(n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
(n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
(n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(2) These results show that lipo-PGI2 at a very low dose would be beneficial as a treatment for relieving the clinical symptoms of chronic cerebral infarction and that lipid microspheres are a useful drug carrier for PGI2 analogue therapy.
(3) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
(4) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(5) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
(6) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
(7) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
(8) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(9) The latter phase of depletion was associated with a decrease in synaptosomal [3H]serotonin uptake due to a loss in the number of uptake sites with no change in the affinity of the carrier for serotonin.
(10) Direct detection of the mutation enables the identification of fragile X negative normal transmitting males and fragile X negative carrier females.
(11) They strongly suggest that the ADP-carrier comes to the close neighbourhood of the ATP synthetase on the matrix side of the inner membrane.
(12) It is thus important to know whether carriers of the AT gene have a risk of cancer or diabetes greater than comparable noncarriers.
(13) The fractional rate constants for the accumulation or disappearance of the metabolites could be determined after pharmacological blockade of catabolic enzymes or the acid metabolite carrier.
(14) The initial observation of Tn551 transition involved UV inactivation of the carrier plasmid; this would appear to be a general means of detecting transposable elements.
(15) This also implies that both tubular secretion and tubular reabsorption are susceptible to competition between similar substrates for a common carrier site.
(16) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(17) From this, it was suggested that a negligible amount of oestradiol was released from these compounds and that the oestradiol moiety was useful as a carrier for the nitrogen mustard moiety.
(18) The amount of formazan obtained after incubating vital cells with Meldola Blue as electron carrier was greater than that obtained with Methylene Blue, menadione, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, 1-methoxyphenazine methosulphate or phenazine methosulphate.
(19) Women who were the mothers of individuals with isolated cases of hemophilia appeared to be carriers in at least 85% of cases, suggesting that the frequency of cases due to fresh mutations is low.
(20) Three mouse models of male-limited, hybrid-type sterility are available: the sterility controlled by the T-t genetic complex, the hybrid sterility system including the Hst-1 gene, and the sterility of carriers of various chromosomal anomalies.
Churn
Definition:
(v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
(v. t.) To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
(v. t.) To shake or agitate with violence.
(v. i.) To perform the operation of churning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(2) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
(3) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
(4) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(5) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
(6) Dozens of wet-suited arms arc rhythmically above the water like small sea serpents, churning the lake as they go.
(7) The appeal of making the payment universal must be weighed against the “churning” costs of collecting and returning it.
(8) Over the weekend, forecasters fed the dispersion model with data on the amount of ash being churned out by the volcano.
(9) And the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations," he said.
(10) But if we've learned anything from 50 years of relationship churn, it's that somebody in the family has to behave like a grown-up and, until we behave better, that, sadly, is often the child.
(11) This is the result of globalisation, a mobility and churn in the world's population which involves Britain no more or less than the likes of France, Germany or the Netherlands.
(12) Newsnight did well to keep churning through August (when Paxman and co used to take a rest).
(13) Over the past 60 years, the pharmaceutical industry has churned out three generations of antibiotics.
(14) Winning tip: Hackfall Wood, North Yorkshire Hackfall Wood is deep in a ravine with a churning river at the bottom.
(15) Attempts were made to obtain fats from the following types of dry milk: Dry milk for children, Dry milk of full fat value, Biolakton, Vitalakt, and Bébé 1, employing methods of extraction making use of chloroform-methanol, mechanical churning, freezing of restored milk, as well as combinations of these.
(16) It is stomach-churning to think there are Hong Kong police officers that feel they are above the law,” Mabel Au, the director of Amnesty Hong Kong, said in a statement.
(17) If there is consumer demand, the company will keep on churning out products and expanding.
(18) This delivered a hit with Paper Plane, a track exhibiting the classic Quo trademarks of churning guitars, super-simple lyrics and a 12-bar structure (doubled to 24 bars in this case).
(19) The revolutionary volunteers have churned out caricatures of Gaddafi being throttled until money pops from his throat, and of him naked and alone on a desert island with a slogan that says he is with the only friend he has in the world.
(20) He said on Monday that at the age of 50 he is better able to manage his emotions and ready to commit himself to building a dynasty at a club who have churned through 10 managers in a decade since Abramovich bought the club in 2003.