(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%.
Chav
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Starkey was in a heated discussion with Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class, when he made his remarks during a discussion hosted by Emily Maitlis that also included the writer Dreda Say Mitchell.
(2) "What has happened is that the substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black.
(3) A classic example, she believes, is Little Britain, in which David Walliams blacked up to play the character of Desiree, an obese black woman, and in which so-called "chavs" are ridiculed.
(4) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(5) Johnson tells the Radio Times that she didn't know that fat people ("classic chavs") could be hungry, until she saw their empty cupboards and their food budget (£3 a day for three people), and what it could and could not buy.
(6) I love her twice as hard for depriving a certain type of viewer of the chaotic chavs-on-tour spectacle they might have been expecting by taking entirely normal holidays and considering sound financial options.
(7) Discussion of the moral deficiency of benefit claimants has long been a substitute for political and economic debate, asylum-seeker is a dirty word, and "chav" is a word that no one wants applied to them.
(8) Jones's Chavs, Andy Merrifield's Magical Marxism, Laurie Penny's collection of her writing Penny Red and Nicholas Shaxson's exposé of tax havens Treasure Islands complete the lineup.
(9) Unusually for the comedy chav character – sadly every soap has one – Beth has been furnished with the requisite parenting skills to clock when something's up with her Craigy.
(10) The headline inside was "Future Bling of England"; the strapline screamed, "Wills wears Chav Gear in Army Snap."
(11) The shortlist Counterpower: Making Change Happen by Tim Gee Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
(12) Class hatred has been siphoned off on to chavs, scroungers, benefit fraudsters, single mothers, all the new untouchables, so that the architects of austerity can justify their cruelty.
(13) It hardly ever has a scandal – the biggest was when a group of 12-year-olds got drunk on vodka – and it is reputed, probably wrongly, to have originated "chav" as a snooty term for the less eligible young men of the town ("Cheltenham average").
(14) And in popular culture, stereotypes that had been given new life in the 1980s eventually went nuclear: the mid-to-late New Labour period, let us not forget, was the era of Little Britain’s council-estate grotesque Vicky Pollard , the hairstyle maligned as the council-house facelift, and the bundling-up of council housing in the same dread category as “chavs” and welfare scroungers.
(15) Over two pages built around a snap of 30 trainee officers at Sandhurst, yesterday's Sun gleefully recounted how the heir to the throne "joined in the fun as his platoon donned chav-themed fancy dress to mark the completion of their first term".
(16) The “mix”, even when it happened, was a mix of the mutually hostile – search for the Greenwich Millennium Village online, to find a host of complaints by rich residents at the fact that sundry “chavs” and “scum” have ended up residing in their stunning luxury living solution.
(17) Now the people that bug me every day are cab drivers and chavs.
(18) His perusal of the entertainment currently offered to undergraduates has only confirmed that the so-called "chav bop" - a disco where you dress up as a working-class person - is an immovable fixture not only at public schools, but also throughout Oxford's colleges.
(19) They want us looking suspiciously and disdainfully in the direction of marginalised individuals; "chavs", "immigrants" and "gays," not in the direction of the institutions who actually damage our society – banks, corporations and the media.
(20) They want to see the back of these TV chavs so they can be left with their Poliakoff and their Potter (as well as their Big Brothers and Embarrassing Illnesses and all their "TV heaven", slumming it choices, obviously) and be served a TV which is essentially much more ... them.