(n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
(n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method was used to analyze the free amino acid pool in carnation petals.
(2) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(3) • Céline Cousteau is ambassador of the TreadRight Foundation ( treadright.org ), a not-for-profit body established by TTC ( ttc.com ) to encourage sustainable tourism within its family of brands, including Contiki, Trafalgar, Insight Vacations, Uniworld and Red Carnation Hotels
(4) The next day Istanbulus lay carnations on Istiklal.
(5) The sequence of a circular RNA from carnation has been determined and found to consist of 275 nucleotide residues adopting a branched secondary structure of minimum free energy.
(6) Dermal exposure of hands and forearms to pesticides during cutting of carnations can be predicted from measurements of DFR.
(7) In 1988, Nestlé (absent from the US infant formula industry since the 1940s) acquired the Carnation Company and launched an advertising campaign to the general public for its formula products.
(8) The genome organization is very similar to that of carnation mottle virus (CarMV) and turnip crinkle virus (TCV).
(9) A visit to his Scottish high school brought back memories of art classes spent dissecting, examining and drawing buttercups and carnations.
(10) Comparative sequence analysis has revealed that the circular RNA from carnation shares similarities with some representative members of the viroid and viroid-like satellites RNAs from plants, suggesting that it is a new member of either these two groups of small pathogenic RNAs.
(11) The programmed senescence of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) petals requires active gene expression and is associated with the expression of several senescence-related mRNAs.
(12) Data on 13 traits of 11,260 progeny of 775 sires in the Carnation Genetics linear type appraisal program were analyzed to determine the association between sire dystocia transmitting ability and progeny linear type traits.
(13) There are carnations, tulips and a tub of spring crocuses.
(14) The postulated amino acid sequence of CMeV capsid protein had 36% homology to turnip crinkle virus and 26% homology to carnation mottle virus in the arm and S domains, but western blots showed no serological relationship to either.
(15) The DNA-binding activity was present in nuclear extracts from both presenescent and senescing carnation petals.
(16) This PCR product was used to screen a cDNA library prepared from mRNA isolated from senescing carnation flower petals.
(17) Ten years ago today, a man emerged from prison to be greeted by a crowd of his supporters embracing him with carnations and a crowd of his enemies drawing their fingers across their throats.
(18) Carnation latent virus was shown to direct the synthesis of virus-specific polypeptides in both reticulocyte lysate and wheat germ in vitro translation systems.
(19) It was wrapped in a flag, pink carnations beside a pale, unshaven cheek Later they carried out his body.
(20) Respiratory exposure and dermal exposure of the hands and forearms to the pesticides chlorothalonil, thiophanate-methyl, thiram, and zineb during application and during crop activities have been measured on 18 farms for carnation culture in glass-covered greenhouses in the Netherlands.
Flake
Definition:
(n.) A paling; a hurdle.
(n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(v. t.) To form into flakes.
(v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common microscopic features included dense marrow fibrosis or "scar" formation, a sprinkling of lymphocytes in a relative absence of other inflammatory cells (especially histiocytes), and smudged, nonresorbing necrotic bone flakes.
(2) In a local television interview last week, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said of Trump’s run: “I don’t think it’s a very serious candidacy, frankly.” Trump also came under fire on Monday from Bush, who performed shabbily in the most recent polls.
(3) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(4) No differences were observed in cocoa powder for drinks and plain chocolate flakes treated with 0.5 dm2 polystyrene of 1 mm thickness.
(5) The first case involved the identification of flakes of a metallic material claimed by a 14-year-old girl to appear periodically between her mandibular molars.
(6) Aggie Wai, a first year business student at Reading University, faced the same scenario when she arrived to try and fly to Hong Kong, and found herself stood outside as flakes of snow drifted to the ground.
(7) Irritation, as manifested by erythema or flaking, occurred in 61.5% of topical masoprocol-treated patients versus 26.7% of those treated with vehicle and did not correlate with clinical response.
(8) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
(9) 3 Add the rice to the salmon flakes along with the spring onion, ginger, soy and mirin.
(10) A method has been developed for estimating crudely the quantity of lead in dusts derived from paint flakes.
(11) Then there were the plastic domes with Mao inside that rained gold flakes when you shook them.
(12) Lower the heat, add the ginger, garlic, chilli flakes and rosemary.
(13) The basal ration fed to the sows consisted of ground barley+oats+flaked potatoes or ground barley+sugar beet chips.
(14) The company, whose brands include Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Special K and Pringles is thought to use about 50,000 tonnes of palm oil a year, said that it planned to impose the changes by December 2015.
(15) On 9 April, it warned against Republicans such as Flake, who voted for the gun debate, and urged members to call these senators and "tell them that when the Bill of Rights reads 'shall not be infringed' with regards to the second amendment, it means exactly that".
(16) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
(17) Flaked rye seemed to contain both faster and slower carbohydrates than the corresponding rye bread of similar fibre content.
(18) Mucus flakes and plaques are transported by the tips of the cilia over this interciliary liquid.
(19) It can also be highly saline and contain solids, such as flakes of rock.
(20) Para-tertiary butylphenol [(PTBP); the Union Carbide Corporation trademark for this chemical is UCAR Butylphenol 4-T Flake] has applications as a raw material in the manufacture of resins and also as an industrial intermediate.