(n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Beckinsale was Geoffrey, Paula Wilcox was Beryl, pretty, pert and given the best lines: "Beryl, we live in a permissive society."
(2) Other drawings are more bizarre, such as Waldo's wife, who is based on Terry Wogan, while Mrs Utah Watkins is unmistakably Beryl Bainbridge.
(3) Other names from TV production include Beryl Vertue, mother of Sue, who has credits ranging from Steptoe and Son to Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock .
(4) Renwick and Smith met in 1999, at a social club they both joined when they were widowed (Betty in 1998, Beryl in the 80s).
(5) "We're getting paid now," Beryl says, "but we would never be the kind of people who would ask for money."
(6) "I didn't want to go to my grave and get a Beryl," he said referring to Bainbridge, who was shortlisted five times, never won and received a posthumous Best of Beryl Booker prize .
(7) She has many memories of friends such as Beryl Bainbridge: "Beryl had amazing staying power, an extraordinary stamina – for writing, for drinking, for smoking – she kept on till the very end.
(8) Beryl Wilkins, a local historian, lives a stone's throw from a former school built in 1624 as a bequest from the lord of the manor, Lord Knyvett – the man, she says, who felt the collar of one Guy Fawkes.
(9) At Beryl's Florists, Julie Vaughan, said the whole village was in shock.
(10) "She's had no children, you know," Betty says, as a complete non sequitur, in the middle of Beryl talking about her first wage cheque.
(11) Miles, Beryl and their cat survived it twice, emerging slightly scathed and much less keen on the sea.
(12) At one point Betty says about David: "He wants his legs wiping down, doesn't he Beryl?"
(13) Her name is Beryl James and ... she comes from Cairns, and it was her wish that she celebrate her 100th birthday in the Australian parliament.
(14) (1972), a faint echo of the earlier plays, with more than 30 characters, but Simpson wrote several more television plays including Elementary My Dear Watson, a Sherlock Holmes parody for John Cleese for the BBC Comedy Playhouse in 1973, and material for Beryl Reid, Sheila Hancock, Ned Sherrin and Dick Emery.
(15) Harrogate is also famed as the home, in later life, of one of Britain's most brilliant cyclists, Beryl Burton, who died in 1996.
(16) It's been significantly updated – the stand-out moment for me was when Beryl and Betty did a rap over Don't Stop Me Now (they do the words – "I'm a sex machine, ready to reload", which is droll for their dry delivery – but they also chat all the way through: "I think you were out of tune, there".
(17) Someone even cold-called Beryl to ask her to write a piece about what it was like being the same age as the queen (this went down really badly, the unsolicited contact.
(18) Beryl French, 88, pensioner Stratford has so many visitors you could almost call it multicultural.
(19) Monday night's awards also saw the oldest ever Sony winners with BBC Radio Humberside's Beryl Renwick, 86, and 90-year-old Betty Smith winning the best entertainment programme.
(20) Which is fine provided that you ignore the wins of Beryl Burton, Mandy Jones and myself.
Beryllium
Definition:
(n.) A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beryllium, cadmium, and tellurium assay data are reported for the fresh tissues of albino rats exposed to inorganic chemicals by oral or intraperitoneal routes.
(2) Peak air concentrations of beryllium of as much as 50 times the accepted peak limit value were found in the plant in 1971.
(3) Base metal alloys, principally made of nickel, chromium, and beryllium have gained widespread usage, especially in the United States, due to their lower cost and higher mechanical properties.
(4) The effects of beryllium addition to a dental cobalt-chromium alloy on biological compatibility as well as physical properties were examined and the following results were obtained.
(5) The role of the immune system in the pathogenesis of beryllium lung disease has been suspected for years.
(6) The value of the beryllium macrophage migration inhibition (Be MIF) and Mantoux tests in the diagnosis of chronic beryllium disease and in the detection of hypersensitivity in healthy beryllium workers is demonstrated.
(7) Association of radiological changes with imperfection of lungs' ventilating reserve of restrictive type was found in one man who was removed from the work in exposure to beryllium, as a person with an increased risk of falling ill.
(8) We conclude that use of fiberoptic bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy and BAL facilitates diagnosis of beryllium workers who have histopathologic and immunologic alterations consistent with chronic beryllium disease.
(9) The possible geometries of aluminum and beryllium fluorides in the gamma-phosphate subsite of the nucleotide are discussed in correlation with the catalytic mechanism of nucleotide hydrolysis.
(10) The proposed method is simple (only beryllium and an ammoniacal buffer are needed to develop fluorescence), rapid (the derivative formation is instantaneous and serum treatment only requires deproteinization), and inexpensive (no sophisticated detection equipment is necessary, any conventional modern spectrofluorimeter being adequate for use).
(11) A method was devised for attaching beryllium to particulate carriers, such as lymphocytes or red cells that had been fixed with glutaraldehyde.
(12) In a simulated 1-year period of mastication, the results showed that nickel and beryllium metals were released both by dissolution and occlusal wear.
(13) Beryllium fluoride (BeF3-) has previously been shown to bind tightly to microtubules as a structural analogue of Pi and to mimic the GDP-Pi transient state in tubulin polymerization [Carlier, M.-F., Didry, D., Melki, R., Chabre, M., & Pantaloni, D. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 3555-3559].
(14) To obtain the usual values of arsenic, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, mercury, methyl mercury, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, lead, antimony, vanadium, and zinc in the normal human body, the amounts of 15 metals were determined in 15 male and 15 female Japanese cadavers (average weight, 55 kg [121 lb]).
(15) The effects of lung injury in rats and mice exposed to an aerosol of beryllium sulfate for 1 hr through nose-only inhalation were evaluated by the method of bronchoalveolar lavage.
(16) The hazards due to the presence of beryllium in numerous alloys is emphasized as well as the necessity of technical and medical supervision in dental laboratories.
(17) Most of the beryllium that was cleared from the lungs and not excreted was translocated to the tracheobronchial lymph nodes, skeleton, liver, and blood.
(18) No evidence could be obtained of an affinity of beryllium for DNA or RNA by fractionation of nuclei and dialysis experiments.
(19) The test was positive in none of the four patients with biopsy evidence of non-beryllium disease, none out of two patients with lower lobe fibrosis suggestive of non-beryllium disease, and all of three patients with probable chronic beryllium lung disease.
(20) FCA-treated rabbits developed a much higher serum precipitating antibody response, detectable using gel double diffusion tests, than the beryllium group.