(n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Bolognesi, M., Coda, A., Frigerio, F., Gatti, C., Ascenzi, P., and Brunori, M. (1990) J. Mol.
(2) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
(3) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
(4) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
(5) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
(6) It may feel a little like we have a reached a coda, but that is not the case.
(7) The present study employed a new computerized system, CODA-3, which locates small prismatic markers and computes by triangulation their three-dimensional position at 100 Hz.
(8) Roars appeared sonographically like prolonged barks composed of a pulsated preface, a long legato climax and a brief, fractionated and at times pulsated coda; each part varied internally to the ear and in acoustic structure.
(9) It made a colourful and pleasing coda to the sound and fury of new hardware doing battle.
(10) Though his heart's in the right place, connubially and ecologically, Walter is no less flawed than the other characters, and his fanatical campaign, in the novel's coda, to have his neighbours keep their cats indoors so as to save the local bird-life, is comic as well as sad.
(11) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
(12) Coda: today, economic security is something those under 20 cannot conceive of, like life before the internet.
(13) In the context of his career, his final weekend at Fenway is something of a coda.
(14) Although it is obviously unusual, Bishop is not the first to be posthumously nominated for the Costa awards, joining excellent company including Ted Hughes, who won book of the year for Birthday Letters in 1998 and Simon Gray, shortlisted in 2009 for his post-Smoking Diaries memoir, Coda.
(15) But in the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations – launching in London today – a working group of current and ex-judges, advocates and professors, drawn from each region of the world, argue that any new international agreement will just be a coda to obligations already present, pressing and unavoidable in existing law.
(16) The treatment of Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company offers just as chilling a coda.
(17) A strange coda: suggestions of bad blood between the brothers ignore one extraordinary fact.
(18) The Inbetweeners Movie was originally planned as a coda to the third and last series on E4 in 2010.
(19) Soon to be published is Coda, which tells the story of his last months, and is, it is said, wonderful.
(20) The narratives were analyzed for the use of abstracts, orientations (background information), and codas.
Frog
Definition:
(n.) An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.
(n.) The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette.
(n.) A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.
(n.) An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.
(n.) The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.
(v. t.) To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) We have previously shown that serotonin is present in secretory granules of frog adrenochromaffin cells; concurrently, we have demonstrated that serotonin is a potent stimulator of corticosterone and aldosterone secretion by adrenocortical cells.
(3) The actions of the polyvalent cationic dye Ruthenium Red and the enzyme neuraminidase were studied at the frog neuromuscular junction.
(4) The purpose of our study was to determine the effect of HVPC on edema formation in frogs.
(5) The content of unsaturated fatty acids in walleye pollock PRM is 1.4 times greater than in frog PRM.
(6) The concentration dependences of response of frog tongue to D-fructose, D-glucose, and sucrose were almost the same, D-galactose, however, elicited a much larger response in comparison with the other sugars in the whole range of concentrations examined.
(7) Interpreted in term of compartmental analysis, these observations suggest that a) the frog skin epithelium contains 2 separated but communicating compartments having different degrees of accessibility from outside; b) only that compartment filling at a fast rate (0.5 min) is involved in the transepithelial Na transport; c) the other one, filling at a rate of 4 to 7 min, is resplenished only under conditions where the basal pump system has a reduced activity.
(8) The mechanisms underlying the three types of Cd effects on the frog skin were discussed in relation to the Na, K-ATPase activity.
(9) The addition of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 (1 microM) to the inside solution of the frog skin resulted in an approx.
(10) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
(11) The authors studied the effects of varying Na+ and Ca++ concentrations and of replacing H2O with D2O in Ringer's solution upon the actions of general and local anesthetics on isolated frog sciatic nerves.
(12) Antibiotics, X-537A and A23187, were added in micromolar concentrations to selected bathing solutions of skinned frog muscle fibers, and they were shown to affect the production of tension in the skinned fibers.
(13) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(14) The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of occurrence of the phenomenon in skin and muscle capillaries in both young and mature frogs and to examine the ultrastructure of endothelial cells found in these capillaries.
(15) At I = 0.2 M, pH 7, and 15 degrees C, the inhibition constants for rabbit myofibrils are 0.17, 3, and 5 mM, respectively; the values for frog myofibrils at 0 degrees C are very similar, being 0.22, 1.5, and 2.5 mM.
(16) A detailed comparison of the interaction of beta-adrenergic receptors with adenylate cyclase stimulation and modification of this interaction by guanine nucleotides has been made in two model systems, the frog and turkey erythrocyte.
(17) Of these 34 antibodies, 33 recognized the rat receptor and 1 was shown to precipitate the receptors from mice, chickens, and frogs with high affinity.
(18) Such a heterogeneity in DNA content in the diploid part of HPR cell population could apparently suggest some differences in the nuclear chromatin arrangement to be always higher in spring before the frog spawning, and it seems to be characteristic of this type of cells.
(19) Isolated frog retinas kept receptor side-upward in a moist chamber without perfusion showed the well-known slow PIII generated by the potassium decrease around receptors.
(20) We now report that two synthetic diacylglycerols (DAG) replicate the stimulatory and inhibitory effects of TPA on frog skin.