(n.) The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
(n.) Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, RBCs from bluetongue (BLU) virus-infected sheep were adsorbed directly onto Formvar-coated, gold electron microscope grids.
(2) The David Lynch limited-edition box set is available on Blu-ray and DVD from 4 June, courtesy of Universal Pictures
(3) The dominant and recessive natures of the resistant (blu(r)) and susceptible (blu(s)) alleles were determined by the sex of the parent.
(4) The revelation was contained in comments McKellen made on the extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray.
(5) The pilot for the plan is The Dark Knight , Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman blockbuster – currently No 7 on the list of all-time box-office grossers, and holder of several sales records for DVD and Blu-Ray.
(6) Release of histamine occurred at tick feeding sites, but vasoactive effects were blocked by mepyramine treatment as evidenced by a lack of increased vascular permeability (bluing) at these sites compared with non-tick-infested tissues, or to cutaneous basophil hypersensitivity (CBH) sites of animals not protected with mepyramine.
(7) The first survey showed that BLU group antibody in cattle 18-24 months old was confined to the coastal regions (east of the Great Dividing Range) and the Hunter Valley.
(8) In addition to the standard CD, vinyl and digital versions, there will be a deluxe edition, with three bonus tracks, and a special Japanese Blu-Spec , with four extra songs.
(9) A report released last week by the BFI indicated that, while actual sales are falling, DVDs and Blu-ray remain the film industry's largest single revenue source, bringing in £1.3bn a year.
(10) An extended version of The Class Of '92 will be released on Blu-ray in early June
(11) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .
(12) Like the native purple membrane, the blu membrane showed proton pumping activity upon illumination in phospholipid vesicles.
(13) If the antigenic BLU virus particles (which may be viral cores) are in fact infectious, this method of sequestration of virus within RBCs could contribute to the prolonged viremia typical of this arboviral disease, which is known to occur concurrently with circulating neutralizing antibody.
(14) Announced at last on Blu Ray by Network, it was Linda Fiorentino's finest hour and should have left Basic Instinct where it belonged, sucking dust.
(15) Fun Toyz Collector is the biggest channel of all on YouTube with 427m views in February alone , with peers It’s Baby Big Mouth and Blu Toys notching up 228m and 205m views respectively that month.
(16) Mali hotel attack – in pictures Read more Two gunmen with Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives ran into the Radisson Blu hotel before 7am last Friday, striking just as security guards were about to change shifts.
(17) A close association was observed between strong group antibody reactions and type-specific neutralizing activity against BLU-1 and BLU-21.
(18) It is like Blu-Tack, but it sets," said Ni Dhulchaointigh.
(19) Subsequent steps are: washing; bluing in ammonia water for 1 minutes; washing again and staining in 1% eosin Y alcoholic solution for 5 minutes; rinsing in 100% ethanol; drying and mounting with Permont.
(20) The last two mentioned clones showed to be good group-specific probes for the identification of BLU samples from Israel and United States.
Laundry
Definition:
(n.) A laundering; a washing.
(n.) A place or room where laundering is done.
Example Sentences:
(1) A questionnaire study was conducted in the Mushandike small scale irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe to investigate the following: 1) to establish whether field latrines are used or not; 2) to find out why people visit natural water bodies for bathing and laundry instead of using water from boreholes for these purposes; 3) to assess people's knowledge on the transmission and control of schistosomiasis.
(2) Among 133 chemical laundries workers and 107 persons from a control group internal medical examinations together with electrocardiography record and laboratory investigation were performed.
(3) Laundry workers have traditionally been offered little input into the ergonomic and health and safety aspects of their jobs.
(4) It is most likely that the skin changes noted in connection with the use of bioactive laundry detergents are due not to the PE content of these detergents, but to other factors.
(5) The purpose of this study was to examine trends in providing specific benefits, namely, stipend, housing, meals, and uniform laundry, to students in full-time clinical education at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1977.
(6) A laundry facility supplying linen to several hospitals needs to keep a good account of the numbers of different types of linen which enter and leave its premises so as to allocate the costs fairly and equitably among member hospitals.
(7) The damages "nuisances" were "running laundry or defacing walls (67.1%) and "contamination of food (15.3%)", suggesting that chironomid midges influenced the daily life of the residents.
(8) On the morning of Sunday 7 January 2007, one of the contractors working on decommissioning the Sizewell A nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast was in the laundry room when he noticed cooling water leaking on to the floor from the pond that holds the reactor's highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.
(9) Patients received more help with activities like shopping, laundry and housework than personal activities such as bathing, using the toilet and dressing.
(10) Laundry and clothing hung from lines above the cots.
(11) Similarly, no association was found between the use of toilet soaps or laundry detergents in early infancy and development of AD.
(12) This caused greater proportion of older cases, among which women (mothers) had probably been more exposed to infections than men (nursing ill household members, laundry handling, etc).
(13) They found they were coming home from studying, doing homework on their own and realising there was no foster mum or dad to cook for them or do their washing or laundry and they were suddenly on their own.
(14) Hairdressing, catering, retail, laundry and tailoring had some of the lowest-paid and most vulnerable workers.
(15) He has eluded authorities since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, and has a $7m bounty on his head.
(16) The £4,250 can be on a room-only basis or it can include payments for meals, cleaning and laundry.
(17) Budgee is the ultimate little pack mule that’ll follow you around by tracking your Bluetooth phone and carry all your shopping, laundry or gear.
(18) The ability of NTA to chelate metal ions such as Mg++ and Ca++ into water soluble complexes makes NTA useful as an additive to boiler water, as a builder in laundry detergents, and as a stabilizer in textile, paper, and pulp processing.
(19) A cohort of laundry and dry-cleaning workers was identified from the Danish Occupational Cancer Register for the study of cancer incidence of persons exposed to tetrachloroethylene.
(20) I worked in a laundry, a warehouse and as a taxi driver – simply to survive.