(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.
Underpants
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Shapiro, 50, said: "I always think of Steve Bell [of the Guardian] and his cartoons of John Major wearing his underpants outside his trousers.
(2) The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, hid the device in his underpants, and has since been jailed for life.
(3) It has a slightly bemused expression and wears its underpants over its trousers.
(4) The 'underpants bomber', Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who studied at University College London.
(5) He scaled the wall and ran though the rain in his underpants calling for help.
(6) Small Talk is contractually obliged to ask what colour underpants you're wearing today... Erm, [sounds understandably cautious] they're a pair of grey Y-fronts.
(7) The show will also see him discuss topics including "pogonophobia, underpants and the human condition", pognophobia being a fear of beards – something Paxman is well versed in following the public outcry at his beard-sporting last year.
(8) She gets real about bodies In Obvious Child , Jenny Slate's character Donna is frank about her ladyparts; her first stand up act begins with, "I used to hide what my vagina does to my underpants."
(9) I would really recommend this book to my friend Jackson because he loves Captain Underpants books and I think he would really like this.
(10) The men stripped off to their underpants and lay under a blanket in a PET scanner.
(11) So that's what I like about this book and what I don't like about CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE ATTACK OF THE TOILETS!!!
(12) Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has aggressively defended the publication of pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants by the Sun and the New York Post in 2005, following suggestions that the publisher of the tabloids could face investigation in the US over payments made to obtain them.
(13) On hearing the news, the two made arrangements to fly to Cern, a decision fraught with concerns over the cost of extending Higgs's Saga travel insurance and their combined stocks of clean underpants.
(14) Despite the commercial and critical success of Hilary Mantel's novels last year, not a single "literary" title makes the top 20, with just Julia Donaldson's children's book The Gruffalo, Claire Freedman & Ben Cort's Aliens Love Underpants and the late Maeve Binchy's Minding Frankie flying the flag for the UK and Ireland's writers in the top 20.
(15) John Major didn't tuck his shirt into his underpants.
(16) My father worked in the prison service all his life as a psychologist, and said that whenever you put a suggestion box in any of the wings, of any prison, you'd always get back: "Why can't we have brown underpants?"
(17) Only Allen's "insecurities" kept her from twerking in underpants alongside them: "I actually rehearsed for two weeks trying to perfect my twerk, but failed miserably," she said.
(18) So far more than 34,400 members have joined and we've collected a blizzard of pink underpants.
(19) She posed naked in London's Reform Club for Penthouse magazine, and published a book of photographs under the title Rock Stars In Their Underpants, which was described by Andy Warhol as "the greatest work of art in the last decade".
(20) Researchers have shed light on the chemistry that bonds one person to another by taking brain scans of men being stroked while in their underpants.