(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
(n.) A hole made by boring.
(n.) The chips or fragments made by boring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scaphoid silicone implant bore significant, although less, load than the normal scaphoid.
(2) Paparella type II tubes had a prolonged period of intubation and a decreased reintubation rate when compared with the smaller bore tubes.
(3) He says the next step will be moving to bore water, which will require people to boil water to drink.
(4) By the time the bud was half the diameter of the mother cell, it almost always bore a vacuole.
(5) Rather, there is evidence that students find these courses 'waffly' and boring.
(6) (2) E. granulosus, which includes two geographical groups: (a) Northern group, with two sub-species E. g borelis and E. g. canadensis, the life-cycle of which is sylvatic and that are agents of a pulmonary hydatidosis which may affect Man.
(7) Adult mongrel dogs were instrumented and placed in the bore of a Bruker Biospec 1.89 tesla superconducting magnet system.
(8) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
(9) It was shown by double staining that most of the Ia-bearing T cells also bore the T8 marker.
(10) Neither the peak serum E2 level attained nor the number of days of stimulation required bore a relationship to the BMI or the total body weight of these women.
(11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
(12) The selectivity, efficiency and lifetime of normal- and narrow-bore columns for high-performance liquid chromatography were investigated for the separation and quantification of amino acids and the amino acid-like antibiotics phosphinothricin and phosphinothricylalanylalanine in biological samples.
(13) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
(14) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
(15) The use of soft catheter materials in large-bore veins has allowed safe long-term venous access in human patients.
(16) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
(17) While Cropley talked to a member of staff, her daughter got a bit bored.
(18) Sometimes my press conferences are boring because I’m very polite or political.
(19) It was found that the emphasis in the reporting of adolescence bore little relationship to the importance or relevance of each area of study.
(20) And until recently, they bore children for foreigners who never even saw this place.
Slow
Definition:
(v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
(n.) A moth.
() imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
(superl.) Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
(superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
(superl.) Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
(superl.) Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
(superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
(superl.) Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
(superl.) Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
(adv.) Slowly.
(v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(3) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(5) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(6) In electrophysiological studies with neurons of Lymnaea stagnalis, THA inhibited the slow outward K+ current and consequently increased the duration of the action potentials.
(7) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(8) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(9) In the absence of haemodialysis, the decline in plasma concentrations of lisinopril and enalaprilat was extremely slow and plasma concentrations were generally high.
(10) Thus serum ionized calcium in untreated essential hypertensive patients may predict the blood pressure response to the slow calcium channel blocker verapamil.
(11) Our results suggest that during simulated ischemia the rate-dependent component of the increase in Ri contributes to the rate-dependence of the conduction slowing.
(12) Recovery after EEDQ administration showed that both receptor production rate and degradation rate constants of anterior pituitary D2 and striatal D1 receptors were slowed after chronic estradiol treatment, whereas recovery rates for striatal D2 dopamine receptors were unaffected.
(13) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(14) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(15) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
(16) A calcium dependent potassium conductance was probably involved in the slow phase, because it was sensitive to inorganic calcium blockers.
(17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(18) The slow alpha-lipoprotein was distributed in the range of densities between low density and high density lipoproteins and was rich in apoprotein E. This abnormal lipoprotein of PBC was observed in those in Stages II and III but not in those in Stage I.
(19) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(20) And that's exciting, you've got no time to slow it down.