(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?
Stinger
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Common problems--muscle cramps, burners (or stingers), and ankle and shoulder injuries--can be managed effectively with certain basic techniques.
(2) Based on the clinical course and positive patch tests, it was concluded that the patient developed a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to the sea urchin's stinger.
(3) "For killstreaks, one of the things we noticed when we've watched players is that they'll spend a lot of time just running and then being killed by something from the sky, or running around looking up, trying to fire their stinger missile at something above and not paying attention to what's in the game around them.
(4) History of previous corresponding sensations from contact with cosmetic products was significantly more common in stingers than in non-stingers (p less than 0.001); other factors, such as dermatologic history, sensitivity to ultraviolet light or skin dryness had no characteristic patterns.
(5) The stinger of the wasp was examined from the zoological aspect and is compared with that of the honeybee and hornet.
(6) Protesters have also been fired on with 60-calibre Stinger rubber bullets and what appear to be 40mm wooden baton rounds .
(7) Since Stinger's appointment in March 2005 he has struggled to break the company out of its "silo" organisation that has prevented co-ordination between different divisions.
(8) In the objective, immediate non-immunologic contact urticaria tests with sorbic acid and benzoic acid, the stingers developed significantly more erythema to 0.5% sorbic acid (p less than 0.05) and to 1% benzoic acid (p less than 0.02).
(9) "Some were seized by the Soviets, and Stingers were acquired by the Iranians within a year."
(10) Gili said this was mostly surprising because the mauve stingers were close to beaches.
(11) Soon, the proxy war against Gaddafi was underway, and "Charlie Chad" and his CIA counterpart were there, ferrying Habré C141 Starlifters full of weapons, eventually including a dozen Stinger missiles, the coveted and deadly shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapon system lusted after by terrorists and aspirant armies worldwide.
(12) It will inevitably be a custodial sentence.” The facts of the case were not given in court, but the Guardian understands that on New Year’s Eve Sheppard placed a home-made stinger made of nails and plywood across a road close to Concorde House in Emersons Green, a police base to the east of the city centre.
(13) The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca , along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
(14) 1% sorbic acid also induced more edema in stingers (p less than 0.02).
(15) The same protein has, however, been reported to be sorted by an indirect pathway through transcytosis from the basolateral to the apical cell surface in hepatocytes (Bartles, J.R., Feracci, H., M., Stinger, B., and Hubbard, A.L.
(16) "Great midfield, solid defense, but absolutely no chance of scoring when they should..." 8.12pm BST 26 min: Jorge Jesus, managing Benfica while on secondment from 1980s American MOR rock group called Boston or Journey or Commute or something, is starting to look anxious, probably because Chelsea are starting to grind their way forward and Oscar has just got their first shot on target, a decent stinger from 20 yards.
(17) Stingers and non-stingers reacted similarly to open, cumulative SLS irritation as measured with transepidermal water loss.
(18) It's the element of surprise – a hidden stinger in a cosy chat, something unusually personal from the grand inquisitor – that works.
(19) Emma Sheppard, who has been convicted in Bristol of damaging police cars with a stinger device.
(20) Most American weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, were channelled by the Pakistanis to the Hezb-i-Islami faction of the mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.