(n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
(n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
(n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
(v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(2) "I said it's got nothing to do with a bung," he explained.
(3) The femoral medullary cavity is plugged with a bone core taken from the excised femoral head or with a polyethylene bung.
(4) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
(5) In fact, the City of London police investigation centred not on bungs but on what the force has said was alleged money-laundering.
(6) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
(7) A document showing that former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks personally authorised a cash payment for a story was not disclosed to police investigating whether staff at her paper were paying bungs to public officials for tipoffs, a jury has heard.
(8) (lacovitti, L., M. I. Johnson, T. H. Joh, and R. P. Bunge (1982) Neuroscience 7:2225-2239).
(9) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
(10) E. sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge, E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey., E. qrzewaskiistaqs E. monosperma Gmel.
(11) Stellate astrocytes might therefore represent mature astrocytes in vivo (Ard and Bunge: J. Neurosci.
(12) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
(13) For example, bonuses of 200% have become routine; but why do so many companies use such rough and ready round numbers – hardly a sign that anybody has thought carefully about what is needed to produce performance and much more like a pure bung – and then accompany them with requirements for their eligibility that are far from demanding and transparent?
(14) Anyway, if there is a good time to get caught paying bungs, this wasn’t it, what with US president Donald Trump already hinting that he may have pharmaceuticals companies in his sights over drug pricing.
(15) In addition to new impulses initiated by Paracelsus, the author emphasizes the clinical and experimental studies pursued, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, by such scientists as Thomas Sydenham, Justus von Liebig, Carl von Voit and Gustav von Bunge.
(16) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
(17) An original bank The problem with “challenger” banks, it is often said, is that they attract the most challenging customers – ie those who are happy to switch their current accounts for a year for £100, then depart in search of the next bung.
(18) Or are the terrestrial services bunged up with clowns like in the UK, and you're giving them the bodyswerve?
(19) It is not as if his windfall had come from secretly manipulating the Libor rate or getting a bung for fixing a Fifa vote.
(20) When these date were compared to RGC survival and axon growth on SC (Baehr and Bunge: Exp.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(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) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.