(n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
(n.) The bushy tail of a fox.
(n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
(n.) Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
(n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
(n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
(n.) The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
(n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
(n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
(n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
(n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
(n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.
(v. i.) To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(4) The teeth of 13 dental nurse students were brushed by a dental hygienist.
(5) All inhibitors had no effect on L-Ala uptake into brush-border membrane vesicles in presence of Na+ gradient.
(6) At 4 degrees C or after fixation, anti-renal tubular brush border vesicle (BBV) IgG bound diffusely to the surface of GEC and to coated pits.
(7) These results show that tunicamycin, an inhibitor of glycosylation, significantly affected the expression of brush border membrane glycoproteins, suggesting that both polypeptide synthesis and degradation of these proteins may be altered in the presence of this drug.
(8) From these results it is suggested that the lipid peroxidation of the brush-border membranes by addition of dithiothreitol plus Fe2+ is sensitively changed with change in ionic strength.
(9) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(10) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(11) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(12) The aim of this study was to identify and purify the Na+-H+ exchanger from rabbit renal brush border membranes by use of affinity chromatography.
(13) The effect of zinc on sodium coupled glucose uptake was studied in pig intestinal brush border membrane vesicles.
(14) In purified jejunal brush-border membranes both alkaline phosphatase and sucrase activities are increased at 4 or 7 weeks but especially at 13 weeks of hypertension.
(15) The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug.
(16) The method is based on brushing of copper surface with the studied paste in a device of own design, followed by chemical analysis of copper content in the mass after brushing.
(17) Plaque evaluations and brushing procedures were performed as in Visit 1 of the study.
(18) However, unlike rodent kidney, we were unable to detect a comparable HMWgp in extracts of human kidney on SDS-PA gels and found no cross-reactive material on Western blots of human brush border membrane proteins.
(19) The protein is localized in the brush border of primary and secondary epithelium.
(20) For now, Shimizu will not allow the children in her care to be interviewed and brushes off praise for her selflessness.
Polyhedron
Definition:
(n.) A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.
(n.) A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) These viruses are short-tailed polyhedrons resembling the SpV3 virus of Spiroplasma citri, and all have been shown to lyse at least one other strain of SRO.
(2) In the intact and elastase-treated cages, the clathrin extends from the vertices into the interior of the polyhedron and forms an inner shell of material.
(3) These observations were compared with the possible combinations of polygonal sections through various polyhedral models proposed by other workers and the five classical regular polyhedrons.
(4) The Voronoi polyhedron of a given S-phase cell nucleus is that polyhedron of minimal volume defined by planes all of which are perpendicular bisectors of the vectors extending from the given cell to all other S-phase cells in the tumor.
(5) The co-ordination polyhedron displays approximate 4m2 symmetry.
(6) A minimal data structure of the polyhedron is then proposed, which contains only topological informations, since no coordinates have been generated.
(7) We hypothesize that this distinct 9S form represents a major oligomeric subunit involved in assembly and disassembly of clathrin polyhedron coats in the living cell.
(8) Bioassays of the two pure virus variants in M. brassicae larvae have shown the LD50 values to be 4610 polyhedron inclusion bodies (pibs) for PfMNPV(A) and 5937 pibs for PfMNPV(B).
(9) Electron micrographs suggest that the eight subunits form a polyhedron of point symmetry D4, or 42.
(10) A suitable composition for the residual glass phase of bioactive glass-ceramics can be found approximately and controlled on the basis of calculation of a structural parameter Y, which in the simplified concept of the glass structure corresponds to the mean number of bridging oxygens per polyhedron in the glass lattice.
(11) The direct assay using 125I-labeled rabbit immunoglobulins could detect 0.2 microng of polyhedron protein, and the indirect method using 125I-labeled sheep antirabbit immunoglobulins could detect 0.05 microng of polyhedron protein.
(12) Morphologically, the virus is a rectilinear polyhedron 270 A in diameter, without a process.
(13) The biological function of zinc is governed by the composition of its tetrahedral coordination polyhedron in the metalloprotein, and each ligand group that coordinates to the metal ion does so with a well-defined stereochemical preference.
(14) Successive calvarial and craniofacial polyhedron expansion, as well as weight, showed considerable variability and interindividual variation throughout the observation period.
(15) A complementary DNA that encodes a bovine brain, calmodulin-sensitive (type I) adenylylcyclase has been inserted into the baculovirus genome under the control of the strong polyhedron promoter.
(16) The head of phi25 is a regular polyhedron measuring 75 nm in diameter.
(17) RV volume was calculated from the polyhedron created by the markers by decomposing the polyhedron into 24 tetrahedrons, each of whose volumes could be solved from the xyz-coordinates of markers.
(18) for the optimum approximation of experimentally obtained values of the output signal, the method of the changeable polyhedron was applied belonging to the optimalization numerical methods used in the regulation technics.
(19) The coordination polyhedron of catalytic zinc is usually dominated by histidine side chains.
(20) The weak NO3- inhibitor does not displace Wat263 from the metal coordination but occupies a fifth binding site changing the zinc coordination polyhedron into a slightly distorted trigonal bipyramid.