nef

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Only sequences located in vpr and nef, as well as the middle portions of pol and env, formed independent lineages roughly equidistant from all other known subtypes.

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  1. The nave of a church. The long nef [of the church of St. Justina] consists of a row of five cupolas, the cross one has on each side a single cupola deeper and broader than the others. Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 384.
  2. An ornamental vessel used for the decoration of the table, having a form resembling a ship of the middle ages. Nefs were commonly pieces of valuable plate, and were set before the lord or master of the house, their use being to contain some of the table utensils especially appropriated to him, or sometimes to his guests. See cadenas.
  3. At the present day, a vessel of any unusual and fantastic shape resembling more or less closely a ship or boat. A nef, a kind of cup, somewhat in form like a nautilusshell, executed in gold. Society of Arts Report.

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  • According to the New Economics Foundation (nef), the increased strength of storms and hurricanes and the surge in their destructive forces have affected hundreds of thousands of victims and led to multimillion-dollar damages. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • Following doubts raised by voices as diverse as the former government chief scientific adviser, David King, and the Cooperative Bank, a new report last month called Plane Truths from the World Development Movement and my own organisation, nef, questioned the economic value of aviation growth to both rich and poor countries alike. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • Andrew Simms is policy director of the New Economics Foundation (nef), and author of Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Its HMM consensus was mainly based on nef-pruned primate lentiviral LTRs, and did not yield "second A-rich" and —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Only sequences located in vpr and nef, as well as the middle portions of pol and env, formed independent lineages roughly equidistant from all other known subtypes. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. French, from Latin navis, a ship, Middle Latin a nave: see nave.
 

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