(1) His father, an insurance salesman, played the cello and his mother the piano.
(2) I'm sitting there, and nobody else seemed to have seen the elephant in the room – that this cello bow, with all this stuff fitted on it, bore no relation to a real cello bow.
(3) Stability tests included: (1) use test designed to simulate patient use from a single bottle of 100 tablets over a one-month period; (2) an open plate study wherein tablets were exposed to the atmosphere for 100 days; (3) strip packaging of tablets using foil-foil or foil-cello systems; (4) placement of tablets in medication cups for a seven-day period; (5) repackaging 30-tablet batches in a variety of common prescription containers.
(4) The ticket cost a fortune, they made me pay extra for my cello.
(5) Dilla was, perhaps, the only hip-hop producer to have studied the cello ("Not the instrument of choice in the ghetto," as his mother puts it in the sleevenotes) as a child, and his work is full of the sort of subtle but powerful differences that a composition-based education might provide, as Atwood-Ferguson noticed when he broke down the pieces ahead of arranging them for the orchestra.
(6) It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach.
(7) His next project may or may not be a cello sonata called Get Lucky.
(8) The MUGase hydrolysed cellobiose, cellotriose, cellotetraose, cellopentaose and cellohexaose to glucose, by sequentially cleaving glucose residues from the non-reducing end of the cello-oligosaccharides.
(9) They wanted her to conform (study quietly, Qur’an class, Scottish country dancing), but she wanted to rebel (drama, playing cello, debating societies).
(10) Our current band is called Quattrio , in which I play recorder, Cath plays violin, Rita plays harpsichord and Jo played cello, but had to leave the group last year.
(11) The purified component showed little capacity for hydrolysing highly ordered substrates (e.g., cotton fibre), but poorly ordered substrates (e.g., H3PO4-swollen cellulose), and the soluble cello-oligosaccharides cellotetraose and cellohexaose, were readily hydrolysed; cellobiose was the principal product in each case.
(12) Performers will include cellist, singer and conductor Simon Wallfisch, grandson of 89-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch – a surviving member of the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz, who played cello for the notorious Dr Josef Mengele.
(13) This was where Daniel Albrecht, a 21-year-old cello student from Berlin, had his head beaten so badly that he needed surgery to stop bleeding in his brain.
(14) Turnover numbers for hydrolysis of the umbelliferyl cello-oligosaccharides were calculated, and these, along with the other analytical data collected on the products of hydrolysis of the normal, reduced and radiolabelled cello-oligosaccharides, suggested that the various endoglucanases had different roles to play in the overall hydrolysis of cellulose to sugars small enough to be transported through the cell membrane.
(15) It is a total shambles,” he said, hauling his cello red-faced through the crowds.
(16) The case was complicated by non-traumatic ulnar entrapment neuropathy interfering with the patient's profession as a musician (cello).
(17) Perla had a tiny, four-string pink guitar that looked like a toy, her sisters Rozika and Franziska played on quarter-sized violins, Frieda struck on the cimbalom, Micki played both a half-sized cello and accordion, while the energetic Elizabeth took on the drums.
(18) The beta-glucosidase removed glucosyl residues from the non-reducing end of the [1-3H]cello-oligosaccharides in a multiple attack mode with little tendency to attack the substrates repetitively.
(19) Thirty-eight had CELLO and 41 had a histologically normal cardia.
(20) The enzyme differed from the major cellulases (EC 3.2.1.4) of pea in: (a) susceptibility to inhibition by cello-oligosaccharides, (b) polysaccharide substrate specificity, (c) inducibility by auxin, (d) requirement for salt in the extraction buffer and (e) activation by 2-mercaptoethanol.
String
Definition:
(n.) A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
(n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
(n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
(n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
(n.) The line or cord of a bow.
(n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
(n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
(n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
(n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(n.) Same as Stringcourse.
(n.) The points made in a game.
(v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
(v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
(v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
(v. t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
(v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(3) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
(4) The British financial services industry spent £92m last year lobbying politicians and regulators in an "economic war of attrition" that has secured a string of policy victories.
(5) However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
(6) Ranged around the continents are pictures of every child in the class, with a coloured string leading to their country of origin.
(7) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
(8) Postoperative urodynamic studies have shown maximum capacity of 750 ml and the area of continence to be at the ileocecal valve where the purse-string sutures are placed.
(9) Five patients (1.8%) who inadvertently removed their gastrostomy tube within seven days of insertion were treated with immediate replacement using the retrograde string technique, avoiding laparotomy.
(10) The molecule exhibits the conformation of a flexible string-of-beads in solution.
(11) He's broken limbs, nearly lost fingers and contracted a potentially deadly bone-marrow infection, as well as performing a string of excellent comedy shows retelling his exploits.
(12) Target discrimination accuracy was inversely related to the phonological complexity of strings containing targets in Experiment 3, supposedly because lexical access through which target discrimination is enhanced becomes more difficult as phonological complexity increases.
(13) The technique involves the use of an extra-long sheath for filter placement and the application of a purse-string suture at the venipuncture site to facilitate hemostasis.
(14) It said the survey backed up a string of votes across the organisation’s regional and national committees in favour of continued membership.
(15) Subsequently, asymptomatic giardiasis was sought but not found by either the string test or stool exam in any of 15 patients with pancreatic insufficiency who were examined in a prospective manner.
(16) Noticeably, however, the Lib Dem leader echoed the Tories in saying Labour had “a sort of secret plan” to let the Scottish National party pull the strings after the election.
(17) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(18) Since then, a string of allegations have surfaced that have cast doubt on the notion that phone tapping at the paper was down to one rogue reporter, Clive Goodman, acting alone.
(19) Mann describes herself as a "feral child", running naked with dogs or riding her horse with only a string through its mouth.
(20) Mike Griffiths, headteacher at Northampton School for Boys, the first high-performing school to become an academy after Gove became secretary of state for education in May 2010, said the issue would not only have a potentially disastrous effect on pupils who failed to get a necessary C grade in English, but also on those hoping to study at elite institutions who fell short of getting As or A*s. "If you are applying to a Russell Group university, for instance, to study medicine or law, and all the applicants have a string of A*s, they will look back to the GCSEs and see a B in English – and that could decide your fate," he said.