(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.
Fjord
Definition:
(n.) See Fiord.
Example Sentences:
(1) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(2) KSmythe Make a splash in the cold: Bergen, Norway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images Bergen, even when the fjords are too wet and dreary to visit, is still a relaxing destination for a winter break in Norway.
(3) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
(4) The outbreak was limited to the city of Drammen and some densely populated areas on the Drammen fjord.
(5) The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country.
(6) Floor-to-ceiling windows offer sublime views of the vast fjord, with Wi-Fi, spacious hot showers and a black stone bathroom scoring extra luxury points.
(7) The problem facing oceanographers and climatologists is the nature of Greenland’s intricately carved coast, which features long fjords that push, like fingers, deep into the island’s interior.
(8) He defied his religious father by becoming an artist, won scholarships to study in Paris and spent the 1890s in fevered movement around Europe, coming back, always, to Oslo and its fjord, a long, winding, tree-lined inlet.
(9) To study whether this is a unique property of these compounds or a more general characteristic of fjord-region diol-epoxides, we have synthesized the anti- and syn-diastereomers of r-9,t-10-dihydroxy-11,12-oxy-9,10,11,12-tetrahydrobenzo(c)chrysene and r-11-t-12-dihydroxy-13,14-oxy-11,12,13,14-tetrahydrobenzo(g)chrysene.
(10) You’ll climb 100 metres in rocky high mountain landscape surrounded by glaciers before descending 1,300 metres (and 33 miles) to sea (or fjord) level, past waterfalls, through forested valleys and fjord farm landscapes to the town of Flåm.
(11) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.
(12) The present use of DDT in forest nurseries does not contaminate the neighbouring fjords to a noticeable degree.
(13) Out in the fjord, a white pillar rose up before falling back over the water, like rain.
(14) According to a recent report, scientists who studied three particularly important fjords found that existing maps underestimate their depths by several hundred metres.
(15) Fiamma Straneo, an Italian-born oceanographer, is laboriously winding recording equipment the size of a fire extinguisher from the deck of a small Greenpeace icebreaker caught in huge swells at the mouth of Sermilik fjord.
(16) The fjord-region diol-epoxides of benzo(c)phenanthrene combine high mutagenic and carcinogenic activity with low chemical reactivity.
(17) Determining the numbers of salmonellae by mpn-method the canalisation of the west-side of Kiel fjord proved to be dominated by the abbatoir of Kiel-Wellsee.
(18) For us, it’s skiing in the mountains of Hemsedal, hiking by the fjords and picking berries in the forests.
(19) Relative abundance of various PAH did not change significantly in the mussels collected from the head to the mouth of the fjord.
(20) Waking in Oslo fjord is just spectacular, because, although you are on a large ship, the sides of the fjord tower above you and you get a real sense of its scale.