(a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
(n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
(n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
(n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
(n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
(n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
(n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
(n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.
(n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
(n.) A tract covered with bay trees.
(v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
(v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
(v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
(v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
(v. t.) To bathe.
(n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
(v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of low doses of dihydropyridine (DHP) calcium channel antagonists nimodipine, nifedipine, (-)-R-202-791, and amlodipine, the DHP calcium channel agonist BAY K 8644 were investigated on clonic convulsions to pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) in mice.
(2) The biphasic response to (-)-(S)-Bay K 8644 and (+)-(S)-202-791 suggests that the properties of Ca++ channel activation and antagonism may reside within a single 1,4-dihydropyridine molecule.
(3) The Ca2+ agonist Bay K 8644 (1 microM) potentiated the effects of elevated K+ on both ChAT and TOH.
(4) BAY 19139, 1-(4-chlorophenoxy)-1-(1-imidazolyl)-3,3-dimethyl-2-butanol is a new imidazolyl derivative of antifungal agent.
(5) The effects of the dihydropyridine calcium channel agonist Bay K 8644 on indo-1-loaded Jurkat human leukemia T lymphocytes was assessed by flow cytometry.
(6) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(7) These mutants have been used to test for the presence of their required metabolites in natural seawater samples from the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent bays.
(8) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
(9) The administration is also attacked for endangering America with its proposals to dismantle the prison at Guantánamo Bay.
(10) These observations are consistent with the high sensitivity of the newborn mouse lung towards the tumorigenic effects of bay region diolepoxides.
(11) At doses of 1, 5 and 10 mg kg-1 Bay K 8644 antagonized the anaesthetic effects of pentobarbitone.
(12) We knew how good they were at keeping the ball and moving it around and we knew we would have to work hard to keep them at bay.
(13) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
(14) When tested on rat atrium, SNP by itself had no effect on basal inotropy or the increase in inotropy induced by (-)-S-BAY K 8644.
(15) Subjects were 862 nonsmoking coronary patients in the San Francisco Bay Area, randomized in 1978 to receive, over 4.5 years, cardiac counseling or cardiac counseling plus type A behavioral counseling.
(16) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(17) AHH-active PCB congeners (intrinsic effects) and PCBs in general (extrinsic effects) appeared to be the only contaminants at the concentrations measured in eggs, capable of producing the effects that were observed at Green Bay.
(18) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(19) Alternans of both action potential shape and APD was suppressed by nisoldipine (2 X 10(-6) M) and attenuated by Bay K 8644 (3 X 10(-8) M).
(20) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
Bight
Definition:
(v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
(v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
(v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
(2) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(3) The British oil giant initially planned to drill four exploratory wells by 2017, with a further six wells by 2020, in an attempt to find what could be vast oil reserves in the Ceduna basin system that lies beneath the waters of the Great Australian Bight.
(4) BP, which plans to drill a series of exploratory wells in the Great Australian Bight marine park from next year, says it would take 35 days to cap a leaking well in a “worst credible case scenario”.
(5) Measurement of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (delta 13C and delta 15N) in samples of human bone collagen (n = 93) from a temporal series of four prehistoric (early preagricultural, late preagricultural, early agricultural, late agricultural) and two historic (early contact, late contact) periods from the Georgia Bight, a continental embayment on the southeastern U.S. Atlantic coast, reveals a general temporal trend for less negative delta 13C values and less positive delta 15N values.
(6) The New York Bight extends seaward some 80 to 100 miles (ca.
(7) The Wilderness Society’s Owen said: “The oil industry always says it has learned its lessons and then ‘bang’.” “The Great Australian Bight is one of the roughest, most remote places on the planet.
(8) Qualitative salmonella investigations and E. coli titre determinations were carried out in about 4,000 water samples taken from the coastal region of Kiel Bight (Western Baltic) in 1972 and 1973, and evaluated in connection with epidemiological data.
(9) resistant to 20 mug of mercury per ml were observed in Bight sediments contaminated by these wastes.
(10) The Great Australian Bight is quite remote; the industry isn’t as well established as the Gulf of Mexico.
(11) The histopathology of acute fin rot disease in summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, from the New York Bight is described.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mangroves losses (red) and surviving mangroves (green) around the shoreline and mouth of the Limmen Bight river.
(13) In the Great Australian Bight, BP plans to drill at depths of 2,200 metres, about 300km from its closest port.
(14) Meanwhile, defeated Britain would have seen its navy sunk in the Heligoland Bight, have been forced to cede its oil interests in the Middle East and the Gulf to Germany, and have been unable to contain Indian nationalism.
(15) A Senate inquiry will investigate BP’s plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight and examine how a spill could be dealt with.
(16) Of all the places to be turning into an oil field, the Great Australian Bight is not it.
(17) An oil spill from BP’s planned drilling in the Great Australian Bight could affect most of Australia’s southern coastline, shutting down fisheries and threatening wildlife including whales, seabirds and sea lions, new modelling has shown.
(18) BP oil spill in Great Australian Bight would be catastrophic, modelling shows Read more The Wilderness Society South Australia director, Peter Owen, said BP should wait until after the inquiry had reported in May before it submitted its new application.
(19) The Great Australian Bight is a breeding and feeding ground for a large array of species, including blue whales, southern right whales, great white sharks, sea lions and various seabirds.
(20) In water samples taken immediately above sandy sediments at beaches of the Kiel Fjord and the Kiel Bight (Baltic Sea, FRG), between 2.3 and 56.2% (average, 31.3%) of the total number of bacteria were actually metabolizing cells.