(n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
(n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.
(n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) The mean of the total daily energy intake was 104% of basal energy expenditure (BEE), and 70% of patients lost their weight.
(3) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(4) The public must have confidence that the government is doing all it can to safeguard Britain's threatened bees.
(5) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(6) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(7) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
(8) In contrast, the bee-venom toxin melittin, which is also cytolytic, increased intracellular cyclic AMP in whole cells, but inhibited adenylate cyclase in isolated membranes.
(9) In subsequent dual-choice tests, the bees' discrimination between the various shapes was measured.
(10) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(11) Under in vitro inhibition of alpha-glucosidasic activity by glucose in hemolymph of Bee prenymphas, the reaction order (n) (predetermined according to the initial natural glycemia) decreases with increasing inhibitor concentration and the affinity constant between enzyme and substrate undergoes lower variations than in other cases where (n) does not change.
(12) Using 5' deletion assay, we found three basal expression elements (BEE) in the BiP670.
(13) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(14) Also, the clinical pattern and treatment of the acute renal failure secondary to bee stings are discussed.
(15) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(16) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(17) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(18) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.
(19) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(20) In short, SBP rise during TI and DBP rise during BEE may be the markers of an enhanced cardiovascular reactivity of hypertensive subjects.
Gee
Definition:
(v. i.) To agree; to harmonize.
(v. i.) To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi.
(v. t.) To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Automatic analysis of oculopneumoplethysmography recordings might minimize the risks of misinterpretation and might improve the clinical significance of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test.
(2) OPG-Gee is a useful test to screen for postoperative carotid thrombosis.
(3) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(4) They whisper encouragement to each other, to gee themselves up.
(5) In April, Trump told Chris Wallace on Fox News: “It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them.
(6) OPG-Gee, however, offers the unique additional possibility of a judgement on the systolic blood pressure in the carotid siphon without, however, taking into account a (difference in) pre-existing intraocular pressure.
(7) [table: see text] With the angiography results as the standard of comparison, 4 incorrect diagnoses were obtained by OPG-Gee, thus yielding an overall accuracy of 92 for this method.
(8) Read more “It’s basically the end of, in our view, what was the best mechanism for supporting some of the most vulnerable children in south London,” said Gee.
(9) Oculopneumoplethysmography (OPG-Gee) was performed pre- and postoperatively in 100 patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy and 14 patients undergoing nonendarterectomy procedures (aortofemoral or carotid-subclavian bypass).
(10) "He arrived in Lowestoft," laughs Gee, "and saw everybody was happy, that the weather was lovely, and then he went and had a swim in the sea.
(11) Of these approaches, the GEE method of Liang and Zeger would be best suited for the analysis of our data when the question of interest concerns a variable that is constant over all pregnancies, such as HLA sharing.
(12) OPG-Gee is presented as a simple noninvasive test that reliably and reproducibly assesses the quantitative physiologic changes associated with the repair of carotid lesions of hemodynamic consequence.
(13) When our aunt Ruby, a primary-school teacher, visits from California, she has me put a penny in a bank each time I say “gee”.
(14) The diagnostic value of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test for the detection of hemodynamically significant carotid artery obstructions has frequently been questioned due to the rather low agreement with arteriography.
(15) Whereas monocyte cytotoxic capacity was significantly stimulated in the presence of methylamine (MA), dansylcadaverine (DC) and glycine ethylester (GEE), lymphocyte ADCC was markedly suppressed by these agents.
(16) Other Twitter users suggested BrewDog might like to reimburse the McFadyens for the costs incurred in changing their signage and web page after BrewDog’s legal threat: Michael_Gee (@Michael_Gee) A nicer gesture @BrewDogJames might be reimbursing @TheWolfBham any money they might've already spent on rebranding?
(17) The selectivity of the modification by the two nucleophiles, glycine ethyl ester (GEE) and glucosamine, is distinct.
(18) Since April 1977, 87 patients with 131 asymptomatic carotid bruits were evaluated with the Gee oculoplethysmography (OPG).
(19) The GEEs have solutions which are consistent and asymptotically Gaussian even when the time dependence is misspecified as we often expect.
(20) He quoted all these other great lyrics from the Gee Officer Krupke section and then said: "You've got a reputation to keep, so we've booked you on another movie."