(n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
(n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A standard baguette costs around €0.90 at the local boulangerie, a figure that hasn't changed significantly for over two years."
(2) Some are quirky, unexpected things that catch our attention: a blinking Christmas tree in February, the cartoon Madagascar showing on state TV, a basket of baguettes at the supermarket.
(3) The texture of a good baguette should be moist, very slightly chewy and with a hint of a nutty flavour.
(4) Determined to preserve American exceptionalism against a rising tide of baguette-munching ball-juggling pinko Europhile hippy surrender-communism, Ann Coulter has come to the rescue : "Any growing interest in soccer," she wrote to widespread amusement, "can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."
(5) Crab toasts with samphire and radishes FOR 12 CANAPES orange juice of 1 lemons 2 lime 1 red wine vinegar 1 tbsp radishes 100g mixed white and brown crab meat 500g mayonnaise 4 tbsp baguette 25 thin slices samphire 24 small sprigs Squeeze the juice from the orange, lemons and lime into a mixing bowl then add the red wine vinegar.
(6) Not sure this is going to wow the small investors ( unless they've also got shares in the German software giant ) 11.24am BST Marc Bolland looks terribly pleased to report that Marks & Spencer's best performing bakery is at its new store in Paris -- yes, Britain is selling baguettes to the French.
(7) If I can just find a few thousand dollars, I know I can produce baguettes that people will love here.” So said a participant at one of our workshops last year, talking about his dream of starting his own business.
(8) "It's a very great honour to be making baguettes for the president," he said tactfully.
(9) The winning baker gets to deliver 40 baguettes to the Elysée presidential palace every morning for a year.
(10) The menu (noon to 3pm, Mon-Sat) is populist – fishcakes, a smoked salmon salad, steak baguette, pasta – but founded on sound local ingredients and delivered by a kitchen that can clearly cook.
(11) Contrary to what you see on diet shows, overweight people don’t all eat a baguette with two Ginsters pasties in it for breakfast, in just the same way that not all thin people eat lettuce with occasional handfuls of dust.
(12) John Lally has written in with distressing news for the Irish: ANNOUNCEMENT BY FIFA: "FOR THESE PLAY-OFFS THE AWAY GOALS RULE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED (IN THE CASE OF IRISH AWAY GOALS) AND SHOULD IRELAND PREVAIL 2-1 OVER FRANCE THEY WILL GO TO EXTRA TIME AND THEN A BAGUETTE-MAKING CONTEST."
(13) Now we go for the single entendre, and say things like, “That baguette looks a bit like a cock.” There’s no nuance now.
(14) (Adrià is not known, at the time of this writing, to have secreted enormous baguettes in major cities.)
(15) "For the French, culturally and psychologically, any real rise in living costs is reflected in the price of a baguette – still a daily purchase for many.
(16) I know of boulangers who make a special dough just for their competition baguette, but we aim for excellence all the time.
(17) And celebrating its 100th birthday yesterday, the Paris underground - for many foreigners as much a part of the French experience as baguettes, bidets and Bordeaux wine - could make a fair claim to being the world's most loved, most efficient and least expensive city transport system.
(18) With temperatures reaching more than 70C, Pham says, they have even managed to toast a baguette on the street.
(19) Serves 8 500g mixed red and yellow cherry tomatoes, halved 10-12 sundried tomatoes, sliced A few leaves of basil, shredded Salt and freshly ground black pepper Olive oil Balsamic vinegar ½ baguette or 1 loaf of ciabatta, sliced 1 garlic clove 1 Mix the cherry tomatoes with the sundried tomatoes and basil, season, then add a dash of olive oil and balsamic.
(20) I’ll stop off at Oh La La to pick up a ficelle (a kind of thin, flat baguette) and eat it at home, listening to a bit of Stan Getz.
Nucleoli
Definition:
(pl. ) of Nucleolus
Example Sentences:
(1) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(2) In both cases, female cells presented more nucleoli than the respective male cells.
(3) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(4) Moderately differentiated tumor revealed a wider range of nucleus size, less clustering (coefficient--3.59) and more hyperchromatic (70.1%) and "bare" (49.4%) nuclei and large nucleoli (22.2%).
(5) Glandular cells have unusually developed nucleoli, many ribosomes, lysosome-like and residual bodies.
(6) The respective positions of these chromosomes were examined in 30 growing and 32 resting fibroblasts from reconstructed nuclei, using nucleoli and the Barr body as ultrastructural markers.
(7) Differences in the mean volume values of nucleoli, fibrillar centers and the RNP-part between some cell populations are sufficiently well pronounced.
(8) Treatment of the nucleoli with 80 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) -- 0.15 M NaCl did, however, eliminate silver binding.
(9) These findings suggest that the presence of features such as large prominent nucleoli, tumor growth in sheets, individual-cell necrosis, and nuclear pleomorphism may be used to predict recurrence of subtotally resected meningiomas that would not be classified as malignant by traditional criteria.
(10) After preparation with DNase and staining with gallocyanine chromalumn the nucleoli in heart muscle nuclei were specifically presented and their number per nucleus as well as their area values were demonstrated.
(11) The ultrastructural study of nucleoli and ribonucleoprotein-containing structures in human seminiferous tubules revealed that the nucleoli of spermatogonia, spermatocytes and Sertoli cells exhibited a tripartite structure consisting of: a fibrillar center, a compact granular portion, and a reticular portion containing both pars fibrosa and pars granulosa.
(12) This technique contrasted the fibrillar component and the granular component in interphase nucleoli as a reflection of the degree of packing.
(13) In addition, phosphorylation of the 110-kDa protein in liver nucleoli from rats fed a protein-free diet showed a lower sensitivity to heparin than that in control rat liver nucleoli.
(14) When protein biosynthesis is inhibited by either cycloheximide of puromycine, the nucleolar RNA synthesis of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells decreases by approximately 70% within 1 h, while the removal of these protein synthesis inhibitors causes a rapid recovery of nucleolar RNA synthesis, largely within 1 h. A similar pattern of decrease and recovery of endogenous RNA polymerase activity in isolated nucleoli or in nuclei (in the presence of alpha-amanitin) may be demonstrated after addition and removal of these drugs.
(15) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
(16) The significant correlation between number of mitoses, size and staining of nucleoli and the thermographic results emphasizes that, besides vascularization and altered thermo-regulatory functions, the metabolism of the tumor itself contributes to the temperature differences.
(17) Cells labeled with quinacrine had a large, phase bright nucleus with prominent nucleoli, surrounded by a phase dark perinuclear ring.
(18) 32S rRNA accumulates to some extent in the nucleoli of ts 422E.
(19) A 125-kilodalton (kDa) phosphoprotein was isolated from nucleoli of Novikoff hepatoma cells in the presence of various inhibitors of proteases, alkaline phosphatase, and RNase.
(20) Modified nucleoli bind fluorescein-conjugated nonimmune serum proteins, as shown by calcium ion-dependent fluorescence.