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Yeoman


Definition:

  • (n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
  • (n.) A servant; a retainer.
  • (n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
  • (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 35:1249-1255) and in mitogen-stimulated normal human lymphocytes (Yeoman et al.
  • (2) Yeomans said there was not one simple solution, but the federal government needed to take a leadership role and involve all three levels of government.
  • (3) Justin Peters at Slate has done yeoman's work in addressing this issue.
  • (4) Photograph: Mark Yeoman Yet the orthodoxy prevails.
  • (5) Chicago’s Homan Square 'black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage Read more William Yeomans, who worked in the civil rights division from 1981 to 2005, and served as its acting attorney, said the allegations about off-the-books interrogations and barred access to legal counsel reported by the Guardian merited a preliminary investigation to confirm them, a first step toward a full civil rights investigation.
  • (6) Yeomans said it was not just the very poor who were adversely affected by high house prices.
  • (7) Yeomans said the North Carolina legislation represented "a sad day" for democracy in the US.
  • (8) A nuclear nonhistone protein which decreases in chromatin during growth (Yeoman, L. C., et al.
  • (9) Nonhistone protein BA has been shown to decrease in amount in the chromatin of growth- stimulated normal rat liver (Yeoman et al.
  • (10) How British hearts swelled with pride though, when Beckham was sent off during a Spanish league game in 2004 after calling a linesman a " hijo de puta " (son of a bitch) – even though we knew, really, that he remained a monoglot yeoman with a squeaky voice.
  • (11) We have previously shown that a 30 kDa DNA-binding protein isolated from rat cell nuclei exhibits the chemical and immunological properties of glutathione S-transferase Yb subunits [Bennett, Spector & Yeoman (1986) J.
  • (12) The name of Manchester City winger James Milner features prominently on his shopping list , although Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are also interested, but a bid of £10m might convince City suits to sell their Yorkshire yeoman.
  • (13) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
  • (14) I had long ago decided I was going to do everything I could with my yeoman-like work ethic to become as much of a maker as I am a taker.
  • (15) Ruth Yeoman is head of the academic research, leadership education and organisation development work at the centre for mutual and employee-owned business that is part of Oxford University.
  • (16) Protein C23 (Mr 110 000, pI = 5.5), a major phosphoprotein in the nucleolus of mammalian cells, has been shown to contain 1.3 mol% of NG,NG-dimethylarginine (DMA) [Lischwe, M.A., Roberts, K.D., Yeoman, L.C., & Busch, H. (1982) J. Biol.
  • (17) William Yeomans, a law professor in Washington and a former chief of staff in the Justice Department, said Texas and North Carolina may just be the start of a series of legal battles over voter rights in states across the country.
  • (18) Read more Mission Australia’s chief executive, Catherine Yeomans, said surging house prices were sending people into crisis accommodation for months instead of weeks and pushing them to the fringes of society.
  • (19) A DNA-binding nonhistone protein, protein BA, was previously demonstrated to co-localize with U-snRNPs within discrete nuclear domains (Bennett, F. C., and L. C. Yeoman, 1985, Exp.
  • (20) Donald Yeomans, of Nasa's near-Earth object programme, said in an interview posted on space agency's website : "There are three possibilities when this comet rounds the sun.

Yeomen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Yeoman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Are we salt of the earth yeomen, or skiving thickos milking the system, or drains on the already stretched infrastructure?
  • (2) Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone by Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert – review Read more For the defectors, their new life in the Soviet Union was both Yeomen of the Guard and Pirates of Penzance .
  • (3) Among the tobacco planters in Virginia, the moneychangers in New York, the stalwart yeomen in western Pennsylvania busy at the task of making whiskey, the maintaining of a high blood-alcohol level was the mark of civilised behaviour.

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