(a.) Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.
(a.) Broken in the back.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perry demonstrates how to chine a rib roast – that is, how to separate the section of spine running along its length, while leaving it partially attached for cooking.
(2) Possible relationships between linguistic features and disease concepts are cited for the Eskimo, the Navaho, and the Chines, and it is suggested that, in European languages, the extensive use of spatial metaphors to express abstract concepts may encourage a more rigid categorization of disease and inhibit the ability to conceive of multiple factors in disease causation.
(3) The quantity singlet oxygen chemiluminescence was decreased in the presence of Japanese Catalin and Chine Baineiting, antirheumatic Voltaren and less strong Finish Catachrome and Carnosine.
(4) • £1.50, children only Blackgang Chine , Isle of Wight Photograph: Alamy This is a surreal, slightly careworn adventure park with resident cowboys, pixies, pirates and a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a smoking jacket.
(5) The farmer gave me a running commentary on all the bits and pieces, especially those which crop up in the poem, such as the knot, the chine and the slot.
(6) MOST UNCROWDED Canford Cliffs Chine, Poole, Dorset A well-kept secret between Branksome Chine and Flaghead Chine, this fine, blue-flag beach is where the locals go to avoid the crush of tourists in summer.
(7) Les panneaux ont été fabriqués en Chine, alors que les onduleurs et transformateurs sont importés d’Allemagne.
Composition
Definition:
(n.) The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.
(n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music.
(n.) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below.
(n.) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.
(n.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.
(n.) The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.
(n.) A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.
(n.) A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.
(n.) Consistency; accord; congruity.
(n.) Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.
(n.) The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment.
(n.) Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(3) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
(4) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(5) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(6) Protein composition was determined in mesenteric lymph chylomicrons from fat-fed rats.
(7) In vitro transcription products were analyzed for their 5' end sequences and their oligonucleotide compositions.
(8) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(9) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(10) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(11) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
(12) The specific rates of degradation of L-arginine-AMC, gly-proline-AMC, N-alpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-AMC and N-[p-toluene-sulphonyl]gly-pro-arginine-AMC were significantly greater in that group, indicating that the composition of their gingival crevicular fluid was different from that of the gingivitis group.
(13) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(14) Changes in the plasma lipid composition are observed in patients and animals with malignancy and certain other diseases that are consistent with peroxidation of plasma lipoprotein lipids.
(15) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
(16) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(17) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
(18) The PC modification was affected by the fatty acid composition of the exogenous PC species.
(19) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
(20) It is inferred that in this experimental model (1) high-density lipoproteins are probably excreted in the glomerular filtrate, (2) alterations in the composition of the excreted lipoproteins may occur during their passage through the nephron.