(n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
(n.) Admission; approach; access.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the whole of our findings it can be concluded that in the first group of strains sorbose adaption starts with segregation of adaptive sorbose permease positive mutants, followed by the - salicin-sensitive - induction of this permease, the appearance of mutants aditionally metabolizing sorbose constitutively, and, finally, the substrate-promoted particular growth of adapted cells.
(2) In adition to them, remnants of the "external epithelium" are found in Varanus griseus and A-cells disposed outside of the pancreatic islands in Testudo horsfieldi and Clemmys caspica.
(3) Irradiation at 300 K produces radicals resulting from H-adition at three different positions of the cytosine molecule.
(4) Dexamethasone may counteract the lethal arrhythmia by causing the release of aditional adenosine triphosphate into the cytoplasm from the mitochondria.
(5) Aditional problems are encountered in clinical trials especially in early phases while determining the tolerable therapeutic dose.
(6) The poliamide is treated with different aditives giving rise to the nylon fiber, which is used to manufacture the definitive tissue.
(7) The stools and lampshades, known as Terra, were the creation of Tel Aviv-based designer Adital Ela .
Sough
Definition:
(n.) A sow.
(n.) A small drain; an adit.
(v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
(v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.
(v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
(v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) David first sough psychological help at Oxford when, miserably unhappy, he was introduced by his friend Charles Collins to the psychiatrist and Freudian psychoanalyst RD Gillespie.
(2) No commitment has been given to release the much-sough-tafter business case or the contract itself once it is signed.
(3) Evidence for selective extravasation of thoracic duct lymph-borne cells, derived from rats with adjuvant disease, within joints of normal or adjuvant arthritic recipients was sough by adoptive transfer of radiolabeled cells.
(4) It is of the greatest simplicity, and it is sough by asking the subject to follow the finger of the examiner.