(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.
Whiten
Definition:
(v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
(v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The full chemical names of the fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs) investigated in this study are listed below.
(2) These results would suggest that speech intelligibility is reduced by whitening and peak clipping when more than one talker is present.
(3) In a letter to the Glasgow Herald , Kearney said: "In much the same way as America's black citizens in an earlier era were urged to straighten their hair and whiten their complexions to minimise differences with the white majority, many will surely urge Scottish Catholics to stop sending their children to Catholic schools or making public or overt declarations of faith."
(4) V-K-H syndrome is a chronic bilateral exudative uveitis associated with whitening of the hair and eyelashes and varying signs of meningeal irritation.
(5) In contrast, the continuous-wave laser was observed videographically to produce prominent tissue whitening and puckering, seen histologically as convolution of the epithelium and coagulation of stroma, which was called a shrinkage-like lesion.
(6) The coating on the shell responsible for whitening was deposited during the hour prior to oviposition.
(7) Should such removal provide the additional effect of "whitening" the tooth surface, an additional cosmetic benefit would be provided.
(8) Whenever there's an alternative popular movement that grips the national imagination, left-ish commentators and journalists fight whitened tooth and manicured nail for public alliance to this season's worthy cause of resistance.
(9) We found that hydrogen peroxide bleached more quickly than carbamide although, after a period of six weeks, the results were the same as far as whitening was concerned.
(10) The performances of some leading commercial whiteners are compared and their interactions with dyes, fillers and stabilizers are discussed.
(11) The presence of clinically detectable areas of decalcification (observable as whitened areas) following the removal of orthodontic appliances is well recognized.
(12) The major factor responsible for whitening is confirmed as a high water temperature irrespective of the presence of the denture cleaning agent.
(13) In hand washing tests with detergents containing fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs), the amounts of whitener left on both hands were determined by TLC spectrophotometry: they varied from 0.06 mg to 0.17 mg. Whiteners of different chemical constitutions behaved in a very similar manner.
(14) A cotton-substantive, anionic, fluorescent whitening agent manufactured by several suppliers under various trade names e.g.
(15) The ophthalmoscopic changes consisted of initial whitening and subsequent but persistent depigmentation of the foveola.
(16) Consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllabic words were filltered such that each spectral component had equal energy (i.e., "whitened") and peak clipped in one of four ways: minimal, 20, 30, and 40 dB of clipping.
(17) Experimental details and examples of a "chromatographic program" for testing the major fluorescent whitening agent (FWA) types and material samples containing FWAs are described.
(18) Isolates are employed as whipping agents and coffee whiteners.
(19) At higher concentrations, clinical and histologic changes were seen in proportion to the concentration and included focal whitening, edema, vitreous haze, vascular abnormalities, and retinal necrosis at the highest doses.
(20) In fact, under some conditions whitening and peak clipping may slightly enhance intelligibility.