(n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
(n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
(n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
(n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
(n.) A braggart, or loud talker.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are currently five separate criminal prosecutions relating to official leaks under way, a surge in activity that national security experts say is a worrying attack on the rights of whistle blowers.
(2) It was possible to ventilate this isolator by either free-flow or blower operation.
(3) What have they cut in children’s education to do this?” Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, called for greater oversight of academies.
(4) The prevalence of chronic and acute respiratory symptoms and diseases and changes in lung function in a group of 80 glass blowers have been investigated.
(5) The talks are only allowed to discuss how Mr Gove's policies are implemented," Blowers said.
(6) Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, was "delighted" a clause that would have forced teachers to hold a licence that needed renewing every five years had been dropped.
(7) Blower said the report cards would have "reduced schools to a single letter or number, which was not the right way to do it".
(8) After the motion endorsing strikes was passed, the NUT's general secretary, Christine Blower, said: "The union will demand that Michael Gove attends talks with the unions to discuss his education policies, on workload and accountability, teacher pay – including performance-related pay– and his unfair pension changes.
(9) Speaking before the conference, Blower said: "There is a big concern in the profession about performance management, about Ofsted, about the pressure on teachers and about the unreasonableness of it."
(10) Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "These job losses are a mark of things to come.
(11) It will force journalists to reveal their sources and will send whistle-blowers to jail.
(12) We conclude that the blower is expected to be a useful accessory to respiratory protective devices for patients with pulmonary disease.
(13) "There are things the secretary of state [Michael Gove] could have done to avoid our national action in March and there are certainly things he could do to demonstrate good faith in discussions," Blower said.
(14) Flanked by lawns and monuments, this is the site of Delhi’s passeggiata , and at sunset, candy floss and ice-cream sellers, bubble blowers and henna artists set up stall.
(15) Blower said the attacks on pay and conditions alongside an overhaul of the Ofsted inspection regime and new guidelines on the performance management of individual teachers were placing an unbearable toll on the profession.
(16) NUT leader Christine Blower said delegates would decide the "shape of the ongoing campaign".
(17) But Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said she had serious reservations.
(18) From Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers The snapshot provided by the PISA results clearly shows that countries which are performing well, pay teachers well, respect the profession and encourage collaboration between teachers and schools.
(19) Photograph: Sam Frost Christine Blower , general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: “Voices of parents, governors and the local community are being silenced by a government that does not believe in proper democratic accountability in our schools.” Governors also condemned the move.
(20) Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said: "The education secretary should have taken the lead from Wales and re-graded this year's English GCSEs .
Heating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heat
(a.) That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(3) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(4) The effect of heat on glucocorticoids of plasma was not significant.
(5) This Mr 20,000 inhibitory activity was acid and heat stable and sensitive to dithiothreitol and trypsin.
(6) There is a relationship between the duration of stimulation (t) and the total heat production (H) of the type H = A plus bt, where A and b are constants.
(7) This suggests that there was a deterioration of the vasoconstrictor response and indicated a possible effect of heat at the receptor or effector level.
(8) While both inhibitors caused thermosensitization, they did not affect the time scale for the development of thermotolerance at 42 degrees C or after acute heating at 45 degrees C. The inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribosylation) radiosensitizers and thermosensitizers may be of use in the treatment of cancer using a combined modality of radiation and hyperthermia.
(9) The binding to DNA-cellulose of heat-activated [3H]RU486-receptor complexes was slightly decreased (37%) when compared with that of the agonist [3H]R5020-receptor complexes (47%).
(10) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(11) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.
(12) It is the action of this protease that releases the enzyme from the membrane, as shown by the observations that protease inhibitors decreased the amount of solubilization of the enzyme, and the enzyme remaining in the membrane after heating showed much less proteolytic cleavage than that which was released.
(13) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
(14) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(15) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
(16) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
(17) Lebedev punched Polonsky during a heated early recording of NTVshniki.
(18) At the site of injury heat itself causes microvascular damage.
(19) Acid-fast bacilli were isolated from 3 out of 41 mice inoculoted with heat killed bacilli.
(20) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.