(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.
Coz
Definition:
(n.) A contraction of cousin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is Coz Fontenot, a burly, bearded 48-year-old, who sits on a fold-out chair, splitting his time between solos on a battered violin and lead vocals.
(2) I’m not a citizen and its a little scary coz I feel very lonely.” “I am beside myself,” read another woman’s email.
(3) Bev coz she looks a bit like Beverley Callard from Coronation Street."
(4) And boys don't want to hang around you coz you're effeminate."
(5) All I know I just wanna do anything right now to forget.” He referred to the staff at the reception centre as a “heartless machine”, adding: “I told them two weeks ago, please shoot us to relax us coz this not human, I would swear.” A Home Office spokesperson said: “It would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.” In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123.
(6) It's when Rosalind says to Celia: "O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.
(7) For further information on Coz Fontenot, go to www.cozfontenot.com .
(8) Over on a makeshift stage, Coz Fontenot sits stoically with his violin, singing in that high, lonesome, wonderfully timeless voice.
(9) "Coz I knew I would fuckin' kill them if they fucked with me."
(10) injection of Fluosol-DA 20% without hydroxy-ethylstarch in combination with carbogen (95% Oz and 5% COz) elevated dose-dependently the tumor POz in AH-109A tumor-bearing rats.
(11) Behind all the bragging and bravado of the Beach Boys' biggest hits – "We always take my car coz it's never been beat, and we've never missed yet with the girls we meet" – a strange, rather desperate sadness kept seeping out on B-sides and album tracks: In My Room, Please Let Me Wonder, In The Back Of My Mind.
(12) It was also found that lung volume had no effect on the calculated COZ.
(13) When Coz Fontenot sings, the sound is so arresting as to make the supporting musicians recede into the background.
(14) UNEMP rate falling only coz of lab force part rate, most components of demand lower.
(15) 3-Hydroxy-3-methyglutaryl-CoA and mevalonate concentrations in the tissue homogenate are estimated in terms of absorbances and the ratio between the two is taken as an index of activity of the enzyme, which catalyzes the conversion of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoZ to mevalonate.
(16) TN Just being able to live it (v difficult to answer coz a good life is hard to describe).
(17) The Green party member of the London assembly, who is standing as a prospective parliamentary candidate in Lewisham Deptford, seems to have bumped into a semi-discerning voter: Amusing doorstep response: "I'm sick of political corruption but even if you were corrupt I'd vote for you coz you've got the right policies".