(v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.
(v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.
(v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
(v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
(v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
(v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
(v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.
(v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.
(v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.
(v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.
(v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.
(v. t.) A belt or strap.
(v. t.) A bond
(v. t.) Pledge; security.
(v. t.) To bind or tie with a band.
(v. t.) To mark with a band.
(v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
(v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.
(v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.
() imp. of Bind.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Oligoclonal bands were not detected in any of the sera or CSF.
(3) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(4) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(5) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
(6) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
(7) One major band with a molecular weight of 12,000 was detected by autofluorography and coincided with the Coomassie staining band of apocytochrome c from S. cerevisiae.
(8) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
(9) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
(10) A standard protocol is reported for the highly efficient demonstration of replication patterns corresponding to R-type and G-type banding.
(11) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
(12) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(13) One of the HEF bands can be separated from two others with beta-alanine as discrete spacer.
(14) In all these subjects, fluorescent staining and G-banding on chromosomes from cultured leukocytes confirmed their karyotype.
(15) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
(16) Inclusion-forming and non-inclusion-forming elementary bodies focused in one band at pI 4.64.
(17) Two Raman bands at 880 and 1360 cm-1 of tryptophan (Trp) side chains have been found useful in structural studies of the side chains in proteins.
(18) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(19) The results showed that twenty-eight bands were significantly rearranged (P less than 0.05).
(20) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.
Flush
Definition:
(v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
(v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
(v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
(v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
(v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
(v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
(v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
(v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir.
(v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
(n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
(n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
(n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
(n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
(n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
(n.) A hand of cards of the same suit.
(a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
(a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
(a.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
(a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.
(adv.) So as to be level or even.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(2) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
(3) No comparable differences in development were found in cultured embryos for which the media had been supplemented with flushings from the same progestational uterine stages as used for transfer.
(4) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
(5) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
(6) Management of obstructive upper ureteral calculi by first flushing the lithiasis to renal cavity and secondary extracorporeal lithotripsy is proposed as a routine guide-line, especially when treatment by ESWL is not immediately available.
(7) A rapid and efficient method for obtaining murine bone marrow cells is described, which yields up to twice the amount of cells obtained by the conventional method of flushing through the bones.
(8) 31P NMR spectroscopy proved to be an excellent, dynamic, nondestructive method for assessing the liver during cold flush and pulsatile perfusion experiments.
(9) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
(10) Uterine horns were flushed in 5 cats 6-8 days after mating with expanded blastocysts being collected from 4 cats.
(11) This study suggests that a naloxone-sensitive opioid mechanism is not active in modulating luteinizing hormone secretion in the postmenopausal woman and that opioid receptor blockade is not effective in altering the frequency of menopausal flushes.
(12) Atracurium, metocurine and in particular d-tubocurarine have histamine-releasing properties and may cause flushing, hypotension and tachycardia.
(13) In 13 postorchidectomy patients who reported hot flushes we recorded cutaneous blood-flow and sweating by use of a laser-Doppler flowmeter and an evaporimeter.
(14) However, flushing the filters with carbenicillin or gentamicin killed the bacteria and caused the release of endotoxin into the filtrates.
(15) These results justify the use of UW solution by intraaortic flush especially during multi-organ procurement.
(16) Twelve grafts were flushed with and stored in Perfadex.
(17) The fillings were ground flush with the tooth surface and the teeth were cycled thermally between two dye solutions baths.
(18) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
(19) Using methanesulfonic acid, hydrolysis of cytochrome c at 115 degrees C for 22 h yielded recoveries equal to or higher than hydrolysis at 115 degrees C for 70 h or at 150 degrees C for 22 h. Triple evacuation of the hydrolysis tube alternated with nitrogen flush gave recovery improvements over single evacuation.
(20) Lack of isozyme I is responsible for the "flush-syndrome" commonly observed in asian people following alcohol intake.