(n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
(n.) See Shoot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ring was in the collection of the Chute family – which for generations was interested in politics, collecting, and antiquarian research – for centuries before the house came to the National Trust in the 1930s.
(2) Passengers on board a flight to Kalibo, in the Philippines, tweeted photos of the plane with its emergency chutes deployed after it apparently overshot the runway while landing in bad weather.
(3) Bradford was knocked into the chute and crushed against the floor.
(4) Blind behavioral testing in a "squeeze chute" was conducted 40 minutes after injection.
(5) Factors leading to injury included rapid onset of colder temperatures, sudden reuse of snowblowers after storage for the summer, a heavy mid-week storm that created a sense of urgency to clear snow in dusky light conditions after a day at work, frustration as exit chutes became repeatedly clogged with heavy wet snow and limited operator education.
(6) Unlike any other animal in this country - except, perhaps, the mole, whose condition is, if anything, even more opaque, and just as likely to be following its own chute to oblivion - the hedgehog has always been a symbol and embodiment of something subtle and tender in the landscape.
(7) She said the emergency chute had not deployed so they jumped to the tarmac.
(8) Because this seems to represent a new cause of SCI, we advise the authorities to reassess the security regarding chute construction and the necessary water depth.
(9) The upmarket steakhouse is so much part of the New York establishment its famous wine cellars – cleverly concealed behind camouflaged doors, invisible chutes and revolving bars to thwart prohibition enforcers searching for illegal liquor – have housed the private collections of Ford and Nixon, as well as those of Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Mae West, Eva Gabor and Aristotle Onassis, to name but a few.
(10) Then called the "No-Spill" cutting board, the white kitchen aid stood apart in that it could be folded at an angle into a chute so that all the food that was chopped would flow straight into the pot, an idea which had failed to draw the attention of consumers when it was designed about 25 years ago.
(11) 'CHUTE: THE ANNUAL "Birmingham and Sunderland have been promoted back to the Premier League at the first attempt," writes Simon Phillips.
(12) Air sampling for organic dusts and microorganisms was carried out in silos when moldy silage was discarded through the discharge chute.
(13) Escape was made over the seat backs, down an escape chute to a position 12 m from the base of the chute.
(14) The chimpanzees used the inside run, connective chute, concrete slab, and grass areas most.
(15) About +47,000 in replacement costs have been saved since the hospital instituted a plan to retrieve materials that are inadvertantly deposited in laundry chutes with soiled linens.
(16) Lydney was re-excavated by the maverick archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who called in Tolkien in 1929 to advise on the odd name of the god – and also spotted the connection between the name on the curse and the Chute family's peculiar ring.
(17) John Bradford, 62, died while moving an elephant into a chute connecting barn stalls to the barnyard at the Dickerson Park Zoo on Friday, city spokeswoman Cora Scott said.
(18) To reduce stress from handling at treatment time, each calf was herded through the squeeze chute daily for 5 d before the experiment.
(19) Be sure to catch the sidewalk-clearing bit: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close (via @ rubinafillion ) Updated at 5.51pm GMT 5.44pm GMT Our first and perhaps only snowblower operation tip of the day, courtesy of the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services : NYS DHSES (@NYSDHSES) Make sure your snow blower discharge chute is not aimed at passing motorists or pedestrians #winterstorm January 3, 2014 5.40pm GMT Still planning Friday travel?
(20) On the other hand if you go to McDonald’s, you won’t have a problem with punching buttons and having a burger come out of a chute somewhere.” One issue that will loom ever larger as the incidence of automation increases, according to Kaplan, is inequality.
Trough
Definition:
(n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
(n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(2) Plasma aldosterone peaked (p < 0.05) at 22 hours after operation, and argine vasopressin peaked (p < 0.05) at two hours and then declined (p < 0.05) to a trough at 24 hours.
(3) Our observations demonstrated that echographic coaptation of the aortic valve leaflets coincides with the trough of the aortic pressure incisura and the onset of A2.
(4) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(5) IDDM in Canterbury, New Zealand, presents in cycles of incidence peaks and troughs, each spanning 2-3 yr.
(6) No IgE circadian rhythm was validated in healthy children while a large amplitude (approximately equal to 30% of the 24 hours mean) circadian rhythm with 2 diurnal peaks and a nocturnal trough was demonstrated (P less than 0.0023) in the asthmatics.
(7) Trough levels of LH, however, are dependent on the frequency of LHRH-induced pulsatile LH secretion.
(8) Appropriate conditions for administering the drug by intravenous drip infusion to neonates and infants at ages of more than 1 week were investigated taking observed blood levels and achieved peak levels and trough levels calculated using the one-compartment open model into account.
(9) Dose limiting toxicities were observed in 9 of 10 patients with 12-h trough piritrexim concentrations greater than 0.5 microM, whereas only 2 of 7 patients with trough concentrations less than 0.5 microM experienced dose limiting toxicities.
(10) Both free and luciferase-bound B show similar negative circular dichroism in the region 330-475 nm with troughs at 375 and 380 nm, respectively.
(11) Whole blood steady-state trough concentrations of cyclosporine were measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) and TDx assays employing monoclonal antibodies in 82 samples from 39 renal transplant patients.
(12) Regression analysis also showed a strong relationship between the area under the curve (AUC) from time 0 to 11 hours after the initial dose and the trough at steady state (r = 0.86).
(13) algebraic sum of these three cosine functions yielded a circadian waveform with peak-times occurring near 0300 and 1130 hr and a trough-time about 2200 hr.
(14) Group I represented the modified "over-the-top" technique with a deep cancellous bone trough and represented the most isometric tracking.
(15) Circular dichroic spectra of the lipophorins and apolipophorin from 190 to 250 nm showed a single trough at 218 nm and a peak at 194 nm.
(16) • The best ideas are tested by their peaks and troughs.
(17) During the estrous cycle, mitotic activity of the granulosa cells was highest at estrus in follicles less than 601 micron, and at diestrus in follicles greater than 600 micron; while the mitotic trough was at proestrus in all the follicles.
(18) Data analysis revealed a seasonal pattern in the monthly distribution of births, with the peak period observed during April-June, and a trough during November-January.
(19) The issues in CsA monitoring include selection of sample matrix, analytical method, dosing interval and the timing of trough measurements, the temporal relationship between measurements and physiological events such as toxicity, the concurrent presence of multiple other immunosuppressive agents, and the lack of "gold standards" for determining rejection, adequate immunosuppression, and toxicity.
(20) The addition of LTB4 to the microsomal fraction gave a type-I spectral change with a peak at around 390 nm and a trough at 422 nm, indicating a direct interaction of LTB4 with the cytochrome P-450.