(a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.
Example Sentences:
(1) In confirmation and extension of observations by Carp and his associates, brain tissue and sera from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were found to harbor an agent which induces a transitory depression in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in mice as well as in rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs.
(2) Immunochemical and immunohistological experiments carried out with immunoaffinity purified polyclonal antibodies, generated against L1 from mouse brain, showed that carp optic nerve and brain, but not liver, contained L1 immunoreactivity.
(3) A systematic structural comparison of several carp gamma-crystallins with high methionine contents was made by the secondary-structure prediction together with computer model-building based on the established X-ray structure of calf gamma-II crystallin.
(4) Two fish rhabdoviruses, spring viraemia of Carp virus (SVC) and Pike fry rhabdovirus (PFR), have been shown to multiply in Drosophila melanogaster.
(5) Indirect immunofluorescence studies with four monoclonal antibodies raised against carp spermatozoa revealed that monoclonal antibody WCS 29 stained the outer membranes of primordial germ cells in larvae from 3 days after fertilization.
(6) In 2.2-g carp kept at 20 C, the prepatent period was 4 days only, and the parasitemia peaked at day 23 PI.
(7) Molinate sulphoxide, an oxidation metabolite of molinate, is cleaved in vitro by Japanese carp liver cytosol fraction, indicating the presence of GSH-S-transferase activity, since cleavage of the sulphoxide is dependent on the amount of supernatant protein and GSH in the assay medium.
(8) Three female mullets received a priming injection of carp pituitary homogenate followed by a resolving injection of an LHRH analogue 24 hr later.
(9) Linear B- and T-cell epitopes have been identified in the Plasmodium falciparum clustered-asparagine-rich-protein (CARP).
(10) The species-specific inactivation in concluded from various lines of evidence to be ATP-site-directed and is attributed to alkylation of an amino acid residue of the rabbit enzyme which in the pig and carp enzymes is absent, inaccessible, or less reactive.
(11) A similar phenomenon was not reported in a larger series by Carp and colleagues (1).
(12) Drug clearance from carp as well as from mice is more rapid than that of snails.
(13) Carp liver membranes possess high affinity receptors that are saturable and have calcium dependent ligand specificity (apoB and apoE) similar to human LDL receptor.
(14) A method of the determination of aflatoxin B1 in the liver and muscular tissue of carp is described, enabling the capture of 50 ng in one kilogram.
(15) A witness said he saw Ray Fisher, 75, who was a retired former engineer and caretaker who loved wildlife and bred koi carp, shot twice by Rezgui from a range of about three yards as he sat on a sunlounger.
(16) Preliminary experiments suggest that the same is true in the carp and we suggest that the involvement of Ca2+ in regulation of hepatic glucose release may not have evolved until after the amphibians separated from the ancestors of the mammals.
(17) The pituitaries of the exotic carp (Carassius carassius) are studied at the light microscopic level, for the characterization of the adenohypophysial cell-types with particular emphasis to the gonadotropic potency of the pituitary in relation to the annual reproductive patterns.
(18) Using antisera to urotensins I and II (UI and UII), in the carp, Cyprinus carpio, three types of caudal neurosecretory neurons were identified: those with both UI- and UII-immunoreactivities, those with only UI-immunoreactivity and those with only UII-immunoreactivity.
(19) His department has formally complained to the BBC head of news, Helen Boaden, about the broadcaster's "carping and moaning".
(20) The serum IGF-I-like immunoreactivity was attributed to substances with a molecular weight of 9,000 and 45,000 respectively, and it was elevated after treatment with bovine growth hormone and carp pituitary extract.
Carving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carve
(n.) The act or art of one who carves.
(n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.
(n.) The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Example Sentences:
(1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(2) In stage I, a tympanoplasty is performed before transplantation of the carved cartilage framework.
(3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(4) "We carved out a few chances, but it was tough to break them down."
(5) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(6) Syria’s five-year conflict has taken on an ethnic dimension, with Kurdish groups carving out their own regions and periodically battling groups from Syria’s Arab majority, whose priority is to overthrow Assad.
(7) It has been awfully hard-won, carved slowly out of a big block of human agony.
(8) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(9) His best collaborators and students, such as Joyce Molyneux, late of the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, and Stephen Markwick, also late of Markwick's in Bristol, first reproduced his style, then refreshed it with their own imaginations, and the eclectic style of cooking associated with the 1980s.
(10) By the end of the year, Koizumi's displaced will have moved into homes being built in an area carved into a mountaintop two miles from the coast.
(11) He has urged the prime minister to carve out a British business bank from RBS and give it a mandate to expand rapidly to help cash-starved small businesses, as well as supporting exports and other sectors identified as strategically important.
(12) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(13) A new instrumentation for posterior spinal surgery consists of metallic rods carved with diamond-shaped asperities on which vertebral hooks or screws can be screwed in any position, level, or degree of rotation.
(14) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(15) His face was found carved into tree trunks all over Celtic lands and his hold over the early Britons was so powerful that early Christians relented and adopted the green man's image as a force for good and a symbol of new life and renewal.
(16) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(17) But as the dust settled, the spacecraft's cameras looked down on a landscape carved by ancient river systems.
(18) That would imply setting a global carbon budget of how much the world could emit in future, which would then have to be carved up among all countries.
(19) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(20) It is possible Aquascutum could be carved up between the two, as YGM wants its south-east Asian operations.