(n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
(n.) Lodestone; magnet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
(2) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(3) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.
(4) Ridley and Boyega are part of a swathe of actors – also including Girls' Adam Driver and Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow – who were confirmed by studio Disney in May.
(5) As ABC reports, Adam Bandt, the only Greens MP in the lower house, won his Melbourne seat with the help of Liberal preferences at the last election, and may struggle to hold it on 7 September.
(6) The 25-year-old student is adamant that her mother, Berta Cáceres Flores, will not become just one more Honduran environmental activist whose work was cut short by their assassination.
(7) Adam Ramsay, 28, from Oxford, is volunteering over the weekend.
(8) There are harsh lessons in football and we have learned some over the last week.” Two James Milner penalties and goals from the impressive Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho took Liverpool’s tally to 24 in eight games.
(9) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
(10) The Treasury was adamant last night that this would not be the impact at an industry level and produced figures that showed, for instance, in 2014-15, the corporation tax costs being £0.4bn, compared with a bank levy yield of £2.4bn.
(11) Adam Boulton, Colin Brazier and Gillian Joseph will report from around central London, as will the Skycopter.
(12) Hopefully it could be just a week 7.03pm Michel texts Adam Smith thanks for your patience today 9.31pm Michel texts Adam Smith are you publishing the Slaughters and May opinion tomorrow?
(13) Off came defensive midfielder Claudio Yacob, rendered surplus to requirements by the dismissals of Afellay and Adam, and on went forward Rickie Lambert.
(14) At least half of the perpetrators in 100 rampages studied by the New York Times were found to have signs of serious mental health issues, and it was reported last week that Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of having him committed when he embarked on the Newtown rampage.
(15) He also said special advisers needed better training and management and that something had gone wrong in the supervision of Hunt's special adviser Adam Smith.
(16) There were some shocking penalties in that bunch, none more so than Charlie Adam's.
(17) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
(18) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(19) Thorgerson is survived by his wife, Barbie Antonis; her children, Adam and Georgia; his son Bill, from his earlier relationship with Libby January; and his mother, Vanji.
(20) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
Aerate
Definition:
(v. t.) To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
(v. t.) To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.
(v. t.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
Example Sentences:
(1) A theory for the neural control of middle ear aeration is proposed.
(2) It is suggested that lung ventilation takes place in the avian embryo in three distinct stages: the major air-ways become aerated, then respiratory movements begin and lastly the tertiary bronchi are slowly aerated.
(3) We therefore investigated the influence of different carbon dioxide tensions and bicarbonate concentrations on directly measured pH of organ baths aerated with mass-spectrometric analyzed O2-CO2 gases.
(4) The test organism, grown under anaerobic conditions in Trypticase soy broth, was diluted in buffered salt solution, and about 2 x 10(4) cells were suspended in 10 ml of an aerated broth.
(5) On the other hand, maintaining constant DO levels at 50 or 10% raised exoprotein levels higher than those achieved in a culture grown at the optimal aeration rate.
(6) None of the mutants are oxygen sensitive; they grow as well as wild bacteria, even when aerated.
(7) In helical strips of dog cerebral arteries contracted with K+ or prostaglandin F2 alpha, the increase in CO2 from 5 to 15% in the gas aerating the bathing media produced a persistent relaxation in association with a rise of PCO2 and a fall of pH and PO2.
(8) Although X-ray studies in many of the patients revealed mucosal swelling four weeks after surgery, the maxillary sinuses were well aerated 8 weeks after operation.
(9) One problem remains: permanent aeration of the new tympanic cavity.
(10) The time of the sporulating forms appearance depended on the aeration rate which defined the quantitative composition of the population during the phase of the culture active growth and the stationary phase.
(11) Azotobacter chroococcum (ATCC 7493) was grown in continuous culture with intense vortex aeration (stirring rate 1750 rpm) with up to 50% O2 in the gas phase.
(12) Assays on the Rm nifA-m RNA produced by the constitutive Rm nifA in E. coli under aerobic and microaerobic conditions with the cloned nifA as a probe for dot blot hybridization showed a marked decrease of Rm nifA mRNA when the bacteria were grown under aeration.
(13) Acute anoxia was induced by aerating a muscle chamber with a gas mixture of 95% nitrogen and 5% carbon dioxide.
(14) Amylase production by a Bacillus subtilis strain can occur without aeration after reaching the stationary phase of growth, provided the pH is controlled.
(15) The photosynthetically-incompetent mutant V-2 of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides which is incapable of synthesising bacteriochlorophyll was grown aerobically under conditions of both high and low aeration.
(16) The fim(+) bacteria did not show selective outgrowth in mixed cultures grown in broth aerated by continuous shaking, in static broth incubated anaerobically in hydrogen, and on aerobic agar plates, i.e., under conditions not allowing an advantage from pellicle formation.
(17) The rate of alpha-keto acid biosynthesis, on the contrary, decreased in the conditions of low aeration.
(18) Pyruvate-dependent glutamine aminotransferase activity is not regulated directly by O2 itself since a rho- strain showed a high activity regardless of the extent of aeration of cultures.
(19) Bacteriorhodopsin formation was negligible when washed suspensions of cells from dark, limited aeration or light, adequate aeration cultures were incubated in the light with limited aeration.
(20) Seventy two left anterior descending and circumflex coronary artery rings were removed in twelve dogs and mounted in organ chambers filled with Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution and aerated with 95% O2-5% CO2.