(a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
(n.) That which is adjacent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(2) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
(3) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(4) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(5) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
(6) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
(7) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(8) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(9) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(10) Tunnel-like formations at different depths of the oral epithelium contained higher numbers of bacteria than those seen on the adjacent oral surface.
(11) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
(12) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.
(13) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(14) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
(15) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(16) The model was activated, and the dipole potential generated by adjacent activated and resting cells was calculated to obtain a high-resolution QRS complex.
(17) The other three oncogenes namely c-K-ras, c-H-ras and c-myc, were not detected in these two carcinomas or the non-cancerous liver tissue adjacent to the carcinomas.
(18) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(19) In two cases that showed punctate or linear low density structures adjacent to the distal side of the tumor nodules to the porta hepatis, a daughter nodule was detected by CT at 6.5 and 9.2 months, respectively, after the appearance of the low density structures.
(20) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
Gable
Definition:
(n.) A cable.
(n.) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.
(n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.
(n.) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.
Example Sentences:
(1) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
(2) The Lounge was a speakeasy in the 1920s and hosted Humphrey Bogart, Carol Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Clark Gable.
(3) There are two estates on the edges of Lancaster up the road; one of pebbledash housing called Ryeland, tagged by the local gang with the number 902, and at the entrance to another, Marsh Estate, the number 808 graffiti sprayed on a gable end tells you whose territory you are entering.
(4) In 1987 she had returned to the ballet to create the role of Lowry's mother in Gillian Lynne's A Simple Man, made for BBC television to mark the centenary of the artist (played by Christopher Gable), which subsequently entered the repertory of Northern Ballet Theatre.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio and Donald Trump at a debate on the campus of the University of Miami on 10 March 2016 in Coral Gables, Florida.
(6) Sexual frisson I mainly used my local library, before I reached my teenage years, to read through every single book in the Anne of Green Gables, What Katy Did, Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and Chalet School series.
(7) The technique of 'initial strain' is introduced so as to analyze the effects of a gable bend and activation on the force system which is delivered by the orthodontic appliance.
(8) This restaurant was built in 1902, and Carole Lombard and Clark Gable honeymooned in the hotel upstairs.
(9) The bed had a red padded headboard and a creepy picture of Clark Gable on the wall.
(10) (But let's not be precious: the author has a very acute ear for that self-regarding, caustic showbizzery, and the chimp is full of apercus such as: "She was an absolute brick, though, Sylvia, and I just didn't see in her that bloodcurdlingly shallow and avaricious gold-digger everybody tells you she became after Doug's death, when she was briefly and lucratively married to Gable."
(11) Residential Derry is not as terrifyingly Balkanised as Belfast, with its 40-plus "peace lines", and there are considerably fewer gable-end murals than in the capital (though what there are serve as tourist draws).
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio shakes hands former Florida Governor Jeb Bush as he celebrates victory in his Senate race at a rally in Coral Gables, Florida, in November 2010.
(13) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
(14) Last night the royals were heading back to anglophone Canada – to Prince Edward Island, land of one of the duchess's favourite books, Anne of Green Gables – and the prince's spokesman could afford to be condescending towards the demonstrators: "The couple are taking it in their stride.
(15) The original said that Drigg was in the shadow of Great Gable.
(16) Camilla's modest scene in the latest episode of the BBC's longest-running soap opera, recorded weeks ago at Clarence House, involved nothing more taxing than her supposedly visiting Ambridge's Grey Gables hotel, discussing her charity, the Osteoporosis Society, sampling the shortbread of the chef, Ian Craig, and engaging in a little gentle banter: "So, you're the genius with the shortbread?
(17) This can be overcome by the placement of gable bends or angulation in a vertical loop or retraction spring.
(18) Seeing the sophistication of these ruins – the trapezoid doorway that opened on to the plaza, the gabled kallanka halls for ceremony and meeting, the stairways and irrigation channels – I was struck by the question that has long haunted Peruvian history: how did a band of thugs and chancers from the illiterate plains of Estremadura, stranded thousands of miles beyond their supply lines and lost in a mountain terrain unlike anything they’d ever seen, bring down an empire of such reach and confidence?
(19) Because of the low load-deflection rate, moment-to-force ratios are relatively more constant if a gable bend (angulation) is placed.
(20) Moraga Vineyard, Los Angeles This 16-acre estate in the Moraga Canyon in upscale Bel Air, California, once played host to Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh and Spencer Tracy.