(a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)
(a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, in vitro treatment of mouse bone marrow with antisera prepared in rabbits against brain tissue from rats (BARB) or hamsters (RAHB) also reduced the CFU content of the mouse marrow.
(2) "So, welcome to the real North Korea" declared Sweeney dramatically, standing inside a barbed wire fence apparently built to keep ordinary people away from his tour group's hotel.
(3) An analysis of BBC1, compiled using Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) figures, of the hours between 6pm and 10pm from 15 January, when the first episode of Call the Midwife was screened, to 5 February, showed that 90% of the audience was over 35, meaning just 719,000 under-35s were watching.
(4) Beneath the gold-leafed dome, one of them read aloud from a text eulogising France's founding fathers, ending with a rousing, "Long live the France of our fathers, long live La Barbe!"
(5) Kinetics of elongation and depolymerization from the pointed end were measured in fluorescence assays using pyrenylactin filaments capped at the barbed end by villin.
(6) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
(7) The ad, for web hosting service CrazyDomains.co.uk, featured the Barb Wire star in a boardroom full of men.
(8) Epidermal cells that would otherwise produce only alpha keratin in reticulate scales are induced to reorganize and differentiate into barb ridge cells that accumulate feather beta keratins.
(9) She said no surprises about the election date should mean "no excuses", a clear barb at the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, whom she has criticised as announcing "platitudes not policies" and giving few costings for his promises.
(10) Seventy-seven flexor tendon lesions in zone I have been reinserted by the "rope down" technique using the Jennings barb-wire.
(11) As a result, at high rates of filament growth a transient cap of ATP-actin subunits exists at the ends of elongating filaments, and at steady state a stabilizing cap of ADP.Pi-actin subunits exists at the barbed ends of filaments.
(12) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
(13) All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated.
(14) Dissociation of the gelsolin-actin complex from the barbed ends can be calculated to be rather slow.
(15) It’s like you go through some crazy inter-dimensional vortex,” Barbe said.
(16) There were some security forces as well, I think employed by the Australians, waiting around outside, and they had coils of barbed wire at the ready.
(17) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
(18) Aginactin is a barbed-end capping protein by several criteria.
(19) And he trades barbs and disapproving glares with Scarlett Johansson 's Black Widow, who you will want to see in her own movie after this.
(20) The simplest explanation for these findings is that gelsolin caps the barbed ends of the filaments in the resting platelet.
Stingray
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Specificity studies suggest that the stingray insulin receptor may represent a phylogenetic position prior to the evolutionary divergence of insulin and the insulin-like growth factors.
(2) The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has been described as the poor man’s Porsche.
(3) Based on the experiments described above, the hypothesis that the hyperpolarizing response of horizontal cells is due to the permeability change of the membrane to chloride ion was excluded in the stingray retina.
(4) The cytoarchitecture of the lymphohaemopoietic masses occurring in the "meninx primitiva" of the stingray Dasyatis akajei (Elasmobranchii, Chondricthyes) has been analyzed by light and scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
(5) Thus, the HG of the red stingray exhibited a striking left-right asymmetry, the most remarkable aspect of which was considered to be differences of the size, form and location of the LH between the left and right HG.
(6) When the US government is not loaning police agencies their own Stingrays, the Defense Department and Homeland Security are giving federal grants to cops, which allow departments to purchase the gear at the cost of $400,000 a pop from defense contractors like Harris Corporation, which makes the Stingray brand.
(7) The cerebellar corpus of the Atlantic stingray consists of an anterior lobe which is divided into rostral and caudal lobules, and a posterior lobe.
(8) Thus, the afferent fibers to the HG in the red stingray exhibited a striking left-right asymmetry.
(9) An unusual case report of a retained stingray spine foreign body in the foot is presented.
(10) The sizes and numbers of axons in peripheral nerves and spinal roots were investigated in the stingray, Dasyatis sabina.
(11) Two new tetraphyllidean cestodes are described from the freshwater stingray Potamotrygon magdalenae from Colombia.
(12) Guests paddle through the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, exploring mangrove channels and reefs, watching out for stingrays, manatees and pelicans.
(13) A combined light and electron microscopic study revealed that there are conspicuous aggregations of smooth muscle cells in several hemopoietic organs and tissues such as in the Leydig (esophageal) and epigonal organs, diencephalic choroid plexus and perihypophyseal connective tissue sheath of the stingray, Dasyatis akajei.
(14) Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cross-linked, affinity-labeled stingray insulin receptor shows an apparent molecular mass of 210 kDa for the intact receptor.
(15) Hypocalcemic potency of calcitonin isolated from the stingray (cartilaginous fish), Dasyatis akajei, was examined using the rat bioassay and compared with the activities of other calcitonins (human, pig, salmon, eel, and fowl).
(16) Glutamine synthetase is present as isozymic forms in the elasmobranchs Squalus acanthias (dogfish shark) and Dasyatis sabina (stingray).
(17) Like Stingrays, and the NSA's phone dragnet before them, the militarization of America's local cops is a phenomenon that's only now getting widespread attention.
(18) Three other cases of less serious stingray envenomation are described which illustrate the significant localized morbidity that may occur without immediate wound exploration and toilet after adequate anaesthesia.
(19) The Cl conductance of the resting membrane in the normal stingray saline at pH 7.7 is 8-10 times greater than the K conductance.3.
(20) Intracellular and extracellular concentrations of chloride ([Cl-]i, [Cl-]o) ions in the horizontal cells of the stingray retina were studied by means of ion-selective microelectrodes.