(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).
Necklace
Definition:
(n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.
(n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.
Example Sentences:
(1) I like American names and I always wanted to live in the US.” David Miliband: Trump refugee ban threatens west's global reputation Read more On their necks, Nimr and his wife wore necklaces with little metal crosses.
(2) When 15 small sections were transplanted to the omentum in a "necklace" fashion, good uptake and preservation were seen after six months.
(3) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
(4) It’s a new book, a slogan on his necklace and, he believes, a real possibility.
(5) Taking the observed similarity between SDS and the aromatic surfactant in the binding and the gel electrophoresis into consideration, the present results strongly suggest that SDS also binds to protein polypeptides in the form of micelle-like clusters under the conditions of SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoreses, and support our "necklace model".
(6) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
(7) Primary and secondary cilia share the following qualities: 1) Membrane regions above necklace strands can differ quite drastically from those below the strands.
(8) During her marriage to Thornton, the pair wore necklaces containing vials of each other’s blood.
(9) We do have clients who if they are going out for dinner will come to the facility and put on a necklace, and then come and bring it back the next day.” High-value customers are increasingly using vaults because they fear aggravated burglary in their own homes, he added.
(10) Much better agreement was obtained with a helical dipole necklace model.
(11) Comparison with other systems suggests that primary cilia resemble flagella of eukaryotic flagellates and spermatozoa of some invertebrates with respect to their number of necklace strands.
(12) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.
(13) In its final report, it observed that "although the official policy of both the UDF [the broadly-based United Democratic Front] and the ANC was to condemn necklacing, the public statements of the leadership of these organisations were sometimes ambiguous and appeared to give tacit, and sometimes overt, approval to the practice."
(14) Hillary Clinton accepted $58,000 in jewelry from the government of Brunei.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton gave the necklace from the queen of Brunei to the US government, in accordance with US law.
(15) We’re not wild about her loveheart necklace or plastic handbag, but then we’re not eight years old, so what do we know?
(16) Results are consistent with an extended chromatosome-linker "necklace" model for the unfolded, low-salt fiber and with a solenoidal model of edge-stacked chromatosomes for the condensed fiber at high salts.
(17) The authors study "pearl necklace" arteries (PNA) in vascular nephropathies with acute renal insufficiency.
(18) Transmission electron micrographs showed the ciliary membrane to contain electron-dense beads which corresponded to the ciliary necklace seen in freeze-fracture replicas.
(19) The properties of the NN appear to resemble those of the nucleolar necklaces of amphibian oocytes.
(20) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.