(n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.
(a.) Alt. of Aller
Example Sentences:
(1) This was caused by ingestion of branches of the alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus (mill.)
(2) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
(3) Alder was travelling to New Zealand with his friend Liam Sweeney, 28, to watch their team play pre-season friendlies.
(4) In previous experiments it was found that birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak are pollens with importance in pathogenesis of early pollinosis in our region of Central Europe.
(5) Cross-incubations: birch pollen incubated with antibodies against hazel (Ab-CA), or alder (Ab-AI), showed various intensities of gold labelling for each of the three species.
(6) Three diastereomers of bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-2-yl phenyl sulfoxide were prepared by Diels-Alder [4 + 2] cycloadditions between phenyl vinyl sulfoxide and cyclopentadiene.
(7) Both had Alder type granulations in polymorphonuclear leukocytes and to a lesser degree in monocytes.
(8) This paper documents the experience at the Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital, Alder Hey, from 1973 to 1989.
(9) We reported earlier that NTP react with unsaturated lipids in a pseudo Diels-Alder reaction, thus forming stable nitroxide radicals.
(10) An improved, large scale synthesis of the ergosteryl acetate-maleic anhydride Diels-Alder adduct and its pyrolysis are described.
(11) Partial identity between the major allergens of birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak pollen extract could be identified by means of RAST-, ELISA- and CRIE-inhibition as well as further types of crossed immunoelectrophoresis.
(12) In the 1960s and 70s it was Dutch elm disease, which killed 30m trees; in the 1990s it was a new Phytophthora which devastated alders along riverbanks.
(13) Mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa-1, was exposed to acetone extracts of hardwoods (alder and aspen), softwoods (pine and a mixture of pine and spruce) and cellulose materials.
(14) Thirty-nine children with rhinoconjunctivitis due to birch pollinosis were given immunotherapy for 3 years with a potent, purified pollen preparation made from either birch alone or from a mixture of birch, alder and hazel.
(15) With the present demands for purification and standardization of allergen extracts it is of practical and economic interest to know that tree pollen-allergic patients showing positive reactions to birch, alder and hazel extracts can be effectively treated using birch pollen extract alone.
(16) A detailed analysis was made of the reactivity patterns of birch pollen-allergic subjects from Norway and Australia to the various IgE-binding components of pollens from several different birch and alder species.
(17) Results reported here provide the first evidence of birch and alder pollen allergies in Australia.
(18) The content of antigens and allergens of alder (Alnus incana), birch (Betula verrucosa), timothy (Phleum pratense), cat and dog dander, house dust mite (Dermatophagoides farinae), mould (Cladosporium herbarum), hen egg white and codfish (DIII) were investigated by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE), crossed radio immunoelectrophoresis (CRIE), radio allergosorbent test (RAST) inhibition and quantitative precipitation inhibition analysis by laser nephelometry.
(19) The treatment of vitamin D3 acetate with selenium dioxide and t-butyl hydroperoxide leads to a mixture from which a Diels-Alder dimer of 1-oxotransvitamin D3 acetate was isolated.
(20) Among the British victims were Newcastle United fans John Alder, who was in his 60s, and Liam Sweeney, 28, who were travelling to New Zealand to watch the football team's pre-season tour.
Balder
Definition:
(n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
(2) The Samaritans urges us to avoid some terms, such as the old-fashioned "commit suicide", as if it were a deliberate, thought-out act, or "successful suicide", as if this were a positive event, and instead use the balder "death by suicide" or "take one's own life".
(3) Then, in 2007, he returned with his old friend Paul Whitehouse in a sketch show with new characters – balder, greyer and thinner than we remembered him.
(4) The balder facts of the story were that the parliaments in Edinburgh and London had paid Anthony d'Offay £26m, the cost price of work he had mostly acquired in the last five years, and waived his £14m tax bill.