nef
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nef
1680–90; < French: ship < Latin nāvis. See nave
Example Sentences
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Even at royal feasts, the only ornament on the table was a nef, a vessel made to hold salt.
From Slate • May 5, 2015
Could HIV itself, stripped of nef and adjacent sections of genetic material, provide the basis for such a vaccine, as Deacon and his colleagues cautiously suggest?
From Time Magazine Archive
Ronald Desrosiers at the New England Regional Primate Research Center has demonstrated that when the nef gene is removed from SIV, the virus no longer has the power to make monkeys sick.
From Time Magazine Archive
A live vaccine made from HIV, he maintains, can be made safer by removing not just the nef gene but several others as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Satan vaincu n'eut pas de prise Sur ce coeur d'or; Chantons sous la nef de l'`eglise, Confiteor.
From The Countess Cathleen by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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