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Bendable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being bent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The combination of a myocutaneous flap or free cutaneous tissue transfer with a three-dimensional bendable reconstruction plate either of stainless steel or titanium has provided very satisfactory results in primary restoration of mandibular defects following surgical resections in irradiated patients or in those who require postoperative radiotherapy.
  • (2) The combination of a myocutaneous flap with a three-dimensional bendable reconstruction plate has provided satisfactory results in restoration of mandibular defects following surgical resections in irradiated patients.
  • (3) Ease of insertion and exceptional bendability are other features that make this device attractive.
  • (4) This difference between the two operators is likely to be due to an intrinsic bendability of the caa operator related to thymine tracts located on both sides of the operator.
  • (5) The major advantages of the new fibroscope are its diameter (4.9 mm), flexibility and bendable tip (260 degrees range).
  • (6) Mechanically an intramedullary nail cannot be conceived of as a nail but rather as a bendable feather subject to longitudinal tension and, to a lesser degree, to transverse pressure.
  • (7) By mechanical definition an intramedullary nail is not a nail but rather a bendable feather, subject to longitudinal tension and to a lesser degree to transverse pressure.
  • (8) We propose that bendability is responsible for the observed rotational nucleosome positioning.
  • (9) MMTV-LTR DNA sequences show an intrinsic bendability that closely resembles its wrapping around the histone octamer.
  • (10) Richard Windsor, formerly with Nomura Securities and now an independent technology analyst, commented : "We have been waiting for these for over a year and still there is no sign of [bendable screens].
  • (11) This device is a semirigid rod that is bendable and provides good support to the erection.
  • (12) The data suggest that the site-specificity of DNA gyrase may be partly determined by the bendability of the DNA.
  • (13) The bendability of DNA with different sequences at these bend centres parallels the bending preference of the sequences in nucleosomal DNA.
  • (14) The 'rules' that are emerging for DNA bendability and, from the results of other workers, on intrinsically bent DNA, are likely to be useful in considering looping and bending of DNA in other processes in which it is thought to be wrapped around a protein core.
  • (15) Bendable titanium inserts and castable abutments allow the optimum achievement of esthetics, regardless of the angle of implant placement.
  • (16) The combination of a myocutaneous flap with a three dimensional, bendable reconstruction plate has provided very satisfactory results in restoration of mandibular defects following surgical resections in irradiated patients.
  • (17) "Like a lot of concept demos at CES, the bendable TV is more a novelty with little practical application," remarked David Katzmaier, who has reviewed TV sets for the website CNet since 2002.
  • (18) The ability of DNA to form loops is affected by the distance between binding sites; by the DNA sequence, which determines deformability and bendability; and by the presence of other proteins that exert an influence on the conformation of a particular sequence.
  • (19) The bendability of both devices resembles the twisting of a gooseneck lamp.
  • (20) Protein p6 does not seem to recognize a specific sequence in the DNA, but rather a structural feature, which could be bendability.

Bent


Definition:

  • () of Bend
  • () imp. & p. p. of Bend.
  • (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
  • (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
  • (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
  • (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  • (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
  • (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  • (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
  • (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  • (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
  • (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
  • (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of age of the ewe and pregnancy on concentrations of plasma calcium, phosphorus and magnesium and its relationship to the bent-leg syndrome in lambs, were investigated.
  • (2) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
  • (3) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
  • (4) He frequently refers to it, including in a recent television ad he ran in Iowa during which he reads to his two daughters from reimagined holiday stories with a conservative bent, such as the Hillary Clinton-targeting “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails”.
  • (5) Four of the eight forms studied consisted of protonated and deprotonated N(pros) in the proximal imidazole ligand with linear and bent Fe-N-O structures.
  • (6) The helix diameter of the bent ends was 0.57 micron, and the helix pitch of the bent ends was 1.85 microns.
  • (7) There were no significant correlation coefficients between semen traits (yield, concentration and frequency of bent sperm) measured prior to the first insemination and fertility over a 12-week hatching period when the amount of semen inseminated per female was greater than the minimum (.025 cc.)
  • (8) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
  • (9) Because of a right-handed cell cylinder and left-handed periplasmic flagella along with bent ends having helix diameters greater than those of either the cell cylinder or periplasmic flagella, we conclude that there is a complex interaction of the periplasmic flagella and the cell cylinder to form the bent ends.
  • (10) Many of the acrylic resin and bent-wire temporary partial dentures in use today produce pathologic changes in the oral mucosa.
  • (11) Joe Cole made his full debut for Villa and Shay Given made his first appearance since January 2013, while Darren Bent started a game for the first time since the final day of the 2012-13 season.
  • (12) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
  • (13) Also Darren Bent, 26, whose last 2 transfer values has been £26.5 million was also considered not good enough to be picked for their squad.
  • (14) The basic principle of frame assembly and application require that the wires are never bent to reach the support rings; instead, the Ilizarov hardware is used to build up to the wires from the rings.
  • (15) Unlike in France, Italy or Germany, where publishers banded together to create options to Amazon, British and American publishers still seem bent on competing with one another, even as Amazon eats into their finances.
  • (16) In L-starts the body was bent into an L or U shape and a recoil turn normally accompanied acceleration.
  • (17) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
  • (18) In the dithionite-reduced enzyme, the ring system is bent at the N(5) position.
  • (19) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
  • (20) To avoid migration of the wire, one end should be bent to form a walking-stick shape, and the arm should be immobilised.

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