(n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(2) Recoveries of these 3 herbicides added to soil, wheat, and barley samples at 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 ppm levels were between 65 and 93%.
(3) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(4) Water stress inhibits the gibberellic acid (GA(3))-induced synthesis of alpha-amylase in aleurone layers of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).
(5) Dry matter and starch intakes were greater when corn was fed than when barley was fed.
(6) structures of barley serine protease inhibitor 2 (BSPI-2) with the X-ray structures of both subtilisin complexed and native BSPI-2 is presented.
(7) In contrast, we show here that four barley genes that also have multiple poly(A) addition signals conforming to the plant consensus use only one signal.
(8) Specific anti-wheat, rye and barley flour IgE antibodies were found by RAST.
(9) A Na+ uptake-associated vacuolar alkalinization was observed in roots of two barley cultivars (Arivat and the more salt-tolerant California Mariout) by using 23Na and 31P in vivo NMR spectroscopy.
(10) The dissociation constants of immobilized ferredoxin from spinach, barley and S. vulcanus for spinach ferredoxin-NADP reductase were 0.922, 2.505 and 5.209 microM, respectively, whereas those for barley ferredoxin-NADP reductase were 1.159, 0.579 and 2.851 microM, respectively.
(11) Even in the barley-fed rats, gastrointestinal net acid absorption was observed.
(12) Consequently, barley seems to be an inexpensive source of lactose-splitting enzymes.
(13) Each field is like a room: mostly wheat or pasture but occasionally barley, oilseed rape, maize or broad beans.
(14) The presented results proof in tendency that oilseed-rape (00-rape seed), wheat, and barley as green plants can contribute in clostridial toxicosis in hares, whereas grass and beets are involved only partially, and clover is practically completely atoxigenic.
(15) The energy-dependent influx of Rb(+) into excised roots of corn, wheat, and barley has been determined and compared to the Rb(+)-stimulated ATPase activity of membrane fractions obtained from root homogenates of these species.
(16) The Hor 1 locus of barley encodes a group of seed storage polypeptides called C hordein.
(17) The first domain in the barley enzymes appears to contain a calcium binding site.
(18) Highest rumen ciliate protozoal populations were observed on rations containing barley.
(19) The method was applicable to corn, wheat, and barley at detection levels of 1 ppm, and oats at 1.5 ppm.
(20) The synthesis of reaction center protein D2 and mRNAs which encode this protein are differentially maintained at high levels in mature barley chloroplasts.
Parley
Definition:
(n.) Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.
(v. i.) To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace.
Example Sentences:
(1) For another $100 he wrote, with his sister Elizabeth, Peter Parley's Universal History on the Basis of Geography, a children's book, which over time sold very well indeed.
(2) It is impossible to parley with al-Qaida, but the west could do much to stem its flow of recruits by engaging more constructively with the Islamic world than George Bush is willing to do.
(3) Kerry, en route to China for a wide-ranging diplomatic parley, called on the Afghan security forces to remain neutral and warned against either candidate using them to his advantage.
(4) He's one of a select band of former criminals ('Mad' Frankie Fraser and Dave Courtney in recent times, George Raft in days gone by) who have parleyed their former notoriety into a lucrative sideline in the entertainment industry.
(5) Health promotion is defined by the following activities: the advocation of healthy behaviors, the continuation of the promotion of such choices or the promotion of changes in unhealthy behavior, the parleying of preventive and curative health services and the acceptance of such facilities and the condoning of activities at a societal level that are supportive of preventative and health choices.
(6) the screen announces, and a chat box appears, inviting me to start up a text conversation with a stranger who has declared me attractive enough to parley with.
(7) Katie Couric and David Pogue Under the chief executive, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo tried to parley its dominance of the old web – chiefly through the millions of users who still have the site set as their homepage – into dominance of old media.
(8) While diplomats parley in New York, the war in Syria continues apace.