(n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
(n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
(n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(2) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(3) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(4) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(5) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(6) Yes, the third album was a success but we've worked so hard on this one."
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beyoncé’s last album was an iTunes exclusive, with videos for every track.
(8) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
(9) Visconti – who has now produced 13 Bowie albums – said he was surprised with the decision to make Where Are We Now?
(10) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(11) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
(12) And when the album from which those songs are taken, The Next Day , was released last week it went straight to No 1 on iTunes.
(13) Less than five months after the release of Closer to the Truth, the singer seems resigned to the album's current profile, tweeting, "It's OK".
(14) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
(15) At this time, the BPI was running its famous Home Taping Is Killing Music campaign, following concerns that cassettes would aid the infringement of copyright and a decline in album sales.
(16) In the lead-up to her new album, Sheezus, Allen has repeatedly complained about pressure when picking radio singles.
(17) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(18) Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) Stossich, 1904 is redescribed, figured and recorded for the first time in Blennius pavo.
(19) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
(20) Gaga: "This award means even more to me because I worked so hard on this album for so long and I think about all the songs that I wrote and all the years that went by and all the rejection and how my fans were the first people to believe in me."
Platinum
Definition:
(n.) A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
(2) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(3) The potential loss of NH3 in such platinum complexes may lead to additional products over time.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) The diameters of regenerating crypts were measured at various times after X-rays and cis-platinum given either alone or in combination.
(6) Cis-platinum treatment is considered to be effective and useful for gynecological cancer.
(7) Analyses of mitotic activities and chromosome aberrations in lymphocytes of human peripheral blood have been utilized to evaluate 24-hour cytotoxic and genetic effect of various concentrations (0, 12, 60, 120, 240, 360 mumol l-1) of ethylmalonate platinum (EM-Pt) in vitro.
(8) Excretion into urine within 24 hours was in the range of 54.2% to 92.2% of the administered platinum.
(9) The time dependency of the antitumour activity of (-)-(R)-2-aminomethylpyrrolidine(1,1-cyclobutanedicarboxylato++ +)platinum(II) monohydrate (DWA2114R) was examined in mice inoculated i.p.
(10) Primary therapy consisted of surgery, usually unilateral oophorectomy, and cis-platinum-based VAB chemotherapy.
(11) Methods have been reviewed for alkylating agents, platinum compounds, antitumour antibiotics, antimetabolites, alkaloids, suramin, 1-hydroxy-3-amino-propylidene-1,1-bisphosphonate and tamoxifen.
(12) We conclude that the major difference between these two lines was the glutathione-related detoxification of platinum.
(13) In order to determine possible risk factors and to assess the value of platinum microcoils added to polyvinyl alcohol particles in preoperative embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations in adults, we reviewed our experience with this procedure.
(14) A mixed platinum (II) complex with tert-butylamine and doxorubicin (coordinated via the amino-group) has been synthesized and tested for antitumor activity.
(15) Unlike cisplatin, bis(platinum) complex binding does not unwind supercoiled DNA.
(16) F-Pt in serum remained more than 90% of total platinum following IP CBDCA until 12 hours after administration.
(17) These data suggest that carrier ligand effects seen in resistant cell lines may be due, in part, to differences in accumulation of platinum, repair of Pt-DNA adducts, and tolerance of Pt-DNA adducts.
(18) To obtain pharmacokinetic data on anticancer drugs, we measured concentrations of plasma and tumor tissue for Cis-platinum, Adriamycin and Bleomycin in operated patients and xenografts.
(19) The effect of various fuel additives on the ability of platinum-palladium catalytic converters to remove the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon components of automotive exhaust has been examined.
(20) Afferent nerve activity is recorded with a monopolar platinum wire electrode from filaments of the mesenteric nerves that run between the artery and vein supplying the segment.