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Buckeye


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
  • (n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Buckeye Firearms Association offered this class for teachers who wanted to learn how to effectively use a gun against an intruder to their school.
  • (2) Buckey-Irvine added: “Our actions in disbanding the club demonstrate the seriousness of the situation, and our commitment to challenging cultures that allow misogyny, sexism or homophobia to exist.” The decision met with approval from fellow students.
  • (3) During the break at a football game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Rutgers, the band performs a classic rock themed act, where they arrange themselves into rock and roll themed shapes while playing their instruments.
  • (4) Vee Sanford had scored the go-ahead layup for the Dayton Flyers with less than four seconds remaining straight after Craft had given the Buckeyes a late lead.
  • (5) The 2014 NCAA March Madness tournament opened with an enthralling upset that saw the sixth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes beaten by their neighbours from Dayton.
  • (6) Slattery’s is to his football teams – the Ohio State University Buckeyes and the Cleveland Browns.
  • (7) Instead it was a close affair with a remarkable ending as Aaron Craft’s failed attempt to answer Vee Sanford's game-winning shot with seconds left on the clock ensured that the Buckeyes would be the tournament's first casualty.
  • (8) Updated at 3.27pm GMT 2.46pm GMT Ohio, Ohio, Ohio : the Columbus Dispatch has a new poll that shows it remains Obama's by a wafer-thin margin: The final Dispatch Poll shows Obama leading 50% to 48% in the Buckeye State.
  • (9) RYAN in IOWA: Bus tour continues with a town hall in Clinton at 9:10 CT and stops in Muscatine at 11:50 CT and Burlington at 2:50 CT. MICHELLE in OHIO: On the first day of early voting in the Buckeye State, the first lady leads a 2 p.m. rally in Cincinnati.
  • (10) The sheer number of teachers applying for the Buckeye Firearms Association seminar belies the fact that, when nearly 11,000 teachers were surveyed nationwide a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 72.4% of teachers said that they would not bring a gun to school even if they could.

Seed


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Seed
  • (n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
  • (n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
  • (n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
  • (n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
  • (n.) The principle of production.
  • (n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
  • (n.) Race; generation; birth.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
  • (v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
  • (2) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
  • (3) Cissus quadrangularis was mutagenic, while 'decoctions' of cumin seeds, aniseeds and ginger were not.
  • (4) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
  • (5) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
  • (6) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
  • (7) Although not yet characterized, glycinin-related genes could encode other glycinin subunit families whose members accumulate in minor amounts in seeds.
  • (8) A procedure for cultivation of the seed material for biosynthesis of eremomycin providing an increase in the antibiotic yield by 24 per cent was developed.
  • (9) At 10 weeks only the seeded grafts could be assessed because all of the control grafts had occluded.
  • (10) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
  • (11) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
  • (12) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
  • (13) Previous work from this laboratory had shown that Leguminosa seed extracts contain lectin-bound proteins.
  • (14) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
  • (15) Y-79 cells, seeded into a Matrigel matrix, form round colonies over a 3-week period similar to those of control, weakly metastatic murine melanoma cells.
  • (16) During the procedure of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), the release of free oxygen radicals as a result of ischemia and reperfusion which plants the seeds of post-operative low cardiac output and arrhythmias has grave consequence on the reestablishment of cardiac function.
  • (17) Production of the vaccine basically consists in the multiplication of the working seed under standardized, well-defined conditions guaranteeing consistency of the vaccine lots.
  • (18) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
  • (19) The amino acid sequence of the smaller subunit of conglutin gamma, the simplest of the three globulins from the seeds of Lupinus angustifolius cv.
  • (20) Virus in the seed lot was not identified correctly, and the titer of homologous antiserum was mistakenly considered to be low as a result of neutralization tests conducted with the aggregated virus.

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