(n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
(n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
(v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.
(v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radioactive gas was released from the medium solution used in the Viking Labeled Release (LR) experiment when interacted with the clays, at rates and quantities similar to those measured by Viking on Mars.
(2) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(3) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(4) The extent catalysis of phosphodiester bond formation varied with the particular clay mineral used.
(5) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
(6) The supernatant of soil suspension in water mainly contained isolated bacteria, while ultrathin sections of aggregates frequently revealed groups of bacteria surrounded by a sheath of mucilage with adhering clay minerals on the outside.
(7) It was a good, fair deal, and three days after signing, on 29 October 1960, Clay made his debut as a pro and defeated in six one-sided rounds Tunney Hunsaker, a former chief police officer, in Louisville’s packed Freedom Hall.
(8) Experimentally, vascular clay model was used to estimate its efficacy.
(9) If an indictment were returned, Clay would have to go for trial.
(10) This requirement is one that Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.
(11) Carbofuran (Curater 5G) behavior was studied in two drained cornfield soils, clay and loamy-clay, for 2 successive years.
(12) The businesses that bring clay and laterite for landfill.
(13) Results are reported of epidemiological studies in six groups of miners, who work in U mines, Fe mines and shale clay mines.
(14) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
(15) Plotting average molecular weights obtained against c-spacings of the clay platelet aggregates which widened as a result of polypeptide addition and adsorption before the polymerization, does not permit an obvious explanation of these observations.
(16) Adult, male rats were gavaged with an aqueous suspension of 14C-toluene in the presence or absence of either an Atsion (sandy soil) or a Keyport soil (clay soil).
(17) The orderly village of Agulodiek in Ethiopia's western Gambella region stands in stark contrast to Elay, a settlement 5km west of Gambella town, where collapsed straw huts strewn with cracked clay pots lie among a tangle of bushes.
(18) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(19) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
(20) The Dallas Morning News reported that the Highland Park school district sent a note aiming to reassure parents that their children could not contract Ebola through contact with the daughter of Clay Jenkins, a judge who is in charge of emergency management for Dallas County and who drove Troh and her family from her apartment to a temporary home in an undisclosed location.
Malm
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Malmbrick
Example Sentences:
(1) This substance stopped fetal and skin (MALME 3 line) fibroblast propagation.
(2) In maxicells, the resulting plasmid permitted tac12-promoted synthesis of two polypeptides, encoded by gene malM, with apparent molecular weights of 37 X 10(3) and 34.5 X 10(3).
(3) Smaller increases were noted with the cell lines RPMI 7951, HT 144, Malme-3M, MEL-2, and no significant increase was observed with MEL-5.
(4) Treatment of MALME-3 cells with BESPM resulted in an accumulation of N-acetylspermidine in cells and the enhanced excretion of putrescine, spermidine, and N-acetylspermidine into the medium.
(5) The malM gene, encoding a periplasmic protein of unknown function in Escherichia coli, is a highly conserved as genes encoding proteins of known function from the same region.
(6) Treatment of human MALME-3 melanoma cells with 10 microM N1,N11-bis(ethyl)norspermine (BENSPM) for 48-72 h increased SSAT activity by some 1000- to 4000-fold and enabled purification of the enzyme by established procedures--binding on immobilized spermine and elution with spermine followed by binding on Matrex Blue A and elution with coenzyme A.
(7) One malM mutation corresponding to an A.T----G.C transition showed a 10-fold-higher spontaneous reversion frequency than other such transitions in a wild-type background.
(8) From 1981, we changed a surgical procedure fro Gersony-Malm procedure to the posterior approach method, and a surgical technique from the deep hypothermia and the circulatory arrest to the moderate hypothermia and the pump perfusion.
(9) The patient was treated with repair using Gersony-Malm's method and plasty of SVC because of the stenosis of the common pulmonary vein's entrance to the SVC.
(10) In MALME-3 cells, SSAT accumulation was found to be differentially modulated by the BESPM homologues, N1,N11-bis-(ethyl)norspermine and N1,N14-bis-(ethyl)homospermine, which were 5-fold more and 9-fold less effective, respectively, than BESPM in increasing SSAT but similar in analogue uptake and effects on polyamine biosynthesis and cell growth inhibition.
(11) The intergenic region between lamB and the following gene, malM, comprises conserved segments, including one palindromic unit.
(12) They result in an increase in amount and specific activity of a MalM-LacZ hybrid protein.
(13) The complete malM open reading frame was cloned under control of the tac 12 promoter.
(14) Mutations affecting the hydrophobic core of the N-terminal extension of the MalM protein have been isolated.
(15) The calcium balance studies of Malm were re-analysed to quantify the seasonal variation he had demonstrated in one group of men.
(16) We show that the chromosomal malM gene is expressed as part of the malK-lamB operon, and that its product is periplasmic.
(17) Antiproliferative effects ranged from slowing of cell growth in the less SSAT responsive lines (LOX, SH-1) to total cessation of cell growth or overt cytotoxicity in the more potently SSAT responsive lines (MALME-3, Ebey).
(18) Finally, we demonstrate with nuclease S1 mapping experiments that the mRNA terminates at a typical rho-independent terminator located about 45 base-pairs beyond the end of gene malM, which is thus the last gene of the malK-lamB operon.
(19) We have subcloned and sequenced the genes malF and malM of Salmonella typhimurium, thereby completing the determination of the nucleotide sequence of its 'maltose B' regulon.
(20) They failed to kill autologous B cells, erythroid progenitors present in allogeneic bone marrow, and a number of cultured human tumor cells (Malme, CAKI) even after prolonged (36 h) co-culture.