(n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
(n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
(a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of the chromosome findings in 25 male tortoiseshell or calico (T-C) cats showed a variety of aneuploidy, polyploidy, mosaicism, and chimerism.
(2) Season of invasion coincides with the period of migration of calico and humpback salmon which are additional hosts of Diphyllobothriidae.
(3) A case is reported of hemorrhagic calico papillitis showing unilateral hematuria.
(4) In 2014, Calico announced a partnership with drugs firm AbbVie to investigate ways to combat ageing and its associated ailments, entailing joint investment that could reach more than £1bn.
(5) The operative methods applied vary: they include pelvic flap pyeloplasty, caudal transposition of the kidney, interposition of the small intestine, trans-ureterostomy, calico-ureterostomy, of bladder flap transplantation and autotransplantation of the kidney.
(6) I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.” Sergey Brin Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 41, is known for his love of special projects like Google Glass and CEO Larry Page has credited him for helping bring its new biotech company Calico to fruition.
(7) Our approach can help Calico immensely and if their approach is successful it can help me live longer,” explains Venter.
(8) Short for California Life Company, Calico is more circumspect about its aims than Alphabet’s other biotechnology subsidiaries.
(9) It is the first time that Alphabet has provided specific numbers for its core business (Google’s search engine, YouTube, Android, Google Play and other units that form the heart of its business) and for the rest of the companies businesses (Google X, its research arm, Calico, its biotech company, Google Fiber, high speed internet, Nest, smart home devices and other bets on future technologies).
(10) Therefore, in the first case a calico-ileo-ureterostomy and in the second patient a calico-jejuno-ureterostomy were performed.
(11) In the "Zhigulevsky" preserve, 46 coarse calico napkins impregnated with 1 ml of an attractant, were placed alternatively as controls and experimental along the road with the interval of 5 meters.
(12) In the evening, an elderly person would have difficulty in identifying a cat as a calico cat if the cat were atop a wall and running quickly through the visual field.
(13) Adductor muscles of calico scallops, Argopecten gibbus, collected off the southeastern coast of the United States from May 1982 to December 1984 were examined for the presence of larvae of the parasitic nematode, Sulcascaris sulcata.
(14) If there is found the following trias: unilateral hematuria, pseudopapillomatous cellgroups in urine, missing pathological changes in urological X-ray examinations (or only minimal blurs at the fornices) the diagnosis of calico papillitis has to be considered carefully.
(15) Calico may get too side-tracked by basic research, worries de Grey; Venter’s approach may take years to bear fruit because of issues about data gathering, thinks Barzilai; while the money on offer from the Palo Alto prize is a paltry sum for the demanded outcome and potential societal impact, says Johnson.
(16) Mortality One of the more fantastical projects in the Alphabet stable is Calico, a biotechnology company aimed at the medical holy grail – a cure for, or rather the prevention of, death.
(17) But the appearance of Calico and others suggests the world might be coming around to his side, he says.
(18) Calico has the money to do almost anything it wants,” says Tom Johnson, an earlier pioneer of the field now at the University of Colorado who was the first to find a genetic effect on longevity in a worm.
(19) The frequency of viral infection in cats with a solid color in their coat, excluding tabby, calico, and tortoise, was higher (12.2%) than the frequency in the remainder of the cats (5.5%; P = 0.011).
(20) This was an affluent, socially mobile consumer society, delighting in every imported treat from calicoes to tea, and obsessed with fashion.
Lapping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lap
(n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(2) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
(3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(4) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
(5) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
(6) 1.08pm BST Lap 2: Sergio Perez is out after an incident at Mirabeau, which is what brought out the yellow flags and safety car.
(7) By comparing P-LAP activity with cystine aminopeptidase activity, we concluded that both activities were shared by the same molecule.
(8) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(9) The new tablet models come with a better built-in kickstand with two positions rather than one, so they can rest more firmly on users' laps.
(10) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
(11) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
(12) Analysis of the activity of each unit was made at intervals from the beginning of the conditioned signal (light or sound) to the beginning of lapping milk which appeared in the feeding trough after the cat pressed the pedal.
(13) (2) The alleles at the Est-1, Est-2, Amy loci and the AP-4(1.0) and the LAP-1(.90) alleles show north south clinal change in frequency.
(14) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
(15) We correlated Doppler variables of pulmonary venous flow and mitral inflow with simultaneously obtained mean LAP and changes in pressure measured by left atrial or pulmonary artery catheters.
(16) However, saccharin does not trigger a fixed rate of lapping at any point in the sequence.
(17) We might as well put a white cat in his lap.” The photographer asks McCluskey to hold the king up to the camera, and the press officer laughs with a wince.
(18) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
(19) A significant LAP activity decrease was found only after a 30 day postcastration period when naloxone treated intact animals were compared with the castrated rats.
(20) These results suggest that P-LAP shows oxytocinase activity and plays an important role in the regulation of the plasma level of these hormones during pregnancy.