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
In fact, the virus is missing so much of this particular gene--known as nef, for negative factor--that it is hard to imagine how the gene could perform any useful function.
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
Samedis estoit: nous feïsmes la premiere processïon entour les dous maz de la nef; je meïsmes m'i fiz porter par les braz, pour ce que je estoie grief malades.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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