(n.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anil Bairwal, one of the authors of the thinktank report, said the true number of state and national parliamentarians and candidates facing charges of sexual violence could be far higher, as most attacks were registered without reference to gender.
(2) Anil Cherukupalli is the media and communications manager of WaterAid India.
(3) As a result of condensation of methyl ester I with various aromatic aldehydes in boiling benzene solution, the Schiff-bases (anils) II--VIII were obtained.
(4) No anil was formed if p-hydroxybenzoate was the growth substrate.
(5) "But of all the children Anil was the one you would worry about, where he was going in life, that sort of thing.
(6) "My team's Argentina," said Delhi gym trainer Anil Chikara.
(7) Photos will allow users to index and find images of “people, places and things that matter the most in my life”, as the company’s Anil Sabharwal put it.
(8) Others charged were Anil Kumar, 51, a director of the management consultancy firm McKinsey, and two executives from a fund management firm, New Castle Funds, named as Danielle Chiesi, 43, and Mark Kurland, 60.
(9) It has the support of a wide swath individuals such as internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Ellsberg, Gabriella Coleman, Xeni Jardin, the actor Wil Wheaton, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, and Anil Dash.
(10) One woman, who asked not to be named, said Anil had often played in the street with other children when he was younger.
(11) Anil Dash (@anildash) I used to take circuit boards & electronics to school, even as the only brown kid.
(12) Last month, Vedanta's chairman, Anil Agarwal, had told a shareholder meeting in London that the episode at Korba was an "unfortunate accident".
(13) "The lineup will be the same next year and it's a meltdown for Congress," Anil Padmanabhan, an analyst who writes for local newspaper Mint .
(14) Hard Brexit will cost Treasury up to £66bn a year, ministers are told Read more Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed figure at the Bank, said the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of the capital as a result of a hard Brexit.
(15) Anil Dash, a prolific blogger and founder of Think-up , quoted Barack Obama saying “Together, let us unleash the imagination of our people, affirm that we are a Nation of makers, and ensure that the next great technological revolution happens right here in America.” Dash added that “many of us have been moved to offer support to Ahmed and his creativity,” and has started to crowdsource a list of ideas “that can help change the culture of Irving to be more welcoming to innovators of all kinds”.
(16) Locals said they thought Anil was studying mechanical engineering at a north-western university.
(17) The London-listed but India-focused miner, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, had so far concentrated on metals such as zinc, copper, aluminium and iron ore.
(18) The shock has been tremendous and widely spread,” says Anil Bhardwaj, the secretary general of the Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises.
(19) Sixteen N-piperidino-(morpholino)-methylisatin-3-anils have been synthesised and evaluated for their antimicrobial activity.
(20) Another senior Bank of England figure, Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed independent policymaker, said this week that the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of London as a result of a hard Brexit.
Indigo
Definition:
(n.) A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.
(n.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.
(a.) Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(2) Among the latter, there were sensitizations, to our knowledge hitherto unreported in the literature: to indigo carmine (2 cases), monensin sodium (1 case), thiabendazole (1 case), methylchlorpindol (1 case) and amprolium hydrochloride (1 case).
(3) Over a crest in the road was the cause of the electronic silence: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an array of radio telescopes set against the indigo vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(4) The enzymatic activity was revealed by reddish-brown, purple red, and indigo-blue cytoplasmic precipitate, using the substrates alpha-naphthyl-acetate, naphthol-AS acetate and 5-bromo-4-chloro-indoxyl acetate respectively.
(5) We conclude that avoiding of xylene, and mounting of the preparates in Histoclear (a xylene substitute) and Canada balsam (instead of synthetic resin mountants) yields a sharp and stable indigo precipitate.
(6) The plantations of the Carolina Low Country produced rice, indigo and cotton.
(7) Synthetic indigo, indirubin and isatin were tested for TCDD receptor affinity in competition experiments in vitro.
(8) When injected with indigo carmine, the vessels localized by the hydrogen-induced current impulses filled the entire anterior spinal artery from the low thoracic to the sacral region, whereas injection of the other vessels did not show filling.
(9) beta-galactosidase, revealed by an indigo blue reaction product, represents a valid tracer in immunohistochemistry.
(10) Chromosomal aberrations induced by indigo carmine (secondary amine-containing dye), fast green FCF (tertiary amine-containing dye) and sodium nitrite, singly and in combination, were studied in mice after prolonged feeding in the diet.
(11) Following aspirate cytology, the lesion was localized with indigo carmine and Kopans' wire and every patient underwent a standard open excisional biopsy.
(12) Observations on the instability of the indigo precipitate led us to investigate this phenomenon.
(13) Synthetic indigo of technical grade or 98% pure showed mutagenic effects, especially on TA98 + S9.
(14) A trichrome staining technique using safranin-indigo-picrocarmine (SIPC) can be used to distinguish the various stages of the cell cycle in onion root tip.
(15) He was hooked the moment he heard Mood Indigo on his grandparents' wireless set at the age of five: "Something about it made my ears tingle."
(16) A central region of 2.9 kbp complemented an xylA (for xylene oxygenase) mutant of Pseudomonas putida mt-2 and was also capable of conferring the ability to convert indole to indigo on strains of Escherichia coli and P. putida.
(17) No hemodynamic instability occurred during the operation until the patient was administered intravenous (IV) indigo carmine 5 ml.
(18) Until further studies defining the mechanism for its hypertensive side effect are performed, indigo carmine should be used with caution in patients with severe cardiac dysfunction.
(19) Later, at Burberry , models walked the catwalk in buttoned-up indigo jackets and matching jeans.
(20) However, indigo showed a high (Kd = 1.9 nM) affinity for the Ah or TCDD receptor.