(n.) A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.
(n.) See Chopine.
Example Sentences:
(1) A soundtrack of something equally pure would be in order – Chopin or Beethoven, perhaps Schubert.
(2) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
(3) Chopin's autopsy revealed gross cardiomegaly and changes in his lungs which were not consistent with cavitating tuberculosis.
(4) Chopin suffered multiple acute, severe respiratory infections of both the upper and lower respiratory tracts which worsened in winter.
(5) It's a dramatic shift since Kate Chopin's 1899 story of a married woman who discovers sexual desire with a lover, The Awakening , was greeted with "general moral disgust" on publication", Illouz points out.
(6) The carriage and procession made its measured way at 70 steps per minute, military drum beats keeping precise pace, and the band of HM Royal Marines playing funeral marches by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Chopin.
(7) The melancholy piano of Chopin tugs at Polish heartstrings.
(8) A means of enhancing this fixation was to achieve more inferior purchase by extending the fixation down to the S2 pedicle (Cotrel-Dubousset Chopin and Cotrel-Dubousset butterfly groups).
(9) Arthur Rubenstein played very demanding compositions of Chopin at the age of 88 and Andre Segovia at the age of 91 is still giving concerts on the classical guitar.
(10) There was Petit Pays, Cesária Évora's beautiful paean to her native Cape Verde, and Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by the Turkish pianist Idil Biret.
(11) Since Chopin's death 140 years ago, no one has questioned seriously the theory that he died of tuberculosis, in spite of the knowledge that many of the physicians who treated his illness considered tuberculosis an unlikely cause of his chronic respiratory disease, which was of at least 24 years' duration.
(12) The 17th-century Hôtel Lambert, one of Paris's most important historic mansions, in which Chopin composed, George Sand wrote and Voltaire lived with his mistress, has been badly damaged by a fire.
(13) Once owned by the painter Ary Scheffer, part of this literary museum is devoted to the life of George Sand, who was a regular visitor here, along with the likes of Chopin, Delacroix, Liszt and Charles Dickens.
(14) Gathered on Krasiński Square, at the same spot where the US president, Donald Trump, gave a controversial speech to pro-government crowds earlier this month, protesters projected “This is our court” on to the court building as the music of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin played in the background.
(15) I wanted to go and find some frogs and ride a bike and so I felt embarrassed that I didn't want to play Chopin or join in a discussion about Proust.
(16) It's not surprising, given South Pigalle's romantic squares and grand mansions, that hidden down a cobbled lane is Le Musée de la Vie Romantique (16 rue Chaptal), a discrete townhouse that was once a literary rendezvous for the likes of George Sand and Frédéric Chopin.
(17) "Robert had this idea about the continents drifting to the music of Chopin.
(18) Piano interlude now – it's Chopin – then Obama will take the stage.
(19) 11.05am: Only five minutes in and we're already on to our first montage of the morning, soundtracked by Chopin and celebrating - I think - 50 years of the European Championships.
(20) It was about his performance of Chopin and Schubert, and Midgette praised his extraordinarily accomplished style: “Again and again … he showed what a range of colours he could get out of the instrument.” The problem, in her view, was that “the human side fell short”.
Liquid
Definition:
(a.) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
(a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.
(a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
(a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.
(a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.
(a.) Clear; definite in terms or amount.
(n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.
(n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(2) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(3) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(4) Glycosyl ceramide concentration was determined by gas-liquid chromatography of the trimethylsilyl ethers of the methyl glycosides.
(5) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(7) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
(8) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(9) High pressure liquid chromatography combined with radioimmunoassay showed marked heterogeneity of SPLI and SLI.
(10) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
(11) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(12) A rapid method is described for the purification and analysis of synthetic oligonucleotides, based on reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
(13) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(14) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
(15) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(16) Between-lot variation exceeded that of within-lot variation in 10 of the 14 liquid antacids for which this variation could be tested.
(17) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(18) The rats were then sacrificed at either one or four hours after the injections and their brains analyzed for monoamine and metabolite content using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
(19) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(20) [8(-14)C]Inosine monophosphate formed was separated by high-voltage electrophoresis and radioactivity was measured by liquid-scintillation counting.