(n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have isolated and sequenced cDNAs for S2- and S3-alleles of the self-incompatibility locus (S-locus) in Solanum chacoense Bitt., a wild potato species displaying gametophytic self-incompatibility.
(2) In the treated animals the tick lesions were insignificant, lacking the collagen destruiction found in untreated hosts, bitt the ticks engorged normally.
Witts
Definition:
(n.) Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stromal cells which grow as an adherent layer of Whitlock-Witte cultures are thought to be an essential component of the lymphohemopoietic microenvironment.
(2) The conditioned medium of a non-virus producing A-MuLV transformed fibroblast cell line was synergistic with medium from Whitlock-Witte long-term bone marrow cultures, while conditioned medium from modified Dexter-type cultures was not active.
(3) "If that constitutes relevance for purposes of Section 215 [of the Patriot Act] – or for purposes of grand jury subpoena, for that matter," Wittes wrote on Wednesday, "then isn't all data relevant to all investigations?"
(4) Tamara Cofman Wittes, director for Middle East Policy at Brookings thinktank, responded on Twitter, citing concern over Regeni’s death.
(5) Two anti-T alpha antibodies from this panel (TF15 and TF16) and a third one (4A) against frog T alpha (Witt, P. L., Hamm, H. E., and Bownds, M. D. (1984) J. Gen. Physiol.
(6) In this report we demonstrate that IL-7 also has potent co-stimulatory activity for purified murine T cells, as well as its previously described ability to support the growth of pre-B cells in Witte-Whitlock cultures.
(7) The results of absorption experiments witt separated fractions of fatty acids esters indicate that the antisera showed activity againsmethyl esters of nocardomycolic acids.
(8) Jana Witt, a research associate at King’s College London, created an Oophorectomy Decision Explorer for her PhD at Cardiff University, which evolved into a decision-making tool .
(9) The first Witte Fietsenplan was just a symbolic thing,” he says.
(10) The radial head may be fixed by trans-articular Kirschner's wire (WITT) or primary reconstruction of the annular ligament, using a strip of biceps or triceps tendon, or adaptation around the collum radii and ulna of the proximal radio-ulnar joint by means of a sling of Dexon or Vicryl suture.
(11) Launched in Amsterdam in the 1960s, it was called the Witte Fietsenplan (the “white bicycle plan”).
(12) "Virulent" connotes poisonous or spiteful rhetoric and Wittes generally avoids that.
(13) Dose measurements in Witt liquid, which simulates cortical bone, have been compared with dose in water for 6-, 9-, 12-, and 15-MeV electron beams.
(14) Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) bound to endothelial cells is released from the cell surface by triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins and oleic acid (Saxena, U., Witte, L.D.
(15) When normal bone marrow cells were cultured in these clones under Whitlock-Witte-type condition, mature B cells were generated only in the culture with the ST2 layer.
(16) More detailed review articles which cover the historical development of the field (Baltimore et al, 1979; Rosenberg and Baltimore, 1980), biological properties of the Abelson murine leukaemia virus (Risser, 1982; Whitlock and Witte, 1985) and the structure of the abl gene and its products (Witte, 1983; Konopka and Witte, 1985a) are available.
(17) Studies on murine Dexter cultures and Whitlock-Witte lymphocyte cultures suggest the presence of two critical stromal regulatory cells: an alkaline-phosphatase-positive epithelioid cell and a macrophage.
(18) Such a device is essential to the Franck-Rosenberg theory, but not to the Duysens-Witt-Kok (DWK) model, which needs to assume only that the reactions occur in series.
(19) A comparative morphological analysis of the Whitlock-Witte long-term B-cell culture and the predominantly myeloid Dexter long-term bone marrow culture demonstrates that similarities and differences exist between the two systems.
(20) Similarly, cells from an immortalized but stromal cell-dependent and nontumorigenic murine pre-B cell line originally derived from a Whitlock-Witte culture were also found to adhere to fibronectin (FN) via an RGD cell-attachment site.