(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.
Bis
Definition:
(adv.) Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of 4,4'-methylene bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA) and 4,4'-sulphonyldianiline (Dapsone) in vivo on xenobiotic biotransformation in male rat liver was studied.
(2) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
(3) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(4) 1 Rats were convulsed once daily for 7 days by exposure to the inhalant convulsant agent, flurothyl (Indoklon, bis (2,2,2-trifluouroethyl)ether).
(5) Inhibition of spermidine and spermine synthesis by methylglyoxal bis (amidinohydrazone) did not affect virus replication.
(6) Several derivatives and analogs of the recently reported antiproliferative and antitumor agent trans-bis(salicylaldoximato)copper(II) (CuSAO2) have been prepared and tested for antiproliferative activity against L1210 leukemia cells in vitro.
(7) Depletion of extracellular Ca2+ by EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N'N'-tetraacetic acid] attenuated both [Ca2+]i increase and superoxide production induced by particles.
(8) Three esterase inhibitors, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, bis-(p-nitrophenyl)-phosphate, and diisopropylfluorophosphate, had no effect on the antidote effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine, although each provided partial protection against acetaminophen poisoning.
(9) Treatment of normal (human fibroblast line PA2 and mouse 3T3) and transformed (CHO, HeLa and SV3T3) cells with methylglyoxal bis-(guanyl-hydrazone) resulted in a significant decrease in the levels of spermidine and spermine which was associated with an inhibition of growth.
(10) Streptozotocin and the haloethyl nitrosoureas, chlorozotocin and bis-chloroethylnitrosourea were less efficient in inducing HPRT-deficient mutants and a smaller degree of protection was afforded by the transfected genes.
(11) A series of aryl phosphoglyceride (3, 19-61) and bis-aryl phosphate (67-135) antagonists of platelet activating factor (PAF) were prepared.
(12) In 1:1 saturated complexes with the octamers [d(GGATATCC)]2 and [d(GGTTAACC)]2, [N-MeCys3,N-MeCys7]TANDEM binds to each octamer as a bis-intercalator bracketing the TpA step.
(13) The mutagenic activation of these compounds was inhibited by bis(p-nitrophenyl)phosphate, which indicates that enzymatic deacetylation is a crucial step in the mutagenic activation.
(14) Chelation of extracellular calcium with ethyleneglycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)N,N,N',N' tetraacetic acid (EGTA) did not abolish the increase in calcium.
(15) However, two observations suggested that surface epithelial loss alone was not sufficient to trigger the proliferative response to DOC: intracolonic instillation of DOC followed by removal of the DOC solution at 1 h, at which time surface epithelial loss was maximal, did not result in an increase in ornithine decarboxylase activity or [3H]dThd incorporation into DNA when these parameters were assessed at 4 h or 12 to 48 h, respectively; phenidone, an antioxidant and radical scavenger, and bis[(3,5-diisopropyl-salicylato) (O,O) copper(II), a lipophilic agent with superoxide dismutase activity, abolished the DOC mediated proliferative response but did not prevent the early loss of surface cells.
(16) The N-nitrosamines studied were, N-nitroso: dimethylamine, diethylamine, dipropylamine, dibutylamine, pyrrolidine, piperidine, morpholine, methylbenzylamine, bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)amine, bis-(2-oxopropyl)amine and 3,4-dichloropyrrolidine.
(17) A quantitative thin layer chromatographic (TLC) method has been developed for determination of the antiarrhythmic quaternary ammonium compound N,N-bis (phenylcarbamoyl methyl) dimethylammonium chloride (QX-572) in biological materials.
(18) Probing of the active site of microsomal cytochrome P-450 was carried out with a spin label derived from 2-methyl-1,2-bis(3-pyridyl)-1-propanone (metyrapone).
(19) The subsequent conversion of intermediate 1 to 4-carboxy-2'-hydroxy-1,1'-(oxydimethylene)bis(pyridinium) cation (intermediate 2) followed higher order kinetics which were consistent with either acid- or base-promoted hydrolysis of the B-ring amide functionality.
(20) A new method for the high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) determination of N-(N-acetyl-L-methionyl)-O,O-bis(ethoxycarbonyl)dopamine (TA-870), a dopamine prodrug, in biological fluid has been developed.