(n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
(n.) Any small globular body
(n.) A bubble in spirits.
(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.
(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
(n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
(n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
(2) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
(3) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(4) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
(5) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(6) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
(7) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
(8) Cytotoxic T lymphocytes were found to mediate rapid lysis of target cells not normally recognized in the presence of small polystyrene beads coated with a combination of anti-T3 and antitarget cell antibodies.
(9) Beads approximately 1 microm in diameter appeared to be the optimal size for ingestion.
(10) In the presence of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, stimulation induced an accumulation of cAMP, making possible the NMR detection of the second messenger in living cells grown on microcarrier beads and perfused in the NMR tube.
(11) In order to examine the mechanisms underlying radiation-induced changes in phosphorus metabolite levels observed in RIF-1 tumors in vivo, RIF-1 cells in culture were perfused for up to 70 h following gamma-irradiation with 0-25 Gy and monitored continuously by 31P NMR spectroscopy at 8.5 T. Cells immobilized in the sample volume by incorporation into calcium alginate beads were bioenergetically stable, but did not replicate at the cell density used.
(12) To investigate the effect of steroid hormone on phagocytosis by keratocytes, we investigated the phagocytic activities for latex beads by rabbit corneal keratocytes cultured in the presence and absence of dexamethasone.
(13) The M-280 beads which are smaller (diameter 2.8 microns) and contain less iron than the M-450 beads were coated with polyclonal IgG sheep antimouse (SAM) antibody.
(14) No radiographic studies are routinely needed; bead-chain cystourethrography and IVU in particular probably offer little additional information.
(15) The electron-dense tracers, ferritin, peroxidase, Thorotrast, and latex beads were all ingested but none was phagocytized.
(16) After elution of the complex from the beads a new cycle of capture, washing and release of the target-capture-reporter-probe complex is initiated by the additions of unused (dT)-tailed beads.
(17) In this procedure, target DNA is captured by a biotinylated oligonucleotide via intermolecular triplex formation, bound to streptavidin-coated magnetic beads, and recovered in double-stranded form by elution with a mild alkaline buffer that destabilizes the triple helix.
(18) Because the plasma clots were not well retained in the basal cistern, however, small beads (dextran or latex) were added to stabilize them.
(19) Amino ligands such as proteins or drugs can be bound covalently to the beads in a single step at physiological pH.
(20) We also found a strong binding of S-protein antibodies to agarose beads preincubated in native serum, which was strongly reduced (70-80%) by inactivation of the alternative complement pathway (50 degrees C, 20 min).
Beard
Definition:
(n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
(n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
(n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
(n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
(n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
(n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
(n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
(n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
(n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(n.) An imposition; a trick.
(v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
(v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
(v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
(2) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
(3) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
(4) Koji Uehara, the one without a beard, just picked up from where he left off in the regular season, and continued to destroy opponents.
(5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(6) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
(7) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
(8) Some of them are foreign, they have long beards and we don't want to go near them.
(9) In his passport photograph, applied for in June 2008, Brown has grown a beard and his temples have gone grey.
(10) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
(11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
(12) His beard, axillary hair and pubic hair were all normal.
(13) I do need a haircut, but I have had beards for many years.
(14) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told a press conference.
(15) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
(16) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
(17) Cue start of the second half, and he's back on, beard and all."
(18) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(19) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
(20) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.