(n.) The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.
(n.) The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge.
(n.) A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
(2) Specific-pathogen-free leghorn sentinel chickens were vaccinated with Massachusetts (Mass) alone, Mass and JMK, or Mass and Arkansas (Ark) combination live vaccines, or they remained unvaccinated.
(3) The manifesto sets out how every hospital can be given the autonomy of a foundation hospital and 1,000 coasting or failing schools could join federations, including state school chains or non-state providers such as Ark.
(4) As with beta ARK, phosphorylation of the receptor substrates by beta ARK2 was completely stimulus dependent.
(5) Relying on Hitler for an analogy makes people sound as if their history lessons were limited to Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
(6) The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta ARK) mediates agonist-dependent phosphorylation of the beta 2-adrenergic and related G protein-coupled receptors.
(7) Using chimaeric beta ARKs that undergo isoprenylation in vitro, we demonstrate that membrane association and activation of these kinases can occur in the absence of beta gamma.
(8) Purified hamster beta 2AR was phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), protein kinase C (PKC), or beta AR kinase (beta ARK), and receptor function was determined by measuring the beta 2AR-agonist-promoted Gs-associated GTPase activity.
(9) Although maximal stimulation of beta-subunit phosphorylation was reduced to 30% in proband Ark-1 fibroblasts, this reduction was quantitatively related to reduced insulin binding.
(10) He could flog his fish to the secondhand shop, or maybe sell them on the street, the way his neighbour does stolen trainers, maybe diversifying into Noah’s Arks.
(11) Sir Mark Stanhope, the head of the navy, told the committee that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its jumpjet Harriers would have been used to bomb Libya had they not been axed.
(12) Not present at their own trial, or to bear witness to all the controversy generated by their actions, are two key figures in Zoe's Ark: chairman Éric Breteau and his partner Émilie Lelouche.
(13) But my grandfather saw it as the citadel, the Ark; it preserved history, which was his mission.
(14) He receives his orders to build the ark and sets about it.
(15) The Ark by Ralph Erskine, next to the Hammersmith flyover in London, is a large steel-and-glass building, an insect with its wings cut off.
(16) With Ark in place, offering staff better terms of pay and stability that comes with a track record of steering outstanding and good schools, the best teachers were willing to join Conway primary school's little revolution.
(17) This protein tyrosine kinase called ark (adhesion-related kinase) is likely to represent a new class of receptor tyrosine kinase.
(18) The sequence was very similar to that of the bovine beta ARK (the overall amino acid homology was 98%).
(19) G protein beta gamma subunits were shown to interact directly with the COOH-terminal region of beta ARK, and formation of this beta ARK-beta gamma complex resulted in receptor-facilitated membrane localization of the enzyme.
(20) The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta-ARK), which specifically phosphorylates only the agonist-occupied form of the beta-adrenergic and closely related receptors, appears to be important in mediating rapid agonist-specific (homologous) desensitization.
Bark
Definition:
(v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.
(v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
(v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
(v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
(v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
(n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
(n.) Alt. of Barque
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) The cotton root bark, when used as an abortifacient, exhibits the lowest toxicity.
(3) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(4) The non-phenolic components of the mature stem bark were shown to be (+)-pinitol, sucrose, glucose, fructose, l(-)-pipecolic acid, trans-4-hydroxy-l(-)-pipecolic acid, alpha-alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, l(-)-proline, serine, a ;steroid' alcohol and a long-chain beta-diketone.
(5) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(6) As previously reported, the methanol extract from the bark of AN and the fractions of the methanol extract have protective effects for liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in rats.
(7) The root bark of S. paludosum which showed curare like activity yielded tomatidenol and another yet unidentified alkaloid responsible for the biological activity.
(8) "She sat next to me when I wrote songs, and barked any time I tried to record something, and she was with me in the studio all the time we recorded the last album ."
(9) In a letter to Hodge on Tuesday, Duncan also claimed that Hodge, the MP for Barking, had made “undoubtedly libellous assertions” about the tax affairs of the bank’s chief executive Stuart Gulliver.
(10) Aggressiveness was the most obvious symptom (71%) followed by salivation (48%), paresis and paralysis (28%) and barking (11%).
(11) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(12) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
(13) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(14) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(15) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(16) The methanol extract of the stem bark of Schumanniophyton magnificum and schumanniofoside, a chromone alkaloidal glycoside isolated from it, reduced the lethal effect of black cobra (Naja melanoleuca) venom in mice.
(17) The second case describes a seventeen year old school girl who suffered from barking coughing attacks.
(18) The expertise is only to be obtained by visiting the regions where the quinquina tree grows and finding one's way with the help of willing "cascarilleros", the Indians collecting the quinquina bark.
(19) The following month the commissioner of police, Sir Paul Stephenson, came to see me to persuade me that Nick Davies was barking up the wrong tree.
(20) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."