(n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
(n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
(n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
(n.) An emblem of hope.
(n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
(n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
(n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
(v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
(v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
(v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
(v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.
(n.) An anchoret.
Example Sentences:
(1) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(2) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(3) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(4) Since the introduction of osseointegrated titanium implants for bone-anchored facial and dental prostheses, an increasing number of irradiated patients are being treated with this technique.
(5) The brain enzyme did not contain components characteristic of the glycolipid anchors of erythrocyte acetylcholinesterases.
(6) Our findings support the proposal that bcd transcripts are selectively recognized and trapped as they enter the anterior tip of the oocyte, and suggest that this localization process is mediated by anchored sequence-specific receptors in the oocyte cytoplasm.
(7) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
(8) A truncated anchor-minus form of the G2 glycoprotein was found to be secreted into the culture medium, but was retained in the Golgi complex when coexpressed with the G1 glycoprotein.
(9) Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1 molecules that were either transmembrane- (H-2Db) or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored (Qa2) were labeled with antibody-coated gold particles and moved across the cell surface with a laser optical tweezers until they encountered a barrier, the barrier-free path length (BFP).
(10) This lipid has a hybrid nature of an archaeal feature in alkyl glycerol diether core portion and an eucaryal feature in the polar head group identical to the conserved core structure (GlcNp(alpha 1-6)-myo-inositol 1-phosphate) of glycosylated phosphatidylinositol which serves as a membrane protein anchor in eucaryal cells.
(11) Ultrastructurally these glands had apical microvilli with associated glycocalyx and long anchoring rootlets.
(12) This was confirmed by the crystal structures, which also showed that the Gln46 amide is hydrogen bonded to the Phe100 N and O atoms, and tightly anchored in this position.
(13) Each of the two chemically identical subunits folds into a three-layer domain anchored by a large six-stranded mixed beta sheet.
(14) A group of proteins anchored to the cell by phosphatidylinositol (PI) has recently been identified.
(15) In conclusion, the N-linked sugar chains are not required for in vitro activity but required for in vivo activity, acting as anchors for the essential terminal sialic acids.
(16) Replacement of the COOH-terminal hydrophobic domain with a signal peptide that normally functions in membrane translocation, or with a random hydrophobic sequence, results in efficient and correct processing, producing GPI-anchored DAF on the cell surface.
(17) Since the corresponding keto analogue, N-[(R)-2-benzyl-5-cyano-4-oxopentanyl]-L-phenylalanine (compound 4), does not inactivate the enzyme, it is suggested that the NH in compound 1 is critical for the proper active-site anchoring of the inhibitor for the inactivation process to take place.
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(19) This tissue may anchor the lead so that it is difficult, dangerous, or impossible to remove it.
(20) The anchoring wire can also be retracted and repositioned.
Ringlet
Definition:
(n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
(n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(2) One ringlet on a handle has been offset to facilitate retrieval of the needle holder from a flat surface.
(3) The ringlet configuration of the splayed scissors conforms to the normal resting posture of the hand.
(4) The purpose of this study was to develop orthodontic ringlets from polyurethane which have maximum flow resistance.
(5) The ringleted far-out Mona Ramsey is on a quest to find herself when the answer is right beneath her coke-dusted nose.
(6) Neither intact phage nor ghosts were seen in any of the preparations, although ringlets of two different diameters, which appeared to correspond to the diameters of the sheath and inner core, were observed.
(7) Side by side on the shelves near us are two framed photographs: on the left is Melanie in a white dress, with a cascade of blond ringlets; and on the right is Tom, still the same bright blue eyes, but with a boy’s short hair.
(8) Writing about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh in 1978, Lorna Sage drew attention to the "slump" in its reputation after the success it had first enjoyed after its 1856 publication: at first, she argued, it seemed to have successfully liberated the epic form from a male monopoly; subsequently, though, a ringletted Barrett Browning morphed into "almost the archetype of the powerless, fey poetess".
(9) A Hasidic Jewish schoolboy with ringlets and a limp.
(10) Soluble rCR2, visualized by high resolution electron microscopy, was shown to be an extended, highly flexible molecule comprised of ringlet domains, each approximately 24.1 A in length, which likely correspond to the short consensus repeat motif deduced from the CR2 cDNA nucleotide sequence.
(11) PMC formed 15 times as many epithelial ringlets or "stomata" as PMVEC.
(12) In addition, surgeons can apply greater force to the splayed scissor ringlets than that which could be applied to the ringlets of conventional scissors.
(13) The abnormalities were predominantly confined to the posterior pole and ranged from many small (100- to 200-microns) subretinal black ringlets to single large (2- to 3-disc diameter) geographic lesions.
(14) Brown bodies, formed by coelomocytes surrounding foreign material, accumulated in the posterior region of the animal around the cloacal suspensors; these eventually were eliminated through a ringlet of ducts connecting the coelomic cavity with the external environment.
(15) Ringlet numbers increased by 354% while marbled white counts rose by 503%.