(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
(n.) A jar.
(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
Example Sentences:
(1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(2) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
(3) Two long loops extend from the beta-barrel and have numerous interactions with the other two domains.
(4) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara estimated to be worth more than $100,000.
(5) Cholinergic muscarinic receptor binding and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) histochemistry were studied in the barrel cortex of adult, vibrissae deprived and vibrissae denervated mice.
(6) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
(8) In the context of a simplified diamond lattice model of a six-member, Greek key beta-barrel protein that is closely related in topology to plastocyanin, the nature of the folding and unfolding pathways have been investigated using dynamic Monte Carlo techniques.
(9) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
(10) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(11) Adult hosts underwent unilateral transection of the infraorbital nerve and two days later the contralateral barrel field cortex was lesioned enough to insert an embryonic neocortical graft.
(12) Interestingly, the helical motif prefers to assemble parallel to the wall, whereas the beta-barrel, predominantly assembles with its principal axis perpendicular to the wall.
(13) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
(14) Although less than the targeted 600,000 barrels, it was the largest ever contribution to production cuts by non-Opec members and was the first such agreement between Opec and non-Opec members for 15 years.
(15) Bleak jokes and cartoons have been circulating for weeks in the anti-Assad camp on the theme of barrel bombs serving as ballot boxes.
(16) Studies were performed on the correlation between the hypothalamic temperature-sensitive neurons and hypothalamic neurons sensitive to LHRH, TRH, conjugated estrogen and clomiphene in 103 castrated matured female rats by the technique of microiontophoresis using a multi-barrel glass microelectrode.
(17) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(18) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
(19) Brent crude surged by $1.05, or 1%, to $124.65 a barrel on Friday, while US crude jumped by 98 cents to $111.90, its highest level since September 2008.
(20) Impalement of identified principal cells from the serosal side with single-barrelled conventional or double-barrelled Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes was performed at x500 magnification.
Wild
Definition:
(superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
(superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
(superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
(superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
(superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
(superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
(superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
(superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
(n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
(adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
(6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
(9) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
(12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
(15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
(17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
(19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.