(superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.
(1) Epithelial thymoma is characterized by coarse-fiber stroma, perivascular grouping of cell elements and the lack of glycogen in them.
(2) Foveal involvement included coarse foveal granularity, thinning of the foveal retinal pigment epithelium, increasing encirclement of the fovea with focal areas of atrophy, and minimal macular drusen.
(3) In 11 of these 20 patients, visual sensitivity to detail of medium coarseness was markedly degraded, even though sensitivity to both coarse and fine detail was unimpaired.
(4) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
(5) Characteristic coarse facial features and shortness of stature were observed in all cases.
(6) The pulp cavity is reduced in size with age (maturation stage), in which the characteristic three vascular layers are changed into a one-layer coarse terminal capillary network which converges directly with the main venules.
(7) (3) Their operative findings were different from ordinary Graves' goiters in that colors of the goiter were yellow-red or gray-red, surface was rough and coarse, consistency was firm, and adhesions with the adjacent connective tissue were noted.
(8) Attempts were made to purify the LH-releasing substance extracted from the leaves of Avena sativa by means of two-step chromatographic procedures using a weakly acidic ion-exchange resin (CG-50,type II) and DEAE-Sephadex A-25 (coarse) with successful results.
(9) First-time measurements of the potentially toxic inorganic species of arsenic (arsenite and arsenate) have been obtained in fine (less than 2.5 microns AD) and coarse (greater than 2.5 microns AD) atmospheric particles in the Los Angeles area.
(10) An abnormal great number of microtubules and coarsed fibers were frequently randomly scattered throughout the cytoplasmic droplet.
(11) Motorized linear slides used as micromanipulators for biological use suffer from 3 problems: vibration at low speed, poor ergonomic design of the controller and slow coarse positioning.
(12) Each antibody stained 2 populations of cortical nonpyramidal neurons: (1) A small number of large, intensely stained cells that give rise to long, coarsely beaded processes; (2) a relatively large number of small, lightly stained cells that are embedded in dense plexuses of stained punctate profiles.
(13) In the Pagalunggan subdistrict, all females used uniodised salt with 17.6% using fine salt, 20% using coarse salt and the remainder using both fine and coarse salt.
(14) Thygeson's keratitis is characterized by a coarse punctate epithelial keratitis with almost no hyperaemia of the conjunctiva.
(15) The particles selected by CYBEST as "abnormal cells" at the stage of coarse scanning were examined by direct microscopy to determine whether they were actural cells or not.
(16) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
(17) Coarse, linear densities are also observed, and pleural effusion is seen in many patients.
(18) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
(19) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
(20) In women who received free-silicone injections, coarse calcifications developed in three, and gross nodularity with calcified silicone granulomas developed in one.
Deadwood
Definition:
(n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
(n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.
Example Sentences:
(1) "What Deadwood did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in and how that brought its own problems."
(2) I wanted the equivalent of the city slickers, from a very different world, turning up in Deadwood .
(3) For the sake of argument, if Deadwood and Battlestar Galactica were about equal through their first three seasons, why should Deadwood get a pass just because it didn't get a chance to have a disappointing finale?
(4) In theory this is the moment of pure patronage in British politics, the hours when the prime minister can ruthlessly remove the ministerial deadwood and driftwood, alongside the politically awkward or dispensable.
(5) Hill directed the pilot of Deadwood and the miniseries Broken Trail, and has movies such as The Long Riders , Geronimo and Wild Bill to his name.
(6) "You can't exactly sit them down and make them watch Deadwood.
(7) Inevitably, this also requires the retirement of political deadwood, which was traditionally accomplished without too much fuss by putting old hands out to the pasture of the Lords (a manoeuvre Yes Minister described as elevation and castration in one fell swoop).
(8) There are peaks, such as Lovejoy and Deadwood, and there are quieter passages, creatively-speaking, such as the mid-1970s ,when he concentrated on becoming a professional party animal.
(9) The development of America and capitalism has interested him particularly since he started making Deadwood in 2004.
(10) It employs and empties the entire filmic bag of tricks – from high-speed time-lapse montages to wide-open landscapes that are more John Ford than anything a revisionist western like Deadwood could ever allow itself.
(11) Robin Weigert ( Deadwood's Calamity Jane ) gives an ambivalent, sympathetic performance as Abby, a sometime interior decorator living outside New York City with her divorce-lawyer wife of two decades and their two sons.
(12) This man-of-the-people routine is probably the aspect of McShane most prized by audiences, and it can't be a coincidence that his two signature roles have been flipsides of the same roguish persona, one charming ( Lovejoy ), the other infinitely scuzzy (Al in Deadwood).
(13) "Jane had been watching Deadwood and realised what freedom was available now in television as opposed to film, where you've got a lot of ... a producer telling you you can't do this or that, and you have a lot of budgetary restraints," said Lee.
(14) His conversation can be rambunctious and matey, but he has a gentle manner, with none of the menace that fuelled the role for which he is now most admired: the late-18th-century brothel-keeper and bar-owner Al Swearengen in the pungent HBO western series Deadwood .
(15) I started imagining being one of those kids and how I would understand the world.” The setting also fed on Gibson’s own upbringing in small-town South Carolina, the film Winter’s Bone and the HBO series Deadwood , about a lawless town during the Gold Rush.
(16) ‘I’ll catch Deadwood on TV sometimes and be drawn in.