(v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
(v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
(v. t. & i.) Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
(2) Synchrony was documented by nuclear staining and fluorescence microscopy, and by determining the variation of the buoyant density of the cells during outgrowth.
(3) The nuclear membranes were found to have a higher buoyant density and to be richer in protein.
(4) We have therefore termed this production of buoyant LDL in the Lpb 5.1 pigs direct buoyant LDL production.
(5) The chimeric plasmid was selected and amplified in vivo by sequential transformation of E. COLI C with the ligated mixture, selection of transformants in medium containing streptomycin plus colicin E1, followed by amplification in the presence of chloramphenicol and purification of the extracted plasmid by dye-buoyant density gradient centrifugation in ethidium bromide-CsCl solution.
(6) Examination of total cell lysates by dye-buoyant density gradient centrifugation revealed the presence of covalently closed circular DNA from cells grown at 37 degrees C, but none was obtained from cells grown at 30 degrees C. Thus, possible interference by large amounts of extrachromosomal DNA in the determination of the chromosomal segregation pattern is unlikely.
(7) The increased plasma LDL in the hypercholesterolemic pigs was confined to a buoyant LDL subspecies.
(8) Regression analysis showed that there have been systematic errors involved in the estimation of guanine plus cytosine (GC) content by the chemical method, and that the relation between buoyant density and base composition is indeed linear and best fitted by the equation GC = 10.309 (rho-1.662), which compares well in slope with the equation of Schildkraut, Marmur, and Doty.
(9) We have examined the effects of 1,25(OH)2D3 on T-cell populations isolated by buoyant density and E rosetting from human tonsils.
(10) The buoyant density of the DNA component which contains the polypyrimidines was detected by centrifuging native DNA to equilibrium in a CsCl gradient, and then assaying each fraction for its content of polypyrimidines.
(11) This approach, when combined with electron microscopy and buoyant density determinations, appears capable of localizing individual polypeptides in some of the viral and subviral forms.
(12) Mouse satellite DNA sequences isolated by centrifugation in CS2SO4--Ag+ gradients are analyzed for buoyant density by CSCl density gradients and for their content of fast reassociating sequences by denaturation and partial reassociation.
(13) Formaldehyde-treated cells showed DNA with lower buoyant density due to proteinase K sensitive DNA-protein cross-linking; this effect was not observed after treatment with either platinum compound.
(14) Internet search advertising is set to remain buoyant, with a tasty 25% growth rate.
(15) The CsCl-buoyant density data allows us to estimate that 108 mol of CMC are bound per mol of SV40 DNA I.
(16) The controversy concerning the relationship between platelet buoyant density and platelet age is unresolved.
(17) Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) attached to pig kidney cells at 0 degrees C and could only be recovered in a form with a sedimentation coefficient and buoyant density lower than that of the native virus.
(18) In characterizing the plasmid species from strains UT0002 and UT0003, the 21S but little or no 56S plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid could be isolated after centrifugation of cleared lysates from these strains on dye-buoyant density gradients.
(19) Services and manufacturing have been the main drivers of growth according to official data, but the BCC warned that the buoyant outlook concealed long-term challenges.
(20) Because of their intrinsic low buoyant density, chitosomes can be separated from crude cell homogenates (1000 g or 35,000 g supernatants) of Mucor rouxii by isopycnic sedimentation in sucrose density gradients.
Sanguine
Definition:
(a.) Having the color of blood; red.
(a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
(a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
(a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
(n.) Blood color; red.
(n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
(n.) Bloodstone.
(n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
(v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(2) Ministers are sanguine, expecting the controversy to die down once the bill becomes law, even if they are concerned at the way in which the rightwing commentariat has lined up against the bill.
(3) The article points out the possibilities and limitations of combining a) ascending phlebography of the leg and pelvis with peripheral venous pressure measurement (phlebodynamometry) and b) visualisation of the veins of the pelvis and vena cava inferior with central sanguinous venous pressure measurement (CP).
(4) Davis is sanguine about her occasionally fraught on-set encounters: "It's always an act of faith.
(5) Trade ministers, much lower down the pecking order, are more sanguine.
(6) The horses had stertorous breathing (n = 4) or intermittently sanguineous nasal discharge (n = 7).
(7) The initially sanguine expectations regarding the practical use of recombinant DNA research, for instance in the production of biologically important substances by bacteria, will therefore possibly not be realized at short notice.
(8) The sera from 2.028 blood donors were screened by all those techniques, as well as 105 known sera, used as references (87 HBS antigen positive sera with different titers, 18 HBS antigen negative sera) and coming from 4 origins: NIH-Bethesda, Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, Paris; Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris; Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
(9) Fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard chimed in after the first US practice on the field to note that the grass comes in trays and that it “kind of jells together” to create “spots on the field that may tear up easily.” Clint Dempsey was fairly sanguine though — noting that while the ball may not bounce as much on this surface, that with the field being watered well “the ball will be moving quickly —which is important — and rolling true.” Let’s hope that the turf becomes a footnote in the game.
(10) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(11) Cooze and the trust’s chairman, Phil Sumbler, say they knew the other shareholders would sell at some point and are sanguine about them making so much money.
(12) We need to keep cool heads as the market heats up.” Carney has been less sanguine over the state of Britain’s economy and earlier this week sent clear hints to financial markets that interest rates would be held at their record low of 0.5% for many months to come against the backdrop of a weaker world economy and a slowdown in the UK.
(13) Weaknesses are being exploited by firms to reduce their tax burdens.” While the proposed new rules could run into opposition from national EU governments that have to endorse the package, Moscovici sounded sanguine that there would be quick approval, enabling the mandatory and automatic exchange of information on tax rulings to come into effect by the end of next year.
(14) David can afford to be sanguine about his brother's choice of career, however, because he remains the more senior figure after making Question Time his own.
(15) Outside Byzantium Café, Saki, who is 72 and remembers the declaration of Cypriot independence ("You British knew what was going to happen"), is relatively sanguine.
(16) Although he couldn’t be described as sanguine about the reality of representing himself – “I get minor panic attacks just being in the same room as my ex” – he does believe it’s possible to do a decent job on your own behalf in court.
(17) The result is that, once again, the US and Britain have persuaded themselves of an ambitious course of action – weakening or even breaking the Putin-Assad link – the results of which other allies are less sanguine about.
(18) Personally I thought the Gomez take (cited in an mlssoccer.com story ) was about the most sanguine on it: I love it – I love it.
(19) Watery, serous, serosanguineous, and sanguineous discharges are surgically significant; while they are most often caused by intraductal papillomas or fibrocystic disease, they can be due to cancer or a precancerous mastopathy.
(20) Matthew Taylor, the former chief adviser on strategy to Tony Blair, is more sanguine about the chances of making the pitch "Brown in adversity".