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UK
/nˈuːz/
]
[ US /ˈnus/ ]
[ US /ˈnus/ ]
NOUN
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common sense
she has great social nous -
that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
his mind wandered
I couldn't get his words out of my head
How To Use nous In A Sentence
- When I looked at the chart a second time, I saw that there was a lot Michael had left out of his personal history; specifically, IVDU—intravenous drug use—dating back ten years, and a major depression that had led to a psychiatric hospitalization and ECT, electroconvulsive therapy. After the Diagnosis
- The trek was a bit monotonous at times - I wanted to go faster - but it was relaxing, enjoyable and worth the sore backside.
- ; Cohn, D.H.: Luciferase genes cloned from the unculturable luminous bacteroid symbiont of the Caribbean flashlight fish, Kryptopha - naron alfredi. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- So that model is alive and well and in the minds of many people, rather than the later medieval, misogynous legislation.
- She was treated with intravenous folinic acid and antibiotics and was given transfusions of blood products.
- Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
- Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively.
- The luciferin-luciferase's reaction system may emit fluorescence, while the toxic substances will suppress the luminous intensity.
- Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet this masterful, luminous image places him in the august company of the renowned landscapist John Knox, with whom he worked on a series of views of Glasgow.