(n.) A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, humidifying devices should be carefully selected from the viewpoint of not only humidifying capability but also AWL.
(2) We have isotopically determined rates of whole-body protein synthesis and catabolism in a group of normal volunteers and in two groups of cancer patients: 20 patients with advanced weight-loss (AWL) upper gastrointestinal cancer and 7 patients with early non-weight-loss (ENWL) lower gastrointestinal cancer.
(3) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
(4) Restorative treatment can be started in the early postoperative period if a screw-awl has been applied.
(5) Judges and infiltrators in Labour’s civil war | Letters Read more Even under Tony Blair’s leadership, there were Trotskyist groups involved in the Labour party, ranging from the AWL to Socialist Action.
(6) The difficulties and risks inherent in the use of the starting awl are eliminated.
(7) Mountford, who has been a member of the AWL for 33 years, denies bullying, taking over the organisation or wanting to form a new party.
(8) Utilizing Langer's technique for skin tension lines, we punctured the auricular cartilage of 10 human cadavers and 2 mature rabbits and 24 immature rabbits with a conical awl to determine their tension lines.
(9) That aside, Watson highlighting efforts by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) to get involved in the Labour party will undoubtedly fuel a media narrative that Labour is falling under the spell of revolutionary zealots.
(10) Using a special needle (awl) under laparoscopic monitoring, U-stitches are placed and then knotted epifascially.
(11) In the AWL cancer patients the rate of net protein catabolism was significantly higher than in either the volunteer or ENWL group (p less than 0.05), and glucose infusion did not result in a decrease in net protein catabolism.
(12) The AWL was affected significantly by the pressure monitoring site for the ventilator.
(13) Vertical sections of articular cartilage show different directional orientations of collagen fibers through all zones of cartilage depending upon whether the sections are parallel or perpendicular to the cleft pattern produced when the surface of articular cartilage is pierced with a round pointed awl.
(14) The AWL backs Labour in elections,” the group said.
(15) The width of the middle portion of the broadest, awl, hairs measured 12 days after irradiation decreases with increasing dose.
(16) The 30-cm-long side arm of this awl protects the surgeon's hand from direct radiation, and measurements of X-ray exposure show that the protection against radiation is sufficient.
(17) A specially designed awl makes the interlocking procedure simple and efficient.
(18) The AWL should “organise and politically hegemonise these people, and Labour clubs on campuses”, the motion said .
(19) The large follicles contain similar numbers of mitotic cells, but the BALB-c mice are more sensitive both in terms of the radiation-induced apoptosis and in terms of a reduction in awl hair width.
(20) According to Alice Gregory at the New Yorker , in fact, it was one particular Gawker writer, Choire Sicha, who now runs the excellent indie site the Awl .
Owl
Definition:
(n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
(v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.
(v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.
(v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Owls were more hypnotizable than larks in the morning, and larks were also significantly more hypnotizable in the evening than owls.
(2) In owl monkeys, elevation of intracranial pressure to 500 mm.
(3) Inadequate availability of hematological reference data seriously restricts optimal utilization of the owl monkey (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra) as an experimental model.
(4) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(5) The sulfinyl- and sulfonylquinazolines also retained antimalarial effects against chloroquine-, cycloguanil-, and DDS-resistant lines of P. berghei in mice and against chloroquine- and pyrimethamine-resistant strains of P. falciparum in owl monkeys.
(6) Matched, binocular displacing prisms were mounted over the eyes of 19 barn owls (Tyto alba) beginning at ages ranging from 10 to 272 d. In nearly all cases, the visual field was shifted 23 degrees to the right.
(7) Results described in this report identify a region of the viral genome that is required for oncogenicity in owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus); this region is not required for replication of the virus.
(8) A highly organized myoelectric event in the fasting avian small intestine, the ROC is demonstrated in detail in chickens (Gallus); it is also found in other gallinaceous birds but not in owls (Strix) or mammals.
(9) WR-158,122 and WR-159,412, against Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in owl monkeys, were seriously impaired when infecting strains were pyrimethamine-resistant; and 2) that primary treatment failure with either agent led frequently to emergence of parasites resistant to these derivatives.
(10) The owl processes time and intensity components of the auditory signal in separate pathways, and each pathway has a distinctive pattern of GAD- and GABA-like immunoreactivity.
(11) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
(12) Connections between the primary motor cortex (MI) and the corpus striatum were studied in the owl monkey.
(13) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
(14) Thus I wound up on 13 February calling a London taxidermy shop and asking if they had any owls.
(15) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
(16) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
(17) Recordings from conscious owls plus simultaneous radiographic observations revealed characteristic gastrointestinal motility patterns associated with egestion.
(18) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
(19) The fitting procedure showed that the shape of the owls' binaural temporal window could be described by the same algorithms as the human monaural temporal window.
(20) In squirrel and owl monkeys, extensive reciprocal connections were made with cortex throughout the caudal half of the lateral fissure and, to a much lesser extent, cortex around the superior temporal sulcus.