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Clomp


Definition:

  • (n.) See Clamp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Uh, it's winter," she replied, then clomped off in the midday heat.
  • (2) You watch the so-called future of boxing as he clomps around to ranchera in Seahawk green shoes and Under Armour everything in Shane Mosley's gym, surrounded by posters of Shane's great fights, and you see bright-green heavy feet thudding around and try to convince yourself that you're watching Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De La Hoya rolled into one.
  • (3) I'm not sure I particularly buy the quick-fix methods of TV trainers like Cesar Millan or Victoria Stilwell, in the same way I don't believe Supernanny Jo Frost reverses 10 years of child behaviour by clomping about in a pencil skirt dispensing gold stars, but there's always something soothing about watching other dog owners.
  • (4) On it clomps, chainmail leggings round its ankles, firing catapults of flaming exposition at every surface as viewers scatter like screaming ants.
  • (5) The bothy is also close to the South West Coast Path, and the cliff walks, rarely interrupted by footsteps other than my own clomping (aided by a trusty walking stick), are predictably stunning.
  • (6) During the first half of the last century, people escaped industrial Britain to their own cabin or chalet, sheltering from the wind and sun and clomping about in a little wooden oasis for two weeks of the summer.

Clump


Definition:

  • (n.) An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
  • (n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.
  • (n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.
  • (v. t.) To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
  • (v. i.) To tread clumsily; to clamp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-eight fluids were found to have crystals (monosodium urate (MSU) in 15, calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) in 5, CPPD plus apatite-like crystals in 9, apatite-like clumps alone in 8 and lipid liquid in 1).
  • (2) These particles were clumped by the addition of anti-HTLV-III-positive serum suggesting that they may represent intermediate forms of the virus.
  • (3) The compound caused extensive clumping, of cells, which appeared not to be related to the ability of boronates to esterify to diols.
  • (4) Central nervous system (CNS) cultured neurons while exposed to different concentrations and pH of L-lactic acid exhibited in general chromatin clumping, vacuolization in the cytoplasm, appearance of lipid bodies, accumulation of polyribosomes, cytoplasmic lucency and swollen and aggregation of mitochondria.
  • (5) Data presented demonstrate that the slide preparation and clump evaluation procedures used for this study yield reliable and reproducible data.
  • (6) Electron microscopy indicates that the major structural alterations produced by exposure to concentrated BWSV and 20 mM calcium Ringer solution are the swelling of nerve terminal mitochondria and the clumping of synaptic vesicles, large numbers of which remain in the terminals.
  • (7) There were marked margination of nuclear clumping chromatins.
  • (8) After collagenase and elastase digestion, bovine ligamentum nuchae showed type VI collagen fibrils and clumps of beaded fibrils like those in zonule and vitreous.
  • (9) Subsequently (35-hr pupa) the DLM commences to degenerate, forming random clumps of vacuolated muscle tissue.
  • (10) These deeper ipsilateral clumps occupied a rather well defined layer extending in depth from about 100 mum to about 175 mum.
  • (11) Consequently, eggs and feces would not be deposited uniformly throughout the hosts home range, resulting in a clumped distribution of larval development sites at host resting areas.
  • (12) Fibrin could be seen around some of the platelet clumps and was the main component in a small number of the thrombi in two patients.
  • (13) In comparison with the controls, the isoproterenol-treated (Group A), the Ca-treated (Group B), and the diltiazem-posttreated (Groups E and F) showed severe myocardial cell damage, such as sarcolemmal disruption, mitochondrial swelling, intramitochondrial electron-dense granules, membranous structures along mitochondrial cristae, thickening or close packing of the Z-lines, separation of cell junctions, frayed myofibrils, clumping of chromatin, and intracellular fluid accumulation.
  • (14) The beneficial effects of D in AMI reported here could be partly attributed to its ability to enhance PGI2 release from vascular walls; D might also relieve ischemia by improvement of local tissue oxygenation, energy supplies and platelet function by its ability to deaggregate platelet clumps.
  • (15) It is proposed that the presence of cytophilic antibodies on immune macrophages represents an expression of antibacterial cellular immunity by enhanced clumping and phagocytic activities of the macrophages.
  • (16) Immediately after the induction of agglutination, wild-type cells begin to form aggregates, and within 30 min the cells are packed side-to-side in clumps containing thousands of cells.
  • (17) Following one or more hours of ischaemia crater-like depressions and blebs appeared on the luminal surfaces of ventricular endothelial cells, with margination and clumping of nuclear chromatin, loss of glycogen granules, swelling of mitochondria, and the development of subendothelial membrane-bound dilatations of myocytes.
  • (18) They formed clumps of cells, mainly pairs and triplets.
  • (19) These cells were disseminated throughout the lymphoid tissue or grouped in clumps, in plaques or, more rarely, as true follicles.
  • (20) In the patients with long-term disease there was widespread atrophy of the choroid and pigment epithelium and variable amounts of pigment clumping and subretinal fibrous tissue deposition.

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