(n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ronny Cham, who represented Miss Hawkins in court, said she was relieved to be returning home.
(2) A distinct pool of liver ferritin has been described in man, guinea pigs and rats [Cham, Roeser, Nikles & Ridgway (1986) Clin.
(3) Walking the circular viewing deck, visitors start with horrific scenes from the Cham War between the Khmers and the Vietnamese before moving on to the construction of the famous Bayon Temple and ending with the daily life of Khmers.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Defence lawyer Ronny Cham Cham pleaded for leniency: “Your honour, they were ignorant of the culture, tradition and belief of the local people … including the people of Sabah and Malaysia … This is a group of a young generation … who have more freedom and liberty to express their thoughts and ideas.” Cham said the four stripped as they were “challenging one another to stand the cold of the mountain, to stand the temperature, which was near zero degrees”.
(5) Kolo Cham grows sorghum and corn near the Baro river, a 30-minute walk from his family home at Karmi.
(6) Sheikh Tayeb Mustapha Cham, imam and founder of the Taiba Welfare Foundation, said some imams still resisted condemning FGM, but religious leaders had a responsibly to speak out.
(7) Pharmacological activities of Eschscholtzia californica Cham.
(8) "Nobody would believe that such a luxury car would come to Cambodia," said the minister for industry and handcrafts, Cham Prasidh, who was present for the announcement.
(9) A technique described by Cham and Knowles allows the extraction of plasma phospholipides, triglycerides, cholesterol and free fatty acids without denaturing the proteins.
(10) Hawkins’s defence lawyer, Ronny Cham, said: “This is a happy ending to the whole episode.” He said he expected all four tourists to be deported after they had paid the fines.
Clam
Definition:
(v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
(v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
(v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
(v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
(v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
(n.) Claminess; moisture.
(n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
(v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arabinogalactan-protein was isolated from the style extract by affinity chromatography with tridacnin (the galactose-binding lectin from the clam Tridacna maxima) coupled to Sepharose 4B.
(2) Photoreceptor cells were enzymatically dissociated from the eye of the file clam, Lima scabra.
(3) To compare biochemical differences between bivalves with and without endosymbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria, specimens of Solemya velum, a bivalve species known to contain bacterial endosymbionts, and the symbiont-free soft-shelled clam Mya arenaria, were collected from the same subtidal reducing sediments during October and November 1988.
(4) The greatest accumulation of microorganisms in hard-shelled clams occurred during certain periods in the spring, at temperatures ranging from 11.5 to 21.5 degrees C. These periods of hyperaccumulation did not always coincide for all organisms; the accumulation of bacteriophages was not predicted by the accumulation of either fecal coliforms or C. perfringens.
(5) We have found a rapid increase in 32Pi incorporation into two proteins in clam blood cell ghosts after exposure of the intact cells to a hypoosmotic medium.
(6) The eggs of the surf clam Spisula solidissima have a built-in mechanism that prevents polyspermy: the eggs show a 70 percent decrease in sperm receptivity 5 seconds after fertilization, and become completely resistant to sperm by 15 seconds.
(7) The greatest reduction of health risks would come from the routine depuration of clams harvested from growing waters of good sanitary quality.
(8) The survival and replication of male-specific bacteriophages in hard-shelled clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) and their homogenates were examined to further assess their potential utility as indicator organisms.
(9) The "clam" procedure has revolutionised bladder reconstruction.
(10) Monitoring of DDT and HCH residues in abiotic and biotic components of the environment of Delhi during 1988 to 1989 revealed low to moderate levels of these insecticides in soil, earthworms, birds, buffalo milk, water, freshwater clams, fish, human fat, human blood and breast milk samples.
(11) Since these characteristics of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA are similar to those of cyclin mRNAs from sea urchin and surf clam eggs, we synthesized a 50-mer antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide probe coding for a part of the sea urchin cyclin cDNA and used this to screen starfish RNA.
(12) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(13) Mussels and scallops were very rapidly contaminated showing high toxin accumulation rates, whereas rates for oysters and clams were low.
(14) RNase alters the in vitro assembly of spindle asters in homogenates of meiotically dividing surf clam (Spisula solidissima) oocytes.
(15) Both apo- and holo-I-FABP are composed primarily of anti-parallel beta-strands which form two nearly orthogonal beta-sheets ("beta-clam").
(16) Alkaline phosphatases were purified from human placenta, bovine milk, shrimp and clam with a final spec.
(17) Dalston Superstore’s “weekly lez off” Clam Jam is excellent for meeting people, and Holla!
(18) Opsonizing and agglutinating activities of plasma from the freshwater clam, Corbicula fluminea, were found to be inhibited by the sugars, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (deoxy-Glu) and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine (GalNAc).
(19) The eggs of the surf clam Spisula solidissima were artificially activated, homogenized at various times in cold 0.5 M MES buffer, 1mM EGTA at pH 6.5, and microtubule polymerization was induced by raising the temperature to 28 degrees C. In homogenates of unactivated eggs few microtubules form and no asters are observed.
(20) Three or four feet down and the sandy sea floor is thickly cast with razor clams and scallop shells.