(v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
(v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
(v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
(v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
(v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
(n.) Claminess; moisture.
(n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
(v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arabinogalactan-protein was isolated from the style extract by affinity chromatography with tridacnin (the galactose-binding lectin from the clam Tridacna maxima) coupled to Sepharose 4B.
(2) Photoreceptor cells were enzymatically dissociated from the eye of the file clam, Lima scabra.
(3) To compare biochemical differences between bivalves with and without endosymbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria, specimens of Solemya velum, a bivalve species known to contain bacterial endosymbionts, and the symbiont-free soft-shelled clam Mya arenaria, were collected from the same subtidal reducing sediments during October and November 1988.
(4) The greatest accumulation of microorganisms in hard-shelled clams occurred during certain periods in the spring, at temperatures ranging from 11.5 to 21.5 degrees C. These periods of hyperaccumulation did not always coincide for all organisms; the accumulation of bacteriophages was not predicted by the accumulation of either fecal coliforms or C. perfringens.
(5) We have found a rapid increase in 32Pi incorporation into two proteins in clam blood cell ghosts after exposure of the intact cells to a hypoosmotic medium.
(6) The eggs of the surf clam Spisula solidissima have a built-in mechanism that prevents polyspermy: the eggs show a 70 percent decrease in sperm receptivity 5 seconds after fertilization, and become completely resistant to sperm by 15 seconds.
(7) The greatest reduction of health risks would come from the routine depuration of clams harvested from growing waters of good sanitary quality.
(8) The survival and replication of male-specific bacteriophages in hard-shelled clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) and their homogenates were examined to further assess their potential utility as indicator organisms.
(9) The "clam" procedure has revolutionised bladder reconstruction.
(10) Monitoring of DDT and HCH residues in abiotic and biotic components of the environment of Delhi during 1988 to 1989 revealed low to moderate levels of these insecticides in soil, earthworms, birds, buffalo milk, water, freshwater clams, fish, human fat, human blood and breast milk samples.
(11) Since these characteristics of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA are similar to those of cyclin mRNAs from sea urchin and surf clam eggs, we synthesized a 50-mer antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide probe coding for a part of the sea urchin cyclin cDNA and used this to screen starfish RNA.
(12) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(13) Mussels and scallops were very rapidly contaminated showing high toxin accumulation rates, whereas rates for oysters and clams were low.
(14) RNase alters the in vitro assembly of spindle asters in homogenates of meiotically dividing surf clam (Spisula solidissima) oocytes.
(15) Both apo- and holo-I-FABP are composed primarily of anti-parallel beta-strands which form two nearly orthogonal beta-sheets ("beta-clam").
(16) Alkaline phosphatases were purified from human placenta, bovine milk, shrimp and clam with a final spec.
(17) Dalston Superstore’s “weekly lez off” Clam Jam is excellent for meeting people, and Holla!
(18) Opsonizing and agglutinating activities of plasma from the freshwater clam, Corbicula fluminea, were found to be inhibited by the sugars, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (deoxy-Glu) and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine (GalNAc).
(19) The eggs of the surf clam Spisula solidissima were artificially activated, homogenized at various times in cold 0.5 M MES buffer, 1mM EGTA at pH 6.5, and microtubule polymerization was induced by raising the temperature to 28 degrees C. In homogenates of unactivated eggs few microtubules form and no asters are observed.
(20) Three or four feet down and the sandy sea floor is thickly cast with razor clams and scallop shells.
Clamminess
Definition:
(n.) State of being clammy or viscous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The faces are clammy masks, a shocking number are teenagers.
(2) But, all told, nobody comes close to the clammy glamour of Farage.
(3) Crop impactions (solid, hard masses of seeds) caused by seeds of clammy weed (Cuphea carthagenensis) were found in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) killed during the 1965-71 hunting seasons in Louisiana.
(4) Fall in blood pressure and cardiac volume, congestion of blood in the region of the pulmonary vessels and signs of reduced circulation in the body periphery (severe physical weakness, apathy, cold and clammy skin, oliguria) determine the clinical picture of cardiogenic shock.
(5) Recent days have been relatively warm and without rainfall, with the temperature not dropping below 5C, but the thick mist clinging to the low fields and wooded hills has added to the clammy chill.
(6) The US president had thrust out a clammy right paw, grabbed hold of his arm with his left hand and then pumped it enthusiastically for rather longer than was comfortable.
(7) Fewer still would be convinced by this excuse ludicrously flipped on its head: the Tories never expected to win, and believed their pledge to slash social security by £12bn would be diluted amid the clammy handshakes of a backroom coalition deal.
(8) Systolic hypotension, oliguria, metabolic acidosis and a cold clammy skin are late signs of shock.
(9) Meanwhile it's getting clammy in here, as Melissa F appreciates the fact I am "not afraid to use the words "saucy" and "hot", and I could only imagine the sight of that rather large Georgian thigh you mentioned since I watched them on the weekend vs.
(10) Venous blood gives information relative to the extremity it drains and may be misleading if the extremity is cold, clammy, or underperfused.
(11) Conscious level was III-1-2 and she was cold and clammy.
(12) Austrian film Michael is so matter-of-fact about evil, I initially saw little merit in it but I've found its clammy grip impossible to shake.
(13) The paddock at the Sakhir circuit was in the clammy grip of a grim apprehension on Thursday night following the flight home of two members of the Force India team and amid reports of escalating violence in the capital, Manama.
(14) One slides up to it at dawn through mists and past the clangor of shipyards,” wrote EM Forster of the sea approach to Belfast, describing the “clammy ooze” that clung to the city’s pavements and dour terraces of red brick, and the immense City Hall rising above the confusion of mean streets and Protestant chapels ‘like a wardrobe in a warehouse’.
(15) His answers come coated in clammy, apologetic, Woody-ish reservation: "Well, um, often.
(16) It has a damp, undramatic clamminess to it, and sits uneasily in any stream of words, the ultimate onomatopoeic dead end, free of connotations, meaningless, banal.
(17) Perhaps a dressing room of potent alphas for decades rendered beta, shackled by the Bordeaux-stained Uncle Joe, sensed that the new incumbent would not be so ferocious with the boot kicking and the hair-drying and, like over-parented teens suddenly in the care of clammy-palmed au pair, decided to kick up a bit of a fuss.
(18) Our hero is Dylan (Johnny Flynn) – hair of Boris Johnson, charm of a used swab – and, after receiving his diagnosis, he is taking us on a reverie through his clammy sexual history.