(n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
(n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
(n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
(n.) Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
(v. i.) To grow like an apple; to bear apples.
Example Sentences:
(1) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(2) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(3) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(4) We will be comparing apples with apples,” one source said.
(5) Following its success, Littleloud created a version of the game for Apple's iPad, launched onto the App Store at Christmas.
(6) Apple has come out fighting, which is no surprise given the remarkable success that the company has seen in recent years.
(7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
(8) That refusal seems to have persuaded Apple's team, which has been core to the development of WebKit since using it for the Safari browser, released in January 2003, to introduce WebKit2 earlier this year which did offer that capability.
(9) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(10) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(11) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(12) It's only fair to note that Apple fans are ecstatic at the prospect.
(13) All eyes are on Apple to do something there, but it can be the smaller companies that surprise.
(14) Using tritiated apple cutin as substrate, the two cutinases showed similar substrate concentration dependence, protein concentration dependence, time course profiles, and pH dependence profiles with optimum near 10.0.
(15) CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) Apple event about to start.
(16) The effects of gamma-globulins to brain specific nonhistone chromatin proteins (BSNCP-3.5;-3.6) on conditioned food avoidance behaviour (carrot or apple) was studied in the garden snail.
(17) A 1977 Apple II computer sits in the background, near a poster that reads "Think" – presumably a nod to Apple's "Think different" advertising campaign of the late 1990s.
(18) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
(19) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(20) Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, warned Barack Obama in public remarks this month that history had shown “sacrificing our right to privacy can have dire consequences”.
Dark
Definition:
(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
(a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
(n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
(n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
(v. t.) To darken to obscure.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(2) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(3) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(4) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(5) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(6) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(7) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
(8) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(9) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(12) Although the Ca2+-independent mechanism accounts for about two thirds of the total acetylcholine release in the dark, the amount of acetylcholine released in this way is small compared with the release of acetylcholine triggered by stimulation of the retina with light.
(13) The extracellular concentration of GABA is probably high in prolonged darkness, and it is low after prolonged light exposure.
(14) In lettuce, the presence of 2,4-D in the light lowered the concentration of total Hg (or MeHg) required to reduce growth by 50%, about 13 times relative to that in the dark (i.e., it sensitized the cells).
(15) This suggests that many retinal ganglion cells continue to discharge in total darkness for long periods.
(16) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
(17) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(18) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
(19) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(20) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.