(n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
Example Sentences:
(1) Observed proliferations of E. coli inocula in cooling cartons of product were compared with the proliferations calculated from temperature histories obtained from sites close to inocula.
(2) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(3) It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.
(4) Prices for egg products used by food manufacturers and bakeries jumped more than 200% in the past month, and even large bakeries have been forced to buy eggs by the carton and crack them individually to continue production, Martin said.
(5) Instead of medicine, all the doctors could offer were cartons of fruit juice bought en masse from a nearby kiosk.
(6) The results were assessed against a temperature function integration criterion derived from studies of beef carcass and cartoned meat cooling processes.
(7) Some patients on psychiatric wards receive no visitors at all, still less ones bearing chocolate and flowers ... or cartons of cigarettes.
(8) Reports of George’s stag do at Ristorante da Ivo near St Mark’s Square with the free £3,000 meal featuring six flavours of ice cream, including takeaway cartons, initially irked me.
(9) Updated at 3.20pm BST 3.10pm BST We're now doing some 7-minute talks... First: Cancer Resaerch First one from Amy Carton of Cancer Research on programs for crowdsourcing cancer cures....(it's a bit hard to transcribe the video she's on...) She's telling us about "genegame" – where people can analyse genes on smartphones.
(10) Twelve one-half pint (approx 0.28 l) cartons of the 2% chocolate milk from this outbreak were analyzed for the quantity of SEA present in the milk.
(11) The cost of a carton of large eggs in the midwest has jumped nearly 17% to $1.39 a dozen from $1.19 since mid-April when the virus began appearing in Iowa’s chicken flocks and farmers culled their flocks to contain any spread.
(12) The current price at Tesco for a two-pint (1.136 litre) carton of milk is currently 75p.
(13) Specific growth rates, doubling times, ability to grow in pasteurized milk stored in commercial cartons, and resistance of spores to heating were determined for one strain of C. hastiforme.
(14) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
(15) It emerged that a headteacher, Elizabeth Chaplin, who runs Valence primary school in Dagenham, wrote to parents about a new rule to confiscate juice cartons from children's lunch boxes.
(16) And, of course, the carton juices contain "no added sugar" – but as we've seen, many have as much sugar in them as Coke.
(17) There are sleeping bags piled in corners of the marble floors for the hundreds staying overnight, and piles of pizza cartons and water bottles donated by local businesses or paid for by supporters round the US and the world.
(18) This spring, led by Tesco, Britain’s major retailers embarked on a price war , slashing the price of a four-pint carton of milk from £1.39 to a barely credible £1.
(19) Two blocks away, a young woman commandeered a boat to take her and several cartons of cigarettes to her grandparents, who had refused to leave and were sheltering in their undamaged upstairs flat in a part of town still under water.
(20) One has the sense that everything in these crowded frames (pictures on walls, cartons on shelves) is there for a reason, throbbing with significance.
Slab
Definition:
(n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
(n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
(n.) The wryneck.
(n.) The slack part of a sail.
(a.) Thick; viscous.
(n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(3) In order to study the effects of different glass ionomers on the metabolism of Streptococcus mutans, test slabs of freshly mixed conventional glass ionomer (Fuji), silver glass ionomer (Ketac-Silver), composite (Silux), and 2-week-old Fuji were fitted into the bottom of a test tube.
(4) The native phosphoprotein has an approximate sedimentation coefficient of 14.8 S. On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis, the protein dissociated into identical subunits of Mr = 128,000.
(5) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(6) Stains-All treatment of slab gels showed that the cross-reactive peptide stained metachromatically blue, similarly to SR CS.
(7) The serum material extracted from the slab gel was purified from SDS and further fractionated by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(8) It is suggested that (1) in the chronically neuronally isolated cortical slab there is normally no spontaneous adrenergic activity, (2) a cortical, cholinergic inhibitory mechanism, previously described, is modulated by ascending adrenergic influences, (3) adrenergic cholinergic linkages might be arranged in the cortex in an alternating network, as proposed by Feldberg.
(9) These proteins were further separated on slab SDS gels and protein bands were excised after Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 staining and used to inject three rabbits.
(10) A system for analyzing covalent modifications of elongation factor-2 (eEF-2) by one-dimensional isoelectric focusing in slab polyacrylamide gels is described.
(11) Slabs were re-embedded in resin and 5 microns sections cut for routine undecalcified histological staining.
(12) A new prealbumin plasma esterase was demonstrated by the use of miniaturized polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis.
(13) Many neurons of this longitudinal slab which we have named the basal forebrain cell column, originate from an ependymal matrix closely associated with the ventral diencephalic sulcus and later become associated with the basal forebrain bundle.
(14) The water inside the channel was considered through a continuum medium using the dielectric constant of the bulk, and the membrane contribution was included using the virtual images of the pore in a dielectric slab of epsilon = 3.
(15) Protein band positions on a slab polyacrylamide gel were determined without staining, by blotting the bands onto a nitrocellulose membrane which was then stained to visualize the electrophoretic pattern.
(16) The front surface slab-off and bicentric produce base-up prism in the lower section of the lens.
(17) A small air cavity to measure ionization is embedded in the polystyrene slab at the boundary facing the backscatterer.
(18) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(19) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(20) The occurrence of molecular forms in protease-solubilized AChE was investigated by means of centrifugation analysis and slab gel electrophoresis.