(n.) One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.
(n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
(n.) A fellow; -- in contempt.
(n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
(n.) A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
(v. t.) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
(v. t.) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
(2) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
(3) The preceding companion paper presents a biochemical study of two abnormal protein 4.1 species from individuals with the red blood cell disorder, hereditary elliptocytosis.
(4) A companion paper further discusses the nature of peaks B and C materials.
(5) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(6) His companions eventually apologised to me, but only after apologising to my boyfriend, and only after being kicked out by restaurant staff who reinforced that the behaviour was unacceptable.
(7) These results are compared with experimental data on angular scattering from liver, muscle, and blood, reported in a companion paper [J. Acoust.
(8) The sources of data are the 1982 and 1984 National Long Term Care Surveys and the companion 1982 Informal Caregivers Survey.
(9) Microliths are rarely encountered in tracheal washings from companion animals.
(10) This is the first report of companion cell lines, one malignant and one normal, established from the same organ.
(11) These results form a base line with which luteolytic changes described in the companion study (Paavola, L.G.
(12) Money was tight and hunger was a constant companion.
(13) Findings based on applying the procedure to simultaneously recorded spike and event trains are described in a companion paper (Frostig et al.
(14) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
(15) In a companion microneurographic study (Schmidt et al.
(16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(17) This paper is a companion to an earlier report on prenatal visiting patterns in Aberdeen, Scotland (McKinlay, 1970).
(18) At that time, more patients were depressed and had a lower income, fewer wanted a transplant, and five had lost their living companion.
(19) The people who were persecuting him and his companions and his sympathizers.
(20) Discrimination between individual strangers and companions was examined in day-old domestic chicks.
Disk
Definition:
(n.) A discus; a quoit.
(n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
(n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
(n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
(n.) The whole surface of a leaf.
(n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.
(n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
(n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
(n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
(n.) In owls, the space around the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(2) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(3) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
(4) Somatic and functional antigens of Dictyocaulus filaria were comparatively studied by means of disk electrophoresis.
(5) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(6) Visible light activates a large guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (cGMP)- and phosphodiesterase (PDE)-dependent infrared light-scattering change in suspensions of photoreceptor disk membranes.
(7) Three disks of different sizes (10, 25, and 45 mm in diameter) were attached to the edge of the baresthesiometer, and pressures of 1, 3 and 5 kg were applied to the 10 mm disk, and 1, 3, 5, and 7 kg to the other disks.
(8) The hemolytic characteristics of 14 different polydimethyl-siloxane materials were studied, using a rotating disk device to shear whole human blood for 6000 sec.
(9) These optic disk anomalies occurred bilaterally with some inter- and intra-individual variable expressivity.
(10) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
(11) We have investigated the relationship between rhodopsin photochemical function and the retinal rod outer segment (ROS) disk membrane lipid composition using flash photolysis techniques.
(12) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
(13) The minimal inhibitory concentration of netilmicin determined by the agar dilution method was correlated with the disk diffusion zone of inhibition against 322 clinical isolates.
(14) The initiation step consisting of the binding of RNA with the 36S disk of protein was easily accomplished.
(15) The state of the intervertebral disks, intervertebral joints and cerebrospinal canal in degenerative vertebral diseases was assessed.
(16) It is concluded that although a rapid automated system for antibiotic sensitivity testing is desirable, the conventional disk agar diffusion method is easier to perform, more reliable, and a less expensive procedure for antibiotic sensitivity determination.
(17) The diagnostic accuracy of CT in cases of lumbar disk prolapse was investigated on the basis of a group of 158 of our own patients who were divided into three separate groups.
(18) Disk position was assessed inaccurately in either plane in patients with severe degenerative joint disease.
(19) Based on the morphology and magnetic anisotropy of the rod outer segment, the major phospholipid peak is attributed to the flat part of the disk membranes while the phospholipids of the plasma membrane are thought to contribute only to the minor peak.
(20) QC range for H. Influenzae ATCC 49247 were established using multiple HTM agar and broth base lots, three disk lots for each drug, and a number of test replicates consistent with the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards M23-T guideline.