(v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
(v. t.) To strike; to beat.
(v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
(v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.
(n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
(n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
(n.) A blow; a rap.
(n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
(n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
(n.) A buyer; a chapman.
(n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
(v. i.) To bargain; to buy.
Example Sentences:
(1) For this, different detergents such as Triton X-100, CHAPS and n-octyl beta-D glucopyranoside were tested at various concentrations, durations and temperatures of incubation.
(2) At detergent concentrations above their critical micelle concentrations, C12E8 was also much more effective than CHAPS, suggesting that micelles are not involved.
(3) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
(4) End-on views of G on virus clearly showed triangles consisting of three dots indicating the trimeric nature of native G. End-on views of CHAPS-isolated G showed very similar triangles confirming that, using this detergent, G was solubilized in its native trimeric structure.
(5) Previous investigations (El Mestikawy et al., J Neurochem 51: 1031-1040, 1988) have shown that 5-HT1A binding sites (R[5-HT1A]) solubilized by CHAPS from rat hippocampal membranes can be modulated by guanine nucleotides, as expected from their solubilization together with associated G regulatory proteins (G).
(6) Initially, peripheral polypeptides were removed from apically enriched vesicles by washing with alkaline buffer (pH 10.8) containing 2 mM CHAPS.
(7) The enzymes could be solubilized from the membrane fractions using CHAPS, and the detergent-soluble activity partially restored by addition of phospholipids.
(8) Furthermore, the effects of detergents other than CHAPS on hydrodynamic parameters and on [3H]TCDD binding to the receptor were studied.
(9) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
(10) The binding of CHAPS to the SynChropak Propyl stationary phase and its effects on retention were found to be readily reversible.
(11) Leukotriene C4 (LTC4) synthase was solubilized from the microsomes of guinea-pig lung by the new procedures of a combination of 3-[3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio)-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS), digitonin and KCl.
(12) These treatments also caused an altered distribution of phosphorylated integrin between the CHAPS soluble and insoluble fractions.
(13) The ryanodine receptor protein of sheep cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes functions as a ligand-regulated ion channel following solubilization with the zwitterionic detergent CHAPS (3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1- propane sulphonate); purification by density gradient centrifugation, reconstitution into proteo-liposomes and incorporation into planar phospholipid bilayers.
(14) The chap who assessed my brother was a physiotherapist,” she said.
(15) The augmentation of tone was endothelium-dependent as it did not occur following functional destruction of the endothelium by perfusion of the vascular bed with the detergent CHAPS (0.3%) for 150s.
(16) Isoelectric focusing in 2% 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS) without urea gives good results as does 2% Nonidet-P40 with 8 M urea.
(17) Sodium nitroprusside was approximately 200 times less potent than acetylcholine in the presence of the endothelium and was the only vasorelaxant to be active after destruction of the endothelium by perfusion with 0.3% CHAPS; in the absence of the endothelium it was 3.7 times more potent as a vasodilator than in its presence.
(18) Among three detergents tested, CHAPS is the best in preserving hormonal binding affinity and specificity.
(19) In addition, the 44% peak became increasingly resistant to the inhibitory effect of CHAPS.
(20) Optimal yield was obtained by pretreatment of whole M. pneumoniae cells with buffer containing 1% Chaps and subsequent extraction with octylglucosid at a detergent to protein ratio of 5 and at octylglycoside concentrations between 1.5 and 2%.
Chappy
Definition:
() Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a cheeky chappy side to Mr Duterte that can be engaging.
(2) The humans in Chappie take great pleasure in introducing their new friend to art and culture, while encouraging his own efforts to create.
(3) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
(4) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.
(5) 3.16am BST 4 mins: We're hearing that the referee tonight is something of a red card happy chappy.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patel, best known for Slumdog Millionaire, plays a scientist who has programmed Chappie with artificial intelligence, and yet the relationship between the robot and his creator is more akin to father and son.
(7) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
(8) A cheerful chappy Carlosh, looking very like that king the Portuguese threw a bomb at.
(9) He stands squarely in the British tradition of cheeky chappies."
(10) The audience lap up his cheeky-chappie shtick (in Scotland, we’d call him gallus ), because he’s acknowledged that he’s one of them, and they feel ownership.
(11) 11.07pm GMT More on this chappie West Brom have signed, courtesy of publishing sensation Sid Lowe : Sid Lowe (@sidlowe) Thievy to WBA an interesting one.
(12) Updated at 7.16pm BST 6.47pm BST Roger Kirkby emails from SoCal: Well me and my stat happy chappies are watching the game in a bar with bloody Mary's and breakfast sandwiches.
(13) says Sue Robinson of Hillier nursery, bringing out "Woodland Wilf", a fluorescent pink, pointy-headed chappie with two lurid orange buckets.
(14) It can’t always be cheeky fucking chappie and in your face.
(15) Now comes the long-awaited Chappie , which promises to be a 21st century Short Circuit – if the cult 1980s action-comedy romp had been set in Johannesburg and co-starred Die Antwoord .
(16) We’re charming chappies generally, we’ve made an institution of being nice to people.” • A midlife crisis “I’ve learned how to use the Twitter.” “We’re listening to you.
(17) Chappie sees the film-maker back on the streets of South Africa, with a cast that mixes local talent including Die Antwoord’s Yo-Landi Visser with Hollywood stars Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver.
(18) The Prince of Wales, who believes the Luftwaffe did less damage to London than modern architects , has been sniping at One New Change since 2005, when he wrote to the developers, Land Securities, hoping to get Nouvel off the job and have him replaced by one of his "traditionalist" chappies .
(19) Before I picked up Moby ’s new memoir, Porcelain , I thought of him as a small, bald, cheeky chappy who made tuneful dance music.
(20) When Jackman, playing a mulleted meanie named Vincent, expresses concern that Chappie might be unpredictable, he is presented as a villain rather than the voice of reason.