How To Use Nosy In A Sentence
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She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
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He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
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Objective To evaluate Test-retest reliability of Mandarin monosyllable lists with equivalency in audibility in hearing loss group.
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A chronosynclastic infundibulum, from memory, is where everything that could be true, is true simultaneously.
Three years and counting - The Panda's Thumb
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Nutritional yeast does not contain human active methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin, absolutely needed in the body.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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The influences of twelve amino acids on S - adenosyl - L - methionine ( SAM ) production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae were investigated.
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She's a gun-shy divorcee whose surround-sound biological clock is ticking so loudly that everyone - from her senile aunt to her nosy butcher - is scrambling to set her up.
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SONIC REDUCER Music journalism pet peeve no. 538: e-mail interviews that allow mealymouths and word mincers to dodge and defer from behind an iron wall of monosyllables.
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One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with asyndeton, within a line.
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As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
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Word-final b is rare, occurring mainly in monosyllables (hub, rib, scab), but occasionally in longer words (superb, disturb, cherub) Double B
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Those who butt in because they are curious, nosy and feel entitled to the involvement they seek.
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He has lots of grown-ups around him, who help to protect him from nosy journalists.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maks na sile wkladal mi kabanosy do ust, a kiedy rozmawialam z Mama, myslal, ze rozmawiam z M. i krzyczal, ze jestem pijana. pijana bynajmniej ani troche nie bylam.
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Tenosynovitis is caused by inflammation of tendons on the thumb side of the wrist.
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A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
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Nobody likes a nosy neighbour much less a nosy family member.
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This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like _ego illi_, _age ergo_, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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Keep your eyes down so they don't think you're being nosy.
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What proportion of Macaulay's words in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 are monosyllables and dissyllables?
Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School
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That old lady is very nosy, so nobody likes to talk to her.
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VD speaks in intimidating, poorly-enunciated monosyllables and eventually helps a couple members of the original party make it to safety, though everyone else gets devoured by the light-hating bug aliens of DOOM.
Tuesday hodge-podge post
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese.
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I actually liken you to Tom Lloyd and Don Juan, two newly joined knuckle dragging monosynaptic fools that couldn't put a rational thought together even working in tandem.
Home
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Master Program in Graduate Institute of Pharmacognosy.
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The book that rapidly compromises the circulation to your feet if it rests on your lap, places your wrists at high risk of a bout of tenosynovitis if you hold it up.
Bookerthon 2007 - Darkmans by Nicola Barker
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Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ.
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The belt comprises subalkaline andesites, trachyandesites, dacites, rhyolites, trachyrhyolites, and granodiorites, granites, granosyenites and monzonites, and developed along an active continental margin.
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If the government would order the Capitania – General of Caracas to be carefully examined during a series of years by men of science, well versed in geognosy and chemistry, the most satisfactory results might be expected.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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May 23, 2009 at 9:08 am lil nosy ears perkin up ober here on teh left coast!
Skeptic Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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It sends adrenaline zooming through my veins, fills me with vim, zest, zip and other monosyllables containing letters that score high in Scrabble.
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In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other.
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And if they can do it, why couldn't your nosy neighbor?
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Another way is Old School—unsmiling, monosyllabic, The Rock in Early Terminator mode.
'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
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A nosy neighbor actually videotaped them in their own backyard.
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Dried beef strips, garnished with watercress from the fringes of the spring, and monosyllabic responses from Touchstone.
SABRIEL
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Show your personality, be engaging and avoid monosyllabic answers.
The Sun
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No subject should be considered too "nosy" between a wife and husband.
Ask Amy
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Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal, meaning that it consists mainly of one-syllable words and that the tone of a word affects meaning.
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This manuscript reviews the history and pharmacognosy of opium, and describes the chemistry, pharmacology, and therapeutic uses of the major opium alkaloids.
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Speaking clearly and confidently in sentences rather than monosyllabic grunts makes an enormous difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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Owen had been very short with him, his answers to Sam's questions almost monosyllabic.
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_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends.
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The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
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He gives monosyllabic answers to the simplest of questions in a vain attempt to close down any area of questioning about his public life.
The Sun
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Varro Tyler, dean and professor emeritus of pharmacognosy (natural product pharmacy) at Purdue University, notes that most of the carminative oils in peppermint and other mints are relatively insoluble in water.
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I was playing a woman named Mary Worthless who just was just a nosy busybody.
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Just like my mother can hone in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable.
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‘So he's what's made you so monosyllabic,’ she commented.
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He's also under the impression that the word ‘dis’ evolved because ‘we are increasingly monosyllabic.’
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That the language contained a very large number of monosyllabic words is, however, certain; and as phonetism is necessarily syllabic, we may assume that the earliest Egyptian scribes had a rich mine of syllabic forms to draw upon.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The monosyllable is short, sounds well, and is understood by all denominations of Christians.
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier
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On examination, he was anxious, diaphoretic, and monosyllabic.
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The second, with its mixture of monosyllables and disyllables - listen, walking, chamber - sustains the alliterative flourish of Melting melodious words.
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The patient underwent 6 cycles of arabinosylcytosine / daunorubicin therapy.
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As if the nosy neighbours hadn't been curious enough, Brian definitely made an entrance nobody would forget.
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Pharmacological and chemical studies of the bogbean have been carried out at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Division of Pharmacognosy of Uppsala University.
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The increased incidence of tenosynovitis in female food industry workers was attributed to the low ambient temperature [40].
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic
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Notice all those light monosyllables that allow you to skim across the line, and quickly get into that dipodic swing.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Giving pretentious or monosyllabic answers results in a very dull piece of TV.
The Sun
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Yet when I discuss this with non-lawyer friends, many seem worried in an abstracted fashion, as though surveillance were an inconvenience on the order of a nosy and fussbudgety old neighbor.
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He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
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Genetic deficiency of androsterone UDP-glucuronosyltransferase activity in Wistar rats is due to the loss of enzyme protein.
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However, nosy neighbours will be disappointed to hear they will not be able get their hands on the technology to satisfy their spying urges.
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The key to making the discovery was the development of new techniques that allow monosynaptic connections between pairs of cells to be examined with dual intracellular recordings.
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The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
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Sino-Tibetan languages are distinguished from western language families by two main traits: isolating or monosyllabic characters and the use of tones.
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Belanger AE, Besra GS, Ford ME, Mikusova K, Belisle JT, et al. (1996) The embAB genes of Mycobacterium avium encode an arabinosyl transferase involved in cell wall arabinan biosynthesis that is the target for the antimycobacterial drug ethambutol.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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To that end, every evening the marina staff stretch a cable across the entrance of the harbor to prevent any nosy boaters from making uninvited pit stops.
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Those who butt in because they are curious, nosy and feel entitled to the involvement they seek.
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As might be expected, some people abused this system and reported the nosy neighbor (with the loud goat who brayed at 3 AM) as a heretic, just to try and get rid of them.
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State agencies and your nosy in-laws will know your every move, and if you are a target of one of those with access to the surveillance sphere, you won't find it easy to elude them.
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Do you really feel like you've escaped shabby housing, nosy neighbors and haggling with the fishmonger?
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In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the wellbred laws of custom, I here suppress.
XI. The Narrow Escape of Molly Seagrim. Book IV
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Operating efficiency ratios show that Technosystems runs a lean operation, with all ratios above the industry averages.
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Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
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John Wayne, she points out, spoke in monosyllables, often to denounce communication and chatter.
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He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
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The glue on Will's head must have run into his ears and paralyzed his monosynaptic cerebellum.
In anticipation of Friday's debate, the NYT sizes up Obama and McCain.
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In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the wellbred laws of custom, I here suppress.
XI. The Narrow Escape of Molly Seagrim. Book IV
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By virty, December 2, 2009 @ 11: 11 pm afterthought, um & ah ING, reminds me of that gutteral diaphram destroying taj mahal track of which the name totally escapes me and i’m too stuffed to rifle thru the vinyl. early 70’s? real animal and monosyllable like an elephant seal in bushido mode.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Here’s what I did at six o’clock this morning.
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She's really nosy and is always going off into other people's houses.
The Sun
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A nodule secondary to the tenosynovitis is usually palpable in the region of the metacarpal head of the affected tendon.
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The enzyme randomly cleaves ß - 1,4 linked galacturonosyl residues of pectins from the middle lamella and primary cell-walls of higher plants, resulting in the maceration of plant tissues.
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This morning a group of so-po bloggers walked with other NGOs and political parties peeved with the 50 so-called nosy Australian lawmakers who wanted Malaysia to stop an on-going trial in the name of justice.
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I would have sensed if there had been any anxiety, but it was only the night before the race that he began to be monosyllabic.
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They've just moved there, but nosy neighbours begin to wonder about precisely where her father is, seeing as no one's laid eyes on him for months.
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He grunted a monosyllabic reply.
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Inside, I find shoals of cardinalfish, then on the hull some nosy red pigfish and resting goatfish.
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No," for a monosyllable is the most one can hope to secure of the conversation in an interview; but the pretty lady interviewer went on reproachfully: "Have you seen that stately hill of the dead, the
Without Prejudice
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Sadly, this monosyllabically narrated featurette adds nothing to one's insight of the film.
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I had felt uneasy about the interview, in that it all seems a bit mawkish, a bit nosy, as if there is a terrible need to pry into a life, and celebrate that life at the same time, never being quite sure of the balance.
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As those in front saw what he was waving in his right hand, they tried to back-pedal, but their escape was blocked by other nosy people coming up behind them.
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Like other languages of the Sino-Tibetan group, Burmese is monosyllabic.
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A succession of books followed, mostly easy readers that told tales of the Revolutionary War through colorful pictures and monosyllabic words.
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I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable - Betty Smith, American author.
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To exclude just a few friends - your boss, maybe, or that nosy co-worker you reluctantly "friended" - type their names into the "Hide this from" box.
The Seattle Times
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We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.
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The hippocampus has two major, parallel information-carrying routes: the tri-synaptic pathway (TSP) and the shorter monosynaptic pathway (MSP).
Biosingularity
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There are not very many monosyllabic English nouns that have successfully resisted being verbed, but faith is one of them.
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She tries to strike up a conversation with him, and he responds in monosyllables, clearly not wanting to talk.
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I would fear that Paul Nelson has fallen into a chronosynclastic infundibulum and come unstuck in time, except that he still pops up saying the same stuff at creationist conferences.
The Panda's Thumb: April 2007 Archives
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Jubilant Pharmaceuticals NV and Wockhardt UK Ltd. Jubilant Organosys Ltd., an Indian company whose unit recalled amlodipine in the U.K., said the value of the products recalled is "insignificant.
U.K. Issues Recall Of Various Generics
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He tried his best to strike up a conversation with her but she was unresponsive and spoke in monosyllables.
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In the study of formations, which is the great end of geognosy, the knowledge acquired in the old and new worlds should be made to furnish reciprocal aid to each other.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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I skied on through, just nosy-poking, but no grooming over the skidder ruts.
Pending business
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I did my best to draw my fair companions into a little chat, but found my _vis-à-vis_ -- the daughter of my successor outside -- most impracticable; a monosyllable was the extent of her exertion: whilst her companion, who was a lively, intelligent-looking girl, and very pretty withal, was necessarily chilled by the taciturnity of her senior.
Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.
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The recent progress of geognosy, that is to say, the more extended knowledge of the geognostic epochs characterized by differences of mineral formations, by the peculiarities and succession of the organisms contained within them, and by the position of the strata, whether uplifted or inclined horizontally, leads us, by means of the causal connection existing among all natural phenomena, to the distribution of solids and fluids into the continents and seas which constitute the upper crust of our planet.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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As professor at Freiberg beginning in 1775, after, rather than before Guettard's work, he trained the students who, returning to their own countries, spread the new science which he called "geognosy" but they called "Wernerism" and "Neptunism.
Vulcanists & Neptunists
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Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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And it largely worked because people instinctively recoil at the idea of nosy creeps like him rifling through other people's underwear drawers.
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In wild type, this response is via a monosynaptic pathway and has a characteristically short latency that is stable at high frequencies of stimulation.
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He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
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So I eventually called up the helpline, and the monosyllabic customer advisor at the end of the phone informed me that there was indeed a delay.
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It can link to a 5'-deoxyadenosine at the 5 'position - as in adenosylcobalamin.
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Having inspected the larder, Mary decided to prepare a steak pudding and when Bertha's monosyllabic husband, Davy, took a second helping her fate was sealed.
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Modern technologies have further narrowed the parameters of discreetness: Remember those rotary phones with the party lines and the nosy neighbor who would listen in?
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She shifted her weight and looked at the ceiling. ‘Well, for one I guess I could try and not be completely closed off and monosyllabic.
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Firstly, Carroll is an unreliable waste-of-space who never turns up for things, is always surrounded by mates, and only engages in banter or is monosyllabic and unforthcoming in his one-to-ones with Allen.
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Generally the nanoplasmonic ultramicroscope would allow for the first direct observation of ultrafast processes in nanosystems, such as the conversion of sunlight into electrical energy.
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The short and dreadful monosyllable which is familiar to us in the pages of the
Famous Affinities of History — Complete
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They are common in monosyllables and incorporate a glide before a vowel at a syllable boundary.
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Africa, speak a polysynthetic language, and _per contra_, that the Otomis of Mexico have a monosyllabic one like the Chinese.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
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The Coptic is an uncultivated and formal tongue, with monosyllabic roots and _rude inflexions, totally different_ from the neighbouring languages of Syria and Arabia, _totally opposite_ to the copious and polished Sanscrit.
Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
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Sometimes it's the local fraud squad that fingers the cheats, sometimes it's a nosy neighbour, and sometimes it's just a matter of chance.
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And there will be no nosy neighbours or paparazzi.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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If someone is asking you about yourself, answer in monosyllables.
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In deed, our English tong, hauing in vse chiefly, wordes of one syllable which commonly be long, doth not well receiue the nature of _Carmen Heroicum_, bicause _dactylus_, the aptest foote for that verse, conteining one long & two short, is seldom there - fore found in English: and doth also rather stumble than stand vpon _Monosyllabis.
The Schoolmaster
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Science boasts of being the handmaid of religion; yet there are names of note in her ranks who have labored rather to invest this phenomenon with the mantle of fable, and to force it into collision with the records graven on the rocky pages of geognosy.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
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But he was not in a talkative mood and chomped his way grumpily through the meal, responding with grunts and monosyllables to all attempts to engage him in conversation.
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The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines.
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In general, the contrast of monosyllables and polysyllables (suspended in the five-word line eight) creates a strong balance.
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he flipped through my letters in his nosy way
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In any case the previously cited figures of 30 or 44 percent represent the maximum picture of monosyllabism for single characters.
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Thankfully, though, he does seem to be managing at least to articulate some monosyllables, one of which is ‘sue’.
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Chinamen began to drift into the rolls, there appeared such names as Carmen Wah Chang, cooks and waitresses living in darksome back cupboards must be unearthed, negro shoemakers were caught at their stands on the sidewalks, shiny - haired bartenders gave up their biographies in nasal monosyllables amid the slop of "suds" and the scrape of celluloid froth - eradicators.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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No, you nosy featherbrain!" came a deep voice from a Trader.
Horn : Green
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Operating efficiency ratios show that Technosystems runs a lean operation, with all ratios above the industry averages.
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The language has innumerable binomial compounds and collocations, as well as many "sesquisyllabic" or polysyllabic words of Khmer or Indic origin that contain unstressed vowels, so that the phonological texture of the language is very different from that of uncompromisingly monosyllabic languages like Chinese and Vietnamese.
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Anthropologist, which means `nasty, nosy, prying, pestiferous busybody".
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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The intercom gave only a monosyllabic grunt.
Bomber
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With ebooks now outselling traditional print, Nosy Crow is poised to make a big splash.
2morrowknight: The Interactive Children's Apps of Nosy Crow
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In fact, arriving in the city at this time of day is perfect - a few hours to nosy around, have a quick bite and get to bed at a reasonable hour.
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She was Stella Marguerite Fay, but the air of glamour that clung to the monosyllable she was known by suited her, as did its unchanging nature.
Fay, a woman of substance
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Being the inquisitive, nosy guy that I am, I wanted to know what they would show about the movie before I saw the finished product.
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Jo answered, spitting out each monosyllabic word.
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He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
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The latency of the first potential was around 5 msec and was considered as monosynaptic reflex.
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The morphology of this cell is identical to a well-studied neuron in goldfish that is monosynaptically activated by the Mauthner cell and in turn excites spinal motoneurons.
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S-adenosylmethionine is required as methyl donor for both arsenic metabolism and DNA methylation.
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It just so happened to have gone that way, the way it did, with me pressing redial, and then being too nosy to touch the ‘end’ button and put the cell phone away.
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She's a gun-shy divorcee whose surround-sound biological clock is ticking so loudly that everyone - from her senile aunt to her nosy butcher - is scrambling to set her up.
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Operating efficiency ratios show that Technosystems runs a lean operation, with all ratios above the industry averages.
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Their choice of words is correspondingly simple, lacking the tension between polysyllables and monosyllables observed in the stanzas from ‘The Triumph of Time’.
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I think I'll stick to monosyllabic and disyllabic words today.
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As a student of human nature another word for "nosy" I followed them to see what happened, as did another man who began to ask questions of the police.
Lillian Daniel: Acting Out On The Airplane
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At rare intervals, when necessary, they addressed each other in monosyllables, Kama, for the most part, contenting himself with grunts.
Chapter IV
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Firstly the 303 is a monosynth so set the Subtractors Portamento = 25, Polyphony = 1 and mode to "legato
Xml's Blinklist.com
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A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable, as just; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable, as just'ice; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable, as just'i-fy; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable, as just-ca'tion.
The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronuncia
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The play has a distinctively harsh and gritty vocabulary and poetic tone throughout, thriving on rough monosyllables.
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She knew better than to trust anything the nosy neighbor said.
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His younger cousin, who has come up with a fine little language of his own consisting entirely of monosyllables, showed the same tendency.
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As an avid pro-choice supporter, I want to be on the “right” side, so I should get in line with formerstate Rep. Wanda Jo Stapleton, who puts forth that “Nosy neighbors with some effort could identify or, even worse, misidentify these women who answer these questions.”
Oklahoma to collect abortion information « Biodork
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Not giving Arnie hardly any lines (Appart from 'Krom!' if you've every read the books/comics you will know that Conan is a monosylibic warrior who would cut off your head as soon as nod you good day).
Mickey Rourke Cast as Conan’s Father, Sean Hood Rewriting The Script | /Film
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Phutatorius, who was somewhat of a cholerick spirit, was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius’s hands, in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose — and that the desperate monosyllable Z ... ds was the exordium to an oration, which, as they judged from the sample, presaged but a rough kind of handling of him; so that my uncle Toby’s good-nature felt a pang for what
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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The monosynaptic connection is excitatory, but, because the Martinotti cell makes GABAergic synapses onto its targets, the disynaptic connection is inhibitory.
PLoS Biology: New Articles
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In deed, our English tong, hauing in vse chiefly, wordes of one syllable which commonly be long, doth not well receiue the nature of Carmen Heroicum, bicause dactylus, the aptest foote for that verse, conteining one long & two short, is seldom there - fore found in English: and doth also rather stumble than stand vpon Monosyllabis.
The Scholemaster
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He would give only monosyllabic replies, such as " Yes " and " No ".
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‘No,’ came the monosyllable again and then, as though he felt this needed some reasonable elaboration David added ‘I've been sick.’
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Faint and bedrenched, he entered the principal one, and was greeted with the monosyllable "Shay!
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
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He is permanently monosyllabic unless the subject happens to be narrow-gauge North American railways, and he never uses a word where a silent, dismissive glare would do.
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I chat away, only to be met with monosyllabic answers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bewildered, the composer answered in monosyllables, until a frustrated Churchill gave up and turned to the guest on his left.
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‘Yesss,’ she spoke that monosyllable in English, drawing it out into a hiss.
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This was a lot of theory to put on a hitherto monosyllabic himbo's shoulders.
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And monosyllabic- `yes mem, no mem" in response to her orders.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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In the corridor there were orders given and monosyllabic assents.
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Then suddenly I was reduced to monosyllables and gestures.
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I suddenly feel embarrassed at appearing intrusive and nosy and I hook my own hair behind my ears and look away.
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As you know he had a stroke in 1985 and lost the ability to speak, apart from a few dozen monosyllabic words like yes and no, and other basic simple things.
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In addition to conducting basic and clinical research looking at standardization, metabolism, and toxicity of botanicals, the center will support research training in pharmacognosy (the study of natural products).
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This is a book of footballers when they were stars and not the monosyllabic, monotone ‘celebrities’ that exist today
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Chinese is a monosyllabic language, where a single sound represents one word.
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A monosyllable is often preferable to a tetrasyllable such as 'disagreement'.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Nicolson argues, "face" is a simple, plain English monosyllable, but it also has a resonant double meaning.
The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar
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As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
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A nosy neighbor actually videotaped them in their own backyard.
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The fifth, the monoclinic -- or clinorhombic, monosymmetric, or oblique -- system, has also three axes, all of them unequal.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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`Yes," he said in English, keeping the monosyllable neutral.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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The nosy couple broke in on our conversation
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Jeff responds in monosyllables and Travis, my best guy friend, gets incredibly distracted by what is going on in the room around him.
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Whether the root be a perfect monosyllable, or a duad, or even triad, formed on the monosyllable, it is the same thing with respect to the origin of the root.
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Phonic and emphatic before actively phatic, making noise before contact, the monosyllabic sigh at the core of all Romantic sonority is a phonic surge before it can be coded as a monosyllabic signal in some discursive circuit with the
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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The phenomena of geognosy, particularly those which are connected with the stratification of rocks, and their grouping, are never solitary; but are found the same in both hemispheres.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Don't be so nosy—it's none of your business.
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Such questions from the likes of nosy old hacks like me are an occupational hazard of the famous.
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He tried multiple times to draw me into a conversation but I only responded with monosyllabic answers.
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I'm not being nosy, I'm just curious.
