(n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.
Example Sentences:
(1) When purified, recombinant 65-kD protein was substituted for crude antigen, there was no evidence in the CABA of antibody to the IIIE9 epitope.
(2) A competitive antibody-binding assay (CABA) was developed to detect antibodies in infected armadillos and leprosy patients which compete with an M. leprae-specific 125I monoclonal antibody IIIE9 for the species-specific M. leprae-IIIE9 epitope on the 65-kD protein.
(3) False-positive results, possibly induced by steric hindrance, are likely to be associated with CABA which incorporate crude cell wall extracts as solid-phase antigen.
(4) It has been previously reported from this laboratory that CABA affects the retention of norepinephrine (NE) and serotonin (5-HT) in rat brain tissue [2, 3, 4].
(5) From the main town on the western shore, there is a path tracing the edges of the water through the lush Atlantic forest — here there are guava trees, purple Jabu Ti Caba berries, and even the occasional monkey and toucan.
Handbag
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
(2) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
(3) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(4) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
(5) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
(6) Beaumont, wide of eyes and clutching her handbag, has a lovely ingenuous manner, and a reliably crowd-pleasing set, but her brand of comedy is as cosy as a Hovis ad .
(7) Its most recent promotional video starts with a young woman waiting at a bus stop when an elderly lady is mugged for her handbag.
(8) Frankly, if anyone is daft enough to spend £1,000 on a handbag, it’s no skin off anyone else’s nose.
(9) Elizabeth Mumbua Njeru, 35, sits on a step outside the casualty ward hugging her handbag to her chest.
(10) In my handbag, there’s generally a book, a spare book, and a notebook.
(11) Even our handbags are suspect, and you don't have to read Freud to know what that symbolises.
(12) 6.13pm BST 54 min: There follows a brief bout of handbags in which Ignashevich gets a yellow card for bodychecking Yaya Toure.
(13) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
(14) Because it’s extremely easy to spend that on any of those things, and I don’t see any of them as more beneficial to the greater good than May’s trousers, or Morgan’s handbag, for that matter.
(15) In both experiments, younger people were more likely to steal, as were those who put the letter in pockets or handbags after picking it up.
(16) We’re not wild about her loveheart necklace or plastic handbag, but then we’re not eight years old, so what do we know?
(17) "I've got a better one," she says immediately, pulls two iPhones from her handbag and swipes impatiently across the screens in search of the app.
(18) Terry then said "good" and the two agreed it was "just handbags, innit".
(19) Instead of being seen as an important piece of equipment that can be life-saving,” he said, “like a handbag, everyone’s got one.” The inhaler – a profile Born: 1956 in the US.
(20) The inside story pointed out that with the R$85bn (£30bn) of public money siphoned off each year, the government could eradicate poverty, build 1.5m homes – or purchase 18m designer handbags.