(n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
(n.) A bombardment.
(n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
(n.) Padded breeches.
(n.) See Bombardo.
(v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important characteristics of various interfaces, such as direct liquid introduction, Magic, continuous flow fast atom bombardment and thermospray, are discussed.
(2) A method is described for measuring the stable isotopic enrichment of taurine in cat urine samples by high resolution fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry, after 15N labelled taurine was given to cats for the purpose of investigating taurine metabolism.
(3) The variability in response is attributed to interaction between nearby, on-going synaptic bombardment and the stimulus, implying that surface cathodal stimuli directly activate corticospinal neurons at the spike trigger zone (presumably the initial segment).
(4) Analysis of these polar lipids by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry established that they were F2-isoprostane-containing species of phosphatidylcholine.
(5) 5-10%), according to analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS).
(6) Its structure was determined by permethylation and fast atom bombardment-mass spectometry analyses.
(7) Their chemical structures were determined by gas-liquid chromatography, methylation analysis, enzymatic hydrolysis, negative-ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
(8) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(9) Meanwhile, rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been overrun by pro-regime forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-led Shia militias supported by Russian and Syrian regime aerial bombardment.
(10) In this method, the Staphylococcus aureus protease V8 digest of the CNBr-treated B subunit of the classical biotype toxin was examined directly by fast-atom-bombardment mass spectrometry without separation of individual peptides.
(11) High-energy radiation bombardment of intact frozen telencephalon resulted in a biphasic inactivation curve for [3H]AMPA binding.
(12) After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north.
(13) The number of civilian casualties from Russian bombardment is far higher than the number caused by American and French airstrikes,” said Wael Aleji, spokesman for the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
(14) spectroscopy, fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry (f.a.b.-m.s.
(15) France immediately extended its bombardment of the Islamists with air strikes in central Mali.
(16) The beheading of British aid worker David Haines on 13 September and the start of US-led bombardment of Isis positions in Syria on 23 September were followed by large anti- then pro-Isis reactions.
(17) US and coalition aircraft have been bombarding the territory in and around Kobani for days, launching airstrikes on dozens of locations and taking out militants, weapons and other targets.
(18) These results indicate the usefulness of low-energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in the daughter and parent scan modes for the analysis of ganglioside structure, in combination with fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and high-energy collision-activated dissociation mass spectrometry.
(19) Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry has already been used for the identification of mutations in abnormal human hemoglobin chains.
(20) The positive and negative ion fast atom bombardment spectra of myo-inositol hexakis(disodium phosphate) and myo-inositol hexakis(dihydrogen phosphate) are described.
Substance
Definition:
(n.) That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.
(n.) The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.
(n.) Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.
(n.) Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
(n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.
(v. t.) To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
Example Sentences:
(1) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(2) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
(3) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(4) Intracellular localization of the labeled substance in the tumor tissue was examined autohistoradiographically.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
(8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(9) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(10) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
(11) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
(12) These results are discussed in the light of the mode of action of the substances used.
(13) Most cis AB sera have anti-B activity, essentially at 4 degrees C. In saliva A and H substances are found in normal amounts but B substance is only evidenced by inhibition of autologous cells agglutination.
(14) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.
(15) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
(16) The authors describe the role played by these substances in the pathogenesis of inflammations, their importance in the regulation of intraocular pressure and in the development of cystoid macular oedema.
(17) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
(18) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
(19) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(20) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.