(n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
(n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
(n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.
(n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
(n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
(n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
(n.) To dress or clothe.
(v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
(2) Three areas of abnormality were seen in schizophrenics: first, the interval preceding the motor response was characterized by reduced motor steadiness prior to the button-press response; second, the motor response was made with excessive force (hyperdynamia); and third, the agonist-antagonist synchrony (motor reversal) was impaired.
(3) On presidential election day 2010 it offered one group in the US a graphic with a link to find nearby polling stations, along with a button that would let you announce that you'd voted, and the profile photos of six other of your "friends" who had already done so.
(4) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(5) These regenerating nerve fibres together with growth cones make terminals in the form of buttons, rings and loops.
(6) No IgM was detected in the central buttons of four of the five sets where IgM occurred in the corneal periphery.
(7) Button osteomas affect two animals and are the only neoplastic conditions observed.
(8) 54 min: Has Joey Barton pressed the self-destruct button?
(9) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
(10) Six human donor corneas were studied with the scanning electron microscope to quantify the hazards to the endothelium during the excision of corneoscleral buttons.
(11) The disintegration of charged alkaline mercury button cells in simulated gastric fluid over a 24 h period has been studied.
(12) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
(13) Simple suturing techniques are also described, including the practicability of using padded buttons plus lead fishing sinkers to adjust the tension and secure these sutures on the surface of the neck.
(14) Protein concentration in the tissue buttons was significantly less than that of peritoneal fluid.
(15) McLaren’s Jenson Button completed the top 10, two seconds down as he and the team continue to show signs of improvement, with his team-mate Fernando Alonso 12th and a further half a second off the pace.
(16) We analysed the histological and ultrastructural aspects of corneal buttons obtained by keratoplasty in two patients presenting breaks in Descemet's membrane.
(17) Some fixation problems may have been related to technical errors and use of the earlier one-button technique.
(18) Light microscopic, histochemical, and electron microscopic study of the excised button disclosed characteristic features of macular corneal dystrophy in the donor cornea.
(19) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(20) Few figures exist but anecdotally, online fundraising is being embraced by the majority for whom at least a "donate" button exists, says Cath Lee, chief executive of the Small Charities Coalition .
Spinner
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
(n.) A spider.
(n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
(n.) A spinneret.
Example Sentences:
(1) Countings were made of the number of glassfibers present at the skin of the spinners after the end of the work.
(2) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
(3) We have recently shown that the semi-continuous cultivation of a mouse hybridoma line in spinner flasks, with a basal defined medium (BDM) devoid of serum and protein, increases the secretion of the immunoreactive monoclonal antibody (MAb) by a factor of ca.
(4) Cells were cultured in spinner flasks of 500 ml liquid volume for adaptation to stirred culture conditions.
(5) Blood smears were prepared with the use of a spinner, which rotated with a fixed velocity for a fixed time.
(6) Six water-jacketed 500-ml Bellco spinner flasks were equipped to monitor and control environmental variables to study their effects on the growth and metabolism of mammalian cells.
(7) Two hybridoma cell lines were cultivated in an indirectly aerated 10-1 reactor in batch, fed-batch and continuous (perfusion) operations and in spinner flasks.
(8) To examine the growth of these transfected cells in vivo, cells were grown in spinner culture flasks to form spheroids 250-300 microns in diameter.
(9) In contrast to these results, all the phospholipid to protein and the cholesterol to protein ratios of the internalized plasma membranes were higher in monolayer than in spinner cells, and the proportions of all phospholipids, except phosphatidylethanolamine, were similar in both cell types.
(10) The potential toxicity of these agents was examined in the absence of sparging (i.e., in spinner flasks) by using the attachment-independent Sf9 insect cell line as a model system.
(11) Tourism is an increasing money-spinner, with trips to see the Mountains of the Moon and the rare mountain gorillas in western Uganda especially popular.
(12) Aggregation of NR cells was inhibited by macrophages from mice and rats, and to a greater extent by cancer cell suspensions of mouse Ehrlich and rat Walker 256 lines from spinner culture or in the ascites form.
(13) Isis has been a real beneficiary.” For years, other, often anonymous critics, briefers, spinners and leakers have kept up a running commentary on Chilcot in the newspapers.
(14) Although continuous culturing was not achieved in spinner flasks, the production of litre quantities of heavily parasitised erythrocytes was achieved more simply than by using MASP cultures.
(15) A significant reduction in forced expiratory volumes (FEV1 after a shift) was observed in spinners of both factories.
(16) While influential, it has never been a massive money-spinner, and one estimate suggests it has seen a 57% drop in advertising on a circulation of around 500,000 copies.
(17) A reversion to Type I collagen synthesis occurred when the spinner-cultured cells were returned to monolayer flasks.
(18) Alpha fetoprotein (AFP) synthesis by adult rats during gestation and hepatoma growth was determined in vitro with specific precipitations of radiolabeled AFP antisera after incubation of Spinner cultures of various rat tissues in arginine-free culture medium containing radiolabeled arginine.
(19) IDS's spinners are continuing an increasingly popular political tactic in both the US and UK of using telly references to connect with the electorate.
(20) Spheroids were initiated in bacteriological grade petri dishes seeded with 10(6) 9L rat glioma cells, cultured for four days and thereafter transferred and further developed in a spinner flask.