2007 sailed to Hamilton Island, the luxury resort in Queensland's Whitsundays.
  • (4) George Christensen , the federal member for Dawson, told Guardian Australia that he was “seeking legal advice” over the ad, which was placed by Tony Fontes in two local newspapers, the Whitsunday Times and Mackay Daily Mercury.
  • (5) The people who chipped in, like Whitsundays dive operator Tony Fontes, know first hand how dredging and mining on the reef will affect their businesses and jobs.
  • (6) The Whitsundays: What sort of holiday requires instructions?
  • (7) Last week, Coalition MP George Christensen took out an advert in two Whitsunday newspapers to admit that he “got it wrong” in his support for dumping within the marine park.
  • (8) And that was not because of bleaching but Cyclone Debbie further south, which damaged that other hub of reef tourism , the Whitsundays after it escaped the bleaching.
  • (9) Meanwhile, Fontes, like many others in the Whitsundays, is busy “mopping up my house” as the Easter tourism season sinks into oblivion with visitors staying away in droves in the cyclone’s wake.
  • (10) I have lived and worked as a dive instructor in the Whitsundays for 30 years,” he told WWF.
  • (11) Corals south of Cairns, in the Whitsundays and parts of the far northern reef that were badly hit by last year’s mass bleaching event are at fatal risk.
  • (12) Tony Fontes, a Whitsundays reef tour operator who also signed the open letter to Turnbull, says the industry can only wish it had the influence of the mining lobby when it comes to decisions that affect the reef.
  • (13) Will Woodward The Whitsundays II: Sea rescue in failing light Tears of terror rolling down my children’s cheeks are the most enduring memory of my worst holiday ever – a sailing trip in the Whitsundays in April 2014 that turned into a sea rescue in fading light.

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