(n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
(n.) A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
(n.) A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
(n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
(n.) The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
(n.) A choice taw or marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defensively excellent, Sampson’s players persistently forced their opponents to construct their passing triangles down a series of cul-de-sacs and blind alleys.
(2) The animals, while still under the influence of the haloperidol, were then given six standard trials of running down the alley.
(3) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
(4) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(5) As the report explains, researchers have long pointed to a widely believed cultural script of what constitutes a “real” rape – the trope of the lone lady being attacked at night as she made her way home through dark alleys.
(6) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
(7) His first serve is a memory and his forehand hits the doubles alley.
(8) The decision of entering the main alley depends on the "reference memory", of entering the alleys in the proper sequence, depends on the "working memory".
(9) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
(10) Testing consisted of a single trial per day during which latencies to leave the start box and to traverse the alley were recorded.
(11) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
(12) The open drain down his alley overflows with black sewage.
(13) after completion of infusion, each rat was placed in the maze and observed under "blind" conditions for number of errors (blind alleys entered) and latency to reach reward.
(14) (6) All unoperated cats committed alley-entrance errors as well as door-push errors suggesting that commission of alley-entrance errors may reflect a normal process in two-choice learning.
(15) Research and theory in the field is judged to be at a choice point: advance to interesting and important problems integrated with biobehavioral research or enter a blind alley of pseudo-problems derived from computer metaphors and cognitive folk psychology.
(16) Damage of areas containig nigrostriatal dopaminergic or ascending noradrenergic neurons had negligible effects on bar pressing, tail moving and alley running for hypothalamic stimulation.
(17) Rats had to enter and run down an alley for water reward.
(18) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
(19) Here, the decorticates showed difficulty both in learning to pull the ball out of the alley and in transferring to a push-type clearance response, but having transferred they coped well with subsequent reversals.
(20) More importantly, these experimental studies provide us a route (perhaps an escape route) from the blind-ending alleys of the current taxonomy of human malformations and place us squarely on the superhighway to understanding their pathogenesis.
Gap
Definition:
(n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
(v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Linear and annular gap junctions between neighbouring cells were present, particularly in Group 1.
(2) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
(3) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(4) The junctional currents were already constant 1 ms after step changes in the junctional voltage; this was three orders of magnitude faster than the other known examples of voltage-controlled gap junctions between embryonic cells.
(5) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
(6) Preliminary hearing results of 45 cases show air-bone gap closure of 67% within 10 dB and 98% within 20 dB.
(7) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(8) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
(9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(10) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
(11) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(12) PTH, an inducer of shape change, did not affect the number of gap junctions appreciably.
(13) The primary aim of future work must still be directed toward preventing the formation of a gap between the restoration and the tooth.
(14) Since testosterone influenced both tissue stores and PDBu-stimulated secretion of LHRH and GAP, this steroid may selectively regulate biosynthesis and secretion of pro-LHRH-derived peptides through activation of the metabolic cascade involving the PKC system.
(15) Microsequencing of the peptides resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that the amino terminus of the protein is disposed at or near the cytoplasmic surface of the gap junction, and that this surface also contains a protease-hypersensitive hydrophilic sequence between residues 109 and 123, presumably connecting the second and third transmembrane segments.
(16) The present investigation shows that the intramembranous proteins of tight and gap junctions are mobile structures within the fluid membrane.
(17) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
(18) Regions within the desmosome where the two plasma membranes converged suggested that gap junctions were a component of the desmosome-like junctions.
(19) The frequency of chromosome and chromatid gaps and chromosome deletions was significantly higher among workers than among controls, and the same was true for the number of individuals with some type of chromosome alteration.
(20) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.