swine
IPA: swˈaɪn
noun
- (plural swine) A pig (the animal).
- (derogatory) A contemptible person (plural swines).
- (slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "pig".
- (slang, derogatory) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
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Examples of "swine" in Sentences
- The swine flu is transmissible.
- It is used to encourage the mating of swine.
- The city is in chaos because of the swine flu.
- The consumption of swine is forbidden in Islam.
- The pertinence for the current swine flu outbreak is striking.
- In the total, 6 persons infected with the swine flu in Brazil.
- An other problem is the number of people died by the swine flu.
- A TGE virus is attenuated in organ culture of the colon of swine.
- The Quran clearly refers to people of the Book as apes and swine.
- It is also used for the prevention of intestinal infections of swine.
- Incidentally, the term swine flu which a lot of people use is a misnomer.
- The term swine flu hurt the pork industry so much that they pushed for a name change and got it.
- Although the term swine is usually applied only to the domesticated animal, it actually covers all members of the family Suidae.
- The World Health Organization says it's dropping the term swine flu to refer to the virus officially now known as the H1N1 influenza.
- U.S. officials say they may abandon the term swine flu, for fear it’s confusing people into thinking they could catch it from pork, which is flat-out wrong…
- The term swine-plague should not be used in speaking of outbreaks of hog-cholera, as it is now considered a form of hog-cholera involving especially the lungs.
- Also, because the pork lobby has loudly objected to the term swine flu, all federal health officials are required to refer to it as pandemic H1N1 or 2009 H1N1.
- The government, under pressure from pork producers, urged the media to drop the term swine flu and instead refer to the virus by using the specific virus strain, H1N1.
- Try typing in "swine" into Google and Yahoo image searches, then do the same for "swine flu", and you'll see how Google treats the two searches very differently from each other, but Yahoo treats them nearly the same.
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