(n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
(n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.
(n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.
(n.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.
(n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.
(n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.
(n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.
(n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(2) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(3) The results clearly show that the acute hyperthermia of unrestrained rats induced by either peripheral or central injections of morphine is not caused by activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis.
(4) In this study, pinealectomy did not alter the inhibitory effect of testosterone on neuroendocine-gonadal activity in the male rat, suggesting that the pineal gland does not mediate the response of the rat hypothalamic-pituitary axis to testosterone.
(5) The bundles may lie parallel to the plasma membrane and to the long axis of the cell.
(6) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
(7) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(8) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(9) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(10) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(11) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(12) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
(13) In addition, FSH and LH were low or normal in the presence of low testosterone levels, suggesting that the hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis is impaired.
(14) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
(15) The first axis embraoes the genotypic period, the second the effects of etioepigenetic factors, and the third the formation of psychopathologic (neurotic or psychiatric) syndromes.
(16) This study shows that the presence of pancreatic juice in the duodenal lumen enhances the fat-stimulated release of enteric hormones that have a stimulatory action on the enteroacinar and enteroinsular axis as well as an inhibitory action (enterogastrone-like activity) on the postprandial regulation of gastric function.
(17) Thus, Hox-1.6 is involved in regional specification along the rostrocaudal axis, but only in its most rostral domain of expression.
(18) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
(19) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(20) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
Dolly
Definition:
(n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
(n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
(n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
(n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
(n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
(n.) A child's mane for a doll.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the local beauty parlour run by Truvy (Dolly Parton), the two meet new employee Annelle (Daryl Hannah).
(3) Dolly Parton has offered to adopt a dog that was found abandoned at Glastonbury festival, after rescuers named the canine after her.
(4) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
(5) Dolly, the police spokesman, said officers had succeeded in protecting local businesses from a second round of thefts.
(6) It will be me on the leaflets.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Matthew Wright with his dog Dolly in Bolton.
(7) And that, of course, was the most disturbing aspect of the story of Dolly.
(8) In Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent the camera is moving on a dolly throughout the entire movie.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aunty Dolly Jerome calling for justice for the Bowraville child murder victims during a march on NSW Parliament House.
(10) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
(11) Trout fry (Dolly Varden), aquatic insect larvae, and periphyton (attached algae) within and below the treatment site during and after treatment did not show signs of mortality compared with an upstream untreated control site.
(12) Once there, Lomax - a trainspotter to the end - enquired about the gauge of tracking used for the dolly shot.
(13) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
(14) The son of two devoted workers for the Salvation Army, Jeffries disliked personal publicity and was a zealot when preparing a role (he ran two miles every morning before appearing in the musical Hello Dolly!
(15) Dolly the sheep , the world's first successfully cloned mammal, was given the name in 1986 by scientists who were fans of the singer.
(16) Sergeant Colby Dolly, a spokesman for St Louis county police, said at a makeshift command centre early on Tuesday morning that some 150 officers had been involved in the operation and had made about 10 arrests.
(17) Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!
(18) The car service area has vintage motors sitting on mechanics' dollies, and there's an exhibition area, a bar, a kitchen, and two old buses that serve as offices.
(19) Dolly's 'creator', Ian Wilmut, of Scotland's Roslin Institute, was equally stunned.
(20) Country music star Dolly Parton has answered the critics who questioned whether she was miming during her Glastonbury set in her own inimitable style, telling the Sun : "My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."