(n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
(n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
(v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
(2) There was no significant difference in the numbers of contaminated bolls between the excised and field-matured treatments.
(3) These results were discussed in the context of the species-specific defense reaction (SSDR) avoidance theory of Bolles.
(4) But I am confident that we as a city can shape the coexistence of different cultures we have here now.” “We have to bring the city into the camps,” says refugee coordinator Hadjiandreou-Boll.
(5) Expression of heat shock proteins (hsp) in the BRL-AG-3C cell line from the cotton boll weevil was examined.
(6) Muraschi, Thelma F. (Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany), John K. Miller, Victor N. Tompkins, and Dorothy M. Bolles.
(7) A heterogeneous group of 100 subjects were selected from the neuropsychological testing case records published by Golden, Osmon, Moses, and Berg in 1981, Boll (undated), and Reitan (undated).
(8) All of the bolls inoculated through the carpel wall had A. flavus in the seed, but only 11% of the stem and peduncle sections were infected, indicating that the fungus does not readily grow downward from the boll into the supporting stem or peduncle.
(9) Alix Bolle of the European association Energy Cities says many Scandinavian and German cities do well on energy not only because they have highly efficient district heating and cooling systems, but because powers to harness and manage energy are decentralised.
(10) Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) eggs contain two yolk proteins, YP47 and YP160.
(11) The seed and stem and peduncle sections of each boll were surface-sterilized, plated on agar media and observed for A. flavus.
(12) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
(13) The FokI method of gene synthesis [Mandecki and Bolling, Gene 68 (1988) 101-107] was used to assemble the plasmid from 30 oligodeoxyribonucleotides.
(14) The fungus was present in 20 to 58% of the immature bolls harvested 25 or 35 days after anthesis.
(15) Bolles tells us he is playing at the Echo in a few minutes with his band The Fancy Space People.
(16) Whole plants, assayed under conditions of high insect pressure with Heliothis zea (cotton bollworm) showed effective square and boll protection.
(17) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to examine gut, Malpighian tube, fat-body, testes, and ovarioles tissues of the adult cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh.
(18) The first are called vitellogenins and are found in frog, chicken, nematode, fish, and some insects such as the boll weevil.
(19) Bolls developing from early-season flowers had significantly higher percentages of A. flavus-infected seed than did bolls from flowers formed later in the season.
(20) The esterases of the cotton boll weevil were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into four major regions.
Bowl
Definition:
(n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
(n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
(n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
(n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
(n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
(n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
(n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.
(v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
(v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
(v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
(v. i.) To play with bowls.
(v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
(v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
Example Sentences:
(1) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(2) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
(3) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
(4) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(5) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
(6) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
(7) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
(8) Tip out the mix into a large bowl and add the sugar.
(9) Bowles achieved a total of 70,300 votes, while Mansell had 65,923 – a difference of 4,377.
(10) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(11) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
(12) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
(13) Melissa Miller, an associated professor of political science at Bowling Green state university in northern Ohio, said it was notable that Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, made many more visits to Ohio campuses this year.
(14) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
(15) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
(16) Roberts, who has also streaked at the Super Bowl and Royal Ascot, scored in the Liverpool v Chelsea Carling Cup game at Anfield in 2000 and the 2002 Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.
(17) That will end the college football season, but hey I just realized that the NFL Playoffs are still going on which means we'll have more football liveblogging here at the Guardian starting again this weekend where we will cover every game up to the Super Bowl.
(18) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
(19) I’ve seen them listed at odds as long as 33-1 for the Super Bowl, which definitely seemed too long to me.
(20) Last year in a Radar accessible toilet I discovered a dirty syringe in the bowl.