(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”.
Snake
Definition:
(v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
(n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
(v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
(v. i.) To crawl like a snake.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of the product by equilibrium density centrifugation and processive hydrolysis with snake venom phosphodiesterase suggested that the noncomplementary nucleotides were present in phosphodiester linkage.
(2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(3) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(4) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(5) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(6) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
(7) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(8) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
(9) Snake curaremimetic toxins are known to bind to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) [Changeux et al.
(10) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(11) The prevention of sea-snake bite and poisoning is considered.
(12) The prothrombin activator from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus (Taipan snake) was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and ion-exchange chromatography on QAE-Sephadex.
(13) In the anterior section of the snake, the vagal trunks contained many cell bodies with colocalized vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and substance P-like immunoreactivity.
(14) While the hemagglutination activity of each of the previously described lactose-binding snake venom lectins is inhibited by reducing agent, the activities of BML and JML are not affected by reducing agent.
(15) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(16) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
(17) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(18) By using snake-venom diesterase over short periods of incubation, it was confirmed that the ATP had been incorporated terminally as AMP into the placental tRNA.
(19) Pro-Morsi marches regularly snake from the sites, disrupting traffic across much of Cairo and causing further government frustration.
(20) The snake with the longest journey took nine months to reach its destination.