(adv.) Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton said his wife, Hillary Clinton, had assured him that their dealings were aboveboard.
Undistinguished
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The background rhythmic burst activity was undistinguishable in both states.
(2) A former defender who packed in a fairly undistinguished playing career to become a fitness coach, Menezes's stints in charge of Gremio and Corinthians were his most high profile management gigs prior to getting the Brazil job.
(3) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
(4) Antisera prepared against axonal preparations isolated from bovine white matter only stained astroglia and were thus undistinguishable from anti-GFA sera in this respect.
(5) For a while Manchester United briefly threatened to add their name to what had hitherto been an undistinguished week for English teams in Europe’s premier club competition.
(6) Thin-section immunoelectron microscopy showed accumulation of viruslike particles undistinguished from immature HIV-1 virions in the culture medium of the cells infected with vC5.
(7) The midfield diamond, with Raheem Sterling at its front tip, was instrumental in making this one of the better performances of the Hodgson era and the level of opposition in Group E is so undistinguished it would need an extraordinary kind of meltdown now for England not to reach the tournament.
(8) Effects of Neurotropin, an analgesic and antiallergic drug, have been compared to those of an inert, undistinguishable placebo in a double-blind study on twelve experienced Sabena (Belgian national airline) Boeing-737 captains who were requested to operate in unexpected scenarios of emergency and ILS instrument approaches in a flight simulator of their company.
(9) These molecules were undistinguishable by gel electrophoresis analysis at six different acrylamide concentrations.
(10) But the trust, composed of 12 mostly undistinguished individuals, must acknowledge how wrong it was in selecting George Entwistle, an untried man who had risen without leaving much trace at the BBC.
(11) On the other hand, inhibition of 80% (average) of the proteinase activity by means of previous incubation of the trophozoites with human a2M gave way to minimal inflammatory lesions almost undistinguishable from the controls which were injected with PBS-A.
(12) The homogeneous enzyme appears to be undistinguishable from the corresponding enzyme derived from sheep lactating mammary gland, as judged by acrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and by titration with antibodies raised against the enzyme purified from liver.
(13) Once back at school, he was a lonely child who suffered from dyslexia and had an undistinguished academic career.
(14) Delays in binding were not caused by different enzymatic activities, since 218 R1 and 218 R2 produce, in similar amounts, beta-lactamases undistinguishable in isoelectric point and Km of cephaloridine.
(15) On the contrary, in the late stages of renal amyloidosis, when pathologic changes lead to progressive nephrosclerosis, US findings appear aspecific, since they are undistinguishable from the patterns observed in other renal medical disorders.
(16) The SLE vacuolar myopathy is a pathological entity clinically undistinguishable from SLE myositis.
(17) Furthermore, the symptomatology they induce is undistinguishable from that induced by cardiotoxins.
(18) The BUDR-treated cultures were undistinguishable from the untreated mother cultures after 2 to 3 passages.
(19) To look at, it is a distinctly undistinguished and desolate-looking piece of utilitarian 1940s architecture.
(20) Klebocin with homologous activity on K. pneumoniae seemed to be undistinguishable from the compound with heterologous action on Staphylococci in the aspects that were characterized in this work; both were heat labile to the same degree; optimum pH was 7, acidity decreased klebocin activity more intensely than alkaline pH.