(v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
(v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
(v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
(v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.
(n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
(n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
(n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
(n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
(n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.
(n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
(2) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(3) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(4) Not just this trip, there's the constant, negative criticism over the years chipping away.
(5) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(6) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
(7) At the other end the first meaningful touch from Castillo sees him attempt an ambitious chip to finish a rare US break.
(8) Critics of Rouhani’s policy of rapprochement with the international community inside Iran can turn to the supreme leader and say there wasn’t really much need for that softer tone because now we have more bargaining chips in our hands.
(9) Eamonn Forde of the music business website Music Ally says: "I think the change would just be chipping at the edges at first, but then you see things like a new generation of artists who are just huge on YouTube, who don't make the charts because they don't see themselves as having to put out singles, they make their money online.
(10) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
(11) Cameron put all of his betting chips on what seemed to be the party's trump card: the "vote for us, we're tough on migration and tough on migrants" strategy.
(12) Ninety-two patients with tendon rupture or chip fracture were treated by splinting, and 42 percent of them had a decreased range of motion, mostly of a minor degree, but only 18 percent stated complaints at the follow-up examination.
(13) "I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.
(14) This included estimation of the furthest distance that the cooling fluid, using coloured water, and the bone chips of a dry petrous temporal bone can be thrown, and the spread of the fine dust produced by the drilling using a staph.
(15) However, in December, a concert was staged in Chipping Norton to settle the debt.
(16) The treatment consisted of bolting the capitular epiphysis (head) of the femur with a homologous bone chip.
(17) Steps for using a plastic chip to identify a removable prosthesis are described.
(18) Simon chips in: "I'm a single parent with a daughter, and the only things I can get are temporary contracts".
(19) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(20) The pharmacokinetics of CHIP was determined following intraperitoneal (i.p.)
Chromatin
Definition:
(n.) Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(3) The use of ethidium for chromatin cytochemistry allows to study chromatin properties in wide ranges of pH.
(4) The isoenzyme mobility diminished in both tumour chromatin extracts, and the slow migrating gamma isoenzyme exhibited sensitivity to L-cysteine inhibition.
(5) Its presence suggested an implication in the enhanced activities of RNA polymerases of E 24 chromatin.
(6) In the absence of n-butyrate, only a small percentage (approximately 4%) of the total beta A chromatin is in a soluble chromatin fraction following micrococcal nuclease digestion and centrifugation.
(7) Likewise, [3H]estradiol-receptor complexes from rabbit uterus, Squalus oviduct, or mouse testis bound minimally to Squalus testicular chromatin.
(8) Indirect end-labeling analysis of micrococcal nuclease digested chromatin reveals that nucleosomes are identically phased on the mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat in normal and hyperacetylated chromatin.
(9) Since chromatin particles containing DNA the size of 125 kbp can electroelute, we conclude that the polymerizing complex is attached to a nucleoskeleton which is too large to escape.
(10) In addition our studies reveal that the binding patterns of [3H]GR isolated from mammary glands of nulliparous and lactating mice to their homologous chromatin is essentially similar.
(11) Quantitative cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry were used to monitor T-2 toxin induced alterations in chromatin and neuronal nuclear volume in supraoptic-magnocellular neurons of rat hypo-thalami.
(12) We therefore sought to determine whether doxorubicin in the presence of NADH dehydrogenase and the transition metal ions Fe(III) or Cu(II) induces DNA base modifications in isolated human chromatin.
(13) In contrast, interchange of the histones and tightly bound non-histone protein DNA complexes from hormone-withdrawn and estrogen-stimulated chromatins during reconstitution did not affect the level of mRNAOV sequences produced.
(14) Mechanisms of investigated phenomenon, particularly their dependence on the chromatin structure, as well as the influence of ionic strength on binding the repair enzymes with DNA are discussed.
(15) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(16) Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, a nuclear protein-modifying enzyme, binds to the internucleosomal linker region of chromatin, although it modifies certain core nucleosomal histones in addition to histone H1.
(17) Micrococcal nuclease-digested testis and erythrocyte chromatin was separated into soluble and insoluble fractions.
(18) Topoisomer heterogeneity for plasmid chromatin in vivo may be due to heterogeneity in the number of nucleosomes on each plasmid, which could reflect either the nature of the assembly process or the dynamics of nucleosomes within the cell.
(19) Such a heterogeneity in DNA content in the diploid part of HPR cell population could apparently suggest some differences in the nuclear chromatin arrangement to be always higher in spring before the frog spawning, and it seems to be characteristic of this type of cells.
(20) These observations demonstrate that brain cells synthesize a NGF mRNA in primary culture and that the butyrate moiety of db-cAMP enhances NGF gene expression in these cells, probably by a modification of chromatin structure in and around the NGF gene.