(n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
(n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
(n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
(n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cocktails of two or more BsAbs, selected to bind to multiple epitopes on ribosome-inactivating proteins and perhaps also on unwanted cells, could provide an important new strategy in immunotherapy.
(2) The work reported was done as part of an intensive investigation on toxic and radioprotective properties of three substances, ATP, AET and serotonin, administered singly or in combination to mice, with a view to identifying optimal dose ratios for cocktails.
(3) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(4) These monoclonal antibody cocktails were drug conjugated and administered intravenously.
(5) The breakfast meetings, cocktails, roundtables and press conferences will all be without incident.
(6) The stains-cocktails are well preserved for 4-5 weeks and may be used repeatedly.
(7) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
(8) A group calling itself Fight Xenophobia contacted AFP to claim the attack, which it said was carried out with “Molotov cocktails”.
(9) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
(10) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(11) By utilizing the gamma-emitting isotope of selenium, Se-(8-azidoadenosyl)[75Se]selenomethionine eliminates the need for the impregnation of acrylamide gels with fluorographic enhancers and dilution of liquid samples into scintillation cocktails, as is required with the commonly used methyl-3H-labeled and 35S-labeled S-(8-azidoadenosyl)methionine.
(12) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(13) Sometimes she would take me out for cocktails and get diplomatic cars from embassies to take me home.
(14) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(15) MAbs were screened in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) against three different antigen cocktails: S-form LPS from three P. aeruginosa strains, R-form LPS from six P. aeruginosa strains and, as a negative control, R-form LPS from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.
(16) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
(17) There is no easy win against terrorists, Tunisia will be pursuing a cocktail of solutions,” said one London-based security expert.
(18) This study illustrates the approach that we have taken to individualize the cocktail of MoAbs for the development of patient-specific therapeutic immunoconjugates.
(19) Rhodes said Obama had not been briefed about the arrest of three activists alleged to have been planning to throw molotov cocktails at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago as well as the home of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
(20) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
Gimlet
Definition:
(n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
(v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.
(v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
(2) The gimlet-eyed punter can simply enquire: "You'd put money on that, would you?"
(3) She was never off the telephone to rich potential backers and became notorious for her gimlet-eyed vetting of campaign staff.
(4) Bitcoin is a currency created years ago by an obscure hacker in the spirit of subversion, to trade goods while dodging the gimlet eye of financial regulators.
(5) A steady focus on the numbers and a demeanour so serious it can verge on the gimlet-eyed has helped.
(6) The movie Spotlight charts a 2001 investigation of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic church by the Boston Globe under the editorship of Baron, played with gimlet-minded intensity by Liev Schreiber.
(7) A variety of prosthetic techniques may be incorporated into the Gimlet system, and the implants themselves can be used in a number of locations and employed for multiple purposes.
(8) The Observer's critic singled out Rory Kinnear's "caustic, exact, gimlet-sharp prince", while the Financial Times found an unselfconscious silliness in the hero's antics.
(9) Britain's two greatest living painters spent 3 months in each other's company, Freud sitting for Hockney for four hours before he became the subject of Freud's gimlet eye for considerably longer: 120 hours.
(10) And, without wishing to take anything away from Mo Farah and other sporting heroes, such across-the-board outperformance was largely thanks to record investment, gimlet-eyed targeting and dogged planning.
(11) Goldin, best known for her gimlet portraits of friends and lovers addled by drugs or riven with Aids, has never retreated from showing sex at its most brutal and banal extremes.
(12) A drill or gimlet with a small hole in the tip was employed to bore a hole in the sternum.