(n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
(n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
(n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
(n.) A young herring.
(n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
(n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
(n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
(n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
(n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
(n.) Clay mixed with straw.
(n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
(n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
(v. t.) To strike
(v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
(v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) This fusion protein exhibited an in vivo endonuclease activity which specifically cleaved the intron homing site within the intronless cob gene.
(2) All of the pdu mutations were located in a single region (41 map units) on the S. typhimurium chromosome between the his (histidine biosynthesis) and branch I cob (cobalamin biosynthesis) operons.
(3) The apoprotein of yeast cytochrome b is translated on mitochondrial ribosomes and coded for by a split gene which is located in the COB-BOX region on mitochondrial DNA.
(4) The large deletion M9391 in contrast accumulates a 13S RNA which probably results from transcription through the junction, which ligates sequences of the cob leader to sequences of the cob-oli1 intergenic spacer.
(5) One of these is the group II intron in the gene encoding apocytochrome b (cob: intron cobI1).
(6) The organization of the mitochondrial genomes of the F1 and succeeding backcross progenies was analyzed and compared with the progenitor RD-WF9 using probes derived from the S1 and S2 mitochondrial episomes, and probes containing the genes for cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (coxI), cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (coxII) and apocytochrome b (cob).
(7) The transfer of the upper nucleoside ligand of adenosylcobalamin to 2-mercaptoethanol is a very slow process; S-adenosyl-mercaptoethanol and cob(II)alamin are the final products of the reaction.
(8) The vitamin B12 auxotrophs were divided into two major phenotypic groups: Cob mutants, which could use cobinamide or vitamin B12 to grow on ethanolamine, and Cbl mutants, which could be supplemented only by vitamin B12.
(9) We made specific mutations in the internal guide sequence and the flanking exons of the fifth intron in the yeast mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b (COB).
(10) Continuous registration of breath, ECG, O2 tension was carried out in sleeping chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) patients (n-46).
(11) Alfalfa had no effect on rate of nontreated cob cell wall digestion, but increased (P less than .01) the rate for NH3-treated cobs.
(12) In trial 1, two qualities of alfalfa and smooth brome hays replaced 0, 15, 30 or 100% of an ammonia (NH3)-treated corn cob negative control diet in a digestion trial using 26 mixed breed wethers (31.8 kg).
(13) They were shown to be P22-cotransducible with a branch I cob marker at a mean frequency of 12%.
(14) No inhibition by EDTA was found in cob parenchyma tissue.
(15) Although both copies are identical in the 5' upstream region and through most of the coding region, only cob-1-specific mRNA is detected on RNA gel-blots.
(16) To elucidate the synthesis of cobalamin coenzymes in view of comparative biochemistry, tissue distribution of activity of aquacobalamin reductase [EC 1.6.99.8] catalyzing the reduction of hydroxocobalamin to cob(II)alamin was studied in some vertebrates.
(17) The solka floc and corn cob diets are acceptable for growing dairy heifers where a low mineral content is desired but normal growth rates need to be maintained.
(18) Xylan in such natural substrates as straw and corn-cobs was also subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis.
(19) Regions that hybridized to C. reinhardtii or wheat mitochondrial gene probes for subunit I of cytochrome oxidase (cox1), apocytochrome b (cob), three subunits of NADH dehydrogenase (nad1, nad2 and nad5) and the small and the large ribosomal RNAs (rrnS and rrnL, respectively) were localized on the C. moewusii mtDNA map by Southern blot analysis.
(20) A 13.1-kb DNA fragment carrying Pseudomonas denitrificans cob genes has been sequenced.
Coo
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.
(v. i.) To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) Deviations from Michealis-Menten kinetics in the pig-heart citrate synthase (citrate-oxaloacetate-lyase(pro-3S-CH2-COO-leads to acetyl-CoA), EC 4.1.3.7) system have been characterized and analyzed in view of the kinetic theory described in the preceding paper.
(2) We conclude that both proprioceptive feedback and audio-feedback must be involved to yield maximal stimulation of follicular growth by the female's nest-coo display.
(4) The limited solubility of cholesterol in negatively charged phospholipids is found to be independent of the nature of the acyl chain residues, and independent of whether the negative charge resides on both COO- and PO- groups (as in phosphatidylserine) or on PO- only (as in phosphatidic acid).
(5) Like scores of men here, he spends hours in this rooftop retreat with his cooing companions.
(6) All these data suggest that the native polysaccharide possesses ordered secondary structure stabilized by nonionic interactions outweighing the repulsion between adjacent COO- groups.
(7) The antagonist GDEE had 90% of its whole population in folded conformations with a distance of about 3 A degrees between COO-...COO- groups.
(8) This difference in follicular growth suggests that the females' own cooing, not the males' cooing, stimulates the ovarian response.
(9) A NH3+(Ser1)-COO-(Arg4) salt bridge, as well as any form of turn stabilized by hydrogen bonds can be ruled out with certainty.
(10) Enterprise technology veteran Stephanie Buscemi, COO of Salesforce’s cloud business, knows all too well the challenges facing women in her industry.
(11) Together, these pH profiles provide sufficient information to suggest that only the minor zwitterionic species of ornithine, H2N(CH2)3CH(NH3+)COO-, binds the enzyme productively.
(12) Three cases with typical cooing murmurs in degenerated porcine valves at mitral positions were studied.
(13) Analysis of variance showed that (1) the mean spectral energy (MSE) levels of "pain-induced" cries were significantly higher than those of the other two types of cries and that the MSE of all three types of cries was significantly higher than that of cooing; and (2) that the mean spectral energy in any vocalization by 6-month-old infants of either sex was significantly lower than that in any vocalization of younger infants.
(14) The second partial ORF starts 67 bp downstream of cooS and would be capable of encoding 35 amino acids with an ATP-binding site motif.
(15) EDC reactive side groups other than COO- (e.g., tyrosyl-OH or sulfhydryls) can be discarded as candidates for the underlying chemical reaction.
(16) Molecular graphics analysis revealed that the propenoyl side chain of the spin-label exhibits an extended trans conformation and that the ethyl moiety of the ester group deviates significantly from coplanarity with the carboxylate--COO--atoms.
(17) Nest-coo (courtship) vocalization is an estrogen-dependent component of a sequence of behaviors leading to egg-laying in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria).
(18) The torsion angles of the alpha-methyl group, NH3+ and COO- groups with respect to Cv are in molecules A and B respectively +67.2, +66.8, -174.3, -175.6, and -59.2 and -59.5 degrees.
(19) The distribution of spectral energy among four types of infant vocalizations was compared via computerized spectral analyses of "pain-induced," "fussy," and "hungry" cries and "cooing" of 30 2-6-month-old infants.
(20) The fatty acyl groups of these compounds, unlike those of usual phospholipids, were all saturated and were mixtures of even and odd numbered carbon chains; their [M-CnH2n+1-COOCH2]+ and [M-Cn+1H2n+3COO]+ peaks overlapped.