(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).
Paternoster
Definition:
(n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
(n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
(n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other schemes include a plan for Paternoster Square beside St Paul's cathedral in 1987 and designs for the Royal Opera House.
(2) Occupy London , which arrived outside the church on 15 October when it was denied access to nearby Paternoster Square, the home of the London Stock Exchange, faces multiple accusations of obstruction and disruption, from witnesses including Nicholas Cottam, the registrar of St Paul's.
(3) fionachaillier Paternoster, Western Cape Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images Paternoster is a small beach community about 150km north of Cape Town.
(4) The Paternoster report was filed on Wednesday with the Harris County district court as part of a habeus petition in Buck's case .
(5) The London group had intended to occupy Paternoster Square, the privately owned business development that houses the stock exchange headquarters, as well as the UK base for Goldman Sachs, on Saturday.
(6) In 1987, Prince Charles, a persistent critic, responded to his plans for London's Paternoster Square , near St Paul's Cathedral, by saying: "You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe.
(7) They defend his right to intervene over developments close to buildings or sites of national importance as he has done over the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square, the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and Paternoster Square, also beside St Paul's.
(8) Which is strange, as almost every architectural statement, planning application, and press release, in the protracted redevelopment of Paternoster Square, described this "private land" as "public space".
(9) He suggests that the redevelopment of Paternoster next to St Paul's Cathedral "got it right" – failing to mention that his own plans for a neo-classical version were abandoned because the buildings were unlettable.
(10) The cathedral has had to close the restaurant and the gift shop and visitor numbers have fallen significantly since the camp was set up on Saturday, after the protesters tried and failed to occupy Paternoster Square, home of the London Stock Exchange.
(11) Paternoster Square put up barriers, manned by both police and private security, that jarred with its architectural look of traditional civic values: arcades, monuments, streets, stone and brick, a classical style.
(12) Paternoster found that Harris County juries imposed death sentences on four of the seven African Americans put on capital trial, while also sentencing to death the only white defendant.
(13) The Occupy camp ended up on the site, which is part owned by St Paul's, on 16 October after an initial plan to base itself at nearby Paternoster Square, the private business and retail development housing the London Stock Exchange, was thwarted by police action.
(14) It also put up a sign that said: "Paternoster Square is private land.
(15) The Broadgate development of the 1980s was a pioneer, followed by Canary Wharf, Paternoster Square next to St Paul's, and the More London development where City Hall, the headquarters of the Mayor of London, stands.
(16) An attempt on Saturday to set up camp outside the London Stock Exchange in nearby privately-owned Paternoster Square had been thwarted by police.
(17) Professor Raymond Paternoster of the university's institute of criminal justice and criminology was commissioned by defence lawyers acting in the case of Duane Buck, a death row prisoner from Houston whose 1995 death sentence is currently being reconsidered by the Texas courts.
(18) Assuming the Heal building had to go, I would never have recommended replacing it with the kind of Kentucky Fried Georgian buildings facing the north and west fronts of St Paul's in Paternoster Square.
(19) Paternoster whittled down that pool to 20 cases that most closely echoed that of Buck's own in terms of the factors involved in the crime that were likely to incur a death sentence.
(20) Asked about the impact it would have on businesses in the area, one shop supervisor said: "I can't imagine the shops in Paternoster Square are too happy about it – they haven't been able to open since yesterday."