(v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
(v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
(v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
(v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.
(v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
(v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
(v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
(v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
(v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
(v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
(v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
(v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
(v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.
(n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
(n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
(n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
(2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(3) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(4) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(5) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(6) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(7) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
(8) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
(9) In this case, actinomycin D does not block the reinduction of N-acetyltransferase by isoproterenol or by dibutyryl cyclic AMP.
(10) The latter result indicates that the dexamethasone block is upstream from release of esterified arachidonic acid.
(11) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(12) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(13) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(14) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(15) We concluded that ketamine potentiates the Phase I and the Phase II neuromuscular blocks of succinylcholine.
(16) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(17) Blocking the heparin-binding domains of fibronectin inhibited osteoblast attachment by 40-45%, which is complementary to inhibition results previously obtained with the RGDS tetrapeptide.
(18) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(19) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
(20) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
Orc
Definition:
(n.) The grampus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Genes play an important etiological role in ORC-related psychiatric side effects.
(2) Electron-microscopic studies of 2 of the Mabs in this class showed that they recognize antigens associated with the cell membrane and that the immunoreactive ORC axons are bundled together in fascicles in the antennal nerve.
(3) To investigate the etiological role of genetic factors in ORC-related symptoms, we studied questionnaire responses in 715 monozygotic and 416 dizygotic volunteer twin pairs concordant for ORC usage.
(4) A poll late last week, by CNN and ORC International , revealed that only 34% of Americans now support the war, one percentage point down on the previous all-time low.
(5) CNN, together with the market research company ORC, conducted a poll with a more robust methodology, although they only managed to speak to 537 registered voters in total (only 27% of whom identified as Republican).
(6) Stableflex (ORC) is a PMMA anterior chamber intraocular lens with closed and flexible loops permitting the philosophy of "one size fits all" in 90% of the eyes.
(7) Pyloric and cardiac glands were stained faintly with ox-orc but not with ox-HID or ox-AB.
(8) Multivariate genetic analysis indicated that both the genetic and the individual-specific environmental factors that influenced the liability to ORC-related depression and irritability were largely distinct from those that influence baseline levels of psychiatric symptoms.
(9) The protection in situ is similar to that generated by the origin recognition complex (ORC) protein.
(10) The authors report on their experience with UV-absorbent posterior chamber IOLs (ORC) implanted between April 1, 1984 and April 1, 1985 (n = 125).
(11) One group had the area of the aorta with the patch wrapped with oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC); the other group served as a control.
(12) P. putida ORC, on the other hand, possesses individual hydroxylases for orcinol and resorcinol, which are specifically induced by growth on their respective substrates.
(13) In the control group, rabbits were fed commercial chow (ORC 4).
(14) Results demonstrate that ORC produced graded reduction in adhesion formation and significantly prevented adhesion reformation.
(15) In the investigation reported here, we examined the expression of the antigens during postembryonic development in order to correlate the presence of particular antigens with the status of differentiation of the ORCs or with their acquisition of particular functions.
(16) Immediately after this period of mitoses, the OSA immunoreactivity reappears exclusively in the ORCs, which begin to elaborate axons as an early event in their differentiation.
(17) In films featuring Dracula, Tony Montana, Orcs or even Achilles, the parameters are more clearly drawn.
(18) He’s been shot, stabbed, pulled apart by horses, chased off a cliff by cows, thrown off a giant satellite dish, blown up, beheaded and turned into a human pin-cushion by Orc arrows.
(19) Then everyone files out and goes into the next demo room – and you do this for the three days that the event runs, like being strapped to a conveyor belt of hype, until you don’t know where you are any more and all the games have merged into one narrative about a spec-ops warrior slaughtering orcs on Saturn.
(20) This antibody demonstrates that male-specific ORCs are molecularly distinct from other types of ORCs.