(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.
Footfall
Definition:
(n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
(2) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
(3) If you can make it work, giving customers two reasons to come to you rather than one can, after all, only be a good thing: higher footfall, lower costs, greater loyalty.
(4) With each footfall, a signal shoots up to a vibrating device sewn into the forearm of the wearer's shirt.
(5) The analysis shows that non-human primates are different from carnivores in footfall patterns, gaits, gait transitions, relative stride length, limb angular excursions, weight support, mechanisms of propulsion, spinal vs. supraspinal control of stepping, and possible EMG patterns.
(6) I forgot the final footfall of Gandhi’s mantra: then you win.
(7) The model allows the ground reactions produced by any particular single- or multiple-footfall pattern to be constructed, given a sufficient variety of other measured ground reactions.
(8) The majority of units discharged throughout (8 units) or during a portion of (3 units) the swing phase, whereas other units fired during a portion of stance (3 units), footfall (2 units), or foot off (1 unit).
(9) What they wanted to do was to get people to engage more in the life of the city rather than the top 10 attractions.” If you get the signs right, he says, you “spread the footfall and therefore spread the spend”.
(10) "The past quarter has been extremely challenging particularly in our own stores and for franchisees and we foresee the prospect of this weakness in high street footfall and spending continuing," said Hart.
(11) We got the footfall and we didn’t discount, we grew sales and margin.” Walden, who as an American is a veteran of Black Friday sales stunts, said that faced with volatile sales and rivals’ “aggressive promotions” it had chosen to bank profits.
(12) Successive governments have tried to reduce footfall to jobcentres, which in plain English means there are fewer and fewer people there to help.
(13) An objective method for assessing customary physical activity has been described, based on heart rate and footfall signals recorded on magnetic tape using small body-borne recorders.
(14) A blog I began a few years ago – a stunningly successful experiment in national secrecy located several thousand miles up a winding gorge in the outer reaches of the internet – had, like most blogs, all the virtual footfall of a moon crater in low season.
(15) Footfall has fallen and nobody can truthfully say Tesco has brought shoppers into the town centre.
(16) On its first day, the dizzying mix of preserving pans, PA systems and petanque sets is already attracting impressive footfall.
(17) Retail analyst Nick Bubb: A year ago, Burberry caused some consternation by warning that an unexpected slump in Chinese tourist footfall had hit its Retail sales last autumn, so today’s pre-close trading update was expected to strike a more cheerful tone and it is, with Retail sales up by 17%, but the big surprise is the news that the CEO, Angela Ahrendts, is off to join Apple and Christopher Bailey is taking over!
(18) Footfall is detected using ultrathin, force-sensitive foot switches and is frequency modulated.
(19) And, in the case of Martha-Renee Kolleh , the knowledge that the reason your cafe has such a low footfall is because you are black; the sight of your skin and not the menu explains why potential customers won't be dining with you after all.
(20) As a result, it has increased footfall from higher-income groups while also attracting people away from discount chains such as Aldi and Lidl.