(n.) A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Columnist Matthew Parris, a friend of Gove, warned in the Times last week that the minister appears to have "a secret feral side", aided and abetted by "a bellicose claque of advisers, the education secretary's virtual motorcade".
(2) Repeatedly we found a kind of a deformation resembling collapse or folding up of a "chapeau claque" top hat.
(3) And once that happens, the source of all this rage naturally springs not from the actions of the police but an opportunistic claque of Fox and the right’s favorite bêtes noire: the “race hustlers”.
Plaque
Definition:
(n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(3) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(4) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(5) Both antibiotics decreased plaque, and erythromycin also decreased gingivitis.
(6) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(7) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
(8) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
(9) Subgingival plaque was sampled and the presence or absence of the above mentioned bacteria assessed with BANA reagent cards (Perio Scan).
(10) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
(11) A plaque hybridization assay was adapted to rotavirus.
(12) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
(13) The addition of sodium bicarbonate to gum containing sorbitol markedly enhanced its capacity to cause and maintain an elevation of interproximal plaque pH previously lowered by exposure to fermentable carbohydrate.
(14) Arteriosclerotic plaques were found in the aorta and arteries of rabbits given homocysteine thiolactone, methionine or homocysteic acid, both parenterally and in a synthetic diet.
(15) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(16) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
(17) The ACI rats produced both IgM and IgG plaque-forming cells (PFC) following immunization with either form of antigen.
(18) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
(19) Injection of T-dependent antigens into the subarachnoid space and brain parenchyma induced a marked antibody production in the spleen, as detected by plaque-forming cells (PFC).
(20) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.