(n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
(n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
(n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
(n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
(v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
(2) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(3) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.
(4) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(5) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(6) As early as E-28 many growth cones have lamellipodia that extend outward from the core region as far as 10 microns.
(7) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(8) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(9) Rod adaptation had no reliable influence on response to rapid onset in cones or bipolar cells.
(10) Unique domains of the retinal interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM), termed cone matrix sheaths, are composed largely of chondroitin 6-sulfate proteoglycan in most higher mammalian species.
(11) Psychophysical results on human colour matching (Stiles & Burch, 1955; Stiles & Burch, 1959) were well predicted from the spectral sensitivities of the monkey cones.
(12) Our model of voltage dependence of GABA uptake predicts that all colors of light should hyperpolarize H1 cone horizontal cells and other investigators have shown by intracellular recording and dye-marking that type H1 cone horizontal cells hyperpolarize to all wavelengths of light.
(13) During the third stage, the dendritic trees of ganglion cells no longer branch or extend by means of active growth cones.
(14) Growth cones from the neurons contacted the muscle fibers within 6-12 h after isolation.
(15) The results indicate that contact Nd.YAG laser conization for CIN is an excellent conservative therapy from the point of cure rate, safety, indication, operation time and cone specimen, even compared with CO2 laser conization.
(16) In the human retina, which has both cones and rods in abundance, cones, cone bipolars, ganglion cells, horizontal cells, and small and large amacrine cells were labeled.
(17) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
(18) These regenerating nerve fibres together with growth cones make terminals in the form of buttons, rings and loops.
(19) Underneath the envelope, p17 forms the matrix protein layer, while the capsid of the double cone shaped core is built up of p24.
(20) On the model of electrical coupling proposed by Lamb & Simon (1976), this suggests that to the extent that the voltage-dependent desensitization results from an increased conductance and hence an increased shunt of the signals at the plasma membrane, there must be a concomitant increase in the conductance of the electrical pathways linking cones to one another.
Conge
Definition:
(n.) The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.
(n.) The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy.
(n.) An apophyge.
(n.) To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.
Example Sentences:
(1) negative intention and congruent behavior (CONG-, N = 42).
(2) Yet, ultimately, the film honours Dengler's good humour, his resilience, his overwhelming desire to live; after describing the many horrendous tortures the Viet Cong inflicted on him, he shrugs and says: "They were always thinking up new things to do to me!"
(3) Cong Yu from Google and Justin Kosslyn from fact-check partner Jigsaw said : “With thousands of new articles published online every minute of every day, the amount of content confronting people online can be overwhelming.
(4) They reached a zenith during the Vietnam war when the US government allegedly conducted their highly classified Operation Popeye, an attempt to extend the monsoon season by cloud seeding in the hope of flushing out the Viet Cong.
(5) Her daughter, Ta Phong Tan, is a former police officer who wrote Cong Ly va Su That (Justice and Truth), a blog that addressed social justice issues.
(6) Mueller is a Republican, a marine awarded a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in Vietnam when his unit was ambushed by the Viet Cong in 1969.
(7) On Sunday night, as the first day of the convention drew to a close, protesters waving Yippie and Viet Cong flags faced off against police in Lincoln Park.
(8) Viet Cong guerrillas had attacked a US compound in the Central Highlands in February.
(9) Betty Ambatielos (formerly Betty Bartlett), communist wife of imprisoned Greek trade unionist Tony Ambatielos for example, or Lin Qui, the elegant Vietnamese journalist and spokeswoman for the Viet Cong, who sometimes sat in our front room in Anfield looking a bit confused over what she was doing there.
(10) Like Ali, America and South Vietnam no longer had a quarrel with the Viet Cong.
(11) Relative to the CONG+ group, the INCONG- group perceived that regular exercise would be "tiring" (P less than 0.001) and "time consuming" (P less than 0.001); they also placed less value on the consequence of "being healthy" (P less than 0.05).
(12) I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,” he said.
(13) On 30 January the Tet Offensive began with a suicide attack by Viet Cong guerrillas on the US embassy in Saigon.
(14) Updated at 6.19pm BST 5.49pm BST Everybody's workin for the weekend: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) House GOP will have a 9am conference meeting on Saturday October 11, 2013 5.44pm BST Overheard in the House Republican caucus: Cong.
(15) Subjects were classified according to the congruence between stated intention and self-reported exercise behavior 2 months later in this way: positive intention and congruent behavior (CONG+, N = 74).
(16) Did he really say any version of “I ain’t got no fight with no Vietnamese” or “Ain’t no Viet Cong called me nigger”?
(17) "This really is not a very big deal, a hard day for the embassy and my staff, who behaved with enormous courage and dedication, but half a dozen RPG rounds from 800 metres away – that isn't Tet, that's harassment," he said in reference to the Viet Cong offensive during the Vietnam war.