(a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
(n.) An inhabitant of heaven.
(n.) A native of China.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(2) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
(3) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
(4) In contrast, it becomes more than 70% of axial length in Chinese Black Moors and Celestials.
(5) The US space agency's Opportunity rover has clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, according to Nasa .
(6) The Celestial goldfish is considered to be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
(7) The term originated on forums for discussing the game Kerbal Space Program, a gruellingly difficult simulation which tasks players with building spaceships and getting them to orbit (and, eventually, landing on other celestial bodies).
(8) And it allowed us to add to those celestial bodies too, heralding the space age.
(9) The surrounding hills are relatively low, and a great dome of sky hangs over Brodgar, perfect for watching the setting and rising of the sun, moon and other celestial objects.
(10) There was talk, too, of Serbian history, and its people's long and "celestial" struggle.
(11) We’ve been looking at Stonehenge from a modern, earth-bound perspective.” “All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth,” he went on.
(12) Air, representing ultrasonic energy as a celestial entity, became bird-god, Red-bird.
(13) His voice and acoustic guitar were complemented by what seemed like a celestial dawn chorus of birds and I thought he must be singing to us from another dimension.
(14) In a celestial touch typical of Soleri’s designs, the area behind the stage is fitted with reclining steps, angled upwards for gazing at the stars.
(15) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
(16) Their standards are high but here they met opponents who produced celestial football.
(17) They weren’t symbols of celestial bodies but forces for permanence on earth.
(18) Since similar goldfish do not show these changes, however, the Celestial goldfish may be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
(19) That work prompted researchers to test the idea by reconstructing celestial impacts in the laboratory.
(20) "If I could buy one piece, I'd buy the Celestial Bonnet, the five rings light installation by Stephen Jones and Cerith Wyn Evans," says Caroline Rush.
Supernal
Definition:
(a.) Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions.
(a.) Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concentrated supernates of cultures of 98 strains of Staphylococcus aureus were screened for the production of epidermolytic toxin by (1) biological tests in 3-day-old mice, (2) double-diffusion precipitation tests against specific antiserum, and (3) the appearance of characteristic protein bands on thin-layer-gel isoelectric focusing.
(2) Most of the magnesium was found to be associated with the rough microsomes (probably bound to the ribosomes) and with the postmicrosomal supernate.
(3) The epithelial cells were homogenized, the supernate was assayed for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), an androgen-dependent protein, and the pellet was assayed for DHT and DNA.
(4) Northern blot analysis and bioassay revealed that the kinetics of TNF mRNA synthesis corresponded to the appearance of the protein while its disappearance corresponded to the appearance of TNF in the supernate.
(5) A slow-moving dopa-reactive band (Ts) is found in electropherograms of the nontrypsinized 100,000g supernants of detergent-treated 35,000g supernatants.
(6) The in vitro immune response of murine spleen cells to the T cell-independent antigen, 2,4-dinitrophenyl-beta-alanyl-glycyl-glycyl-N(2-aminoethyl)carbamyl-methylated Ficoll (DAGG-Ficoll), requires the presence of macrophages, or 24-hr culture supernates from peritoneal cells.
(7) These results indicate that visually clear supernates may show optical turbidity; the turbidity is likely due to triglyceride-rich particles, which contain cholesterol; the fall in cholesterol with ultrafiltration is due to removal of these floating particles and some adsorbance of HDL particles to the filters.
(8) Pretreatment of PMN with P. gingivalis supernate inhibited both the rate and the degree of agglutination induced by the secretagogues PMA and FMLP.
(9) The obtained results call attention to the importance of final concentration of Mn2+ ions at HDL2 precipitation with DS from heparin-Mn2+ supernate containing HDL.
(10) The pH optimum, Km, activation, and inhibition characteristics of the enzyme assayed for in 900 X g supernates of whole limb homogenates indicated that the activity represented a fetal bone alkaline phosphatase.
(11) Each calf in Groups A and B was given ground-up-tick supernate prepared from Theileria annulata-infected or non-infected Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum (GUTS) equivalent to 5 ticks (50 infected acini).
(12) Molecular sieving by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of the serum-free radiolabeled supernates indicated that SH-LyP eluted at a position corresponding to a polypeptide of mol.
(13) The supernates following centrifugation of cell debris spontaneously formed CLC.
(14) The APVs, purified from culture-supernates, emerged after a long period of unsuccessful research on the split-cell pertussis vaccines, i.e.
(15) P388D1 macrophage cultured in the presence of 35S-methionine secreted into culture supernates a labelled peptide which could be recognized by MASP-1.
(16) No activity is detected when IgG is added to a supernate of antigen-fed macrophages in the absence of T cells.
(17) Results in immunoelectrophoretic analysis indicated at least 22 antigens were in the ultracentrifugal supernate (144,700 times g) of B suis and 31 antigens were in a similar supernate of B canis.
(18) After cultures were established, medium was replaced by medium containing antimicrobials and supernate organisms counted at specified times.
(19) After brief centrifugation, the supernate is discarded and the precipitate containing the bound fraction is dissolved and its fluorescence measured.
(20) In brief, ouabain-sensitive 86Rb uptake and membrane potential in blood vessels from normal animals are measured after incubation in plasma supernate from experimental subjects and animals and their respective controls.