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Agglomerate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
  • (v. i.) To collect in a mass.
  • (a.) Alt. of Agglomerated
  • (n.) A collection or mass.
  • (n.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 20 patients with hyperthyroidism the behaviour of the agglomeration of leucocytes as well as of the adhesivity before and after the methimazol therapy was investigated.
  • (2) At nonsynaptic membranes there are agglomerations of larger dense and dense core vesicles, suggestive of nonsynaptic release.
  • (3) Normal delivery traces were observed as large globes, yellowish-brown, covered with yellowish-white of agglomerate cells, while stillbirth traces appeared as middle-sized, orange or yellowish-brown masses.
  • (4) mixed-field polyagglutination by normal adult sera of all blood groups, no response with anti-TAh, agglutination of a certain part of erythrocytes by anti-TnSs, anti-ADb, anti-AHP, agglomeration of the other part by protamin sulfate and A-like specificity.
  • (5) The method is based on the phenomenon of reversible agglomeration of erythrocytes after treatment of the blood with nonelectrolytic and electrolytic solutions.
  • (6) Currently used methods (filtration, dry electrostatic precipitation) cause agglomeration of particles and increases in particle size up to twenty-fold, which may alter particle toxicity significantly.
  • (7) Inside the nucleus of koilocytes in 51 cases virus particles could be detected, in 31 cases isolated and in 20 cases agglomerated between the chromatin.
  • (8) Low-Earth orbit is quickly becoming the realm of the private sector – including the loose agglomeration of companies known collectively as NewSpace, which have shaken human spaceflight progress out of a sluggish period.
  • (9) The agglomeration of leucocytes serves as evidence of leucocytic activation.
  • (10) injection, agglomerated fibrin thrombi composed of fibrin fiber bundles with fine cross-striated fibriform structures were observed in the capillary lumen.
  • (11) The hypothetical concept consisted in aiding a half-antigen in the organism even in the case of its intradermal injection into a thick immunocompetent cell agglomeration.
  • (12) Agglomeration in the onset of smoking in two male age groups (60-64, 65-69) occurred at the time of the second land confiscation.
  • (13) In the synovial fluid also factors stimulating the agglomeration of leucocytes are found.
  • (14) In contrast to the active ferritin shock, the guinea pigs in whom the ferritin-antiferritin shock had been produced showed agglomerates of platelets and ferritin-antiferritin complexes either present free in the dirculation or ingested in macrophages or granulocytes.
  • (15) The endothelium was considerably waved and the agglomeration of smooth muscle cells appeared.
  • (16) In agroup of patients with slight activity with the agglomeration of leucocytes an inflammatory activity could be proved in 67.5% (electrophoresis 53.5%, BSR 49.2%, CrP 35.4%, leucocytosis 27.9%).
  • (17) 397 small mammals from the agglomeration of Ceské Budĕjovice and 1,399 from four characteristic biotops in the valley of the river Vltava in South-Bohemia were investigated for a comparison.
  • (18) The authors submit the results of an epidemiological perspective investigation concerned with drug prescription in 372 pregnant women during the period 1983-1988 in two municipal health communities of a regional town with an industrial and agricultural agglomeration.
  • (19) The cluster-analytical agglomeration of the single-case results indicates a sufficient response to antidepressants in about 40% of the patients who were treated with antidepressants in addition to psychotherapy.
  • (20) As result of sanitary-helminthological studies it has been found out, that under the conditions of urban agglomeration a great number of dogs, their uncontrolled maintenance and access to various objects induce intensive environmental pollution with zoohelminthologic causative agents and provides a high risk of infection of the population with causative agents of such diseases as toxocariasis++ and echinococcosis.

Ball


Definition:

  • (n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
  • (n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
  • (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
  • (n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
  • (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
  • (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
  • (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
  • (n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
  • (n.) The globe or earth.
  • (v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
  • (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  • (v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
  • (n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (2) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (3) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
  • (4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (5) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
  • (6) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (7) We have now found that these cells, cultured as a monolayer, are able to undergo rapid morphogenesis forming ridges and balls around collagen fibres, when soluble collagen type I is added to the medium.
  • (8) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
  • (9) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
  • (10) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
  • (11) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
  • (12) 7 right-handed male university students stood behind a large Plexiglas screen and spatially matched a ball projected over a distance of 20 feet.
  • (13) The ball sat up; gravity would bring it down again and, when it did, he would score.
  • (14) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
  • (15) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
  • (16) The ball's lost, but Tiago gifts it back to Bale, who makes for the Atlético area with great purpose.
  • (17) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
  • (18) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
  • (19) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
  • (20) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.

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