(v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that the selectivity of removal of anti-AChR Ab from albumin is higher at 4 degrees C than that at 37 degrees C. The volume treated at 4 degrees C was significantly lower than that treated at 37 degrees C, and it was less than that required for a clinical treatment; however, it was shown that filter backwashing is possible without loss of solute removal selectivity.
(2) The study says the inability to forecast the double-dip recession from the fourth quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012 had been due to poor trading performance as the UK felt the backwash from the eurozone crisis.
(3) In a patient with long-staning ulcerative colitis and "backwash" ileitis, multiple carcinomas developed in the colon and ileum.
(4) In cases of inadequate filter backwashing, such aggregates may penetrate into clean water.
(5) The government in Nicosia admitted that it had been caught in the backwash from the crisis in neighbouring Greece as it formally applied to Brussels for assistance.
(6) Backwashing with saline, serum, 6% NaCl, dextran solutions, or phosphate buffers of varying molality and pH removed only a fraction of adherent particles.
(7) Samples included water collected immediately after conventional treatment, during the backwash cycle, at various points in the distribution system, and 1 week after the break and subsequent repair of a distribution main.
(8) Although the frequency of such premalignant and malignant changes in "backwash" ileitis is unknown, their concurrence in this case suggests that ulcerative colitis involving the terminal ileum increases the risk of small bowel carcinoma.
(9) France, a long-term sufferer from the austerity backwash, could already be said to have made its own contribution after a year of private-sector contraction.
(10) A particular advantage of the solvent system is that only a single partitioning step is needed, without backwashes, and the enzyme product appears in the upper phase, making transfer to a counting vial more reliable.
(11) To assess whether the presence of backwash ileitis predisposed to the subsequent development of ileal pouchitis after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, 131 patients who had the operation were studied.
(12) During membrane plasma fractionation therapy there are reported incidences of membrane plugging requiring the corrective actions of either filter replacement or backwashing (BW) in order to continue the treatment.
(13) Though the exact pathogenesis is uncertain, several possibilities, particularly with regard to antecedent dysplasia and backwash ileitis, are discussed.
(14) Backwashing, by reversing the direction of the permeate, was found necessary to prolong the life of the filter.
(15) Trocar resection is superior to Iglesias' backwash resection.
(16) Results showed statistically significant decreases of TMP from 300 mm Hg to 70 mm Hg between just before and after both backwashing procedures, and that there were no significant changes in the TMP increase during the cryofiltration procedure between pre- and post-BW.
(17) Tim Yeo, the Tory MP who chairs the environmental audit select committee, said the shift had come about because of scientific mistakes, and a "backwash" from Copenhagen.
(18) Use of standard angioplasty balloon inflation prevents "backwash" of distally infused ethanol and more generalized cell death.
(19) Stifling any urge to delight in McKillop's predicament, the chancellor said the government would shortly announce details of a rescue plan for UK banks caught up in the backwash from the collapse of Lehman, little more than three weeks earlier.
(20) Recent research has shown that these aims can be achieved by altering the mode of running and backwashing filters of all process combinations including those using ozone and introducing an additional absorption on powdered activated carbon, and the process combination of flocculation-filtration-chlorination.
Water
Definition:
(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
(v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
(v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
(v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
(n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
(v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
(v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).