(n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calin Gheorghe, 40, a radio DJ, agrees most Romanians support Latin teams such as Spain and Italy due to language and perceived cultural similarities.
(2) Clinical, laboratory and radiological findings were evaluated in 26 children with Reiter's syndrome, all of whom met the 1982 diagnostic criteria of A. Calin.
(3) Calin is differentiated from leech collagenase in two ways: (1) by demonstrating, by SDS-PAGE analysis of the products of incubations of Calin with Type I collagen at 37 degrees C, that Calin binds to but does not cleave collagen; and (2) by showing that Calin cannot be purified using the methods used to isolate leech collagenase.
(4) Calin's rapid and unusual interaction with collagen makes it a prime candidate for one of the agents that are the causative factors of the prolonged bleeding phenomenon seen after leech bites.
(5) In the follow-up study, Calin's screening test for AS was included and was also found to have a low specificity.
(6) Calin, of molecular size approximately 65,000 (reduced), has a rapid (1-10 min) effect on collagen which is reflected in its ability to suppress collagen-induced platelet aggregation, as well as adhesion of platelets to collagen-coated microcarrier beads.
Carlin
Definition:
(n.) An old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, in 2006, Carlin, who covered South Africa for the Independent in the 1990s, was in Mississippi to write an article on poverty in the American South for El País, the Spanish daily that now employs him.
(2) Expression of a 13.7-kDa protein encoded by a gene in the E3 transcription unit is necessary and sufficient for this effect (Carlin et al., Cell, 1989; B. L. Hoffman, A. Ullrich, W. S. M. Wold, and C. R. Carlin, Mol.
(3) Most important, Carlin says, Freeman, abetted by the screenwriter, "impressively conveys the giant solitude of Mandela".
(4) Aren’t comedians supposed to be witty and subversive?” he asked, before citing four comedians – Carlin, Pryor, Mayall and Rivers – our generation should learn from.
(5) Transmitted in the middle of the afternoon, Carlin recited a list of seven words that he predicted could never be said on television: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
(6) Its writer, British journalist John Carlin, said: "I've had contracts since a year ago, which tells you there's a universality about this story.
(7) Even a parricide could buy forgiveness at God's tribunal at one ducat; four livres, eight carlines."
(8) Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Rivers worked the New York comedy scene alongside Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Carlin and Woody Allen.
(9) 10, 5521-5524; Tollefson, A. E., Krajcsi, P., Yei, S., Carlin, C. R., and Wold, W. S. M. (1990) J. Virol.
(10) But I reject this: if you want to do something to help someone in distress, as George Carlin famously riffed, unplug their clogged toilet or paint the garage .
(11) Blake and Carlin didn't wait long before scaling up their ambitions.
(12) Cinemagoers watching Invictus, based on British journalist John Carlin's book Playing the Enemy, will be inclined to agree.
(13) Next week, Carlin – Blake left the partnership after the first two albums – releases Red Hot + Rio 2, a tribute to the Brazilian tropicália movement of the late-60s and a follow-up to 1996's original Red Hot + Rio, which featured Money Mark, PM Dawn, Maxwell and Stereolab, among others.
(14) For Carlin Carr, an American working on urban poverty issues there, it’s a city of contradictions, where the stresses exist on a deeper level than just having to sit in traffic.
(15) Nearly a full five seconds behind, but nonetheless jubilantly silver, came GB’s Jazz Carlin .
(16) 254:8690-8696, 1979; Carlin, Bartelt, and Siekevitz: J.
(17) In the same way that [Nelson] Mandela was the symbol of the country in the glorious years of generosity and pragmatism and all those good things, the cataclysmic fall [of Pistorius] was a metaphor for broader disappointed dreams,” John Carlin, who attended the trial and has written a book on the former athlete, told the Guardian last month.
(18) The trial was conducted in an intelligent and mature way that was impressive by any world standards,” said Carlin.
(19) Carlin's proposal for his book had already been circulating in Hollywood, and it had caught Freeman's eye.
(20) In that case, the supreme court rejected Pacifica's claim that its first amendment rights had been violated when it was censured by the FCC for having broadcast the notorious "filthy words" monologue of the comedian George Carlin.