(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(n.) The catcher's wire mask.
(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(3) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(4) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(5) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
(6) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(7) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
(8) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
(9) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(10) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(11) Also the spread of the strain in the cage was examined.
(12) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(13) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(14) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(15) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(16) However, airborne transmission to rabbits in adjacent cages did not occur.
(17) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(18) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(19) Five week old female albino mice were grouped two, three, four and five per cage.
(20) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
Cate
Definition:
(n.) Food. [Obs.] See Cates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cate Blanchett and Laura Linney both paid tribute to Rowlands, calling her a trailblazer and inspiration.
(2) Isofunctional beta-ketoadipate:succinyl coenzyme A transferases I and II are encoded by the pcaE and catE genes, respectively, of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus.
(3) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(4) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
(5) Speaking about his most recent release, in which Cate Blanchett plays Jasmine, a socialite whose luxurious New York life abruptly ends with the suicide of her corrupt financier husband, Allen said he felt more comfortable writing serious roles for women, rather than men.
(6) By using methanol-0.15 M borate buffer of pH 8.0, cate-chol-O-methyltransferase activity might be assayed.
(7) Removal of the DNA between the SalI sites created a deletion removing the terminal 35 base pairs of the catB gene, the 300-base-pair catC gene, and about 1.1 kb of the 1.2-kb catE gene.
(8) Cate Blanchett gave one of these addresses just a week ago and you’re stuck with me.” Thorpe went on to congratulate the graduates on their achievement, adding the transition from student to working life would take a “steely determination”.
(9) These sequences are closely related to sequences from its human analogue, which we recently cloned and expressed (Wallner, B. P., Mattaliano, R. J., Hession, C., Cate, R. L., Tizard, R., Sinclair, L. K., Foeller, C., Chow, E. P., Browning, J. L., Ramachandran, K. L., and Pepinsky, R. B.
(10) Cate Blanchett alluded to the problem in accepting the best actress Oscar for Blue Jasmine.
(11) The respective genes encode enzymes that catalyze four consecutive reactions in the catechol branch of the beta-ketoadipate pathway: catB, muconate lactonizing enzyme (EC 5.5.1.1); catC, muconolactone isomerase (EC 5.3.3.4); catD, beta-ketoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.24); and catE, beta-ketoadipate succinyl-coenzyme A transferase (EC 2.8.3.6).
(12) The film has already attracted some Oscar buzz; Cannes is likely to be a launchpad for a number of awards campaigns, including one for Cate Blanchett, who stars in Carol, Todd Haynes’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel about a clandestine lesbian love affair in 1950s New York.
(13) Cate Blanchett has found herself in the midst of a climate change row after appearing in a TV commercial calling on Australians to back a tax on carbon.
(14) But the prolific film-maker –with his latest comedy-drama Blue Jasmine starring Cate Blanchett as a pill-popping socialite - has admitted that while making films isn't difficult, making good ones can be.
(15) As awareness increases it exposes some negative views, and there’s often a lashing out by some members of the community at trans people.” We were also seen as dangerous by our fellow gay people Mark Gillespie She cites vilification of the writer and soldier Cate McGregor by some commentators and bloggers.
(16) In the final race of the night, Australia’s women, led by strong swims from the Campbell sisters, Bronte and Cate, secured gold in a world record time of three minutes, 30.65.
(17) Then Cate Blanchett, whom Allen directed in Blue Jasmine .
(18) Woody Allen and Cate Blanchett have issued statements in response to t he open letter posted by Allen's adopted daughter, Dylan, on a New York Times blog .
(19) W. Cates, Jr., of the U.S. Center for Disease Control reported recently that earlier abortions run less risk of complications or mortality.
(20) Photograph: Sony Pictures Classics Truth review: Blue Jasmine in the 60 Minutes newsroom, with a twist Read more Zodiac screenwriter James Vanderbilt’s directorial debut about the Rathergate scandal that ended the careers of veteran CBS newsman Dan Rather (played by Robert Redford) and 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) has been eclipsed by Spotlight , this year’s other journalistic thriller.