(n.) A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
(n.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
(n.) A bibcock.
(v. t.) Alt. of Bibbe
(v. i.) To drink; to sip; to tipple.
Example Sentences:
(1) The constant need for clothing or bib changes in handicapped patients frequently results in further social isolation and causes normal children to be viewed as "impaired."
(2) Merlin was then taken over by Topps and the result is that England are the only World Cup team that Panini can’t reproduce with logos or emblems, which is why the players all look like they’re wearing bibs in the photos.
(3) There's a favourite bib of Billy's; Nicola's diaries; a milk bottle melted in some long-forgotten sterilisation process; Billy's death certificate; Nicola's successful pregnancy test; a letter published, two days after Billy died, in the Guardian's Private Lives section, from a woman who had lost her baby daughter at three days.
(4) An experimental setup is described in which by planning of the experiment (BIB-design) the interstimulus intervals are randomized and all components of the evoked potentials (EP) are placed under equal conditions with respect to the influence of the preceding intervals.
(5) Alyce guided the children back to the dental chair one by one, removing their woollen hats and wiping their runny noses, tucking the paper bibs under their chins, comforting the ones who were frightened.
(6) Photograph: Alamy They lift their bits up and over their bib shorts and let rip at the side of the road.
(7) Officially known as bib shorts, these cruellest of garments are designed to keep kidneys warm during cold, rainy stages and to eliminate any problems with waistbands, which can dig in.
(8) Together with genetic studies, our results indicate that the bib product may mediate intercellular communication in a pathway separate from the one involving the products of the other neurogenic genes.
(9) Then the object of their attention comes into view: not a shy songbird or a rare mammal, but a cyclist clad in a fluorescent bib.
(10) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
(11) Persistent drooling not only creates troublesome hygienic problems for patients, teachers, nurses, and playmates because of the constant soiling of clothes, toys, and work materials, but also causes an odor from their clothing and bibs.
(12) Thus BIBS 39 was 17 times more selective for the AT1 subtype and BIBS 222 37 times.
(13) Roger Bibbings Malvern, Worcestershire • You report that Theresa May has urged media outlets to demonstrate restraint in their reports on extremists such as Mohammed Emwazi ( Report , 3 March).
(14) "There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose bib identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina.
(15) The Rank Xerox bib, pictured at the top of this report, for example.
(16) Roll forward a few weeks, and bib-number 5805 was sitting quietly in my mailbox, confirming my commitment.
(17) Eventually, they see beyond the white walls, white chair, and white bed (unmade), to the jeans strewn on the floor, the soiled baby bibs, the jars of organic rice pudding.
(18) BIBS 39 shifted the AII concentration-contractile response curves in isolated rabbit aorta to the right in a parallel fashion.
(19) "There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose bib No.
(20) Our observations are compatible with a function of bib in specifying neuronal precursors of both the embryonic and adult sensory nervous system.
Bibb
Definition:
(n.) A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their presumptive promoters differed from each other; the more downstream, P2, resembled typical prokaryotic promoters (i.e., those recognized by the major form of RNA polymerase) at five of six positions in its -10 and -35 regions; and the more upstream, P1, was comparably similar, instead, to the previously described hrdDp1 promoter (M. J. Buttner, K. F. Chater, and M. J. Bibb, J. Bacteriol.
(2) Analysis of transcription of the c gene by S1 mapping and primer extension showed that the nest of transcripts encoding the repressor protein were induced after heat treatment of the cts locus (Sinclair and Bibb, 1989; this paper).
(3) 187:265-277, 1985; J. L. Schottel, M. J. Bibb, and S. N. Cohen, J. Bacteriol.
(4) It is not known whether members of the high-G + C group are translationally specific, although there is evidence that one genus, Streptomyces, can express Escherichia genes in vivo (M. J. Bibb and S. N. Cohen, Mol.
(5) The nucleotide sequence of 2.5 kb of the Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) rRNA gene set rrnD, extending from upstream of the 16S rRNA gene to the putative 5' end of the 23S rRNA gene, has been determined (Baylis and Bibb, 1987; this paper).
(6) The DNA sequence 5' to the amy structural gene contained a sequence complementary to the 3'-terminal sequence of 16S rRNA of S. lividans (M. J. Bibb and S. N. Cohen, Mol.
(7) Martin Bibbs, who was convicted of attempted murder, said this time strikers would continue until obtaining meaningful change.
(8) Studies have recently shown that the prevalence of alcohol abuse or dependence is very high in patients with panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (Thyer et al., 1986; Bibb and Chambless, 1986).
(9) Moreover, heat treatment of the older lysogenic cultures did not result in the phi C31-dependent shut-down of host rRNA transcription previously observed for young cultures (Rodríguez et al., Journal of General Microbiology (1986) 132, 1695-1701; Clayton & Bibb, Molecular Microbiology (1990) 4, 2179-2185).
(10) Martin Bibbs, who was convicted of attempted murder and placed in a SHU in 1991, said the truth about solitary confinement was emerging.