(n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
(n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
(n.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.
(n.) A round body; a sphere; an orb.
(n.) Compass; circuit; inclosure.
(n.) A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
(n.) A circular group of persons; a ring.
(n.) A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
(n.) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
(n.) Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
(n.) A territorial division or district.
(n.) To move around; to revolve around.
(n.) To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
(v. i.) To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(2) These findings suggest that conditioned circling is mediated by a bilateral involvement of the mesotelencephalic dopaminergic systems.
(3) The circle rate correlated with the extent of mural invasion.
(4) Single-stranded circles did not form if a limited number of nucleotides were removed from the 3' ends of native molecules by Escherichia coli exonuclease III digestion prior to denaturation and annealing.
(5) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(6) Single-stranded linear DNAs were prepared by separating strands of duplex molecules or by cleaving single-stranded circles at a unique restriction site created by annealing a short defined oligonucleotide to the circle.
(7) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
(8) One of these models, the cognitivo-behavioural approach developed by Beck since 1963, seems to be gaining a renewed interest in psychiatric circles, especially in North America.
(9) With Schirren's circle the obtained mean value was even higher (+ 52%) in comparison to the "real" volume by Archimedes' principle with a random mean error of 19%.
(10) In the beginning the only patient and his family circle are able to do something.
(11) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
(12) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(13) TRP1 RI circle (now designated YARp1, yeast acentric ring plasmid 1) is a 1,453-base-pair artificial plasmid composed exclusively of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomal DNA.
(14) Thus did Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to Michael Gove , deliver to his prime minister what is, in certain Tory circles, the most crushing of insults.
(15) Two of Miliband’s inner circle – his director of strategy Tom Baldwin, and speechwriter Marc Stears – had suggested that the party seek out £3 supporters before 7 May in an attempt to engage people with the Labour party.
(16) Geometrical stimuli (48 6-item arrays of familiar forms, e.g., circle), tachistoscopically presented in the right or left visual field, were more accurately perceived in the right than left visual field by 15 college students.
(17) Both larval stages had an inner circle of 6 labial papillae, an outer circle of 6 labial papillae and 4 somatic papillae, and lateral amphidial pits.
(18) This vicious circle should be broken rather by finding optimal conditions than by a middle course determined by experimental requirements, economical frames and general notions about what may be good for the animal.
(19) Dimeric and oligomeric circles were present in the kDNA of the blood and intracellular stages in much greater proportion than in culture epimastigote stages.
(20) In spite of the relatively large sample and the given number of variables the problem of the vicious circle might occur.
Gyratory
Definition:
(a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty two kinds of strains and substrains of mammalian cells were cultivated on a gyratory shaker to obtain cell aggregates.
(2) To eliminate germ cells, the dissociated cells were cultured for 14 h, and then somatic cells attached to culture dishes were harvested and aggregated by gyratory culture for 24 h. The aggregates were then transplanted into ovarian bursa in ovary-ectomized nude mice.
(3) PLA801-95D cells from monolayer cultures were suspended and allowed to form spheroid aggregates for 3 d on a gyratory shaker.
(4) The course of growth and LPS production of two strains of type cultures of Escherichia coli (ATCC 11229, ATCC 25922), one E. coli mutant strain P400 and one type strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 15442), grown partly by repeated cultures in BHI and partly also in minimal medium or in 1:10 diluted PC broth in a gyratory shaker (60 rpm) at 30 degrees C, was monitored respectively by counting the cfu and by simultaneous determination of LPS by means of the three miniaturized LAL-tests, i.e.
(5) Gyratory epilepsy is relatively uncommon and may either represent a benign form of primary generalized epilepsy or occur secondary to a focal cortical lesion.
(6) Cell suspensions obtained by the dissociation of unincubated chick embryo blastoderms were allowed to reaggregate on a gyratory shaker for 24-48 hours.
(7) Neural retina cells, recovered from the dissociation procedure, were cultured on a gyratory shaker and the aggregate dimaeters formed in the presence of DMA or DMA-serum dialysate, following DMA-pretreatment, or in appropriate control cultures measured.
(8) In organ culture, PLA801-95D (0.2 mm in diameter) were confronted with 0.4 mm round precultured heart fragments (PHF), then co-cultured on a gyratory shaker.
(9) A series of modified gyratory bayonets instruments is described.
(10) The Norman Foster-led scheme was set to transform London’s iconic square from a heavily trafficked and dangerous gyratory into a more enjoyable and accessible space, closely linked to its prominent cultural neighbours.
(11) The effects of normal and malignant cells on the aggregation of embryonic cells in gyratory shaker cultures were compared.
(12) Prominent proliferation of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum in shaken cells may be due to the consumption of glycogen for energy release as a result of gyratory rotation.
(13) Fragments of endometrium consisting of epithelium and stroma were obtained during early pseudopregnancy and cultured on a gyratory shaker.
(14) Mouse lung adenocarcinoma cell line (LA795) cells were allowed to form tumor cell aggregates after 3 days in a gyratory shaker culture system.
(15) The gyratory shaker method was employed to produce heterotypic aggregates from mixed suspensions of muscle, liver, and neural retina cells and the tissue-specific positioning of cells after 24 h in culture was determined from histological and autoradiograph sections.
(16) Slightly more visible are the removal of the gyratory systems at Piccadilly Circus and elsewhere, and the X-shaped pedestrian crossing at Oxford Circus, devices that rebalance the relationship of pedestrians to vehicles in favour of the former.
(17) To overcome this, we cultured chick embryo myoblasts as a suspension of single cells in gyratory rotation in medium without added Ca2+.
(18) The rate and extent of tranylcypromine biotransformation was affected by whether incubation was on either 30 degrees or flat brackets with a gyratory shaker.
(19) The stereological technique was used to quantify glycogen areas and endoplasmic reticulum in fetal rat hepatocytes cultured for 24 hr in monolayer (monolayer cells) or following shaking by gyratory rotation (shaken cells).
(20) The spermatozoa provide both forward and gyratory motions of the bundle, and the corkscrew complements bundle propulsion by converting part of the rotation into forward movement.